Zirchow

Zirchow is a municipality south of the Baltic Sea coast on the island of Usedom in the so-called Achterland located right on the shore of the Szczecin Lagoon. The community is managed by the Office of Usedom -Süd, located in the town of Usedom. By 2005, the village belonged to the Official Ahlbeck - Szczecin Lagoon.

Geography and transport

Zirchow lies to the south on the north shore of the Szczecin Haff of 110 B amidst the nature park Usedom Island. About six miles north of the town, the seaside resort of Heringsdorf. To the east is the municipality Garz. A part of the airport Heringsdorf is located in the municipality.

By 1945, the current district Kutzow had a breakpoint on the disused railway line Ducherow - Heringsdorf.

The place is connected to the fixed network of cycle paths of Usedom, so the imperial baths Heringsdorf (ten miles), Heringsdorf ( eight kilometers ), Ahlbeck ( six kilometers ), the town of Usedom ( 15 km ), Garz ( 2.5 kilometers), Kamminke ( six km ) and the city of Świnoujście ( nine kilometers ) can be easily obtained without the use of the roads.

Districts

  • Kutzow
  • Zirchow

History

The area of Zirchow was settled very early, as proven many early and prehistoric localities. The community was first documented in 1239th The name comes from Circhowe and means as much as Kirchdorf. After the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 Zirchow belonged to Swedish Pomerania, after the Peace of Stockholm from February 1, 1720 Location Prussian possession was. After the administrative reform in 1815 Zirchow came to the Prussian province of Pomerania and belonged from 1818 to 1945 the district of Pomerania. From 1945 to 1952 formed the congregation, with 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. From 1994 it belonged to the Mecklenburg Western Pomerania, which was rising in the district of Vorpommern - Greifswald 2011.

Attractions

  • St. James Church, late Gothic brick and stone church from the 13th century. It is home to medieval wall paintings and is the oldest church on the island.
  • As a local architectural feature the patent - steel segments used in the place and the neighboring communities as a garden fence that formed the members of the runway then used by the military as an airfield Garz airport Heringsdorf until the 1960s apply.
  • The Thurbruch, one of the largest fen areas in northern Germany, part nature reserve, located west of the community.
  • Airport miniature world in the building of the airport Heringsdorf

Fence made of patent steel plates

Usedom Island Nature Park Garz (Usedom) Treaties of Stockholm (Great Northern War) Rostock (Bezirk) Ostvorpommern Gothic art Heinrich Berghaus Alt Tellin Altwarp Altwigshagen Anklam Bandelin Bargischow Behrenhoff Bentzin Benz (Usedom) Bergholz Blankensee, Uecker-Randow Blesewitz Boldekow Boock Brietzig Bugewitz Buggenhagen Butzow Daberkow Dargelin Dargen Dersekow Diedrichshagen Eggesin Fahrenwalde Ferdinandshof Glasow Grambin Gribow Hanshagen Heinrichsruh Heinrichswalde Hinrichshagen Hintersee (Vorpommern-Greifswald) Iven Jarmen Jatznick Karlshagen Katzow Kemnitz Koblentz Korswandt Krien Kruckow Krugsdorf Krummin Krusenfelde Lassan, Germany Leopoldshagen Levenhagen Loddin Loissin Loitz Lubmin Medow Meiersberg Mesekenhagen Murchin Nadrensee Neetzow-Liepen Neu Boltenhagen Neu Kosenow Neuenkirchen, Anklam-Land Neuenkirchen, Landhagen Nieden Papendorf, Uecker-Randow Pasewalk Penkun Polzow Postlow Pudagla Rollwitz Rossin Rossow Rothenklempenow Rubenow Sarnow Sassen-Trantow Sauzin Spantekow Stolpe, Ostvorpommern Stolpe auf Usedom Strasburg, Germany Trassenheide Tutow Viereck Vogelsang-Warsin Wackerow Weitenhagen Wilhelmsburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Wrangelsburg Wusterhusen Zemitz Zempin Zerrenthin Ziethen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
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