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Waren (Müritz) (also Waren an der Müritz) is a town and
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in the state of
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 po ...
,
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. It was the capital of the former district of
Müritz The Müritz (; from Slavic "little sea") is a lake in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, northern Germany. Its area is , which makes it the second largest lake in Germany (after Lake Constance) and the largest lake located entirely within German territory ...
(''Kreis Müritz'') until the district reform of 2011. It is situated at the northern end of Lake Müritz, approximately 40 kilometres west of
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 its ...
. Waren is home to the offices of the sub-district (''
Amt Amt is a type of administrative division governing a group of municipalities, today only in Germany, but formerly also common in other countries of Northern Europe. Its size and functions differ by country and the term is roughly equivalent to ...
'') of Seenlandschaft Waren, although the town itself is independent of any ''Amt''. Its borough is the second largest in Mecklenburg-Hither Pomerania by area.


Geography

Waren lies on Lake Müritz, the largest inland lake lying entirely within Germany, which has an area of . It also lies on the shores of several smaller lakes: the
Kölpinsee Kölpinsee is a lake in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. At an elevation of , its surface area is . The marshy shore of the lake was the probable site of the crash of Avro Lancaster The Avro Lancas ...
, the Tiefwarensee, the Feisnecksee, the Melzer See and the Waupacksee. In the middle of the town is the Herrensee.


Subdivisions

The town's borough includes the town of Waren (Müritz) itself, as well as the villages of Warenshof, Alt Falkenhagen, Neu Falkenhagen, Jägerhof, Rügeband, Schwenzin, Eldenholz and Eldenburg. The town is divided into the following quarters: * Papenberg * Altstadt * Waren-Ost * Waren-Nord * Waren-West * Nesselberg * Ecktannen * Kamerun * Werdersiedlung


History


First records and name

Waren (along with
Gnoien Gnoien is a small town in the Rostock district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated 40 km southeast of Rostock Rostock (), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (german: link=no, Hanse- und Unive ...
,
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and several other settlements that cannot be placed) was mentioned as early as 150 A.D. by the
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geographer,
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, (as ''Virunum'') and is thus one of the first places on the territory of the modern-day state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to be recorded. The name of the town could be derived from the
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and mean place of
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s or
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s. Its name may also come from the Germanic tribe of
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. The name was formerly spelt ''Wahren'', ''Warne'' or, in Latin, ''Warnae''. In 1914 the place was given the official name Waren (Müritz) (Müritz, the name of the lake, comes from the
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word ''Morcze'' = German: ''Meer'' = "sea").


Middle Ages

The medieval town was founded around 1260 on the trade route from Stargard Land to
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near a castle and a Slavic village by settlers from
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. The original town sprang up around St. George's Church, on the Old Market (''Alter Markt'') in the Old Town (''Altstadt''). St. George's was first mentioned in 1273. On ''Alter Markt'' (today: ''Alter Markt 14'') was the first town hall. A little later the New Town (''Neustadt'') was founded around St. Mary's Church, which was merged in 1325 with the Old Town. Its new centre was New Market (''Neue Markt''), which joined the Old and New Towns. A town wall ran around the town. In 1292 Waren was described for the first time as ''
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'' (which meant it now had
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) and from 1331 as ''
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'' (small town). In 1306 the town was given fishing rights on Lake Müritz. From 1347 to 1425 Waren was the ''
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'' of a branch of the House of
Werle {{Infobox country , native_name = ''Herrschaft Werle'' ( de) , conventional_long_name = Lordship of Werle , common_name = Werle , era = Middle Ages , status = Vassal , empire = ...
who were part of the
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family. The Werle castle probably stood south of St. Mary's on ''Burgstraße''.


Early modern period

As a result of major fires in 1568, 1637, 1671, 1673 and 1699 and the
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the town was frequently devastated. The first town hall stood on the ''Alter Markt'' and then in the middle on the ''Neuer Markt''. The present town hall on ''Neuer Markt'' was built from 1791 to 1797 and extended in 1857.


