Ueckermünde
Encyclopedia
Ueckermünde is a seaport town in northeast Germany, located in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald
, Western Pomerania
, near Germany
's border with Poland
(Police County
). Ueckermünde has a long and varied history, going back to its founding by Slavs
, known as the Uchri and mentioned in 934 by Widukind of Corvey
. Other sources describe them as the Vucrani or Ucrani, a Slavic tribe that lived in the area of Uecker before 1200. The name Ucramund appears in documents from 1178.
". The Uecker River flows from Brandenburg
, where it is called Ucker, into the Oder Lagoon. The river's name corresponds with the name of the adjacent region (Uckermark
) and the name of the medieval Wendish
tribe of the Ukr(an)i
who inhabited the area prior to the German Ostsiedlung
. The first known reference to Ucramund is in an 1178 document. Later spellings included Ukeremund, Ukeremunde and Ukermunde (1284).
1178 (other sources 1223) Ucramund was first mentioned and 1243 the Monastery Grobe
on Usedom assumed. At 1260 founded Herzog Barnim I. a monastery and the original trade center was awarded the Town Charter to Lübeck Law
. 1276 the place was named as civitas and 1284, the castrum ukermunde, the first as a fortress built castle of the Dukes of Pomerania
.
In the 13th Century was also a city with walls and two gates, to withstand the siege by troops of Brandenburg
. In the great fire of 1473 destroyed many of the medieval houses and the church up in flames. Then came the late-Gothic
City Church St. Marien, 1753 was then set down completely for a new building.
1540 was the construction of the four wings of the castle by Pomeranian Duke Philipp I. first started.
the city was almost completely destroyed, of 1600 inhabitants, only 15 survived the war. The city was then repeatedly in alternating possession. 1631 destroyed a great fire about 40 houses, including the Town Hall, 1639 there are only ten habitable houses in the city. 1648 it is according to the Peace of Westphalia
Swedish. Christina, Queen Christina of Sweden decided to settle in the towns of the area with fins
and Livonia
n.
In the course of the Great Northern War
after Russian and Saxon troops had occupied Szczecin
and Pomerania
, took Prussia for a payment of over four hundred thousand thaler
s the provisional administration of the territory. With the Peace of Stockholm, on 21 January (or February 1) 1720 to purchase Western Pomerania with Stettin, Usedom and Wollin for a payment of two million crowns decided. Ueckermünde had thus become Prussian. That same year, the ruined castle to the south wing and the rest of the keep was demolished.
Early 18 Century will be known always been princes of the time in Ueckermünde. The soldier king Friedrich Wilhelm I, August III., King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, King of Poland, Stanislaus I. Leszczynski, and the Russian monarch Peter the Great.
The Swedish army conquered the city in 1761 and set up their commander in the castle district. In 1766 the Gothic church was replaced by a new building. 1806 Ueckermünde is occupied by French troops. As early as in the time of the Slavs, the inhabitants still lived mainly on fishing.
Only at the end of the 18th, beginning 19th Century began to flourish the city. As in Torgelow
were after the discovery of bog iron built several iron foundries. The industry with around 50 brickworks was built in the 19th Century Ueckermünde was developed into an important trading center and also the ship itself. From 1781 to 1795 in Ueckermünde 102 ships were launched. After Prussian administrative reform in 1818 created the circle Ueckermünde (832 square kilometers and 24,000 inhabitants).
1819 (to 1994) Ueckermünde eventually became county seat. By the middle of the 19th Century there were represented in Ueckermünde owners over 27 merchant ships.
In the Gründerzeit
in the second half of the 19th Century, many new buildings, the shape is still the old town to the market and St. Mary's Church. End of the 19th Century, the then current advanced medical facilities, today the "Ameos Clinic" (then St. Christopher's Hospital), approved.
At the time of national socialism
, the ten to twelve more followed in the towns Jewish families
driven into exile or murdered. An existing Jewish cemetery survived the Nazi terror, but later fell into disrepair, was desecrated, but came in 1961 by setting up a memorial under state protection.
In 1945 the city surre4ndered without a fight, and thus passed without major war damage to Soviet troops.
