Barkhagen
Barkhagen is a municipality in the east of the county Ludwigslust - Parchim in Mecklenburg -Vorpommern ( Germany ). It is administered by the Office Plau am See, located in the eponymous city.
Geography and transport
The municipality is situated on the main road 191 and is from Junction Malchow of the Federal Highway 19 (about 20 km). Barkhagen is located about ten kilometers east of Luebz and about five kilometers west of Plau am See. Through the district Barkow leads the Müritz - Elde waterway. In the municipality springs the Mildenitz. The highest point is the Black Mountain with 79.5 m above sea level. NHN in the southwest of the community on Kritzower lake. South of Plauerhagen is the wetland Rauenberger Moor and the very south of the forest block coupling.
Districts
In the main statute of the community five districts are called:
- Old Linden
- Barkow
- Colony Lalchow
- Plauerhagen
- Zarchlin
History
The district Barkow was first mentioned on 13 April 1274 and the district Plauerhagen documentary on August 3, 1235. The members of the community districts Barkow, colony Lalchow and Old Linden joined together in 1950 to the former town Barkow. The current church is then created on 13 June 2004 from the merger of the municipalities Barkow and Plauerhagen.
In GDR times, the VEB FCM Schlieben / Berga entertained in the district Barkow an operating summer camp for the children of his company employees.
Name
The name Barkhagen is a mixture of the Slavic place names Barkow and the place name German / Slavic origin Plauerhagen.
Barkow 1274 was originally Bercove or Berchove. and was probably named after his Slavic locator Berka. The syllable is over for take away or steal, but could also come from brk, his Slovenian / Serbo-Croatian derived for beard hair.
The name Plauerhagen is made up of the German word hagen for grubbing fencing ( clearing ) and the putative Slavic name Plav for swimming, rafting, flood together.
The district of Old Linden was until May 13, 1939 ( courtyard) Malchow.
Attractions
→ See also List of monuments in Barkhagen
- Elde with a lock in Barkow
- Village church Barkow: The Gothic stone church with a flat wooden beamed ceiling in the nave probably dates from the mid 14th century and was extended as timber-frame building to the west in the 17th and 18th centuries. The wooden bell tower from the 14th century was replaced by the half-timbered tower of 1786 with a pyramid helmet. The church was rebuilt from 2005 to 2008 and extended.
- Parsonage Barkow ( seat of the trombone work Mecklenburg- Vorpommern)
- Village church in Plauerhagen 1784 half-timbered with brick and a roof turret turrets.
- Blücher oak with memorial stone of 1913 in Plauerhagen
- Oak Cemetery in Barkow, a 500 year old English Oak
- Win oak in Barkow with memorial stone commemorating the German -Prussian War 1870/71
Village church in Plauerhagen
Station in Zarchlin
1914-18 war memorial in Barkow
Personalities
- Helene Dolberg (1881-1979), painter, was born in Barkow
- Henry David Friedrich Zander (1800-1876), ornithologist and Pastor in Barkow