Mescherin
Mescherin is a municipality in the northeast of the county Uckermark. It is in the state of Brandenburg ( Germany ). The community is managed by the Office Gartz (Oder ), located in the eponymous city. It was created on 31 December 2002 from the merger of the previously independent municipalities Mescherin, Neurochlitz, Radekow and Rosow.
Geography
The municipality is located in the western area of a terminal moraine, which is on the western edge of the Oder valley with heights of about 65 m above sea level. NN stretches along. The main town Mescherin other hand is located on the steep banks of the West Or, 10 km upstream from the division of the main stream, the only centimeters here above sea level, is apparent. The West Oder ( Polish: Odra Zachodnia ) river forms the border with the Republic of Poland, the parallel flowing Ostoder (Polish: Odra Wschodnia ) is located entirely on Polish territory. Two kilometers north of Mescherin the West or both sides polish; here of about 55 km long section of the land boundary starts to Poland, which stretches north to the Oder Lagoon.
The nearest towns are Gryfino ( Pommern ), Gartz (Oder), Penkun and Szczecin. Mescherin is the northernmost village in the National Park Lower Oder Valley.
Community structure
In addition to the formerly independent towns and hamlets today Mescherin, Neurochlitz, Radekow and Rosow include the inhabited parts of municipalities Staffelde the local part Mescherin and New Rosow the local part Rosow to the community.
Municipal council
The municipal council consists of 16 non-party individual candidates.
(As at municipal election on 28 September 2008)
Demographics
( 31.12. of the year indicated )
- 2007 - 783
- 2008 - 777
History
1297 Mescherin was first mentioned in a gift certificate. After the Thirty Years War, which drew the whole area heavily affected, Mescherin was 72 years to Swedish Pomerania.
In the mid-19th century, from initial sand pits a real mining site. 1857 were built over the Oder two wooden bridges, 1911 was followed by an iron bridge that was destroyed after prolonged fighting in 1945. By 1945 Mescherin was a part of the Prussian province of Pomerania.
With the construction of weekend homes and a campsite in 1977 the development of the community for tourism began. In 1999, the bastion was restored to the West Or, so that today also sport boats can create there.
Transport links
Mescherin is the end point of the B 113, which crosses two kilometers west of Mescherin B 2 ( Schwedt / Oder - Szczecin). The B 113 performs in twelve kilometers from the motorway connecting the A 11 Penkun The nearest train station is located in the neighboring municipality Tantow on the railway line between Berlin and Szczecin. To Polish neighboring town Gryfino / Greifenhagen consists in continuation of B 113 is a border crossing over the Oder.
Attractions
In the list of monuments in Mescherin are registered in the list of monuments of the country Brandenburg monuments.
- Memorial Church Rosow, German -Polish memorial for flight, expulsion and a new beginning