1950, was today in the Castle housed Haffmuseum opened and extended several times. In 1962, the construction of 18 hectares Animal Park Ueckermünde started.
About 400 animals of nearly 120 species can see the year over 150 000 visitors. End of the sixties was a new development area in the west of the city lived a completely new district in which up to 6,000 people.
Largest operation of the East
time was in Ueckermünde a foundry with 1,100 employees. In 1997, the last brick factory was closed down by the once-50 in Ueckermünde.
The old town has remained intact in GDR times, when encountered at many buildings because of decades of maintenance backlog major structural damage. 1991 was the redevelopment of the historic center, beginning with a preserved southern wing of the palace (museum, Government) under the Urban Development. The Old bulwark, an essential part of the old port has been rehabilitated. The district Ueckermünde East (Garden City), was renovated as part of the basic urban renewal East. The area has been characterized by prefabricated buildings with a high housing vacancy, leading to partial restoration measures and restructuring processes.
The early 1990s were also many hotels, guest houses and apartments, shops have been restored in the city center and built a marina with 400 berths and 200 apartments in the vicinity of the Szczecin Lagoon.
2001 Ueckermünde received the title of "state-approved resort". For its exemplary city planning with the cities Eggesin
and Torgelow
, Ueckermünde was given a national award in 2002.
city. It is recognized by the state as a resort town, and it is home to the last palace of the Dukes of Pomerania
still in existence on German soil. Emptying into the lagoon is the town's namesake, the river Uecker
; Ueckermünde means "mouth of the Uecker".
The surrounding area, even when seen from the odd spot that reaches 20 m above sea level
, is almost flat. The city also gave the Ueckermünder Heide
(heath
and woodland
) its name. It is Western Pomerania's biggest wooded area, and stretches from the northwest to the southeast over 50 km to the Polish town of Police
(Pölitz in German
).
opened in Ueckermünde, and in 1927 the Beach Hall opened at the Ueckermünde Oder Lagoon. 1935, founded the Urban Spa and Tourist Association. From this period, the first postcards of Ueckermünde reading "Haffbad Ueckermünde, the cheap resort for guests looking for work people". After the war, large parts of the beach were very rough trenches, and the pier, used for mooring passenger ships and seaplanes, was destroyed.
In the 1950s, there was a steamboat pier
at the head Uecker (1959); beach park was designed and prepared the beach hall again. In the 1960s the city was built around a ten-kilometer-long belt declared a conservation area. In 1969 came the formation of the municipal association for recreation Haffküste Ueckermünde the responsibility of the city Ueckermünde. In the following year was created under the name Hafftourist an economic project of the local communities Ueckermünde, Mönkebude
, Grambin
and Vogelsang
to promote joint tourism interests. After the reunification of the whole beach was basically reorganized and expanded accessible.
The takeover by the Nazis, the political environment changed for dealing with the mentally ill and disabled. The Ueckermünder hospital gained notoriety in the wake of the so-called Action T4
, a large-scale murders of tens of thousands of helpless patients, many of them as "unworthy" declared children.
Ueckermünde it was obviously an important center of this action in Pomerania. Was resolved during a large part of medical institutions in Western Pomerania and partly in converted SS-barracks, remained the local institution. The number of newly fed patients rose from dissolved hospitals, exploded at the same rate of mortality. The murders of hundreds were covered up and found a "normal" disease-related deaths in the catchment of the hospital statistics.
, Poland
Pattensen
, Lower Saxony
Sande, Lower Saxony
. Bundesstraße (Federal Highway) B 109 running between Anklam
and Prenzlau
passes 13 km to the town's west. Ueckermünde is the last stop on the railway line from Pasewalk
. Passenger ships sail regularly to Szczecin
, Świnoujście
and Kamminke
on the island of Usedom
. Also, the Berlin-Usedom cycling highway passes through the town.
Vorpommern-Greifswald
Vorpommern-Greifswald is a district in the east of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is bounded by the districts Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, Vorpommern-Rügen, the Baltic Sea, Poland and the state Brandenburg...
