Mescherin

Mescherin
Mescherin
Location of Mescherin within Uckermark district
Coordinates	53.25°N 14.4333°E / 53.25°N 14.4333°E / 53.25; 14.4333Coordinates: 53.25°N 14.4333°E / 53.25°N 14.4333°E / 53.25; 14.4333
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Uckermark
Municipal assoc.	Gartz (Oder)
Mayor	Wilfried Burghardt
Basic statistics
Area	30.96 km2 (11.95 sq mi)
Elevation	4 m  (13 ft)
Population	785 (31 December 2010)[1]
- Density	25 /km2 (66 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	UM
Postal code	16307
Area code	033332
Website	www.gartz.de

Mescherin is a municipality in the Uckermark district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is located on the western shore of the Oder river which is the international border to Poland since 1945.

Overview

A road bridge links Mescherin with the Polish-Pomeranian town of Gryfino (Greifenhagen) across the river. The nearest city is Szczecin (Stettin), about 20 km to the north. Mescherin is located on the northern edge of Lower Oder Valley National Park.

On December 31, 2002, the municipalities of Neurochlitz, Radekow and Rosow were incorporated into Mescherin. In Rosow, a 13th-century church serves as a joint German-Polish memorial site for the Flight and expulsion of Germans during and after WWII and the resettlement of Poles from Soviet-occupied Polish territory into eastern German provinces which became Polish in 1945. Rosow was chosen as the Pomeranian village became a border checkpoint of both the federal highway Bundesstraße 2 and the Berlin-Szczecin railway.

References

1. ^ "Bevölkerung im Land Brandenburg am am 30. Dezember 2010 nach amtsfreien Gemeinden, Ämtern und Gemeinden. Gebietsstand: 31.12.2010" (in German). Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg. 31 December 2010. http://www.statistik-berlin-brandenburg.de//Publikationen/OTab/2011/OT_A01-04-00_124_201012_BB.pdf.