GroÃÂ Pankow (Prignitz) is a municipality in Prignitz district, Brandenburg, Germany. The municipality was formed in 2001 from the union of municipalities of the former Amt of GroÃÂ Pankow/Prignitz and some in Amt Pritzwalk-Land. Amt GroÃÂ Pankow/Prignitz was then dissolved.
From 1815 to 1945, the constituent localities of GroÃÂ Pankow were part of the Prussian Province of Brandenburg. From 1952 to 1990, they were part of the Bezirk Potsdam of East Germany.
GroÃÂ Pankow is connected via German Federal Highway B 189 to the cities of Pritzwalk, Perleberg, Wittenberge and Magdeburg.
Geography
The municipality has 39 villages in 18 districts with the populations given in parentheses (As of March 1, 2010)
- Baek (287)
- Baek (222)
- Strigleben (65)
- Boddin-Langnow (240)
- Boddin (153)
- Heidelberg (30)
- Langnow (57)
- GroÃÂ Pankow (587)
- GroÃÂ Pankow (551)
- Luggendorf (36)
- GroÃÂ Woltersdorf (159)
- Brünkendorf (14)
- GroÃÂ Woltersdorf (86)
- Klein Woltersdorf (59)
- Gulow-Steinberg (146)
- Gulow (94)
- Steinberg (52)
- Helle (303)
- GroÃÂ Langerwisch (224)
- Helle (45)
- Neudorf (34)
- Kehrberg (260)
- Klein Gottschow (173)
- Guhlsdorf (50)
- Klein Gottschow (89)
- Simonshagen (34)
- Kuhbier (213)
- Kuhsdorf (192)
- Bullendorf (58)
- Kuhsdorf (134)
- Lindenberg (271)
- Retzin (275)
- Klein Linde (46)
- Kreuzburg (30)
- Retzin (129)
- Rohlsdorf (70)
- Seddin (113)
- Tacken (97)
- Tangendorf-Hohenvier (120)
- Hohenvier (35)
- Tangendorf (85)
- Tüchen (231)
- Klenzenhof (42)
- Reckenthin (99)
- Tüchen (90)
- Vettin (107)
- Wolfshagen (383)
- Dannhof (43)
- Hellburg (46)
- Horst (43)
- Wolfshagen (251)
Demography
Personalities
- Carl von Karstedt (1811-1888), conservative Reichstag deputy, born in Kleinlinde
- Erhard Hübener (1881-1958), DDP and LDPD politician, born in Tacken
- Richard Kackstein (1903-1966), national socialist politician, born in Triglitz
- Joachim Wüstenberg (1908-1993), hygienist in Gelsenkirchen, born in Klenzenhof
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