Photo: The Suckow Oak by Joachim Müllerchen
Andreas Michael
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The Suckow oak is one of the oldest trees on the island of Usedom. Only a few minutes by car north of the town of Usedom of the same name is the village of Suckow. Arrived in the idyllic village it is only a few hundred meters to the north on the main road.
The oak tree, which is over 20 m high, can already be seen from a great distance. Its crown is over 30 m wide and the trunk of the tree also has a circumference of more than 20 m. So it would take more than eleven average-sized people for a human chain, holding hands, to form around the tree.
The age of the oak is estimated between 750 and 1000 years. Because already at the end of the 13th century it was mentioned in documents by the Duke of Pomerania, Bogislaw IV, as the border of Usedom. It is known that the oak is located on a more than 3000-year-old mound grave.
The natural monument is very popular with residents, travelers and tourists of the village of Suckow. Many use this place to briefly escape from everyday life, to let their thoughts wander and to open up to a new sense of time.
Source: Meck-Pomm-Lese | Die Suckower Eiche (https://www.meck-pomm-lese.de/sehenswuerdigkeiten/oertlichkeiten/die-suckower-eiche/)
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Oak on the burial mound near Suckow village on Usedom Island, circumference 6.95 m
This impressive stalk oak has many names: “Suckow oak”, “pedestal oak” or “giant oak”, which testifies to its famousness. Already in 1298 it is said to have served as a landmark for a demarcation and therefore it should be over 700 years old, which of course is nonsense. If there were to be such detailed traditions from this time, then it was certainly the “burial mound” (a megalithic tomb?) or predecessor trees that were usable landmarks. The age of 400 mentioned in FRÖHLICH (1994) is probably exaggerated and represents the highest limit for an age estimate.
On our first visit in 2002, a strong crown trunk had already broken out (July 1997), on our second and unfortunately so far last visit in 2009 we noted another astausbruch on the north side of the large and wide crown. In the meantime, access to the oak has been “blocked” due to “acute risk of breakage”, the oak is heavily affected by brown rot. We also recorded a circumference of 6.95 m, but there are considerably larger volumes circulating in the net, possibly due to the strongly waisted shape of the trunk and the partial crown eruption. So we have to go back as soon as possible, measure and accept the danger. Location: Suckow.
District: Ostvorpommern.
Location: 400 m northwest of the village on the road to Krienke.
Natural monument: Yes.
Tree species: Stalk oak, Quercus robur.
Circumference 2009: 695 cm. Photo from 2009.
For a photo from the year 2002 see here in the album “Fröhlich – Wege zu alten Bäumen – Mecklenburg-Vorpommern”.
Sources: FRÖHLICH, H.J. (1994): Wege zu alten Bäumen, Band 9 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, WDV Wirtschaftsdienst, Frankfurt a.M. GPS coordinates: 53.915501, 13.954980.
Source: https://www.ostdeutschesbaumarchiv.de/content/eiche-suckow/
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Suckow
is a village and a former municipality in the municipality of Rankwitz on the island of Usedom in the Lieper Winkel. Suckow belongs to the parish of Morgenitz.
Vorpommern-Greifswald district, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is administered by the Amt Usedom-Süd with its seat in the city of Usedom.
by Ulrich Baenz, chronicler from Zinnowitz
Suckow in the late Middle Ages (around 1200 to 1517)
Suckow (Szuinarivitz – pig herding) 1270 First mention,the canons of Cammin give the bishop’s tithes of Suckow to the monastery Grobe and receive the village Damerow near Naugard.
1298 Establishment of the boundaries between Suckow and Usedom.
Reformation and Post-Reformation Period (1517 to 1648)
1527 Enfeoffment of Georg Jürgen von Borcke, Princely Councillor and Captain of Treptow a.T., by the dukes Georg and Barnim. Due to the extinction of the Lepel family, the estates of Crienke, Suckow, Carnin and Regezow passed to the dukes.
Until the Napoleonic period (until 1813)
Under Sweden’s rule (1648 – 1720)
1693 Suckow
1693 Sukkow is a service village, living in it: 1.Michel Smett, Schulze, 2. Hans Lüder, 3. Marten Smett, 4. Petter Radz, 5. Jacob Smett – These farmers all have to farm the same. In ancient times, 7 farmers and one Kossat lived here, and so now 2 farmers and a Kossatenstelle are deserted here, which the owner of this field and these meadows has been cultivating himself for a long time now.