19th century

In 1806 there was fighting in the town and surrounding area between Blücher and the French. The canalisation of the River Elde (1798–1803 and 1831–1837) and the construction of the Bolter Canal (1831–1837) resulted in an economic boom in the town. In 1839 a vocational school was founded. In 1845 the first public baths opened on the Müritz. In 1862 the Birkenstädt Brewery was founded in present-day ''Müritzstraße'' by the town harbour; the brewery closed again in 1920. In 1869 the
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('' Gymnasium'') opened, initially as a
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, (today it is the Richard Wossidlo Grammar School). In 1848–49 the country road (''Chaussee'') from
Malchow Malchow () is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. Geography It is situated on the river Elde, 25,5 km west of Waren, and 35 km north of Wittstock. History The site ...
via Waren to
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 its ...
was built and, with its connexion to the Waren–Malchin railway in 1879, Waren developed into a
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. In 1885 the
Mecklenburg Southern Railway The Mecklenburg Southern Railway (german: Mecklenburgische Südbahn) or Parchim–Neubrandenburg railway is a railway line in the south of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in North Germany. It was operated by the Mecklenburg Southern Railway Company which t ...
from
Parchim Parchim (; Mecklenburgisch: ''Parchen'') is a town in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is the capital of the Ludwigslust-Parchim district. It was the birthplace of Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, to whom a monument was erected in 1876. Found ...
via Waren to Neubrandenburg was opened and, in 1886, the
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from
Neustrelitz Neustrelitz (; East Low German: ''Niegenstrelitz'') is a town in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is situated on the shore of the Zierker See in the Mecklenburg Lake District. From 1738 ...
via Waren to
Rostock Rostock (), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (german: link=no, Hanse- und Universitätsstadt Rostock), is the largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the state, c ...
followed suit.


1920s

In 1920 the cavalry captain, ''
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'' Stephan von le Fort (1884–1953) from Gut Boek, gathered a group of
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fighters around him and imposed a state of siege on the town of Waren during the
Kapp Putsch The Kapp Putsch (), also known as the Kapp–Lüttwitz Putsch (), was an attempted coup against the German national government in Berlin on 13 March 1920. Named after its leaders Wolfgang Kapp and Walther von Lüttwitz, its goal was to undo the ...
on 17 March 1920. On 18 March, he and his cousin, Reichswehr lieutenant Peter Alexander von le Fort, gave orders for a cannon and three machine guns to open fire on the town from Gallows Hill (''Galgenberg''), resulting in five deaths and eleven seriously wounded. After the putsch was suppressed, both men fled to Munich and Austria and the family seat was seized by the
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. At the back of Waren Town Hall a bullet hole can still be seen today as reminder of the affair. In 1920 the town began raising a spa tax. On 3 December 1920 Waren became the county town of the county of Waren. On 11 November 1925 the sub-district (''Amt'') of
Röbel Röbel () is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated on the western shore of Lake Müritz, 25 km north of Wittstock, and 27 km southwest of Waren. It is pa ...
was incorporated into the ''Amt'' of Waren. In 1925 the first electric lights were lit. In the same year Waren Harbour reached its economic peak – 188 ships arrived and 208 departed handling a total of 22,330 tonnes of goods. In 1927 the following big firms were operating in the town: the ''Naschkatze'' dairy, the ''Piechatzek'' engineering works and iron foundry (today '' Mecklenburger Metallguss''), the ''Steinborn'' steam-powered sawmill and the ''Thiele und Buggisch'' mill. There was also a milk exporting concern, ''Natura'', a potato factory, the Strubelt steam-powered sawmill, a gas works and a fish-processing plant. There were 14 construction businesses, a roofing felt company, five mills, two cement factories and the Rosengarten Fishery. The Roman Catholic Church was consecrated on 15 September 1929.


