Lüssow, Güstrow
Lüssow is a municipality in the district of Rostock in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern ( Germany ). The community is managed by the Office Güstrow country located in the not office belonging Güstrow. The municipality includes the villages of Lüssow Lüssow, Karow and Strenz.
Geography
The municipality is located in the triangle between the cities Lüssow Gustrow, Biitzow and Schwaan, 30 kilometers south of Rostock. The area around Lüssow is slightly hilly, south it drops to the valley of the mist and the parallel Biitzow - Güstrow channel. Through the community Lüssow leads the 15 -kilometer (also called Hohensprenzer Mühlbach ) Mühlbach, which runs parallel to the western lying Warnow - but flows in the opposite direction south.
History
The place name Lüssow with the typical ending- ow is of Slavic origin and means something like "place of Lu'sa ". He recalls the presence westslawischer strains ( Obodrites ), who settled in Mecklenburg from the 5th and 6th century AD. In the 12th century, after the failed Wendish Crusade of 1147 mainly peaceful German colonization of the country took place mainly by settlers from Westphalia. 1229 Lüssow was first mentioned in a document. From this period dates the village church.
In the 1970s began with the construction of housing and the dairy farm on the road to Great Schwiesow the expansion of the village Lüssow the " socialist model village ".
In the district of Karow a lock is in neo-baroque style. In the former caretaker's house near the palace was located until 1989, a Polytechnic High School, then for some years a hunting school.
The proximity to the city of Güstrow makes the community for several years now attractive to homebuilders.
Attractions
→ See also List of monuments in Lüssow (Mecklenburg)
- Neo-Baroque manor house with gate and farm buildings in Karow
- Drawbridge from the late 19th century through the Biitzow - Güstrow Channel, about two kilometers south of the village, on the road to Parum.
- Court column of bricks at the northern outskirts of Karow.
→ Main article: Village church Lüssow
The church is a large, mainly built of fieldstone -aisled hall church in a transitional style between Romanesque and Gothic. The building consists of a squat tower with a square base, the zweijochigen ship, the somewhat narrower choir, an octagonal choir circuit as well as several smaller additions. Choir and nave emerged mid-13th century, the tower in the 15th century. In the second half of the 19th century was a comprehensive reconstruction. In the floor of the chancel and nave several grave slabs are embedded. The oldest bears the date in 1386. Altar, baptismal font, pulpit, pews in the nave, organ loft and date from the 19th century. From 1967 to 1970, Joachim Gauck pastor in Lüssow.
Village church in Lüssow
Court column in Karow
Transport links
From Lüssow lead from roads to Biitzow, Güstrow and Schwaan. From the good transport infrastructure Güstrow ( A 19, B 104) also benefits the community Lüssow. The Lüssow railway station is on the railway line Güstrow Schwaan and is served by the S-Bahn Rostock.
Personality of the place
- Joachim Gauck (* 1940) was from 1967 to 1970 pastor in Lüssow
Literature and sources
- Herbert Homfeld: The Lüssower. History and stories of Mecklenburg land., Rostock, Hinstorff Verlag, 1987
- Dehio: The historical monuments of the districts of Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg, Berlin, 1977.
- Friedrich Schliemann: art and historical monuments in Mecklenburg, Schwerin, 1901
- Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch: Mecklenburg Yearbooks, Vol 6 / Vol 26