, Western Pomerania
Pomerania
Pomerania is a historical region on the south shore of the Baltic Sea. Divided between Germany and Poland, it stretches roughly from the Recknitz River near Stralsund in the West, via the Oder River delta near Szczecin, to the mouth of the Vistula River near Gdańsk in the East...
, near Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
's border with Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
(Police County
Police County
Police County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, north-western Poland, on the Polish-German border. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and...
). Ueckermünde has a long and varied history, going back to its founding by Slavs
Slavic peoples
The Slavic people are an Indo-European panethnicity living in Eastern Europe, Southeast Europe, North Asia and Central Asia. The term Slavic represents a broad ethno-linguistic group of people, who speak languages belonging to the Slavic language family and share, to varying degrees, certain...
, known as the Uchri and mentioned in 934 by Widukind of Corvey
Widukind of Corvey
Widukind of Corvey was a Saxon historical chronicler, named after the Saxon duke and national hero Widukind who had battled Charlemagne. Widukind the chronicler was born in 925 and died after 973 at the Benedictine abbey of Corvey in East Westphalia...
. Other sources describe them as the Vucrani or Ucrani, a Slavic tribe that lived in the area of Uecker before 1200. The name Ucramund appears in documents from 1178.
History
Name
The name Ueckermünde translates "mouth of the UeckerUecker
The Uecker or Ucker is a river in the northeastern German states of Brandenburg, where it is known as the Ucker, and of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Its source lies in the Uckermark district, near the village Alt-Temmen. It flows north through Lake Oberuckersee, Lake Mollensee and Lake Unteruckersee,...
". The Uecker River flows from Brandenburg
Brandenburg
Brandenburg is one of the sixteen federal-states of Germany. It lies in the east of the country and is one of the new federal states that were re-created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany. The capital is Potsdam...
, where it is called Ucker, into the Oder Lagoon. The river's name corresponds with the name of the adjacent region (Uckermark
Uckermark
Uckermark is a Kreis in the northeastern part of Brandenburg, Germany. Neighboring districts are Barnim and Oberhavel, the districts Mecklenburgische Seenplatte and Vorpommern-Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and to the east Poland . It is the largest district of Germany areawise...
) and the name of the medieval Wendish
Wends
Wends is a historic name for West Slavs living near Germanic settlement areas. It does not refer to a homogeneous people, but to various peoples, tribes or groups depending on where and when it is used...
tribe of the Ukr(an)i
Ukrani
thumb|250px|right|Burgwallinsel, a former Ukrani [[burgh]] on an isle in Lake [[Oberuckersee]]The Ukrani were a West Slavic Polabian tribe in the Uckermark from the 6th–12th centuries. Their settlement area was centered around the lakes Oberuckersee and Unteruckersee at the spring of the...
who inhabited the area prior to the German Ostsiedlung
Ostsiedlung
Ostsiedlung , also called German eastward expansion, was the medieval eastward migration and settlement of Germans from modern day western and central Germany into less-populated regions and countries of eastern Central Europe and Eastern Europe. The affected area roughly stretched from Slovenia...
. The first known reference to Ucramund is in an 1178 document. Later spellings included Ukeremund, Ukeremunde and Ukermunde (1284).
Middle Age
In the old slavonic era Ueckermünde was due to its location, a settlement of fishermen.1178 (other sources 1223) Ucramund was first mentioned and 1243 the Monastery Grobe
Usedom Abbey
Usedom Abbey was a medieval Premonstratensian monastery on the isle of Usedom near the town of Usedom. It was founded in Grobe and later moved to nearby Pudagla, and is thus also known as Grobe Abbey or Pudagla Abbey respectively.The abbey was founded by the Pomeranian duke Ratibor I and his...
on Usedom assumed. At 1260 founded Herzog Barnim I. a monastery and the original trade center was awarded the Town Charter to Lübeck Law
Lübeck law
The Lübeck law was the constitution of a municipal form of government developed at Lübeck in Schleswig-Holstein after it was made a free city in 1226. The law provides for self-government. It replaced the personal rule of tribal monarchs descending from ancient times or the rule of the regional...
