Pasewalk

Pasewalk (ˈpaːzəvalk, pol: Pozdawilk^[1]) is a town in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in north-eastern 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.

History

Pasewalk became a town during the 12th century and was soon a member of the Hanseatic League. In 1359 it passed to the Duke of Pomerania. Frequently ravaged during the wars which devastated the district, it was plundered several times by Imperial troops during the Thirty Years' War. In the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 it was given to Sweden. In 1657 it was burned down by the Poles, in 1676 it was conquered by Brandenburg, and in 1713 it was burned down by the Russians. In 1720, in the Peace of Stockholm, it passed from Sweden to Prussia. In the early 18th century, a commune of French Huguenots was established in the town.^[2] It was part to the Prussian Province of Pomerania from 1720 until 1945. In 1760, the Battle of Pasewalk was fought, won by the Swedes.

The town is famous for having been surrendered to the French without a fight during the War of the Fourth Coalition, despite them being far less numerous than the defenders of the city. On the day World War I ended, Adolf Hitler, the future dictator of Nazi Germany, was being treated here after being wounded by a gas attack. During the Battle of Berlin, part of World War II, Pasewalk was captured by troops of the 2nd Belorussian Front of the Red Army on 28 April 1945. From 1945 to 1952, Pasewalk was part of the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, from 1952 to 1990 of the Bezirk Neubrandenburg of East Germany and since 1990 again of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Mayors of Pasewalk

• 1905–1917 Wilhelm Prüter
• 1917–1937 Dr. Willy Peppler (1880–1957)
• 1937–1942 Malsfey
• 1942 Klingbeil
• 1942–? Hans-Heinrich Wentzlaff-Eggebert (born 1894, died ?)
• 1945–? Hermann Bülow
• 1945–1949 Erich Pretzer (1882–1968)
• 1950–1961 Helene Medrow (1902–1976)
• 1961–1974 Eberhard Schmidt (1924–2010)
• around 1982 Börner
• 1986–1990 Bärbel Steinmüller (born 1948)
• 1990–1994 Heinz-Georg Eckleben (born 1945), independent
• 1994–2002 Wilfried Sieber (born 1941), CDU
• 2002–2014 Rainer Dambach (1952–2013), independent
• November 2013–May 2014 Gudrun Baganz, temporary
• May 2014 – May 2022 Sandra Nachtweih (born 1975), independent
• since May 2022 Danny Rodewald (born 1979), independent

Population over time

Born in Pasewalk

• Wilhelm von Tümpling (1809–1884), Prussian General of the Infantry
• Georg von Kameke (1817–1893), Prussian General of the Infantry and War Minister
• Erich Paulun (1862–1909), former naval surgeon, founded the Tongji Hospital in Wuhan
• Oskar Picht (1871–1945), German teacher and inventor of the first braille typewriter
• Erich Hamann (born 1944), German footballer (265 games) and player of the GDR national football team
• Rainer Knaak (born 1953), German chess Grandmaster
• Sabine Zimmermann (born 1960), German politician
• Patrick Dahlemann (born 1988),politician
• Chris Gueffroy (1968–1989), penultimate death victim on the Berlin Wall

Climate

Köppen-Geiger climate classification system classifies its climate as oceanic (Cfb).^[13]

International relations

Pasewalk is twinned with:^[14]

• : Halen
• : Norden
• : Police

References

1. ^ Mądry, Wojciech (2019-12-29). "Ksiądz Stanisław Kozierowski – prekursor badań onomastycznych zachodniej Słowiańszczyzny". Studia z Filologii Polskiej i Słowiańskiej. 54. doi:10.11649/sfps.2046. ISSN 2392-2435
2. ^ Muret, Eduard (1885). Geschichte der Französischen Kolonie in Brandenburg-Preußen, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Berliner Gemeinde. Aus Veranlassung der Zweihundertjährigen Jubelfeier am 29. Oktober 1885 (in German). Berlin. p. 256.
3. ^ Stadt Pasewalk (Hrsg.): Pasewalk. Kulturhistorische und Heimatgeschichtliche Beiträge. Pasewalk 1991, S. 40–49.
4. ^ Gustav Kratz: Die Städte der Provinz Pommern. Abriss ihrer Geschichte, zumeist nach Urkunden. Verlag A. Bath, Berlin 1865, S. 282–292.
5. ^ Carsten Plötz: Pasewalk 1848–1945. Ein Jahrhundert vorpommerscher Stadtgeschichte, Verlag Dr. Helmut Maaß, Pasewalk 2005, S. 363–369.
6. ^ Statistisches Jahrbuch für das Deutsche Reich 1904, S. 10.
7. ^ Statistisches Jahrbuch für das Deutsche Reiche 1921/22, S. 9.
8. ^ Statistisches Jahrbuch für das Deutsche Reiche 1941/42, S. 19.
9. ^ Statistisches Jahrbuch der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik 1955, S. 17.
10. ^ Statistisches Jahrbuch der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik 1981, S. 12.
11. ^ Statistisches Jahrbuch der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik 1986, S. 12.
12. ^ Der Bevölkerungsstand nach Gemeinden und Kreisen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, zum 31. Dezember des jeweiligen Jahres. Archived 2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine SIS-Datenbank des Statistischen Amtes Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns
13. ^ "Temperature, Climate graph, Climate table for Pasewalk". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved 2017-09-25.
14. ^ "Stadt Pasewalk - Städtepartnerschaft" (in German). Archived from the original on 2014-05-30. Retrieved 2015-03-02.