Until the unification of the Reich (until 1871)
under Prussia (from 1720)
1779 a farming village belonging to the Good Crienke, 1/2 mile from Uesedom to the north, on the Peene and on the Crienker heide, has 5 farmers, 1 Coßäthen, 13 fireplaces, fishing in the Peene, is parished at Morgenitz in the Uesedom Synod, and is an old Borksches Lehn, which is the captain and cathedral provost of Colberg, erderman Curt von Bork, owns. (See Altwigshagen among the noble estates of the Anklam circle)
1800 Suckow has 12 acres 22 Ruthen after the controllable attack 5 Landhufen and is a farming village belonging to the Good Crienke and an old fief of the von Borck, which the descendants of captain Erdmann Curt von Borck own.
1858 a farming village, 4 farms and 4 Kossäthenhöfe together with 3 Büdnern and 1 school, belongs to the Dominio Crienke, located on the Crienker Haide and parished to Morgenitz. The village has 17 houses and 103 inhabitants.
Empire (1871-1918)
1896 to 1898 Road construction from Liepe via Suckow to Usedom
Weimar Republic (1918-1933)
Third Reich (1933-1945)
SBZ and GDR (1945-1990)
the present time
Suckow in the newspaper 1996 – 2014
1996 Oak U. Baenz
1996 Oak expert opinion
1996
1997 Part 1
1997 Part 2
1997 Oak broken
1997
1997
1999
2002 Amt Usedom Süd 10
2002 Office 10 years
2005 Oak fuse
2010 Teil 1
2010 Teil 2
2010 Teil 3
2010 Teil 4
2013 Teil 1
2013 Teil 2
2013 Teil 3
2013 Teil 4
2013 Teil 5
2014 Bild Zeitung
2014 Eiche Gefahr
Bildergalerien
Tafeln zur Geschichte des Heimatvereins
Suckow History
Suckow History Part 1
Suckow History Part 2
Suckow History Part 3
Suckow History Panel 2019
Natural monument Suckow oak
Oak February 1997 with iron ring
Text even before the cancellation came
Oak 2013
Oak 2013- Imprint of the rings still visible
Suckow Oak Natural Monument
Oak in 2019 – it greens!
Suckower oak the dry branch
Historical explanations of oak
Suckow in 2019
House must protect itself from modern traffic
Large brick barn
Old street trees bear witness to history
Advertising for the Lieper Winkel
Further information about Suckow
Contacts
Collections of postcards, brochures and newspaper clippings: inspection by Hilde Stockmann rohrspatz@gmx.com
- Books about the history of the island of Usedom by Hilde Stockmann
- Lectures about Zempin and the island of Usedom
Source: Suckow im Lieper Winkel – Local Chronicles (ortschroniken-mv.de) (https://www.ortschroniken-mv.de/index.php/Suckow_im_Lieper_Winkel)
Suckow (Rankwitz)
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Suckow is a district of the municipality of Rankwitz,about 3 km south of the geographical border to the Lieper Winkel on the island of Usedom.
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History[edit | Edit Source]
North of Suckow, a neolithic megalithic tomb (5500 to 1800 vdZ) was suspected, but later investigations (1971) contradicted this and classified the complex as a burial mound grave of the Bronze Age (1800 to 600 vdZ). It is about 8 × 8 m tall and 1 m high. It is on a hill overgrown with an old oak tree. The place is also called “Suckower Oak”. It proves an early settlement of the area. A tower hill is preserved near Suckow as evidence of early German settlement (from 1230). Tower hill castles were built for the locators, as a forerunner of the manor houses. Finds of fieldstone foundation remains and brick debris show the design. At a distance of 25 m, a ring trench semicircle circles as the rest of the plant.
Suckow had its first documentary mention as “Szuinariuitz” in 1270. The Slavic name is interpreted as “pig herding”. [1] In the document of 15 March of that year, the Bishop of Cammin, in whose possession the village was located, exchanged it at the request of Duke Barnim I of Pomerania-Szczecin together with five other communities on Usedom (Ückeritz, Balm am Balmer See, Loddin, Mellenthin and Krienke) for Damerow in Hinterpommern (near Naugard), which was part of the Premonstratensianmonastery Grobe Usedom (city); In 1309 it moved to Pudagla.
The majority of the Lieper Winkel had already come to Grobe Abbey two generations earlier under the widow of Barnim’s grandfather Bogislaw I.
In 1527 Suckow, together with Morgenitz, became the property of the noble von Borcke family with a manor in Krienke (there are also the spellings of Borcken and von Borck).
Almost the entire island of Usedom was owned by the monastery Grobe/Pudagla, according to the property map of 1530. Only the estates of Mellenthin and Gothen belonged to the von Neuenkirchen (Nigenkerken) family, Krienke and Suckow as well as Regezow to the von Borcke family, Stolpe to the Schwerinen and the Gnitz to the von Lepel family. All other lands belonged to the church or monasteries until 1535. After the Reformation, these possessions became dominal (state or royal property), except for the lands assigned to the local churches.
In the following, only a few regional records can be found. The area shares the history of the island of Usedom under the Pomeraniandukes and later as part of Swedish Pomerania. The area belonged to the part of Pomerania that came to Prussia with the Treaty of Stockholm in 1720.
Around 1880, Suckow was a dead-end village and a rural character.
Between 1896 and 1898, the only art street (cobbled street) was built through the Lieper Winkel, which still exists today as an avenue and connects Suckow. Previously, Suckow, like all other villages on the peninsula, was only accessible by land.
In GDR times, the village expanded, but this had to do with the land reform and the creation of the new farmsteads. On 1 July 1950, Suckow was incorporated into Krienke.
The place, which consists of only a few streets with a few thatchedhouses, has not yet found a connection to organized tourism. During the main holiday season, however, interested visitors and cyclists come by.
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Tower Hill Suckow
Suckower Oak[edit | Edit Source]
Pedestal oak near Suckow (condition September 2006)
Natural monument Suckow oak in the NP island of Usedom 7 May 2017 Sprouting
Table in front of the Suckow oak
The at least 700-year-old pedestal oak about 1 km north of the village on the main road through the Lieper Winkel was already mentioned by Bogislaw IV of Pomerania-Szczecin in 1298 in a document on the border of the district of Usedom.
The more than 20 m high tree with a 30 m wide crown and a trunk circumference of 6.50 m stands on one of the megalithic tombs near Suckow.
She may have grown up in the freistand; the surrounding forests had already been cleared of fire at the time of Bogislaw I. According to other theories, it could be much older (up to 1000 years are estimated) and in this case belonged to a forest area where the Slavs – according to the name of the village – herded their pigs.
According to a local information board, three tree mushrooms (Spechtloch-Schillerporling, Schwefelporling and Eichen-Feuerschwamm) are responsible for the fact that on July 2, 1997 a star branch broke and the trunk and branches became so porous that there is a risk of falling over for the whole tree. Tourists are asked not to approach the tree closer than 10 m. In the meantime, a second main branch has broken off and there is still a high risk of breakage.
Suckower firs
Together with the Mellenthiner Heide and the city forest of Usedom (city), the Suckow fir trees form a closed forest area. It is frequented by hikers and cyclists who are looking for exercise away from the holiday centers. Roads and restaurants do not (yet) exist in 2005; the highest elevation is the Kirchenberg (50 m).
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^ Manfred Niemeyer: Ostvorpommern I. Collection of sources and literature on the place names. Vol. 1: Usedom. (= Greifswalder Beiträge zur Ortsnamenkunde. Bd. 1), Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Institut für Slawistik, Greifswald 2001, ISBN 3-86006-149-6. p. 58
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Source: Suckow (Rankwitz) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suckow_(Rankwitz))
The name Suckow comes from Szuinaruitz pig herding. First documentary mention of Suckow occurred in 1270. In the past, there were oak forests in the area where pigs fattened. However, the place must have been settled much earlier, because a burial mound from the Bronze Age was found under the giant oak. There are still many houses covered with reeds in the village today. The place is a district of Rankwitz in the Lieper Winkel. To this day, there are no large holiday resorts in the village. Private holiday rooms and holiday apartments are rented. In Suckow there is a natural monument, the Suckow Oak. The very old tree stands on a mound grave. In the surroundings of the village are the Suckow firs, a forest area ideal for walks in nature without car exhaust. If you want to go on holiday in Suckow, it is best to travel by car and bicycles. A public bus from Rchtung city of Usedom runs relatively rarely and if you want to swim on the Baltic Sea coast, it takes a relatively long time to get there.
