Jatznick

Jatznick
Municipality
War memorial in Jatznick
Flag Coat of arms
Location of Jatznick within Vorpommern-Greifswald district
Jatznick Jatznick
Coordinates: 53°35′N 13°56′E
Country	Germany
State	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
District	Vorpommern-Greifswald
Municipal assoc.	Uecker-Randow-Tal
Government
• Mayor	Peter Fischer (Bürgerbündnis Uecker-Randow)
Area
• Total	62.03 km2 (23.95 sq mi)
Elevation	22 m (72 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)
• Total	2,208
• Density	36/km2 (92/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	17309
Dialling codes	039741
Vehicle registration	VG
Website	www.jatznick.de

Jatznick is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Geography

With almost 2000 inhabitants, Jatznick is the largest municipality in the Uecker-Randow-Tal district. It is situated on the north-eastern edge of the Nördliche Höhenrücken, a terminal moraine 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 (Ueckermünder Heide to the Stettiner Haff as well as the lowlands of the Friedländer Große Wiese). At Waldeshöhe there is the Aalsee, a water body of about 0.8 hectares.

Districts

• Am Bahnhof
• Blumenhagen
• Belling (incorporation on 1 January 2001)
• 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.

On July 1, 1950 the until then independent community of Waldeshöhe was incorporated.

On 1 January 2012 the formerly independent communities of Blumenhagen and Klein Luckow were incorporated into Jatznick.

Transport

Jatznick railway station connects the area with Stralsund, Greifswald, Züssow, Angermünde, Eberswalde, Berlin, Ueckermünde and Neubrandenburg.