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Wikipedia / Pasewalk

Pasewalk () 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.

Name

The earliest reference to Posduwlc is dated to approximately 1150. Later, the name of the settlement was also documented as: 1168 Pozdewolk, 1177 Posdewolc, Pozdewolk, 1260 Poswalc, 1276 Poswalk, 1288 Pozewalch, 1302 Pasewalck. The initial interpretation of the toponymy was provided by the authors of the Annals of Pegau (Annales Pegavienses) in the mid-12th century, who explained the place name in Latin as urbs Wolfi (‘Wolf’s castle’) from the Polabian *vouk ‘wolf’. More recently, the toponym has been linked to Old Polabian *volk and Proto-Slavic *vľ̥kti ‘to drag, to pull’, associated with Polabian *vlåk ‘fishing net, trawl net’. The first part of the old place name pozde, pozdu, remains challenging to interpret, but could be related to Proto-Slavic *pozdъ ‘late’, which is thought to be derived from Indo-European *pos ‘at, by, after’.

In certain Polish sources, the name has been rendered as Pozdawilk.

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. 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 (18801957)

  • 1937–1942 Malsfey

  • 1942 Klingbeil

  • 1942–? Hans-Heinrich Wentzlaff-Eggebert (born 1894, died ?)

  • 1945–? Hermann Bülow

  • 1945–1949 Erich Pretzer (18821968)

  • 1950–1961 Helene Medrow (19021976)

  • 1961–1974 Eberhard Schmidt (19242010)

  • 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 (19522013), independent

  • November 2013May 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

Climate

Köppen-Geiger climate classification system classifies its climate as oceanic (Cfb).

International relations

Pasewalk is twinned with:

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