Lietzow

Lietzow is a German municipality in the district of Vorpommern - Rügen on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern. The community is managed by the Office Bergen auf Rügen, located in the eponymous city.

Geography and transport

Lietzow is about eleven kilometers northeast of Bergen. It is located on a wooded ridge at the narrowest point between the Great and Little Jasmund Jasmund. In the north- east of the village lies the Great Wostevitzer pond. The Federal Highway 96 and the railroad tracks Stralsund - Sassnitz and Binz - Lietzow run directly by the municipality, regional trains usually drive alternately to Sassnitz or Binz, Lietzow is thus transfer point. The causeway was built in 1868 and the railway embankment in 1891. The Little Jasmund is thus connected only through a lock with the Great Jasmund. The municipality is part of the Jasmund peninsula.

Districts

• Lietzow
• Borchtitz
• Semper

History

Lietzow is named after a Slavic settlement back.

The place was known by the significant finds from the Neolithic period and notified him Lietzow culture. 1827 Friedrich von Hagenow found at the northern exit of Lietzow the flint workshops. 1867 and 1886 Rudolf Virchow collected there at the site Augustenhof Flint chips, knives, battle axes and other objects made ​​of flint. South of the town on the peninsula is the major reference. First Alfred Haas in 1897, there are many flint tools in the gravel pits. The site was, like the north of Lietzow interpreted as workshops. Around 1920 it was found there near the first place numerous antler and stone tools, as well as in 1923 at a systematic investigation by W. Petzsch.

The place was until 1326 part of the Principality of Rügen and then the Duchy of Pomerania. With the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 Rügen was and thus the area of Lietzow a part of Swedish Pomerania. In 1815 Lietzow came as part of Neuvorpommern the Prussian province of Pomerania. Since 1818 Lietzow belonged to the circle or district Rügen.

After the construction of the railway line over the Lietzow Dam, the architect who built a villa. To 1892/93 the local formative house was built as a copy of the 1839 resulting from conversion of a medieval castle Castle Lichtenstein in the Swabian Alb Reutlingen. The client was the railroad engineer Bopp, who has been responsible for the construction of the railway Bergen- Sassnitz. The building was initially referred to as " villa village" and since 1896 as a " little castle Lichtenstein". It is a two-storey plastered building with a gable roof and brick cover, a stepped gables and a round five-storey tower.

In the years 1952-1955 Lietzow was among mountains belong. The village belonged until 1990 to Rügen county in the district of Rostock and in the same year part of Mecklenburg- Vorpommern. The 1990 re- designated as the Rügen was 2011 in the district of Vorpommern - Rügen.

Ceramics from the Neolithic Lietzow 1923

Antler tools from Lietzow 1923 from the Neolithic period

Attractions

→ See also: List of monuments in Lietzow

• Villa in the style of historicism in Lietzow from the 19th century. Architectural model was the Lichtenstein Castle in Reutlingen on the Swabian Alb.