Bütow

Buetow is a municipality in the southwest of the district Mecklenburg Lake District Mecklenburg -Vorpommern ( Germany ). It is administered by the Office Robel -Müritz based in the city Robel / Müritz.

Geography

The community Buetow is the Mecklenburg Lake District, east of Eldequelle in a hilly area, the maximum of 101 m above sea level. NN achieved. The municipality consists of the 54 -acre lake and the Dambecker significantly smaller waters, the lake and the Karchower Wackstower lake. The city Robel is about eight kilometers away.

Buetow to include the districts Dambeck, Erlenkamp and Karchow.

History

The territory has been inhabited since the Bronze Age, it generates a passage grave near the village of Erlenkamp. From the Slavic settlement phase, a motte at Karchow is obtained. The former estate village Buetow is over 700 years old. From the first half of the 14th century comes the west tower of the church of the village, the church ruins in the district Dambeck is even older.

The Bytów granary of the 1920s, is visible from afar. In this mill mentioned construction worked a bread and pastry factory for the supply of Berlin - but only a few months, because of the protest of the Berlin baker was too large, so that the production was stopped.

Buetow and its surroundings are dominated by agriculture. Tradition of potato cultivation and the breeding of various potato varieties. In the former manor house Dambecker a distillery, which emerged from the alcohol production from potatoes works. The manor of Buetow was a major equestrian location of the GDR.

In addition to farm some craft shops have settled since 1991. 1999, the wind farm Buetow / Zepkow was south of Buetow built near the A19. Buetow is today school location also for the surrounding communities Fincken, Leizen, Jaebetz, Walow and Stuer.

In the press Buetow came in the spring of 2009 by the free- seeding of the ( non-edible ) Genkartoffelsorte Amflora on a test area of ​​approximately 20 hectares on behalf of BASF.

Attractions

• The village church in Buetow is a rectangular brick building dating from the 15th or 16th century with older square field stone tower. Parts of the building as well as furnishings date back to the 17th century. In the cemetery of Buetow 1945 two Soviet forced laborers were buried.
• The church ruin is the ruin of a Dambeck built around 1180 Romanesque stone church, which fell into disuse after the Thirty Years' War. By 1920, services were held in the choir room yet. After a lightning strike and the explosion of hidden ammunition are the ruins since 1954 in its present state.
• The farmhouse in Dambeck is a single-story stucco building with mansard roof.
• The village church in Karchow is a rectangular timber-framed building from 1688, which has probably replaced an older predecessor, is still preserved a bell of 1670 by the on the free-standing belfry.

Traffic

The districts Dambeck, Erlenkamp and Karchow are right on the main road 198, Buetow itself about two kilometers away from the B 198 The Federal Highway 19 Berlin - Rostock leads west past the church, the motorway junction Robel is about three kilometers away. The nearest railway station is located in Malchow.