Nazi era

At the district elections on 1 November 1931, the
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were the largest party. They filled the post of district chief executive (''Amtshauptmann'') on 1 April 1932 and mayor in December 1932. During the
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,
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townsfolk were persecuted, expelled and murdered in concentration camps. The Jewish community, which had numbered 150 in the middle of the 19th century, had dwindled by April 1938 to nine. The old
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was sold in 1936 to a private owner, so that it was not destroyed by the Nazis. However, the Jewish cemetery was desecrated and destroyed in the
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of 1938. Since 1961 a memorial has commemorated it. In 1942 there were no Jews left in Waren. From 1936 the Dürener Metallwerke (suppliers to the military aircraft industry) established a plant in Waren, the ''Mecklenburgische Metallwarenfabrik Waren'' or ''Memefa'', which belonged to the
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Group. Several thousand
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, as well as men and women from the countries occupied by Germany, were used as
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s there, working sometimes in inhumane conditions. To provide works housing for the German workforce, from 1936 to 1941, a new residential area, the ''Westsiedlung'', was built. For this the Berlin architect, Günther Paul (1898–1976), designed multi-family houses (in ''Thomas-Mann-Straße, Friedrich-Engels-Platz'' and ''Clara Zetkin-Straße''), semi-detached houses and the so-called foremen's homes. As a result, the population grew by more than 4,000. In Warenshof, a naval base (''Marinenlager'') was established as hutted camp for training the intelligence service of the Navy. During the
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a naval hospital was set up in the Müritzhöhe spa centre. In addition, during the final months of the war, the primary school (''Volksschule'') on ''Denkmalstraße'', the grammar school and the Warener Hof hotel became emergency wards. On 1 May 1945 the
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occupied the town without a fight.


Post-1945

In October, the Soviet military commander became the new mayor by order of Frederick Dethloff (KPD). The Soviet
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centre at ''Kietzstraße 10'', the "House of Horrors", was known for its tough interrogation and torture. By the end of the year, over 6,000 refugees from the eastern territories had entered the town. By the spring of 1946, there was a typhus epidemic that claimed many victims. The facilities of the "Memefa" and the steam mill and Thiele Buggisch were dismantled as
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and sent to the Soviet Union. The Rostock to Neustrelitz railway and the sections of line from Malchow to Karow and Möllenhagen to Neubrandenburg were closed and the track removed. In the 1970s, large parts of the historic old town were demolished; sacrificed for a large-scale new traffic system. This devastation resulted in a raising of awareness in Waren among many of the residents, especially for the preservation of the remaining, often centuries-old buildings of the Old Town. A citizen's movement "Save the Old Town" was established long before the Berlin Wall fell and the border re-opened and their work has contributed greatly to the charm of the town centre today. During the
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, Waren was home to one of the four central nuclear missile depots of the
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. In 1991, after
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, the historic town centre between Lake Müritz and the Tiefwarensee lake was renovated as part of an
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programme. The town with its two churches, town hall, old and new markets and the stores has been improved. Since 1 May 1999 the town has been able to call itself a "state-approved health resort", but its target is to become a recognised saltwater
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.


Population growth

(as a 31 December in each case) 1 December


Culture and places of interest

There is a number of official parks around Waren, such as the Nossentiner/Schwinzer Heath Nature Park or the
Müritz National Park The Müritz National Park (german: Müritz-Nationalpark) is a national park situated roughly in the middle between Berlin and Rostock, in the south of the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It extends over large portions of the Müritz lak ...
. On the Damerower Werder, which belongs to the parish of Jabel, there is an enclosure of
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which is open to visitors. In the historic town centre of Waren (Müritz) are many restaurants, cafés, bars and several shopping streets.


