Hanshagen

Hans Hagen is a municipality in the district of Vorpommern - Greifswald in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern. It belongs to the Office Lubmin.

Geography

The municipality Hans Hagen is situated about ten kilometers southeast of Greifswald, about 25 kilometers north- west of Anklam on the main road 109 Surrounding municipalities are Diedrich Hagen, Groß Kiesow, Wrangelsburg, New Bolton and Kemnitz.

Through the village named after her Hans Haeger stream flows.

History

The first documentary mention as John Hagen was in 1248th It was probably Count Johann I of Gützkow, who gave the place its name. The counts pledged gradually the courts in Hans Hagen at Greifswald citizens eg Family Lübeck. This sold it in 1492 to the monastery Krummin on Usedom. The monastery leased village and mill at Dreyer family. With the secularization of the monastery in 1534 Hans Hagen Dominal was. 1634 gave Prince Bogusław XIV the village to the University of Greifswald.

Had 1767 Hans Hagen still 126 inhabitants, this population rose to 856 in 1865, the village had one church, two schools, 51 residential buildings, 6 factory building ( the mill ), and 125 outbuildings.

1648-1815 it belonged to Swedish Pomerania, after the Prussian province of Pomerania.

From 1897 to 1945 crossed the narrow-gauge railway Greifswald - Wolgast ( KGW ) the place.

During the Second World War, men and women from Poland and the Soviet Union had to do forced labor in the village. Also a POW camp existed in the vicinity of the place. A small resistance group from Johann Pilarski and his brother, as well as Ernst Boberg supplied the forced laborers and prisoners secretly with news on the front line. When the 2nd Byelorussian Front approached the place, brought Pilarski and his friends at white flags on the church tower and the light poles, thus preventing the forcible taking of the place.

Since 1952, the village belonged to the district of Rostock and since 1990 the state of Mecklenburg -Vorpommern.

At the beginning of the 1980s, a rocket location of the NVA was set up in the forest with Hans Hagen, which was closed in 1990.

Policy

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on 29 November 1999 by the Home Office and registered under No. 201 of the coat of arms role of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Blazon: " Shared by gold over blue, green above three rooted deciduous trees as beams, down a golden mill wheel. "

The coat of arms was designed by the Hanshägenern Ingrid and Michael cherubim.

Flag

The municipality flag is evenly lengthwise stripes of blue and gold ( yellow). In the middle of the flag cloth, is on two thirds of the height of the blue and golden ( yellow ) strip across, the coat of arms of the municipality. The length of the bunting is related to height as 5:3.

Partner communities

Partner communities by Hans Hagen are the Holstein communities Borsfleth and Bahrenfleth.

Attractions

→ See: List of monuments in Hans Hagen

• Other attractions in the town of the Gothic church Hans Hagen is one of the 15th century with an older Romanesque part and a tower from the 19th century.

• The water mill in Hans Hagen has existed since 1524. Between 1634 and 1855 she was the paper mill of the University of Greifswald, thereafter until 1952 grist mill. Since 2010, a local investor refurbished the listed site and built it into a gastronomic operation with technical museum (grain mill) from.

• Before the former school that bore his name in GDR times, since 1972, is a monument to the communist workers politician Ernst Thalmann, who was murdered in 1944 in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Today the building by the municipal council, the volunteer fire department, a grocery store and a youth club to be used. On the former school playground has a playground and an area for receptions.