. 1276 the place was named as civitas and 1284, the castrum ukermunde, the first as a fortress built castle of the Dukes of Pomerania
Pomerania
Pomerania is a historical region on the south shore of the Baltic Sea. Divided between Germany and Poland, it stretches roughly from the Recknitz River near Stralsund in the West, via the Oder River delta near Szczecin, to the mouth of the Vistula River near Gdańsk in the East...
.
In the 13th Century was also a city with walls and two gates, to withstand the siege by troops of Brandenburg
Brandenburg
Brandenburg is one of the sixteen federal-states of Germany. It lies in the east of the country and is one of the new federal states that were re-created in 1990 upon the reunification of the former West Germany and East Germany. The capital is Potsdam...
. In the great fire of 1473 destroyed many of the medieval houses and the church up in flames. Then came the late-Gothic
Gothic art
Gothic art was a Medieval art movement that developed in France out of Romanesque art in the mid-12th century, led by the concurrent development of Gothic architecture. It spread to all of Western Europe, but took over art more completely north of the Alps, never quite effacing more classical...
City Church St. Marien, 1753 was then set down completely for a new building.
1540 was the construction of the four wings of the castle by Pomeranian Duke Philipp I. first started.
16th till 19th Century
Many sieges and mutual conquests of the city marked the following centuries. In the Thirty Years' WarThirty Years' War
The Thirty Years' War was fought primarily in what is now Germany, and at various points involved most countries in Europe. It was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history....
the city was almost completely destroyed, of 1600 inhabitants, only 15 survived the war. The city was then repeatedly in alternating possession. 1631 destroyed a great fire about 40 houses, including the Town Hall, 1639 there are only ten habitable houses in the city. 1648 it is according to the Peace of Westphalia
Peace of Westphalia
The Peace of Westphalia was a series of peace treaties signed between May and October of 1648 in Osnabrück and Münster. These treaties ended the Thirty Years' War in the Holy Roman Empire, and the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Dutch Republic, with Spain formally recognizing the...
Swedish. Christina, Queen Christina of Sweden decided to settle in the towns of the area with fins
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
and Livonia
Livonia
Livonia is a historic region along the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea. It was once the land of the Finnic Livonians inhabiting the principal ancient Livonian County Metsepole with its center at Turaida...
n.
In the course of the Great Northern War
Great Northern War
The Great Northern War was a conflict in which a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in northern Central Europe and Eastern Europe. The initial leaders of the anti-Swedish alliance were Peter I the Great of Russia, Frederick IV of...
after Russian and Saxon troops had occupied Szczecin
Szczecin
Szczecin , is the capital city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. It is the country's seventh-largest city and the largest seaport in Poland on the Baltic Sea. As of June 2009 the population was 406,427....
and Pomerania
Pomerania
Pomerania is a historical region on the south shore of the Baltic Sea. Divided between Germany and Poland, it stretches roughly from the Recknitz River near Stralsund in the West, via the Oder River delta near Szczecin, to the mouth of the Vistula River near Gdańsk in the East...
, took Prussia for a payment of over four hundred thousand thaler
Thaler
The Thaler was a silver coin used throughout Europe for almost four hundred years. Its name lives on in various currencies as the dollar or tolar. Etymologically, "Thaler" is an abbreviation of "Joachimsthaler", a coin type from the city of Joachimsthal in Bohemia, where some of the first such...
s the provisional administration of the territory. With the Peace of Stockholm, on 21 January (or February 1) 1720 to purchase Western Pomerania with Stettin, Usedom and Wollin for a payment of two million crowns decided. Ueckermünde had thus become Prussian. That same year, the ruined castle to the south wing and the rest of the keep was demolished.
Early 18 Century will be known always been princes of the time in Ueckermünde. The soldier king Friedrich Wilhelm I, August III., King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, King of Poland, Stanislaus I. Leszczynski, and the Russian monarch Peter the Great.
The Swedish army conquered the city in 1761 and set up their commander in the castle district. In 1766 the Gothic church was replaced by a new building. 1806 Ueckermünde is occupied by French troops. As early as in the time of the Slavs, the inhabitants still lived mainly on fishing.
