Mescherin
{{Infobox German location
|image_coa =
|coordinates = {{coord|53.25|14.4333|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|image_plan = Mescherin in UM.png
|image_photo = Kirche Mescherin.jpg
|image_caption = Church in Mescherin
|state = Brandenburg
|district = Uckermark
|Amt = Gartz (Oder)
|elevation = 4
|area = 30.96
|postal_code = 16307
|area_code = 033332
|licence = UM
|Gemeindeschlüssel = 12 0 73 393
|website = [http://www.gartz.de www.gartz.de]
|mayor = Udo Augustinat[https://wahlen.brandenburg.de/wahlen/de/kommunalwahlen/ergebnisse/buergermeisterwahlen/ergebnisse/~12073000 Landkreis Uckermark Wahl der Bürgermeisterin / des Bürgermeisters]. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
|leader_term = 2024–29
}}
Mescherin is a municipality in the Uckermark district, in Brandenburg, in north-eastern Germany. It is located on the western shore of the Oder river and the German-Polish border.
Overview
A road bridge links Mescherin with the Polish-Pomeranian town of Gryfino across the river. The nearest city is Szczecin, about {{convert|20|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} to the north. Mescherin is located on the northern edge of Lower Oder Valley National Park.
On December 31, 2002, the municipalities of Neurochlitz, Radekow and Rosow were incorporated into Mescherin. In Rosow, a 13th-century church serves as a joint German-Polish memorial site for the flight and expulsion of Germans during and after World War II and the resettlement of Poles from Soviet-annexed eastern Polish territory into former eastern German provinces which became part of Poland in 1945. Rosow was chosen as the Pomeranian village became a border checkpoint of both the federal highway Bundesstraße 2 and the Berlin-Szczecin railway.
Demography
File:Bevölkerungsentwicklung Mescherin.pdf; Red Background: Time of communist East Germany)]]
{{historical populations
|align=none | cols=3 | percentages=pagr
|title = Mescherin: Population development
within the current boundaries (2020)Detailed data sources are to be found in the Wikimedia Commons.[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Population_projection_Brandenburg Population Projection Brandenburg at Wikimedia Commons]
| 1875 | 2221
| 1890 | 1950
| 1910 | 1948
| 1925 | 1711
| 1933 | 1622
| 1939 | 1630
| 1946 | 1914
| 1950 | 1982
| 1964 | 1549
| 1971 | 1460
| 1981 | 1021
| 1985 | 964
| 1989 | 864
| 1990 | 856
| 1991 | 809
| 1992 | 821
| 1993 | 827
| 1994 | 859
| 1995 | 856
| 1996 | 848
| 1997 | 843
| 1998 | 824
| 1999 | 863
| 2000 | 857
| 2001 | 832
| 2002 | 809
| 2003 | 800
| 2004 | 785
| 2005 | 776
| 2006 | 778
| 2007 | 783
| 2008 | 777
| 2009 | 788
| 2010 | 785
| 2011 | 760
| 2012 | 791
| 2013 | 784
| 2014 | 795
| 2015 | 786
| 2016 | 802
| 2017 | 825
| 2018 | 825
| 2019 | 822
| 2020 | 820
}}
References
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Category:Localities in Uckermark (district)
Category:Germany–Poland border crossings
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