Grambow

Grambow is a municipality in the southern part of the North West in Mecklenburg -Vorpommern ( Germany ). It is administered by the Office Lützow - Lübstorf, located in the municipality of Lützow.

Geography

The community Grambow is just eight kilometers west of Schwerin in hilly terrain. Here, the North Sea and Baltic Sea watershed runs: in the south to the Elbe River and north over the Stepenitz the Baltic Sea. Through the municipal area the Czars flows. The municipality is bordered to the south and east by the district of Ludwigsburg pleasure Parchim. Portions of the Grambower Moors were rewetted after 1990.

To Grambow part of the district Wodenhof. Other residential places are Charlottenthal, sheep and brickyard.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on 10 July 1998 by the Home Office and registered under No. 167 of the coat of arms role of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Blazon: "In gold over green Wellenschildfuß the aerial photographs of three (2:1) black cranes, the bottom upwards, the upper inclined inward. "

The coat of arms was designed by the Weimar Michael Zapfe.

History

The estate was owned by the family of Halberstadt; then followed the family Lepel, 1766, the Swedish family Thomson, 1803 Heinrich Függe and others. To 1840/45 a residential building was built above a park for the family Jacobson designed by the architect Carl Adolph country Hermes. The estate was bought by Grambow Grand Duke of Mecklenburg before the First World War. After his abdication in 1918 he kept beside Plüschow Castle, Good Raben Steinfeld and the Grange Zickhusen also Grambow; to 1945 the manor of the Grand Ducal asset management in Schwerin. After 1945 to 1989 the manor house was restored as a school of the youth organization of the German Democratic Republic, which used " Free German Youth" and shortly after the turn.

Attractions

Interesting that is built in the English style in 1840 and the beginning of the 20th century converted manor house in Grambow with a protected landscape park. In the park there is an early German tower hill, reminiscent of the German colonization of the Slavic lands east of the Elbe river in the 12th century.

Transport links

The connection point Hagenow ( Federal Highway 24 from Berlin to Hamburg) is 17 kilometers away from Grambow, the neighboring community Brüsewitz located on the main road 104 from Luebeck to Schwerin. Exist from the nearby Schwerin from railway connections in all directions.