Only at the end of the 18th, beginning 19th Century began to flourish the city. As in Torgelow
Torgelow
Torgelow is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated on the river Uecker, 12 km south of Ueckermünde, and 41 km northwest of Stettin....
were after the discovery of bog iron built several iron foundries. The industry with around 50 brickworks was built in the 19th Century Ueckermünde was developed into an important trading center and also the ship itself. From 1781 to 1795 in Ueckermünde 102 ships were launched. After Prussian administrative reform in 1818 created the circle Ueckermünde (832 square kilometers and 24,000 inhabitants).
1819 (to 1994) Ueckermünde eventually became county seat. By the middle of the 19th Century there were represented in Ueckermünde owners over 27 merchant ships.
In the Gründerzeit
Gründerzeit
' refers to the economic phase in 19th century Germany and Austria before the great stock market crash of 1873. At this time in Central Europe the age of industrialisation was taking place, whose beginnings were found in the 1840s...
in the second half of the 19th Century, many new buildings, the shape is still the old town to the market and St. Mary's Church. End of the 19th Century, the then current advanced medical facilities, today the "Ameos Clinic" (then St. Christopher's Hospital), approved.
At the time of national socialism
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...
, the ten to twelve more followed in the towns Jewish families
Judaism
Judaism ) is the "religion, philosophy, and way of life" of the Jewish people...
driven into exile or murdered. An existing Jewish cemetery survived the Nazi terror, but later fell into disrepair, was desecrated, but came in 1961 by setting up a memorial under state protection.
In 1945 the city surre4ndered without a fight, and thus passed without major war damage to Soviet troops.
1950, was today in the Castle housed Haffmuseum opened and extended several times. In 1962, the construction of 18 hectares Animal Park Ueckermünde started.
About 400 animals of nearly 120 species can see the year over 150 000 visitors. End of the sixties was a new development area in the west of the city lived a completely new district in which up to 6,000 people.
Largest operation of the East
German Democratic Republic
The German Democratic Republic , informally called East Germany by West Germany and other countries, was a socialist state established in 1949 in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city...
time was in Ueckermünde a foundry with 1,100 employees. In 1997, the last brick factory was closed down by the once-50 in Ueckermünde.
The old town has remained intact in GDR times, when encountered at many buildings because of decades of maintenance backlog major structural damage. 1991 was the redevelopment of the historic center, beginning with a preserved southern wing of the palace (museum, Government) under the Urban Development. The Old bulwark, an essential part of the old port has been rehabilitated. The district Ueckermünde East (Garden City), was renovated as part of the basic urban renewal East. The area has been characterized by prefabricated buildings with a high housing vacancy, leading to partial restoration measures and restructuring processes.
The early 1990s were also many hotels, guest houses and apartments, shops have been restored in the city center and built a marina with 400 berths and 200 apartments in the vicinity of the Szczecin Lagoon.
2001 Ueckermünde received the title of "state-approved resort". For its exemplary city planning with the cities Eggesin
Eggesin
Eggesin is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated on the river Uecker, 7 km southeast of Ueckermünde, and 42 km northwest of Szczecin.-Transport:...
and Torgelow
Torgelow
Torgelow is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated on the river Uecker, 12 km south of Ueckermünde, and 41 km northwest of Stettin....
, Ueckermünde was given a national award in 2002.
Geography
The town, lying on the Oder Lagoon (Oderhaff, Stettiner Haff) is Germany's northeasternmost portPort
A port is a location on a coast or shore containing one or more harbors where ships can dock and transfer people or cargo to or from land....
city. It is recognized by the state as a resort town, and it is home to the last palace of the Dukes of Pomerania
Dukes of Pomerania
- 10th and 11th century – Dukes of the Slavic Pomeranian tribes :* 1046 mention of Zemuzil * 1113 Gallus Anonymus mentions several dukes of Pomerania: Swantibor, Gniewomir, and an unnamed duke besieged in Kołobrzeg.-Duchy of Pomerania:*1121–1135 Wartislaw I*1135–1155 Ratibor I, ancestor of the...
still in existence on German soil. Emptying into the lagoon is the town's namesake, the river Uecker
Uecker
The Uecker or Ucker is a river in the northeastern German states of Brandenburg, where it is known as the Ucker, and of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Its source lies in the Uckermark district, near the village Alt-Temmen. It flows north through Lake Oberuckersee, Lake Mollensee and Lake Unteruckersee,...