Müritzeum

The
Müritzeum The Müritzeum is a visitor centre and nature discovery centre for the Müritz National Park, located on Lake Müritz, near the town of Waren in the north German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The concept of the visitor centre is to have an ...
is the biggest freshwater aquarium for native fish species in Germany and has an interactive, multimedia exhibition of the attractions and features of the Müritz region and Müritz National Park. At the same time the Müritzeum acts as an information- and nature experience centre for the
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as a whole. Over 40 species of fish from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania may be seen.


Churches

; St. George's St. George's Church dates to the early 14th century and is a three-aisled
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with a four-bayed
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, that is covered by a
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ed ceiling. The building is made of brick. The square West Tower is from 1414. In 1699 it was ravaged by fire, and was not rebuilt until the mid-19th century. The
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, pulpit and double rood loft (''Doppelempore'') were fashioned in the
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style. The altar portrays a crucifixion group with Mary, Mary Magdalene and John. It was carved by a Tyrolean carver. The parish of St. George has about 2,300 members. ; St. Mary's St. Mary's Church is a rectangular, single-aisled, brick building in the east of the Old Town. The so-called New Town (''Neustadt'') was founded around it. The West Tower with its very striking upper section was built in the early 14th century, the upper part itself dating to 1790–1972. The rectangular fieldstone chancel is made from the remains of the former castle chapel of Waren Castle which no longer exists but stood on what is now ''Große Burgstraße''. This is dated to the beginning of the 13th century. The windows of the sacristy, in Romanesque style, have survived.


Other buildings

*
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(''Altes Rathaus'') (Two-storey, brick building with arcades - former ''Gerichtslaube'' - on the East Gable, 15th century) by ''Alter Markt'' * Old Fire Station (Single-storey, brick building, 19th century) by ''Alter Markt'' * New Town Hall (''Neues Rathaus'') ( Tudor-Gothic style, mid-19th century) with bullet hole from the Kapp Putsch of 1920 by ''Neuer Markt'' * Lion Chemist's (''Löwenapotheke'') (two-storey, timber-framed building, around 1800, with the ''Haus des Gastes''), ''Neuer Markt 21'' * Town harbour (''Stadthafen'') with its old harbour warehouses (''Hafenspeichern'') * ''Kietzspeicher'' *
Müritzeum The Müritzeum is a visitor centre and nature discovery centre for the Müritz National Park, located on Lake Müritz, near the town of Waren in the north German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The concept of the visitor centre is to have an ...
, Germany's largest aquarium for native, freshwater fish. * Main building of the Richard Wossidlo Grammar School (''Richard-Wossidlo-Gymnasium'') * Weinberg House, a villa grandly called a ''Schloss'' * Community and Administrative Centre (''Bürger- und Verwaltungszentrum'') * Müritz Brewery


Historic monuments

* Memorial tablet on the Volksbank (''Kiezstraße'') to those tortured by the Soviets post-1945 * Monument in the cemetery (on the B 192 road) to wartime refugees from the German eastern territories * Memorial tablet put up in 1994 at the head office of the European Academy of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (''Europäische Akademie Mecklenburg-Vorpommern'') to
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s and
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from eight European countries who had to work in the ''Memefa'' armaments factory * Monument put up in 1945 on the cemetery by the graves of
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soldiers and forced labourers * Memorial stie established in 1947 and 1950 at ''Am Kietz'' for 224 female concentration camp inmates who were victims of forced labour * Memorial tablet from the 1960s on the house at ''Feldstraße 19'' to the
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, Hermann Gatzke, who was given a long prison sentence for his resistance * Memorial tablet from the 1960er in ''Papenbergstraße 12'' to the Communist town councillor, Paul Rachow, who was murdered in 1945 in
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* Memorial site with wooden sculpture from the year 1994 by sculptor, Sven Domann, on the corner of ''Geschwister-Scholl-Straße'' and ''Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Straße'' to commemorate the Christian resistance of the
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movement * Memorial site and tablet on the ''Papenberg'' hill on the road to
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to the Jewish cemetery that was desecrated by the Nazis in 1938. On the enclosing wall is a travertine
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by sculptor, Walter Preik, to the Jewish victims of Fascism * Monument on the southern shore of the ''Tiefwarensee'' lake to the Waren
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Regular events

