Usedom (town)
Usedom is a town in the district of Vorpommern - Greifswald in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern ( Germany ). It is the administrative seat of the Office of Usedom -Süd, consisting of a further 14 municipalities.
- 2.1 City Usedom
- 2.2 districts
- 3.1 Coat of Arms
- 3.2 flag
Geography
The small town is located in the southwestern part of the island of the same name, in the so-called Achterland, on the northwest shore of the Usedom lake, a bay of the Szczecin Lagoon. In the west and north, the area of the city is bordered by the river Peene.
Boroughs
The town of Usedom include the districts of:
- Gellenthin
- Gneventhin
- Karnin
- Kölpin
- Mönchow
- Ostklüne
- Paske
- Usedom
- Voss mountain
- Welzin
- Westklüne
- Wilhelmsfelde
- Wilhelmshof
- Zecherin
History
Town of Usedom
The name of the town of Usedom is derived from the Slavic " Uznam ". " Uznoimia civitas " was first attested in 1125 by the missionary here Bishop Otto of Bamberg for the city in the southwest of the island. Perhaps Uznoimia the Slavic word Znoj for current or mouth or flows around to reason. The name turns into Uznoimi, Uznoim ( 1175 ), Uznam, Uznom, Uzdem towards the Usedum in the year 1420.
The region has been inhabited since the Neolithic period and since the 8th and 9th century by Slavs. Since the 10th century there was a Slavic settlement on the present Schlossberg. The " Urbs Osnabrück " was destroyed around 1115/1119 by the Danes under King Niels.
1128 took on the Usedom Schlossberg Wendish princes of Western Pomerania ( under military pressure) Christianity to. The castle of Usedom, the center of the "terra Wanzlow " was first documented in validating the Pomeranian diocese named in 1140 by the Pope. A castle was built around 1159 and again at the same time was a planned city with its market. Until the mid-13th century, the city was one of the favorite residences of Usedom, the Dukes of Pomerania. Then he lost this meaning in favor of Wolgast and Stettin. 1155 at the city, the monastery was built Grobe. In the years 1177 and 1178 Usedom was again conquered and destroyed by the Danes under King Valdemar.
In the 13th century began in the wake of colonization in the German colonization of Usedom. As vicus - ie as a village - Usedom was 1240 and then in 1267 as oppidum first mentioned. On December 23, 1298 Usedom received from Prince Bogusław IV Lübisches law.
For large fires in 1475 and 1688, the city was burned down completely. After the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 Usedom belonged to Swedish Pomerania, with the Peace of Stockholm from February 1, 1720, the town became Prussian. Since 1876, the city has a railway connection.
At the beginning of the 20th century makes the Usedom Mayor Paul Trömel Europe talked about. He disappeared without a trace in February 1911 was recognized in Paris and stated nothing about it to know how he got here. They subjected him to a psychiatric examination, and came to the conclusion that Trömel a " pychisches double life " lead and suffered from " pathological wanderlust ". In a disciplinary procedure you spoke to him so freely, and he resigned his mayoralty again. In March 1913 he disappeared again, this time in the French Foreign Legion to Algiers, where he probably took on a new name; the tabloids said, among other things, " Tunzel " or " Tunge ". In the late summer of 1913 he wrote to his wife that he was " tired legion " and stepped out. After that blurred his tracks.
In the course of the railway line Ducherow - Świnoujście the lift bridge Karnin was 1932/33, built in 1945 which was blown up on the retreat shortly before the war ended by troops of the Wehrmacht.
After the administrative reform in 1815 came to the Prussian province of Pomerania Usedom and belonged from 1818 to 1945 the district of Pomerania. From 1945 to 1952 the city formed, which after the Second World War, remaining in Germany part of the district of Pomerania, the Usedom in Mecklenburg County. This went on in a circle Wolgast in the district of Rostock in 1952.
The municipality belongs since 1990 to the state of Mecklenburg -Vorpommern. Since 1994, Usedom Mecklenburg Western Pomerania belonged to which was to become the district Vorpommern - Greifswald 2011.
The city center and town hall were thoroughly renovated in the context of urban development since 1991.
Districts
Policy
Coat of arms
The newly designed coat of arms was approved on 24 November 1997 by the Home Office and registered under No. 145 of the coat of arms role of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Blazon: " Argent, a right inverted blue Spangenhelm with golden helmet crown and a natural peacock plume. On the shield a forward introverted, gold -winning blue Spangenhelm with blue- silver covers and enclosed by two blue - silver flag natural peacock plume. "
The coat of arms was redesigned in 1997 by the Weimar Michael Zapfe.
Flag
The flag of the town of Usedom is transverse to the longitudinal axis of the bunting of blue, silver (white ) and blue striped. The blue strips each take one-fifth of the silver (white ) strip takes a three-fifths of the length of bunting. In the middle of the silver ( white ) stripe is the coat of arms, which occupies two thirds of the height of the bunting. The length of the flag is to the height as 5:3.
Attractions
→ See: List of monuments in Usedom ( town )
- Anklamer gate
- St. Mary's Church
- Schlossberg with the Christianisation monument that commemorates the conversion of Pomerania to Christianity by Otto of Bamberg in 1128.
- Zecheriner bridge
- Bahnhofanlage Karnin with museum
- Ruins of the lift bridge Karnin
- Former railway station Usedom, in the present Klaus- Bahlsen - house, the nature center is located with exhibitions around the nature of the domestic areas
- Mönchow village church and mausoleum of Dannenfeldt family
City Hall and City Church of Usedom
Old view of Usedom
Monument Schlossberg Usedom
Station Usedom - Museum
Zecheriner Bridge - crossing the river Peene
Karnin bridge with two land connections
Karnin Station ( Disused - Station Name: Carnin )
Lotsenturm and lift bridge Karnin
Church in Mönchow
Transport links
Through the town of Usedom leads as Südanbindung the island of Usedom, the national road 110 (B 110). By 1945 the town had a station on the railway line Ducherow - Swinoujscie, which now houses the Nature Park center of the island of Usedom. By 2015 at the latest, a restart of the railway line is planned to Usedom. Through this connection, the journey time between Berlin and the island of Usedom would shorten to about two hours. Usedom Usedom has a small harbor on lake, a narrow connection (the " throat " ) has the Szczecin Lagoon. From Heringsdorf Airport is 18 km away there are seasonal scheduled flights according to German and some destinations in the Central European countries.
Partner community
- Henstedt -Ulzburg (Schleswig -Holstein)