; Ueckermünde means "mouth of the Uecker".
The surrounding area, even when seen from the odd spot that reaches 20 m above sea level
Sea level
Mean sea level is a measure of the average height of the ocean's surface ; used as a standard in reckoning land elevation...
, is almost flat. The city also gave the Ueckermünder Heide
Ueckermünder Heide
Ueckermünder Heide is a 1.000 km² large area of forest and heath in North Eastern Germany at the Oder river and the Szczecin Lagoon. Since 1945, the eastern part belongs to Poland, called Puszcza Wkrzańska...
(heath
Heath (habitat)
A heath or heathland is a dwarf-shrub habitat found on mainly low quality acidic soils, characterised by open, low growing woody vegetation, often dominated by plants of the Ericaceae. There are some clear differences between heath and moorland...
and woodland
Woodland
Ecologically, a woodland is a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade. Woodlands may support an understory of shrubs and herbaceous plants including grasses. Woodland may form a transition to shrubland under drier conditions or during early stages of...
) its name. It is Western Pomerania's biggest wooded area, and stretches from the northwest to the southeast over 50 km to the Polish town of Police
Police, Poland
Police is a town in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, northwestern Poland. It is the capital of Police County. As of 2006, the town had 34,284 inhabitants. The name comes from Polish pole, which means "field"....
(Pölitz in German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
).
History of Oder Lagoon
In 1889 a River Bathhouse opened on the Uecker. In 1924 the lidoLido (Ueckermünde)
The Strandhalle with the address Am Strand 2 in Ueckermünde is a monument protected culinary operation.- History :The beach pool was built in 1926 by the nonprofit swim club Ueckermünde that it operated at first too. 1938, a terrace was added...
opened in Ueckermünde, and in 1927 the Beach Hall opened at the Ueckermünde Oder Lagoon. 1935, founded the Urban Spa and Tourist Association. From this period, the first postcards of Ueckermünde reading "Haffbad Ueckermünde, the cheap resort for guests looking for work people". After the war, large parts of the beach were very rough trenches, and the pier, used for mooring passenger ships and seaplanes, was destroyed.
In the 1950s, there was a steamboat pier
Steamboat
A steamboat or steamship, sometimes called a steamer, is a ship in which the primary method of propulsion is steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels...
at the head Uecker (1959); beach park was designed and prepared the beach hall again. In the 1960s the city was built around a ten-kilometer-long belt declared a conservation area. In 1969 came the formation of the municipal association for recreation Haffküste Ueckermünde the responsibility of the city Ueckermünde. In the following year was created under the name Hafftourist an economic project of the local communities Ueckermünde, Mönkebude
Mönkebude
Mönkebude is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany....
, Grambin
Grambin
Grambin is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany....
and Vogelsang
Vogelsang, Brandenburg
Vogelsang is a municipality in the Oder-Spree district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is located near the border with Poland....
to promote joint tourism interests. After the reunification of the whole beach was basically reorganized and expanded accessible.
History of Sanatorium Ueckermünde
Ueckermünde has for many years a large psychiatric hospital. The hospital, now the "Christopher's Hospital, was in the late 19th and at the beginning of the 20th Century highly progressive, employing innovative treatments and therapies. Patients with spiritual as well as physical disabilities were not only preserved, but by that time scales - as far as possible - employed and promoted.The takeover by the Nazis, the political environment changed for dealing with the mentally ill and disabled. The Ueckermünder hospital gained notoriety in the wake of the so-called Action T4
Action T4
Action T4 was the name used after World War II for Nazi Germany's eugenics-based "euthanasia" program during which physicians killed thousands of people who were "judged incurably sick, by critical medical examination"...
, a large-scale murders of tens of thousands of helpless patients, many of them as "unworthy" declared children.
