Zernitz-Lohm

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	Coordinates: 52 ° 53 '  N , 12 ° 21'  E
Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Ostprignitz-Ruppin
Office :	Neustadt (Dosse)
Height :	33 m above sea level NHN
Area :	37.31 km 2
Residents:	894 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	24 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	16845
Area code :	033973
License plate :	OPR, KY, NP, WK
Community key :	12 0 68 501
Office administration address:	Bahnhofstrasse 6 16845 Neustadt (Dosse)
Website :	www.neustadt-dosse.de
Mayoress :	Sigrid Schumacher (Bündnis90 / The Greens)
Location of the municipality of Zernitz-Lohm in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district

Zernitz-Lohm is a municipality in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district in Brandenburg . It is administered by the Neustadt (Dosse) office based in the city ​​of the same name .

geography

The community is located in the far east of the Prignitz , about 7 km northwest of Neustadt (Dosse) .

Community structure

The municipality is divided into the inhabited parts of the Zernitz train station , Goldbeck, Koppenbrück, Lohm , Neuendorf and Zernitz as well as the Kahlschlag, Krüllenkempe and Neu-Koppenbrück residential areas.

history

Lohm II Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Zernitz village church

The community emerged on December 31, 1997 from the voluntary amalgamation of the previously independent communities of Zernitz and Lohm.

Zernitz was first mentioned in a document in 1324 as "Cernitz" and is one of the oldest places in Prignitz. The place name is of Wendish origin and goes back to "Cern", which can be translated as "Black". Around 1490 Zernitz was part of the Ruppin rule, which was essentially imperial, under the rule of the Counts of Lindow-Ruppin .

The first written mention of Lohm as "tu Deme Luome" came only a little later, in 1336. The place name of Lohm comes from Slavic as in many other places in the region and probably means "wind" or "windbreak". In 1337 Margrave Ludwig I of Brandenburg enfeoffed the brothers Heinrich and Jordan von Kröcher with the villages of Lohm and Dreetz. Until 1945, the Kröchers remained uninterruptedly connected to the history of Lohm as landlords and patronage lords and at times lived here in several knightly seats in the late Middle Ages, of which the parts Lohm I and Lohm II, each with a knight's seat, were permanently established and located in the course of the 18th century which then became independent courtyards with corresponding buildings.

In 1737 the owner of Lohm I, Georg Volrath von Kröcher (1678–1748), who was married to Sophie Charlotte von Winterfeld , built the baroque mansion Lohm I at the northern end of the village, a rectangular, two-story plastered building with a hip roof and bilateral Extensions. His cousin Caspar Joachim von Kröcher, who owned the Lohm II stake, built the somewhat larger baroque manor Lohm II at the southern entrance to the village in 1740. This manor house has also been preserved, a two-storey corps de logis with a mansard roof and two small cavalier houses. The canvas wallpaper with Rococo paintings recovered from a room in the Lohm II mansion in 1968 is now part of the room decoration of the Friedrichsfelde Palace in Berlin; A copy was recently made in the Lohm II mansion. The von Kröcher family could only hold Lohm II until 1924 and sold it to the German Culture and Settlement Society in Berlin. The remnants of Lohm II went to the Potsdam police chief Wilhelm Graf von Wedel and after his death in 1941 it was bought to the building contractor Friedrich Kotzbau, who was expropriated in the course of the land reform in 1945. The last owner of Lohm I, Ella von Kröcher, was expropriated by the land reform in 1947 and expelled from Lohm. The Lohm I mansion was occupied with rental apartments and public use (kindergarten) after 1945; In 2016 it was sold to a couple of architects who intend to renovate. Lohm II was a school from 1945 to 2002 and was sold in 2009 to a couple who renovated the house, rented it out for events and runs a guesthouse in the Kavalier houses.

