Wokuhl-Dabelow

Wokuhl - Dabelow a municipality in southern part of the Mecklenburg Lake in southern Mecklenburg -Vorpommern ( Germany ). The community is managed by the Office Neustrelitz country located in the office not belonging Neustrelitz.

• 2.1 Wokuhl
• 2.2 Comthurey
• 2.3 Dabelow

• 5.1 Wokuhl
• 5.2 Grammertin

Geography

The municipality is located in the Müritz National Park and the Natural Park Feldberg Lakes on the border of the Brandenburg district Upper Havel. The area is rich with forests and lakes ( inter alia Dabelowsee, Big Brückentinsee and north of the Great Lake Fürstenseer ) and has a strong, glacially embossed relief on. Wokuhl is about twelve kilometers from Neustrelitz, Dabelow about twelve kilometers of Fürstenberg / Havel. The two main parts of municipalities are separated five kilometers from each other.

Community structure

The municipality was created from the merger of two independent until May 5, 2001 Wokuhl communities and Dabelow. Furthermore, as includes districts Brückentin, Carolinenhof, Comthurey, Grammertin, Herzwolde, Neubrückenstraße and Wutschendorf to the community.

History

By today's districts Wokuhl and Neubrückenstraße already resulted in the Middle Ages an important freight route, the Post Road was later and is preserved over long distances. It ran from Rostock to Lychen - from here to the east with connection to Szczecin and the Oder knee and proceeding to trade routes in the Danube - Balkan region; in a westerly direction to Brandenburg, Magdeburg, as well as trade routes along the Rhine and Danube. It is likely that once the districts of the church today Wokuhl - Dabelow from the transfer of goods along this freight route benefited - this especially weddings of the Hanseatic League.

Wokuhl

The first documentary mention of the place Wokuhl dates back to 1285th The place name is of Slavic ( redarischen ) origin. The oldest known name of the place Wokuhl (13th century) was Wokun. From this, the meaning " place where life groupers " derived. Another interpretation explains the derivation of okno or okulu, which would indicate some or fountain.

Comthurey

Near the local part Comthurey was since the end of the 13th century the Commandery Gardow. This was secularized only in 1648. The place Gardow itself was already called in 1548 desolate.

Dabelow

The documentary first mention of the place Dabelow dates from the year 1286. Dobelowe The name derives from the Slavic word for Dobli strong and noble from.

Attractions

→ See also List of monuments in Wokuhl - Dabelow

• Village church in Dabelow from the 19th century as a half-timbered building with roof skylights, designed by Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel
• Baroque village church in Wokuhl of 1736 with a massive western tower, in 1780 expanded to two windows; Baroque interior.
• Rectory in Wokuhl than brick building with hipped.

Transport links

The community Wokuhl - Dabelow is about six kilometers east of the B96 (Berlin- Stralsund ) and the railway line Berlin- Stralsund. From Strelitz Alt or Godendorf - Düsterförde from smaller country roads lead to Wokuhl - Dabelow.

Bus number 639 runs on school days several times daily from Neustrelitz or Strelitz Alt - over Neustrelitz Fürstensee, Wokuhl and Comthurey after Dabelow. During school holidays, the bus runs only on Mondays and Thursdays.

Personalities

Wokuhl

• Max Blum (1864-1902), businessman and Low German writer

Grammertin

• Julius Curtius (1877-1948), Reich Economics Minister and Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic, was the owner of the leasehold good
• Hans Bernd von Haeften (1905-1944), German jurist and resistance fighter against the ( Kreisauer circle) Nazi regime, was the owner of the leasehold good