Lanz, Brandenburg

Lanz is a municipality in the district of Prignitz in Brandenburg.

  • 4.1 Museums
  • 4.2 Structures
  • 4.3 parks
  • 4.4 Regular events
  • 5.1 traffic
  • 5.2 Education
  • 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Geographical Location

Lanz is a municipality in the southwest of Brandenburg Prignitz. The community belongs to the Office Lenzen Elbtalaue. The administrative headquarters of the Office is in town Lenzen. Nearest towns are Lenzen in the west and in the southeast of Wittenberg. Together with its suburbs and the municipal area of Lanz in the south reaches flow through to the Elbe and from the Löcknitz.

Community structure

As a church, parts Babekuhl, Bernheide, Gadow, Ferbitz, Jagel, Lütkenwisch and Wustrow be performed. The living spaces Bärwinkel and Central Horst also belong to Lanz.

Demographics

History

In the community can be concluded from many archaeological finds to a settlement as early as the Stone Age.

Lance, in his local system a typical circular village was first mentioned in 1325 as Lantzig.

The district Wustrow 1399 is mentioned as Wusterowe for the first time in a document, Ferbitz, also a circular village, 1423 as Verbettze, Jagel 1423 as Jauel and Bernheide 1521 as Berne Heath. The district Gadow lay desolate in the Middle Ages and probably will later be delivered exclusively as a manor. For the located right on the dike district Lütkenwisch a medieval settlement is detectable.

In May 1945, the Red Army reached the Elbe River and the villages were at the demarcation line to the British occupation zone, after the founding of the GDR in marginal and restricted to the FRG. To intimidate the predominantly peasant population made ​​forced resettlements, 1952 "Action vermin " and 1961 "Action cornflower ". The communist dictatorship of the German Democratic Republic was "politically unreliable" -assessed families forced to evacuate from the inner German border in the interior. The assessment of " political unreliability " was arbitrary, so that were detected by the Zwangsaussiedelung people who had expressed some form of negative about the state. Farming families were preferred abducted and whose holdings expropriated with the aim of promoting the construction of socialist agricultural production cooperatives.

The in 500 -meter protective strip place Lütkenwisch lost through repression of the border regime of the GDR until 1989 85 % of its population, more than 40 buildings were demolished. For 1992, it was planned to place systematically grind down to the ground.

Policy

The municipal council consists of 10 community representatives.

  • CDU: 6 seats ( 1)
  • LEFT: 3 seats (± 0)
  • FDP: 1 seat ( 1)

(As at municipal election on 28 September 2008)

Culture and sights

In the list of monuments in Lanz ( Prignitz ) are registered in the list of monuments of the country Brandenburg monuments.

Museums

Structures

  • Feldsteinkirche lance with verbrettertem tower
  • Jahn 's Birthplace
  • Castle Gadow
  • Icehouse Gadow

Parks

Worth seeing is the Castle Park Gadow with dendrologically valuable inventory. Among other natural monuments located there is the oldest oak tree of the district Prignitz.

Regular events

  • Rhododendron Festival Gadow

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Lanz is on the B 195 From Lütkenwisch there is a ferry across the Elbe to Schnackenburgallee.

Education

In Lanz is a daycare and the Friedrich -Ludwig -Jahn Elementary School.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Friedrich Ludwig Jahn was the German father of gymnastics.
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