Groß Wokern

Great Wokern is a municipality in the southeast of the district of Rostock in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern ( Germany ). The community is managed by the Office Mecklenburg Switzerland split seat in Jördenstorf and not in the official nationals city Teterow.

• 5.1 Coat of Arms
• 5.2 flag

• 6.1 Road Access

Geography

The municipality is located in western United Wokern the Mecklenburg Switzerland, the southern part of the municipality is located in the Natural Park Mecklenburg Switzerland and Lake Kummerow. Great Wokern is about six kilometers from the city Teterow. The municipal area is hilly and reaches in Baden mountain near the village of Nienhagen 84 m above sea level. NN.

Community structure

The municipality consists of the villages of Klein Wokern, United Wokern, New Wokern, Nienhagen, Uhlenhof and Waldschmidt.

History

Great Wokern was probably founded in the 12th century.

1773 there was a survey of the field marks of big and small Wokern. The field register was on an area of ​​445 355 square rods ( 965 acres ) for large Wokern. With this survey, the first Büdnerstellen were probably established. 1777 has been made mandatory by the regulation adopted for the Domanium school rules, school attendance in the United Wokern. 1785 United Wokern was re-surveyed and divided into twelve hooves places. 1792 burned the windmill at Nienhäger way down to its foundations. On November 3, 1806, French troops plundered on their march through the village. In the census on July 30, 1819 328 inhabitants were counted.

As of 1822, the lease time was gradually replaced by the ground lease. The farmers with new leasehold moved their farms from the village center in the separated hooves and made ​​way for Büdnereien. Only a few farms remained in the village. The new farms were built as Dreiseitgehöfte in brick. The barns were still thatched. The Low German farmhouses disappeared from the village image.

For the fallen of the First World War, a monument was erected in the village square.

History after 1945

After 1945, there was in the United Wokern in the building of the current kindergarten and early elementary school a Soviet military commander. In the building on the right and left are still weak Russian inscriptions to read; they should express that was against fascism and the war, but did not fight against the people.

The existing in the village windmill burnt down after 1947; the following built electric mill has not been fully put into operation.

During the communist era the town of Gross Wokern belonged temporarily to the community association Groß Roge. In the 1980s, in addition to the existing polytechnic high school in the 1960s, another, larger school building and a new gym for the school, as well as two new buildings were built in the vicinity of the cultural center. The House of Culture, the first new building and sports field were also built in the 1960s.

For decades, counted the Brickyard United Wokern, founded in 1896, located at New Wokern railway station, the important establishments of the village. From the Tonkuhle the tone with a moor train from the northern edge of the village was brought to the brickyard. With the end of the clay extraction in the early 1980s, the railway was dismantled and converted the brickyard in a metal processing plant.

Also in the 1980s originated in the United Wokern on the road from Teterow by Klaber a larger residential estate. In the village there was a consumer point of sale, a store of HO, a library, a post office and a hairdresser.

The district Nienhagen was " explains village of Youth" in the 1980s to. To advertise much needed labor for agriculture, there were actions to bring young people into the village and keep it there, but had little success. These included an art exhibition, writers reading and also a moto - cross racing and the founding of Motor Clubs Nienhagen. Even from Cameroon delegations were led by the "Village of youth".

Church

The late Romanesque stone church in the United Wokern was built in 1240-1260. It is located on the southern edge of the village on the honey Bergh. The zweijochige nave has slit windows and on the north side, a simple round-arched portal. The rectangular choir with dome and spitzbogigem triumphal arch has a window group with arches on its east wall. The information presented in the nave ribbed vaults have been installed later. The bell is outside the church, the support structure was renewed in the 1990s.

The organ was built in 1894 by the Carl Hoforgelbaumeister Börger from Gehlsdorf at Rostock and has since been fixed inventory of the church. It has thirteen register ( mechanical grinding chest organ based on the friezes technology). 1945, the organ was destroyed by vandalism. At the initiative of committed Christians of the village in 2011, the Reconstruction and on Palm Sunday, 2012, the re- dedication of the instrument. It is now the largest, preserved organ Carl Börgers.

Policy

Coat of arms

Blazon: "Divided; above in green a floating silver Balkenkreuz, bewinkelt of four gold rings; down in a black gold Linde branch with six green leaves. "

The six green leaves symbolize the six districts.

Flag

The flag of the municipality is equally lengthwise stripes of gold ( yellow) and green. In the center, located on two thirds of the height of the golden ( yellow ) and the green strip across, the municipal coat of arms. The length of the bunting is related to height as 5:3.

Economy and infrastructure

Due to the moderate land prices, many homes were built after the turn, especially between the United Wokern and the New Wokern station. Great Wokern now has a primary school, a nursery, a retirement home, a doctor and a veterinary practice, a village shop, a hardware store and several restaurants, as well as a cultural center. Near the village there is the Schillersee with several beaches and numerous boathouses.

Since the mid- 1990s, in the commercial area of the community ( "Am Stein Brink ", near the national road 104) in the district of New Wokern, numerous companies located ( a construction company, a safe building firm, a shelf construction company, a window contractor, a company for farm computer, among other things ). The former Chancellor Helmut Kohl visited the industrial area just before being voted out in 1998 and settled customize a safe.

Transport links

The Federal Highway 104 from Gustrow to Teterow touches the northern border of the municipality in young Wokern. The road connecting Teterow to Krakow am See passes through large Wokern. In each 13 kilometers distance, the connection points Güstrow and Krakow are on the lake at the federal motorway 19 ( Rostock- Berlin).

Great Wokern lies in the traffic group Warnow. The breakpoint New Wokern lies on the railway line Biitzow - Szczecin. In each case, every two hours, at the Regional Express Lübeck- Szczecin by DB Regio and the trains Biitzow - Ueckermuende Connex subsidiary Baltic country traffic. Hourly direct thus consist, among others, according to Teterow, in the county seat Güstrow and in the upper center of Neubrandenburg. Several bus lines of bus and coach transport company Güstrow connect large Wokern among others Teterow, Güstrow and Krakow am See.