Stolpe auf Usedom

Stolpe auf Usedom is located on the homonymous island right on the shore of the Szczecin Lagoon, a community near the town of Usedom. The community is managed by the Office of Usedom -Süd, located in the town of Usedom. By 2005, the village belonged to the Official Ahlbeck - Szczecin Lagoon.

Geography and transport

Stolpe auf Usedom is located on the northern shore of the Szczecin Haff south of the national road 110 (B 110) amidst the nature park Usedom Island. The municipality has a port on the Lagoon. About five kilometers west of the municipality is the town of Usedom, and 15 kilometers north of the town of Heringsdorf.

By 1945 the city had a station on the route Ducherow - Heringsdorf.

Districts

Quarters are:

  • Gummlin
  • Stolpe

From 1945 to 1952 formed the congregation, with which, after the Second World War, remaining in Germany part of the district of Pomerania the county Usedom in Mecklenburg. This went on in a circle Wolgast in the district of Rostock in 1952. The municipality belongs since 1990 to the state of Mecklenburg -Vorpommern. Since 1994, Stolpe belonged to Mecklenburg Western Pomerania, which was rising in the district of Vorpommern - Greifswald 2011.

History

The area of Usedom was settled very early, as proven many early and prehistoric localities. The community was first documented in 1218. The place name is derived from the old Slavic word stlŭpŭ for column or " fish stand in the river " from, a device for fishing .. In the 30s of the 14th century, Martin von Winterfeld sold on Kagenow and the Sudden castle ( Neuplötz at Jarman ) a portion of his property on Usedom, including Stolpe and Dargen and donated the proceeds as a donation to the monastery Pudagla.

After the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 became Swedish Stolpe auf Usedom as the whole of Pomerania, after the Peace of Stockholm on February 1, 1720 a Prussian possession. After the administrative reform in 1815 Stolpe came to the Prussian province of Pomerania and belonged from 1818 to 1945 the district of Pomerania. In 1880 the church received a railroad connection. At the end of the Second World War the church was looted.

Attractions

→ See also List of monuments in Usedom

  • Neo-Gothic village church of 1871
  • Stolpe Castle from the High Renaissance of 16-17. century

Personalities

  • Friedrich Erdmann von Schwerin (1704-1753), District Administrator
  • Carl Magnus von Schwerin (1715-1775), Prussian general
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