Zirkow
Zirkow is a municipality in the district of Vorpommern - Rügen on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern. It is administered by the Office Moenchgut -Granitz, located in the municipality Baabe.
Geography
Zirkow lies between the town and the Putbus Ostseebad Binz. In the northeast, the municipality borders the lake Schmachter in Binz. Parts of the municipality are in the Southeast Rügen Biosphere Reserve.
Community structure
To Zirkow include the districts Alt Süllitz, Dalkvitz, Nistelitz, Pantow, Schmacht, Serams and Viervitz.
History
The place Zirkow in 1495 first mentioned. The place name comes from the Slavic " Sirakov " and means "place of the Sirak ".
The area was part of the Principality of Rügen to 1326 and then the Duchy of Pomerania.
With the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 became Rügen and thus also the place Zirkow under Swedish rule after the place previously belonged to the Duchy of Pomerania. In 1815 the church and Pomerania came to the Prussian province of Pomerania.
Since 1818 Zirkow belonged to the circle or district Rügen. Only in the years 1952 to 1955 it was the county Putbus belonging. The village belonged until 1990 to Rügen county in the district of Rostock and in the same year part of Mecklenburg- Vorpommern. The 1990 re- designated as the Rügen was 2011 in the district of Vorpommern - Rügen.
Attractions
→ See also: List of monuments in Zirkow
- Gothic Church of St. John of 1417 from brick on field stone base with a three-pile nave, with zweijochigen, rib- vaulted choir and the west tower with a slender octagonal spire.
- Historic town center with its listed thatched half-timbered houses
- Museumshof with complaints house
- Nature reserve and lake Schmachter Catch Listeria
- Hill Rügen Virgin, called the Breast Mountains
Transport links
Federal highway 196 runs through the village. The Zirkower district Serams has a breakpoint at the Rügenscher Bäderbahn - also known as " Orlando Furioso ".