Zickhusen

Zickhusen is a municipality in the district of North West in Mecklenburg -Vorpommern ( Germany ). The community is managed by the Office Lützow - Lübstorf based in the municipality of Lützow.

Geography

The community Zickhusen located 14 kilometers north of Schwerin in a ground moraine, tower over the hill the mirror of Lake Schwerin in the east and the valley of the upper Stepenitz in the west to about 30 meters. The community has a stake in the Dambecker lakes that are as a bird sanctuary nature reserve. South of the nature reserve Drispether Moor follows, is mined in the peat. The Black Sea is majority on Zickhusener municipality.

To Zickhusen part of the district Drispeth.

History

1284 Zickhusen was first mentioned in documents as Tsikhusen. Until the 16th century it was the seat of the noble family of Zickhusen. Henry of Zickhusen sold in 1489 a pension from his farm to the Kalandsbruderschaft to Schwerin. A list of all mortgaged leases from the period around 1520 points to the decline of the aristocratic family. Legal successor of the family were early 17th century, of a sparrow. However, Duke Adolf Friedrich acquired already in 1618 the Grange for 9,000 guilders. Had Zickhusen in the early Middle Ages, even his own clergy, the local chapel is already the beginning of the 16th century branch of the parish of Old Meteln. The new building of the village church was completed in 1827 in the classical style.

In the district Drispeth, a former Slavic fishing village, garden peat is stung in the community Zickhusen there is next to craft a nursery and a trucking company.

Policy and Coat of Arms

On the Coat of Arms on 12 June 2009 approved by the Ministry of Interior and designed by Werner Große a goat, two crossed Torfspaten and a church spire are shown. In the background you see the colors of Mecklenburg were elected. The goat makes reference to the first syllable of the place name, the Torfspaten point to the up to the present taking place in peat Drispeth, the church symbolizes the classical religious building in Zickhusen.

Attractions

→ See also List of monuments in Zickhusen

• Neoclassical village church in Zickhusen in place an earlier building dating from the 16th century, when church hall of 1827 with semi-circular chancel and the narrow western tower as a Campanile.

Transport links

Zickhusen is situated on the national highway 106 between the state capital Schwerin and Wismar. The connection point Bobitz ( Baltic Sea motorway A 20) is about 12 kilometers from Zickhusen away, in the neighboring communities Lübstorf and bath small are the nearest railway stations ( line Schwerin - Wismar ).