Ueckermünde it was obviously an important center of this action in Pomerania. Was resolved during a large part of medical institutions in Western Pomerania and partly in converted SS-barracks, remained the local institution. The number of newly fed patients rose from dissolved hospitals, exploded at the same rate of mortality. The murders of hundreds were covered up and found a "normal" disease-related deaths in the catchment of the hospital statistics.
Parts of town
The following communities belong to Ueckermünde:- Bellin
- Berndshof
- Rosenmühl
- Neuhof
Neighbouring communities
Clockwise from the east, these are Vogelsang-Warsin, Eggesin, Liepgarten, Lübs, Mönkebude and Grambin.City partnerships
Nowe WarpnoNowe Warpno
Nowe Warpno is a town in northwestern Poland, in Police County in West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It lies on the shore of the Szczecin Lagoon, very close to the border with Germany. It is the seat of the urban-rural gmina called Gmina Nowe Warpno.The town's population is 1,170...
, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
Pattensen
Pattensen
Pattensen is a town in the district of Hanover, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approx. 12 km south of Hanover.-History:It was the capital of the Principality of Calenberg until 1636, when the capital moved to the town of Hanover, from which the state of Hanover was...
, Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...
Sande, Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...
Towns near Ueckermünde
- SzczecinSzczecinSzczecin , is the capital city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. It is the country's seventh-largest city and the largest seaport in Poland on the Baltic Sea. As of June 2009 the population was 406,427....
City (PolandPolandPoland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
) - TorgelowTorgelowTorgelow is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated on the river Uecker, 12 km south of Ueckermünde, and 41 km northwest of Stettin....
(GermanyGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
) - EggesinEggesinEggesin is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated on the river Uecker, 7 km southeast of Ueckermünde, and 42 km northwest of Szczecin.-Transport:...
(GermanyGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
) - PasewalkPasewalkPasewalk is a town in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany. Located on the Uecker river, it is the capital of the former Uecker-Randow district, and the seat of the Uecker-Randow-Tal Amt of which it is not part.Pasewalk became a town during the 12th...
(GermanyGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
) - Nowe WarpnoNowe WarpnoNowe Warpno is a town in northwestern Poland, in Police County in West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It lies on the shore of the Szczecin Lagoon, very close to the border with Germany. It is the seat of the urban-rural gmina called Gmina Nowe Warpno.The town's population is 1,170...
(PolandPolandPoland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
) - Police, PolandPolice, PolandPolice is a town in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, northwestern Poland. It is the capital of Police County. As of 2006, the town had 34,284 inhabitants. The name comes from Polish pole, which means "field"....
- ŚwinoujścieSwinoujscieŚwinoujście is a city and seaport on the Baltic Sea and Szczecin Lagoon, located in the extreme north-west of Poland. It is situated mainly on the islands of Uznam and Wolin, but also occupies smaller islands, of which the largest is Karsibór island, once part of Usedom, now separated by a Piast...
(PolandPolandPoland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
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Infrastructure
Ueckermünde can be reached from the Pasewalk-West or Pasewalk-Süd interchange on Autobahn A 20Bundesautobahn 20
is an autobahn in Germany. It is colloquially known as Ostseeautobahn or Küstenautobahn due to its geographic location near the Baltic Sea coastline...
. Bundesstraße (Federal Highway) B 109 running between Anklam
Anklam
Anklam is a town in the Western Pomerania region of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is situated on the banks of the Peene river, just 8 km from its mouth in the Kleines Haff, the western part of the Stettin Lagoon. Anklam has a population of 14,603 and was the capital of the former...
and Prenzlau
Prenzlau
Prenzlau , a city in the Uckermark District of Brandenburg in Germany, had a population of about 21,000 in 2005.-International relations:Prenzlau is twinned with: Uster, Switzerland Barlinek, Poland Świdwin, Poland...
passes 13 km to the town's west. Ueckermünde is the last stop on the railway line from Pasewalk
Pasewalk
Pasewalk is a town in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany. Located on the Uecker river, it is the capital of the former Uecker-Randow district, and the seat of the Uecker-Randow-Tal Amt of which it is not part.Pasewalk became a town during the 12th...
