Kröpelin

Kropelin is an Office- free small town and sub- center in the district of Rostock in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern ( Germany ). Until 13 June 2004, the city was a member and the seat of the Office Kropelin.

• 2.1 Name
• 2.2 Middle Ages
• 2.3 from 19 century
• 2.4 Amalgamations

• 3.1 City Council
• 3.2 Coat of Arms
• 3.3 twinning

• 5.1 Economics
• 5.2 traffic
• 5.3 transmitter

Geography

The city lies between the Hanseatic cities of Rostock and Wismar and up to 80 m above sea level. NN unusually high for its proximity to the Baltic Sea about 12 km away. This is due to the extending between cooling Born on the coast and Kropelin wooded ridge of the cooling, the Diedrich Hagen mountain a height of 129.7 m above sea level. NN achieved.

Districts

• Old Hagen
• Boldenshagen
• Brusow
• Detershagen
• Diedrichshagen
• Einhusen

• Great Siemen
• Hans Hagen
• Horst
• Hundeshagen
• Jennewitz

• Small Nienhagen
• Small Siemen
• Parchow expansion
• Schmadebeck
• Wichmannsdorf

History

Name

The place name is of Slavic origin ( " crepelita " - Corn field or " crepelice " - Wachtelort ). In later times he was taken with the German word " cripple " in conjunction.

The Namensherleitung about the term cripple is underlined by an old legend in which a well-deserved, but badly wounded soldier erkriecht the outstanding Sold by his zahlungsunfreudigen men through the use of pads as a " walker " far better than expected in the form of land ownership and thus the local area acquires.

Middle Ages

The first mention was made in 1177 as Crapelin. The parish village was reported as Doberan Abbey possession in 1186. From a German village in the old Slavic settlement aligned in an east-west direction regular urban layout was created. In a deed of Prince Heinrich Borwin III. Kropelin was first described as a town ( oppidum ) on 25 August 1250. The award of the city of Liibeck law is, that in 1249, adopted for the previous year. Therefore, the round city anniversaries, it was decided each to celebrate a year earlier, so in 1999 the 750 - year celebration. On the origin of the name designates a legend a cripple, who was taken into the city seal. More likely the name from the Slavic word crepelice = place the quail itself derives.

The town church was built with the choir from the 13th to the nave from the 14th and the tower of the 15th century. The tower floor and the spire were created in 1883.

From the 19th century

At the beginning of the 19th century, Jews settled in Kropelin, 1821 in the bald meadows docked to their Jewish Cemetery. At the November Pogrom 1938 he was desecrated by the Nazis and fell thereafter until his remains were later provided as a memorial with a memorial stone commemorating the Jewish victims of fascism in the Shoah.

Downtown and City Hall have been renovated thoroughly in the context of urban development since 1991.

Incorporations

Old Hagen, Jennewitz and Schmadebeck were incorporated on 13 June 2004.

Policy

City ​​council

The City Council consists of 17 members. The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 led to the following results:

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was established on 10 April 1858 by Friedrich Franz II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg -Schwerin and registered under No 66 of the coat of arms role of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. On 24 March 1997, the Town Council to introduce the current coat of arms, which was approved on 8 June 1999 by the Home Office decided.

Blazon: " Azure, a crawling to the left crippled with silver robe, natural flesh color ( except for color), cone hat with golden, silver hair and golden blocks on the lower legs and hands; about the cripple a left leaning golden shield with a black bull hersehenden head with silver horns and a golden crown prince, are visible from the five prongs. "

The creeping disabled is represented with the bull's head already in the 1306 Seal of Kropelin. The black bull's head in the crest represents the affiliation to the land of Mecklenburg by reference to the Rostock branch line of the Princely House of Mecklenburg

The coat of arms was redrawn by the Weimar Michael Zapfe and changed color in details.

Twinning

Founded in 1990 a partnership with the Lower Saxony Hude and Schwarmstedt communities, as well as to the French city of Arnage, a southern suburb of Le Mans in Sarthe. 2003, a twinning with the city Włoszakowice in powiat Leszczynski (Poland ) has been closed.

Culture and sights

→ See also List of monuments in Kropelin

• The city is a Gothic church Kropelin brick church with a zweijochigem choir from the 13th century and the einschiffigem, dreijochigem ] nave from the 14th century, the tower from the 15th century In 1883 a new floor and its spire. The bronze baptismal font dates from 1508, the baroque pulpit from 1786, the neo-Gothic altar wall of 1857 and the organ from 1845.
• From 1996 to 2011, the city museum was located in the town hall. It is housed in the Public Library since 2011.
• " Retractable " windmill of 1904 Kropelin. If you drive in the direction of Bad Doberan by car from the market in Kropelin, the impression that the gallery Dutch windmill arises disappear into the ground and dive again, due to the alternation of hill and valley.
• North of it is a Erdholländermühle of 1876, which is without wings and wind rose and is used as a dwelling.
• The mansion Wichmannsdorf was restored to 2007 (architect Paul Korff ).
• Since 1996, the village of rock found in Schmadebeck held annually, at which known especially Ostrock bands occur.

Economy, Transport and Infrastructure

Economy

In situated at the western entrance of the city Kropelin commercial area several companies in the areas of services (tourism) and production ( metal manufacturing) operates. For people with disabilities about 170 jobs in the Kropeliner workshops were created. In addition, agriculture plays an important role traditional. So there is among other things a dairy farm in the outskirts. The establishments in Kropelin are exclusively small, medium enterprises and individual enterprises.

Traffic

Kropelin is located on the main road 105 (Rostock -Wismar ). 15 km south of the city, there is highway access ( driveway Kropelin Baltic Sea motorway A 20). The place also has a station on the Wismar - Rostock railway. From that exists with the regional express line RE8 connection to Wismar, Bad Doberan, Rostock and Ticino.

Transmitter

To the north of the district Diedrichshagen at 54 ° 6'23 " north latitude and 11 ° 45'58 " east longitude is a transmitting station of Deutsche Telekom AG. As antenna support a 97 meter high, guyed steel lattice mast is used. There are radiated the following programs:

Sons and daughters of the town

• Johann Gustav Gildemeister (1812 at Hofgut small - Siemen - 1890), orientalist.
• Carl Malchin (1838-1923), landscape painter and restorer
• Klenz Heinrich (1860-1925), scholar and poet
• Manfred Oeming (born 1955), Protestant theologian, professor of Old Testament at the University of Heidelberg