In the last weeks of the Second World War , a train stopped at Zernitz station, with which Jewish women and girls were to be brought from the Theresienstadt concentration camp to Hamburg. The train was shot at by Allied low-flyers, many women tried to hide, were wounded or shot. Some were taken care of by local residents before they were rounded up by SS men and put back into the wagons. Nothing is known about their further fate. In 1945, an honorary grave with two memorial stones was erected at the station for the 48 dead in the air raids, one of which commemorates the Jewish prisoners and the second of the Jewish lawyer Theodor Steigerwald , who died here in 1947 of the health problems resulting from persecution.

Zernitz and Lohm belonged to the Ostprignitz district in the state of Brandenburg until 1952 . In 1952, both were incorporated into the newly formed Kyritz district in the GDR district of Potsdam . Since 1993 they have been in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district in Brandenburg.

Population development

year	Zernitz	Lohm		year	Zernitz- Lohm		year	Zernitz- Lohm
1875	0597	272		1997	1 058		2015	873
1910	0663	205		2000	1 027		2016	870
1939	0674	304		2005	0977		2017	864
1946	1 163	565		2010	0916		2018	870
1950	1 148	579		2011	0893		2019	894
1971	0890	390		2012	0866
1990	0845	297		2013	0862
1995	0823	264		2014	0878
1996	0816	257

Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31 (from 1991), from 2011 based on the 2011 census

politics

Community representation

The community council of Zernitz-Lohm consists of ten community representatives and the honorary mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Party / group of voters	Seats
Voting group Zernitzer Sportverein	6th
Alliance 90 / The Greens	3
CDU	1

mayor

• 1998–2014: Jörg Kusserow
• since 2014: Sigrid Schumacher (Alliance 90 / The Greens)

In the mayoral election on May 26, 2019, Schumacher was confirmed unopposed with 84.4% of the valid votes for a further five-year term of office.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on September 2, 2013.

Blazon : "Divided by red and silver over a silver corrugated shield base with eight waves, above eight slanting silver oak leaves, below a two-arched red stone bridge with eight-window masonry railing."

Attractions

The list of monuments in Zernitz-Lohm includes the monuments entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg.

traffic

Zernitz-Lohm lies on the national roads L 14 of Kyritz according Großderschau and L 141 of Breddin according Neustadt (Dosse) . The B 5 runs 5 km east of the municipality and the B 102 10 km south-east . The next motorway junction is Neuruppin on the A 24 Berlin- Hamburg and is about 30 km east of Zernitz-Lohm.

From 1846 to 1995, the Zernitz station on the Berlin – Hamburg line was in operation for passenger traffic.

Personalities

• Bernhard Rose (1865–1927), actor and theater director, born in Lohm

literature

• Ina-Lyn Reif: The two mansions in Lohm. In: Palaces and Gardens of the Mark, Issue No. 127, Berlin 2013.

Web links

Commons : Zernitz-Lohm  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Zernitz-Lohm on the website of the Neustadt (Dosse) office
• Lohm in the series "Landschleicher" of the Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg on August 25, 2002

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population in the State of Brandenburg according to municipalities, offices and municipalities not subject to official registration on December 31, 2019 (XLSX file; 223 KB) (updated official population figures) ( help on this ).
2. ^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. Zernitz-Lohm municipality
3. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities, see 1997
4. ^ Website of the municipality of Zernitz-Lohm
5. ^ Website Schloss Lohm
6. ^ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. Landkreis Ostprignitz-Ruppin . Pp. 26-29
7. ↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2017 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
8. ^ Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Statistical report AI 7, A II 3, A III 3. Population development and population status in the state of Brandenburg (respective editions of the month of December)
9. ^ Result of the local elections on May 26, 2019
10. ↑ Results of the municipal elections in 1998 (mayoral elections) for the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district ( memento of the original from April 13, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ^ Result of the mayoral election on June 24, 2014
12. ↑ Brandenburg Local Election Act, Section 73 (1)
13. ^ Result of the mayoral election on May 26, 2019
14. ↑ Coat of arms information on the service portal of the state administration of Brandenburg .