. Passenger ships sail regularly to Szczecin
Szczecin
Szczecin , is the capital city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. It is the country's seventh-largest city and the largest seaport in Poland on the Baltic Sea. As of June 2009 the population was 406,427....
, Świnoujście
Swinoujscie
Świnoujście is a city and seaport on the Baltic Sea and Szczecin Lagoon, located in the extreme north-west of Poland. It is situated mainly on the islands of Uznam and Wolin, but also occupies smaller islands, of which the largest is Karsibór island, once part of Usedom, now separated by a Piast...
and Kamminke
Kamminke
Kamminke is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.-External links:...
on the island of Usedom
Usedom
Usedom is a Baltic Sea island on the border between Germany and Poland. It is situated north of the Szczecin Lagoon estuary of the River Oder in Pomerania...
. Also, the Berlin-Usedom cycling highway passes through the town.
Sightseeing
- Stadtschloss (castle with museum)
- Stadthafen (harbour)
- Historical market square
- Ueckermünder Zoo
- Strandhalle ("Beach Hall")
Honorary citizen
- 1836 Johann Gottfried Ravenstein, Preacher and deacon
- 1849 Friedrich Wilhelm Wenzel, Jurist
- 1875 Otto Friedrich Weber, Jurist
- 1888 Earl of Rittberg, District Administrator
- 1917 Ludwig von Schröder, Admiral
- 1918 Max Münter, Industrial
- 1924 Ernst Albrecht, Politician
- 1929 Karl Leitz, Businessman
- 1939 August Bartelt, Teacher and organist
- 1975 Machmud Gafarow, City commander
- 1985 Ernst Decker, Resistance fighters
- 1999 Marianne BuggenhagenMarianne BuggenhagenMarianne Buggenhagen is a Paralympian athlete from Germany competing mainly in throwing events.She first competed in the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona, Spain. There she won four gold medals in discus, javelin, shot putt and pentathlon. Then at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, United...
, Disabled athlete, 6-time Olympic medallist, 7-time world champion and 125-time East German champion in disabled sportsDisabled sportsDisabled sports are sports played by persons with a disability, including physical and intellectual disabilities. As many of these based on existing sports modified to meet the needs of persons with a disability, they are sometimes referred to as adapted sports...
Persons born in Ueckermünde
- Friedrich VII. Magnus of Zahringen (1647–1709), Margrave of Baden-Durlach
- Giulio Perotti, real name Julius Prott (1841–1901), German Opera singer
- Max MaternMax MaternMax Matern was a member of the Communist Party of Germany .Max Matern was a communist storm trooper who was convicted of murder and executed for his involvement in the assassinations of Police Captains Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck. The murders took place in 1931 at Bülow-Platz in Berlin...
(1902–1935), AntifascistAnti-fascismAnti-fascism is the opposition to fascist ideologies, groups and individuals, such as that of the resistance movements during World War II. The related term antifa derives from Antifaschismus, which is German for anti-fascism; it refers to individuals and groups on the left of the political...
and CommunistCommunismCommunism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
, born in the local place Berndshof - Gregor Laschen (* 1941), German writer and editor
- Uwe Saeger (* 1948), German writer
- Michael DroeseMichael DroeseMichael Droese is a former sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres. He represented East Germany and competed for the club SC Motor Jena....
(* 1952), German track and field athlete - Marianne BuggenhagenMarianne BuggenhagenMarianne Buggenhagen is a Paralympian athlete from Germany competing mainly in throwing events.She first competed in the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona, Spain. There she won four gold medals in discus, javelin, shot putt and pentathlon. Then at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, United...
(* 1953), 6-time Olympic medallist, 7-time world champion in disabled sportsDisabled sportsDisabled sports are sports played by persons with a disability, including physical and intellectual disabilities. As many of these based on existing sports modified to meet the needs of persons with a disability, they are sometimes referred to as adapted sports...
(track and field athlete) - Peter ThiedePeter ThiedePeter Thiede is a German rowing cox.- References :* at sports-reference.com...
(* 1968), rower, former helmsman of the Deutschlandachter - Kerstin Fiedler-Wilhelm (* 1968), German politician and former member of the Parliament of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern