Torgelow
Sign in to saveTorgelow () 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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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Torgelow-Ferdinandshof
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Torgelow-Ferdinandshof
- 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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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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