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Torgelow () is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in north-eastern Germany. It is situated on the river Uecker, 12 km south of Ueckermünde, and 41 km northwest of Szczecin, Poland. Torgelow was ranked a city on 4 May 1945.

Key facts

German location.type
Stadt
German location.image_coa
DEU Torgelow COA.svg
German location.image_flag
DEU Torgelow flag.svg
German location.image_photo
Luftaufnahme von Torgelow.JPG
German location.image_caption
Aerial view
German location.image_plan
Torgelow_in_VG.svg
German location.state
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
German location.district
Vorpommern-Greifswald
German location.Amt
Torgelow-Ferdinandshof
German location.elevation
10
German location.area
72.19
German location.postal_code
17358
German location.area_code
03976
German location.licence
VG
German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
13 0 75 131
German location.website
www.torgelow.de
German location.mayor
Kerstin Pukallus

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Official website

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torgelow.de

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Wikidata facts

Country
Germany
Population
9269
Area
72.19
Elevation
10
Time zone
UTC+02:00
Body of water
Ucker
Official website
www.torgelow.de
Image
Stadtansicht Torgelow.jpg
Dialing code
03976
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twinned administrative body
Kalish Pomorski
Commons category
Torgelow
located in/on physical feature
Ueckermünde Heath
time of earliest written record
1281-04-14
topic's main category
Category:Torgelow
postal code
17358
inception
1945-01-01
different from
Torgelow
hashtag
Torgelow
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Encyclopedic overview

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Torgelow () is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in north-eastern Germany. It is situated on the river Uecker, 12 km south of Ueckermünde, and 41 km northwest of Szczecin, Poland. Torgelow was ranked a city on 4 May 1945.

==History== The town was originally founded by Polabians. From 1648 to 1720, Torgelow was part of Swedish Pomerania. From 1720 to 1945, it was part of the Prussian Province of Pomerania, from 1945 to 1952 of the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, from 1952 to 1990 of the Bezirk Neubrandenburg of East Germany and since 1990 again of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Torgelow” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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