Groß Gievitz

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Location: United Gievitz in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern

Great Gievitz is a municipality in the district of Hagen Peene Mecklenburg Lake District Mecklenburg -Vorpommern ( Germany ). Until the end of 2011 it was an independent municipality with the districts Carlsruh, Small Gievitz, Minenhof and Carefree.

Geography

Great Gievitz in the Mecklenburg Lake District lies at the outlet of Ostpeene from the Torgelower lake. The town of Waren (Müritz) is nine kilometers away. The hilly area around Great Gievitz reach a maximum of about 65 m above sea level. NN.

History

Great Gievitz is probably one in the 13th century founding Westphalian peasants and knights in the original Slavic populated country Schloen. The place name derives from the Slavic word gvoru (water bladder), probably meaning Seedorf, with large Gievitz the younger German settlement and the district of Klein Gievitz is probably the older, original Slavic settlement. The church dates back to the period of German colonization in the 13th century.

The place was first mentioned in 1316 in a country division agreement of Prince Johann II and Henning von Werle. The property was locally distributed to various noble families, including the Voss, the oldest surviving Gievitzer Lehnsurkunde dates back to 1332, but which were potentially wealthy since the German occupation of the site there. Furthermore, ownership of the place had the cock and the Flotow. In the 16th century, all the property came to the Lords Flotow to a tax and the rooster on Graves' disease, but acquired in the 17th century, the Voss sole possession of Gievitzer goods.

Once the location of the Thirty Years War had been devastated, was especially under Ernst Christoph von Voss (1655-1720), the reconstruction of the material. His nephew and heir of Friedrich Ernst von Voss (1700-1738) died young and left behind two young sons, of whom Johann Ernst von Voss (1726-1793) received the goods in Gievitz, Schönau and Rumpshagen. Since he was a government minister in Magdeburg and from 1763 Lord Chamberlain of the Prussian Queen, he kept only in late summer and autumn, last only a weekly basis with his wife Sophie Marie von Pannewitz in Gievitz on. 1796 received the latter, even now ascended to the Mistress of the Robes, in Gievitz visiting the Prussian Queen Louise and her husband, King Frederick William III.

The obtained today the oldest houses in the village date from the period around 1750. Around 1800 the town was described as dirty village with about 30 lehmgedeckten skating. After a fire in 1820 under Felix von Voss ( 1801-1881 ) was renewed a lot of existing buildings in the town. Great Gievitz gained importance as a craft village and had until 1848 the market justice.

The last Count von Voss, Felix von Voss (1856-1931), sold the estate in 1929 to a Captain Kothe, however resold it because of economic problems in 1935 to the northern settlement GmbH in Berlin. The northern settlement therefore started the Aufsiedlung the place with settlers from Schleswig -Holstein, for which four new Hofsiedlungen originated outside the town. Most settlers returned to their ancient homeland in 1945 to West Germany back. The farmsteads were further divided into lots in the course of the land reform and awarded to settlers who had arrived as displaced persons from East and West Prussia, Pomerania, and the Sudetenland to Mecklenburg.

On 1 January 2012 the municipalities United Gievitz, Hinrichshagen and Lansen -Schönau merged to form the new municipality Peene Hagen.

Policy

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was registered under No. 308 of the coat of arms role of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Blazon: ". Among golden wave plate main, is an ongoing red fox, in a torn blue, five-petalled golden oak with four golden fruit "

Flag

The flag of Great Gievitz is uniform vertical stripes of blue and gold ( yellow). In the middle of the flag cloth, is on two thirds of the height of the blue and gold ( yellow ) strip across, the municipal coat of arms. The height of the flag cloth is related to the length as 3:5.

Attractions

• The Village Church United Gievitz is a stone church from the 13th century. It consists of a rectangular nave with two yokes and a square western tower. The church has frescoes from the period around 1300, also ornate features like altarpiece gallery balustrade, pulpit and Patronatsloge from the 18th century.
• Situated in a park farm from the 18th century. From the original building stock, in whose mansion once the remains of a round tower are medieval Feldstein risen, but only the stables is obtained. The present manor house is a recent one.
• The neo-gothic grave chapel of the Counts of Voss in the cemetery of the United Gievitz was built in 1827-31 after a drawing by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. The chapel is located since 1951 in the possession of the parish and has since then served as a cemetery chapel.
• Neo-Gothic chapel ( 1900) and former Manor House ( mid 19th century) in the village of Schwastorf
• See also: list of architectural monuments in Peene Hagen # United Gievitz

Grave chapel of the Counts von Voss

Manor Great Gievitz

Infrastructure

From United Gievitz lead from road links to Waren (Müritz) as well as for federal highway 194 (goods - Stavenhagen ). The nearest railway station is located in Waren ( mainline route Berlin - Rostock ).

Great Gievitz is an elementary school site, there are also a daycare. Apart from agriculture, sustainable tourism plays an increasingly important role - it originated near the 2 km ² Torgelower See more apartments.

The village life is shaped by the volunteer fire department and five clubs. They are the carriers of the traditional park festival and the annual Equestrian Games.