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24-697: Lärz is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , Germany. It is governed by the Röbel-Müritz amt based in the city of Röbel . Lärz is located south of lake Müritz – in the Mecklenburg Lake District – between the towns of Rechlin and Mirow . The Mirow canal leads from Mirow to Vietzen , through the municipality of Lärz, and is part of

48-406: A merger. In Lärz, of the 439 eligible voters, 252 voted against and 75 for a merger. The turnout was around 74 percent. The municipality has no officially approved emblem, neither a coat of arms nor a flag. The official seal is the small state seal with the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg. It shows a bull's head and the inscription "GEMEINDE LÄRZ". In Lärz, the annual Fusion Festival and

72-511: A regular basis. Elections for the municipal councils ( Kommunalwahlen ) take place every 4 years in Bremen, every 6 years in Bavaria and every 5 years in all other states. The office of mayor is full-time ( hauptamtlich ) in larger municipalities, and voluntary ( ehrenamtlich ) in smaller municipalities, for instance those that are part of a municipal association. Mayors are elected for

96-554: A specific term, which is different in every state. Since mayoral elections also have to be held when a mayor resigns from office, these do not take place at the same time for all municipalities in a state. The terms for mayors are: Fusion Festival The Fusion Festival is a music and arts festival with a countercultural character. It takes place at a former military airport called Müritz Airpark in Lärz , Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , in northeastern Germany . The festival name

120-488: A test command began in Lärz. Tests with the world's first jet aircraft, Heinkel He 178 , took place at the Lärz airfield . The railway connection built in 1922 from Mirow, Starsow branch, to Ellerholz and Rechlin led via Lärz. In 1967 the passenger traffic was stopped, the route was mainly used for military transport. It was planned to reactivate the railway line for tourist use, but it was dismantled in 2007. From 1934 to 1935,

144-477: Is described as a space people go to free their minds from their everyday lives, jobs, studies and other responsibilities. It is the result of the search for an alternative through music, to the system "people are forced to live in". People go to the Fusion to experience a different way of socializing and living, where experiencing one another freely, sharing love for music and art connects different scenes and minds. It

168-406: Is five kilometers away, the town of Röbel about 15 kilometers away. Lärz is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Rechlin in the north, Mirow in the east, Schwarz in the south, Wittstock /Dosse in the south-west, Buchholz and Priborn in the west and Südmüritz in the north-west. The districts of Alt Gaarz, Gaarzer Mühle, Ichlim, Krümmel, Neu Gaarz and Troja belong to Lärz. In 1237,

192-458: Is in nearby Mirow, serving the railway line to Neustrelitz . Municipalities of Germany The highest degree of autonomy may be found in the Gemeinden which are not part of a Kreis ("district"). These Gemeinden are referred to as Kreisfreie Städte or Stadtkreise , often translated as "urban district". In some states they retained a higher measure of autonomy than

216-526: Is located on the airfield. In addition to an exhibition about the Rechlin test site, it also houses several aircraft that can be viewed, such as Mi-8 , MiG-21 and Bréguet Atlantic . In November 2018, a referendum took place in Lärz and Schwarz on an area change agreement, according to which the two municipalities would have merged with Rechlin. Both in Lärz and in Schwarz, however, a majority voted against

240-723: Is often depicted in Cyrillic letters as Фузион , but pronounced like the English word fusion [ 'fjuʒən ]. The annual festival was started by the Kulturkosmos organisation in 1997 and is described by the organizers as a place to practice "Holiday Communism" (Ferienkommunismus). It lasts four to six days, usually at the end of June. In 2016, the Fusion Festival event took place from 29 June to 3 July and which has attracted some 70,000 attendees for each year's festival, since

264-673: Is partially a clothing-optional event. Art installations include performance arts , static artworks, sculptures, art cars and various other forms. Fusion Festival began in 1997 near the city of Lärz in north-eastern Germany, about 160 km (100 mi) from Berlin and 230 km (140 mi) from Hamburg. The location is on the original grass-covered grounds of the disused Erprobungsstelle Rechlin Third Reich-era central military experimental airfield (at 53°20′48.11″N 12°44′23.25″E  /  53.3466972°N 12.7397917°E  / 53.3466972; 12.7397917 for

