Pasewalk

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Pasewalk (German: [ˈpaːzəvalk] ^ⓘ) 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.

Pasewalk
Town
St. Mary in the center of Pasewalk
Coat of arms
Location of Pasewalk within Vorpommern-Greifswald district
Pasewalk Show map of Germany Pasewalk Show map of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Coordinates: 53°30′N 14°00′E
Country	Germany
State	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
District	Vorpommern-Greifswald
Government
• Mayor	Danny Rodewald (Ind.)
Area
• Total	55.21 km2 (21.32 sq mi)
Elevation	15 m (49 ft)
Population  (2023-12-31)[1]
• Total	9,689
• Density	180/km2 (450/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	17309
Dialling codes	03973
Vehicle registration	VG, PW
Website	pasewalk.de

History

Depiction of the Battle of Pasewalk of 1760

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

Year Inhabitants 1618 ca. 2.000 [3] 1648 ca. 250 [3] 1740 2.401 [4] 1812 3.888 [4] 1848 ca. 6.500 [5] 1852 6.586 [4] 1880 9.469 [5] 1885 9.514 [5] 1895 9.788 [5]

Year Inhabitants 1900 10.299 [6] 1919 11.041 [7] 1925 11.768 [5] 1933 12.582 [3] 1939 12.568 [8] 1955 12.597 [9] 1980 15.366 [10] 1985 15.881 [11] 1990 15.516 [12] 1995 13.932 [12]

Year Inhabitants 2010 11.319 [12] 2015 10.535 [12]

Born in Pasewalk

Georg von Kameke

• 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
• Chris Gueffroy (1968–1989), penultimate death victim on the Berlin Wall

Climate

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

Climate data for Pasewalk
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	1.1 (34.0)	2.1 (35.8)	6.9 (44.4)	12.6 (54.7)	18 (64)	21.5 (70.7)	22.8 (73.0)	22.6 (72.7)	18.6 (65.5)	12.8 (55.0)	6.9 (44.4)	3 (37)	12.4 (54.3)
Daily mean °C (°F)	−1.3 (29.7)	−0.6 (30.9)	3.4 (38.1)	8.2 (46.8)	13 (55)	16.6 (61.9)	18.2 (64.8)	17.8 (64.0)	14.3 (57.7)	9.6 (49.3)	4.5 (40.1)	0.9 (33.6)	8.7 (47.7)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	−3.6 (25.5)	−3.3 (26.1)	0 (32)	3.8 (38.8)	8 (46)	11.7 (53.1)	13.6 (56.5)	13.1 (55.6)	10.1 (50.2)	6.5 (43.7)	2.1 (35.8)	−1.2 (29.8)	5.1 (41.1)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	38 (1.5)	29 (1.1)	33 (1.3)	38 (1.5)	51 (2.0)	60 (2.4)	63 (2.5)	57 (2.2)	48 (1.9)	41 (1.6)	45 (1.8)	44 (1.7)	547 (21.5)
Source: Climate-Data.org (altitude: 16m)[13]

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany

Pasewalk is twinned with:^[14]

•  Belgium: Halen
•  Germany: Norden
•  Poland: Police

External links

• Media related to Pasewalk at Wikimedia Commons