Karbow-Vietlübbe

Karbow - Vietlübbe was a municipality in the east of the county Ludwigslust - Parchim in Mecklenburg -Vorpommern ( Germany ). It was administered by the Office Eldenburg Lübz with headquarters in the city Lübz and went through the congregation merged with Wahlstorf on 1 January 2014 in the newly formed community Gehlsbach on.

On a municipal area of 20.66 km ² lived on 31 December 2012 342 inhabitants.

Geography and transport

The community was removed about eight kilometers southeast of Lübz. It lay along a marshy lowlands. The surrounding heights reached 95.3 m. In the north of the municipality of the forest area was Vietlübber firs, the South was cut from the course of the Gehlsbaches. East of the church was the federal highway 103

The municipality included the villages of Hof Karbow, Karbow and Vietlübbe and the living space Sandkrugbrücke.

History

The villages themselves were first mentioned in 1274 in a sale deed in a document. In this, the sale of the villages of Prince Nicolaus von Werle to the monastery Marienfließ is documented. The place name derives from the Karbow of hribu Slavic and means as much as hill town ..

The name Vietlübbe, in 1288 Vitelubbe, comes from the Old Slavic and means as much as the place Vitolub family or place of Vitolub, the profit lovers.

Already in 1178 the deserted village Cesemowe is mentioned.

On January 1, 2014 resulted from the merger of the municipalities Karbow - Vietlübbe and Wahlstorf the new community Gehlsbach.

Attractions

• Karbow village church, built of field stone and half-timbered
• Neo-Gothic village church Vietlübbe

Personalities

• John Ritter (1799-1880), from 1843 pastor in Vietlübbe, 1848 Deputy of the Mecklenburg Chamber of Deputies