Suckow in the Lieper Winkel thatch covered houses. Also in this village beautiful private apartments are rented. Near Suckow there is a castle hotel, which has been restored by the current owners of the hotel. If you are interested in old churches, you should visit the church Liepe or the church Mellenthin. Larger shopping facilities exist in the shopping city of Usedom. According to my information, there is still no restaurant in Suckow. You can eat in the restaurant Bauernstube in the neighbouring village of Morgenitz.
View of the village of Suckow on Usedom. Around 70 inhabitants live in the old farming village. Many residents have a small garden for self-sufficiency at home.
Suckow in the Usedom hinterland.
View of Suckow in the village center.
The holiday village of Suckow on the island of Usedom.
Meadows and fields surround Suckow.
Source: Suckow – Island Usedom – Lieper Winkel – Holiday Info (mv-ostsee.de) (https://www.mv-ostsee.de/insel-usedom/suckow/infos.html)
From the Renaissance castle to the oldest oak trees in Usedom
JULY 29, 2020 POSTED IN BLOG POSTS
Wooded nature reserves and many ancient trees with thick trunks and gnarled branches can be discovered on Usedom. A tour leads to the two oldest.
Renaissance of forests
Forests are currently experiencing a renaissance not only in Germany. Some are designated as “climate forests” or “healing forests”, others invite you to guided “forest bathing”, including a warm hug of old trees. Whether this trend is not also specifically promoted by clever marketing, ultimately everyone has to decide for themselves. The fact is, however, that every intact forest makes a valuable contribution not only to the climate, but also to human health. You don’t have to be a biologist to experience first-hand how holistically healthy and invigorating a walk in the forest can be for body and mind. These very special forest experiences are also reasons why we are drawn to the Baltic Sea island of Usedom on holiday.
In the footsteps of old trees
Come again please, forests on Usedom? Isn’t the second largest German island much more known for sun, beach and unadulterated bathing fun? That may be true. Without question, the 42-kilometre-long, fine sandy beach is not only the longest in Germany and one of the most beautiful. In addition, the sun shines here more often than anywhere else in Germany. But with 14 nature reserves, the sunny island of Usedom also has the highest density of protected areas in Germany. Many of them are even forests, such as the coastal forest on the Streckelsberg near Koserow. Others are quite wooded, such as the Mümmelkensee, the Zerninsee or the old forest on the Mellenthiner Os.
The idyllic Usedom hinterland (“Usedomer Achterland”) particularly impresses active holidaymakers, enthusiastic hikers and cyclists. Here, right in the heart of the island, is the moated castle Mellenthin, one of the most beautiful feel-good hotels in Usedom. The venerable Renaissance castle from the 16th century now houses a wellness hotel with its own brewery, distillery and coffee roastery. Surrounded by a 20-metre-wide moat, embedded in a wooded and historic cultural landscape, the most beautiful tours over the entire island start from the moated castle Mellenthin.
One tour leads to the oldest trees in Usedom.
The Suckow oak – oldest tree on Usedom
The oldest tree on Usedom is an oak tree. The Suckow oak was already on record in a 1298 CE ducal document. For more than 700 years, it has defied every storm. But slowly the old giant is weakening. A large main branch has already broken off. Although protected as a natural monument since 1936, brown rot cannot be stopped in the imposing oak, The fungal disease decomposes the 20-meter-high and equally wide giant from the inside out. However, this very weakness brings the beloved ancient tree closer to the people again.
But there are other historical trees to marvel at on the way to the Suckow oak. One is located in Mellenthin, just a few hundred meters from the moated castle. In the courtyard of the village church there is also a great oak tree, which is also about 700 years old. It nestles against the old stone wall in the cemetery.
The old tree now rises over 22 meters into the sky. Its trunk circumference of more than seven meters is enormous. And yes you can also hug them if you want to.
Ancient oak in the courtyard of the village church Mellenthin
Source: Wasserschloss Hotel Insel Usedom // From Renaissance castle to the oldest oak trees in Usedom [286] | Blog Posts // Schloss Erlebnis Gastronomie (wasserschloss-mellenthin.de) (https://www.wasserschloss-mellenthin.de/blogbeitrage/vom-renaissanceschloss-zu-den-altesten-eichen-usedoms-286.html)
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