Zapel

Zapel is a municipality in the district of Ludwigsburg pleasure Parchim in Mecklenburg -Vorpommern ( Germany ). It is administered by the Office Crivitz and is adjacent to the city of Crivitz.

Geography and transport

The community is located about three kilometers southeast of Crivitz and about 20 kilometers northwest of Parchim. It lies on the main road 321 The Federal Highway 14 (about 14 km ) is accessible via the junction Schwerin -east. Through the municipal area the railway line Schwerin - Parchim runs. The nearest train stations are in Crivitz and Ruth Beck. In the south of the municipal area, the forest area is Settiner fir and here also arises from the Gramnitzbach. In the north- east of the municipality, the highest point is in the municipal area of 67.8 m above sea level. NHN.

Quarters are Zapel and Zapel yard.

Policy

Coat of arms

The designed by Karl -Friedrich Röhl coat of arms was approved on 26 April 2006 by the Home Office and registered under the number 301 in the coat of arms role of the state Mecklenburg -Vorpommern.

Blazon: "In a green gold silver herons reinforced with a raised left golden stand; accompanied in the right upper corner of two golden acorns on a diagonal right questions golden stalk, in the left upper corner of two golden acorns on a diagonal left made ​​golden stem. "

Flag

The flag of the municipality Zapel ( Hissflagge ) is striped across the longitudinal axis of the flag cloth of green, white and green. The green stripes take each quarter, the white stripes one half the length of the bunting and is in the middle filled with the municipal coat of arms, which occupies two thirds of the height of the bunting. The height of the bunting is related to the length as three to five.

History

The name is of Slavic origin and means something like "place of egrets " or " Reiherort ". Whether the settlement was built on the ancient Slavic living space, has not been established. The repeatedly appearing representation, the church lies on a castle wall is refuted by auger drilling. The church stands on a hill, the highest point in the village center.

The church lost in 2004 about a quarter of its population.

Attractions

→ See also List of monuments in Zapel

  • Late Gothic stone church from the beginning of the 15th century, truss tower in 1749
  • Memorial stone from 1960 in front of a barn on the B 321 in the 25 camp inmates of the death march were murdered in April 1945 by SS men.
  • Plaque from 1976 on the B 321 in the vicinity of the property Parchimer road 2 on the death march
  • Memorial stone from 1950 next to the road house at 18 ( actually it was 25) murdered concentration camp inmates
  • Stele of 1996 at the B 321 between Zapel and New Ruth Beck of the sculptor Wieland Schmiedel, to commemorate the death march

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Säverin Herbert (1906-1987), Mayor of Wismar 1945-1950
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