Jatznick is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality ...

in the

Vorpommern-Greifswald Vorpommern-Greifswald is a district in the east of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the districts of Mecklenburgische Seenplatte and Vorpommern-Rügen, the Baltic Sea, Poland (West Pomeranian Voivode ...

district, in

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV; ; nds, Mäkelborg-Vörpommern), also known by its anglicized name Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, is a state in the north-east of Germany. Of the country's sixteen states, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ranks 14th in pop ...

in north-eastern

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG),, is a country in Central Europe. It is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the sou ...

Geography

With almost 2,000 inhabitants, Jatznick is the largest municipality in the

Uecker-Randow-Tal Uecker-Randow-Tal is an ''Amt'' in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The seat of the ''Amt'' is in Pasewalk, itself not part of the ''Amt''. The ''Amt'' Uecker-Randow-Tal consists of the following municipal ...

district. It is situated on the north-eastern edge of the ''Nördliche Höhenrücken,'' a terminal

moraine A moraine is any accumulation of unconsolidated debris ( regolith and rock), sometimes referred to as glacial till, that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions, and that has been previously carried along by a glacier or ice sh ...

that extends about 25 kilometres to the west (highest elevation in the Brohmer Berge 153 metres above sea level). North and east of ''Jatznick'', the landscape becomes very flat (

Ueckermünde Heath Ueckermünde Heath (german: Ueckermünder Heide, pl, Puszcza Wkrzańska) is a large area of forest and heath, 1,000 km² in area, in northeastern Germany and northwestern Poland, on the Oder river and the Szczecin Lagoon. In 1945, the east ...

to the

Szczecin Lagoon Szczecin Lagoon ( pl, Zalew Szczeciński, german: Stettiner Haff, since 1945 sometimes also ''Oderhaff'' (Oder lagoon) or ''Pommersches Haff'' (Pomeranian lagoon)) is a lagoon in the Oder estuary, shared by Germany and Poland. It is separated f ...

as well as the lowlands of the

Friedländer Große Wiese Friedländer (Friedlander, or Friedlaender) is a toponymic surname derived from any of German places named Friedland. The surname may refer to: People Friedländer * Adolf Albrecht Friedländer (1870–1949), Austrian neurologist and psychi ...

). At ''Waldeshöhe'' there is the ''Aalsee'', a water body of about 0.8 hectares.

Districts

*Am Bahnhof *Blumenhagen *Belling *Groß Spiegelberg *Klein Luckow *Sandförde with Wilhelmsthal *Waldeshöhe

History

1354 the village ''Jatznick'' is mentioned for the first time in a document. The place was originally inhabited by Slavs, who gave the place its present name. From 1648 to 1720, Jatznick was part of

Swedish Pomerania Swedish Pomerania ( sv, Svenska Pommern; german: Schwedisch-Pommern) was a dominion under the Swedish Crown from 1630 to 1815 on what is now the Baltic coast of Germany and Poland. Following the Polish War and the Thirty Years' War, Sweden hel ...

. From 1720 to 1945, it was part of the

Prussian Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an ...

Province of Pomerania, from 1945 to 1952 of the State of

, from 1952 to 1990 of the

Bezirk Neubrandenburg The Bezirk Neubrandenburg was a district (''Bezirk'') of East Germany. The administrative seat and the main town was Neubrandenburg. History The district was established, with the other 13, on 25 July 1952, substituting the old German states. Aft ...

East Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

and since 1990 again of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. On 1 July 1950 the until then independent community of ''Waldeshöhe'' was incorporated. On 1 January 2001 the former municipality of Belling was incorporated. On 1 January 2012 the formerly independent communities of ''Blumenhagen'' and ''Klein Luckow'' were incorporated into ''Jatznick''.Gebietsänderungen
Statistisches Landesamt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Transport

Jatznick railway station Jatznick (german: Bahnhof Jatznick) is a railway station in the village of Jatznick, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The station lies of the Angermünde–Stralsund railway and the Jatznick–Ueckermünde railway and the train services are ope ...

connects the area with

Stralsund Stralsund (; Swedish: ''Strålsund''), officially the Hanseatic City of Stralsund ( German: ''Hansestadt Stralsund''), is the fifth-largest city in the northeastern German federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin, ...

Greifswald Greifswald (), officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (german: Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald, Low German: ''Griepswoold'') is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostoc ...

Züssow Züssow is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Transport Züssow railway station connects Züssow with Stralsund, Greifswald Angermünde, Eberswalde and Berlin. The station is also served by I ...

Angermünde Angermünde () is a town in the district of Uckermark in the state of Brandenburg, Germany. It is about northeast of Berlin, the capital of Germany. The population is about 14,000, but has been declining since its traditional industrial base, ...

Eberswalde Eberswalde () is a major town and the administrative seat of the district Barnim in the German State ( Bundesland / ''federated state'') of Brandenburg, about 50 km northeast of Berlin. Population 42,144 (census in June 2005), geograph ...

Berlin Berlin is Capital of Germany, the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and List of cities in Germany by population, by population. Its more than 3.85 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European U ...

Ueckermünde Ueckermünde () is a seaport town in northeast Germany, located in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald, Western Pomerania, near Germany's border with Poland's Police County. Ueckermünde has a long and varied history, going back to its foundi ...

and

Neubrandenburg Neubrandenburg (lit. ''New Brandenburg'', ) is a city in the southeast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is located on the shore of a lake called Tollensesee and forms the urban centre of the Mecklenburg Lakeland. The city is famous for i ...

References

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