Mesekenhagen

Mesekenhagen is a municipality in the district of Vorpommern - Greifswald. It is administered by the Office Landhagen based in New churches. Mesekenhagen is located on the Bay of Greifswald, ranging from the Gristower Wiek to Kooser Lake. The municipality is the northernmost municipality of the Office and the district Vorpommern - Greifswald. The offshore islands Riems and Koos are enclaves of the city of Greifswald.

Geography and transport

Mesekenhagen is located about five kilometers northwest of Greifswald, north of the river Ryck. Through the village the main road runs 105 from Greifswald to Stralsund. The Federal Highway 20 is accessible via the about 15 kilometers away, junction Greifswald. Through the municipal area the railway line Stralsund - Greifswald runs, the train station to this has already been abandoned.

Districts

• Brook
• Frätow
• Gristow
• Kalkvitz

• Great Karrendorf
• Small Karrendorf
• Kowall
• Mesekenhagen

History

Gristow and Gristower Wiek

The district Gristow was first mentioned already in 1248 as Cristogh. Its name etymologically could not be clarified until today. Gristow originated as a small Slavic Angersdorf and was since the 13th century belonged to a branch of the princes of Rügen, the family of Gristow. This landed gentry in the 14th century sold their lands gradually to the town of Greifswald. From the village is also the name Gristower Wiek, a small shallow bay derives on the west coast of the Bay of Greifswald. The triangular -shaped bay is only 2.7 square kilometers and has depths of less than two meters to a maximum of four meters on. Your upstream are the Riems which became internationally known through the present on her research center for animal diseases " Friedrich Loeffler ", and lying near her spars Big Werder, Small Werder, Reffbrinks, Brink mountain and the Fahrenbrink already connected to the mainland as bird sanctuaries.

This section of the shallow coastal lagoon with the Gristower Wiek has been exposed for centuries storm floods. The storm surge of January 17, 1396 is said to have created the Wiek only in its present form. At that time the old road between Stralsund and Greifswald was destroyed by the floods and impassable and the customs revenue office at the local bridge in the area. The following year ( 1397 ) was issued by the sovereign namely the right to build a new highway above Mesekenhagen and Kowall by Reinberg the town of Greifswald. This section of road thus one of the historical precursor to the later part of the long-distance or federal highway was 96 storm flood altered by destruction again and again the inner part of Wiek, such as in the years 1904, 1914, 1949 and 1954, the coastal dynamic processes are not completed. In the western coastal area of ​​the Bay of Greifswald including Gristower Wiek special weather phenomena of meaning and observed are: "Most of the storms blow ... from the southern to western directions and let particularly in the western lagoon for hours or days with up to 1 m. a north sea like Watt arise .. below sea level. they are going from northern to eastern directions, so the water level rises and storm surges are the result. Especially the exposed shallow coastal sections in the southwest of the bay then flooded by the waters of the Baltic " (R. Bendt 1995 S. 4).

In Gristow, which has always been connected with the sea and fishing - a small port is available - has remained until very recently, the old Pomeranian custom of the annual Tonnenabschlagens in the month of May or for Thanksgiving, the three best riders to " floor, bars and ton King " will be chosen. That this tradition dates back to the time of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), when the Swedes occupied Pomerania and the local fishermen had to pay tribute in this form.

Karrendorf

Karrendorf was called 1301.

Kowall

Kowall was mentioned in 1325 as " Dancwarde de Kowal ". Kowall means in Slavic as much as forging.

Frätow

Frätow documentary in 1320 called.

Northeast of Frätow was still a small town that was mentioned in a document in 1335 with Lypeze, the Slavic name means Linde. This place Lieps was destroyed in 1630 and was completely deserted by 1821, now testifies only one field name.

Mesekenhagen

Mesekenhagen 1325 mentioned as Mesekenhaghen documented. It is, as the name suggests, a German clearing foundation. The name part Meseken is difficult to interpret, probably after the Slavic bear or the middle of the clearing.

The community consists in its current structure since the year 1950. 1964 turned Kurt Tetzlaff in the district Frätow a film about young workers in the oil production with Manfred Krug as a speaker. In the GDR, the film was never shown.

Attractions

→ See: List of monuments in Mesekenhagen

• Gristower church from the 14th century, with school and rectory
• Boddenküste
• Nature Discovery Park Gristow
• Carts Wiesen / Island Koos, bird sanctuary

Sons and daughters of the town

• Rudolf Asmis (1879-1945), German jurist and diplomat
• Asmis Walter (1880 - ), German Association of official