Elmenhorst, Nordvorpommern
Elmenhorst is a municipality south of Stralsund in the district of Vorpommern - Rügen. It is administered by the Office Miltzow based in Sundhagener district Miltzow. The village belonged to the 1 January 2004 to the Official Kronskamp.
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Geography and transport
Elmenhorst is located about ten kilometers south of the city of Stralsund and about 15 kilometers north of Pomerania. Larger parts of its territory is covered by forest, so is approximately in the northwest of the Krumm Hagen forest. The southern boundary of the municipality is the Barthegraben.
To the west of the municipality, the federal highway 194 and east of State Road 96 runs The railway Stralsund - Berlin (Berliner Northern Railway ) runs through the municipality and has a stop in Elmenhorst.
Districts
- Bookhagen
- New Elmenhorst
- Wholesale Elmenhorst
- Elmenhorst
History
The place Elmenhorst is first mentioned in 1273. " Elmenhorst " could mean as much as elm with stock, higher ground. Until the Reformation ( 1534), the village was owned by the monastery Neuenkamp, then in the possession of the Duke of Pomerania. Since the Thirty Years War to 1815 Elmenhorst was Swedish, then it became Prussian. She was until 1952 part of the district of Pomerania and belonged to the circle of Pomerania then until 1994 in the district of Rostock (until 1990 ).
Since 1900 the town has a railway connection and a power connection since 1922. In the sixties of the previous century was drilled in the municipal area for oil and gas.
Attractions
- Gothic church from the 13th century Elmenhorst
- Heimatstube
- Elmenhorster Horse Show
- Old School
- Marketplace
- Station
- Brick houses
Pictures
Church
Monument to World War Fallen