Gresse

Gresse is a municipality in the district of Ludwigsburg pleasure Parchim in Mecklenburg -Vorpommern ( Germany ). It is administered by the Office Boizenburg country located in the not office belonging to the city Boizenburg / Elbe.

The municipality is divided into the districts Gresse, Badekow and Heath pitcher.

Geography

Gresse located on the main road 195 between the cities of Zarrentin am Schaalsee and Boizenburg. Through the municipal area flows toward the Boize brews.

History

Gresse 1297 was first mentioned in a charter of Count Nikolaus von Schwerin. The village belonged to - among other things, together with the villages Badekow, Beckendorf, Bengerstorf, Kladrum, Nostorf and Altendorf - from the 14th century to the vast possessions of the family of Sprengel. During the Thirty Years' War the estate in 1625 Gresse the family initially pledged to Hartwig von Schack of need and sold it shortly after the war in 1651 to Friedrich von Thun. 1681 the estate for 11,000 Taler to Ernst Wilhelm was sold by the Knesebeckstraße. In the following centuries the estate changed in rapid succession the owner: in 1784 it was bought by A. Fr wit village, in 1792, Baron Otto von Hahn, 1795 Amtmann Gebser, 1792 equerry Franz Ferdinand of Rantzau, 1804 August of shields, 1817 Captain Hans von Klitzing 1837 the Government Albrecht von Lützow, Wilhelm Heerlein 1845, 1849 Gentleman George of Drenckhahn, 1860 Friedrich von Meyenn before it came into the ownership of the Hamburg guano importer of Albertus Ohlendorff 1872. The district Badekow remained until 1736 owned by the family of Sprengel, whose last descendant destitute died at the end of the 18th century in Boizenburg.

In 1936 the duty firefighters of the estate Gresse was dissolved and established a volunteer fire department in the same year. It is dedicated to specifically address the youth fire brigade work and directed since 2011 to an annual nationwide competition for youth fire brigade groups.

Attractions

• Village church Gresse
• Manor house in the style of English Gothic Revival, built by the architect Heinrich Thormann Wismar.
• Megalithic grave with mature trees

In the northwest of Gresse the megalithic grave lies with mature trees, also called Finkenberg. The grave is externally visible as mounds with a diameter of 25 meters and a height of 6 meters. In the spring of 1899, Baron Albert von Ohlendorff let angraben the closed hill. Here, an approximately 1.60 meters high brick-lined passage was inside the hill, which is intact to this day. Inside the hill there is a grave chamber in the form of an irregular four-sided room with rounded corners with 4 meters in diameter and 2 meters in height. The walls of the grave chamber does not consist of large standing stone blocks, as it is the typical megalithic construction with stone tables, but from horizontally -laid, stratified rocks, about half a meter in length. The ceiling is uncharacteristically not vaulted with massive stones, but with smaller stones, as they are found in the walls. Furthermore, Albertus Ohlendorff left the grave chamber and the walled corridor with skylights provided so that natural light in the chamber. In the skylights are iron grille and front of the stone passage of an iron gate.

When exploring the grave chamber in 1899, besides remains of corpses, tools such as axes have been found in rock, wedges and an ornate dagger from flint. The passage grave was built probably in the Copper Age or Bronze Age.

• The monuments of the community are included in the list of monuments in Gresse.

Infrastructure

In Gresse There is a medical center, a kindergarten with care, a primary school and since 1971 a grocery store Konsumgenossenschaft Hagenow eG, short consumption.