* Since 2002 the
Müritz Sail The Müritz (; from Slavic "little sea") is a lake in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, northern Germany. Its area is , which makes it the second largest lake in Germany (after Lake Constance) and the largest lake located entirely within German territory ...
event has taken place every May, in which inland and offshore sailors take part and which attracts over 50,000 visitors * On the last weekend in July the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern triathlon takes place. * The Müritz Swim (''Müritz-Schwimmen'') has taken place annually for over 40 years over a 1,950 metre long course in the northern part of the
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. Several hundred swimmers take part. * Since 2001 the Müritz Run (''Müritz-Lauf'') has become part of the sporting scene. Every year in August national and international sportsmen and women take part in the various competitions around the Müritz. The Müritz Run is the biggest event in the region in terms of numbers of participants


Transport


Public transport

Waren (Müritz) station offers fast rail connections to
Rostock Rostock (), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (german: link=no, Hanse- und Universitätsstadt Rostock), is the largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the state, c ...
at the
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,
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,
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and
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. Within the town a network of buses is available. Several regional buses connect the town to almost every village in the district and the towns in the surroundings.


Boat connections

There are also boat connections to Klink,
Röbel Röbel () is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated on the western shore of Lake Müritz, 25 km north of Wittstock, and 27 km southwest of Waren. It is pa ...
,
Malchow Malchow () is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. Geography It is situated on the river Elde, 25,5 km west of Waren, and 35 km north of Wittstock. History The site ...
,
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and Land Fleesensee via the lakes of the lake district.


Twin towns – sister cities

Waren is twinned with: *
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, Bulgaria *
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, Italy *
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, Japan *
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, Germany *
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, Germany *
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, Poland


Notable people

* Johann Albrecht II (1590–1636), Duke of Mecklenburg * Bernhard II (c. 1320–1382), Prince of Werle-Waren 1347–1382 * Katrin Borchert (born 1969), canoeist * Rudolf Borchert (1952–2019), politician * Sylvia Bretschneider (1960–2019), politician, member and speaker of the state assembly (Landtag) of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern * Carl Henrich Dreyer (1723–1802), jurist and politician * Martha Fritsch (1860–1917), publisher and daughter of
Theodor Fontane Theodor Fontane (; 30 December 1819 – 20 September 1898) was a German novelist and poet, regarded by many as the most important 19th-century German-language realist author. He published the first of his novels, for which he is best known toda ...
* Heinz Penzlin (born 1932), zoologist and animal physiologist * Heinz Sarkowski (1925–2006), publisher and author *
Victor Schlegel Victor Schlegel (4 March 1843 – 22 November 1905) was a German mathematician. He is remembered for promoting the geometric algebra of Hermann Grassmann and for a method of visualizing polytopes called Schlegel diagrams. In the nineteenth centur ...
(1843–1905), geometer and author * Jürgen Seidel (born 1948), politician, vice state prime minister of
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 po ...
*
David Timm David Timm (born 24 April 1969) is a German pianist, organist, choral conductor and jazz musician. Since February 2005 he has been (University Music Director) of the Leipzig University, and thus also director of the Leipziger Universitätschor, ...
(born 1969), organist and choral conductor * Henriette von Blissing (1798–1879), novelist * Richard Wossidlo (1859–1939), folklorist *
Klausjürgen Wussow Klausjürgen Wussow (30 April 1929 – 19 June 2007) was a German stage, film and television actor. Early life Wussow was born in Cammin, Province of Pomerania, Weimar Germany (modern Kamień Pomorski, Poland). His father was a teacher and c ...
(1929–2007), actor


References


External links

*
Waren (Müritz) Tourist Information (www.waren-tourismus.de)

Waren Town Information (www.meinestadt.de/waren-mueritz/stadtplan)

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