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288-451: Is sold at the festival grounds. The festival gears to create a Temporary Autonomous Zone and a transformational environment. Due to its avantgardistic attitude and the variety of art, the Fusion Festival has been described as a "European Burning Man". The Fusion Festival combines all styles of the underground electronic music scene and various other styles, sometimes depending on the attendees who choose to play their own music. It

312-548: The 2013 event, which the comparable American Burning Man event only matched in 2015. Different musical styles are represented at the festival, but the line up is not released beforehand. Mostly electronic music is present, but there is no stylistic restriction for the various live music acts, and the festival attendees may bring their own instruments. The festival also holds its own film festival and features different scales of art installations. Attendees may bring their own art and appear in artistic costumes. Only vegetarian food

336-771: The 234-hectare (580-acre) area central field) about 4.5 km (2.8 mi) due north of the modern Rechlin-Lärz Airfield facility. The site was first acquired by the German Empire in 1916 as an aviation research and training ground, opening the facility for use by the Luftstreitkräfte in August 1918. After the establishment of the Luftwaffe in 1935, the field served as the Erprobungsstelle Rechlin central military aircraft test facility of

360-648: The Lärz airfield. On 2 May 1945, the area was occupied by the Red Army , which continued to use the airfield. In the 1980s, for example, up to 2 000 members of the Soviet armed forces were stationed in Lärz, such as fighter-bomber and helicopter squadrons. In March 1993, the troops now called the CIS armed forces withdrew from Lärz. The airfield has been used as a civil airfield by the operating company Müritzflugplatz Rechlin-Lärz since 1994. The Rechlin-Lärz aviation museum

384-502: The Müritz-Havel waterway. The west and south of the wooded district of Lärz is rich in lakes, such as lake Thüren , lake Tralow, lake Nebel, lake Müritzsee and lake Müritzarm ; lake Sumpfsee and lake Kleine Müritz are also nearby. The upper Elde flows into lake Müritzsee, which is connected to lake Müritz via lake Müritzarm. The slightly hilly terrain around Lärz reaches a maximum of 89 m above sea level ( NHN ). The town of Mirow

408-663: The Third Reich through early 1945, and it was captured by the Soviet Red Army on 2 May 1945, for use by the VVS . There are grass-covered concrete hangars (actual bunkers) from that time that were used for Soviet fighter aircraft (hence the Cyrillic transliteration of the festival name and various stages, as many Cyrillic inscriptions were still present on the site). The airfield was reopened for civilian use in 1994 and sold to

432-535: The biennial at.tension theater festival are hosted by the Kulturkosmos Müritz registered association. Lärz is located on the road from Mirow to Rechlin, which, in contrast to federal highway 198 , passes south of Lärz airfield. To the south there is a road connection to Rheinsberg in Brandenburg. The Röbel motorway junction on the A 19 motorway is around 21 km away. The next train station

456-516: The farmers in Lärz had enforced their own "village rules", a regulation of leasing to the farmers, in 1859 through trials against the Dobbertin monastery, which was progressive given the conditions in Mecklenburg at the time. From 1914 to 1993, together with the neighboring municipality of Rechlin, Lärz was a military base. In 1941, the stationing of various test squadrons and the formation of

480-477: The originally Slavic settlement appeared as Lositz in a document from Prince Nikolaus von Werle. In 1257, Loziz was mentioned as a property of the Dobbertin Monastery. The old Polish place name was originally *Losica and was formed from the noun *los , "elk". It can be translated as the " location of the elk ". In contrast to the lawlessness of the farmworkers in the neighboring communities,

504-594: The other municipalities of the Kreis (e.g. Große Kreisstadt ). Municipalities titled Stadt (town or city) are urban municipalities while those titled Gemeinde are classified as rural municipalities. With more than 3,600,000 inhabitants, the most populous municipality of Germany is the city of Berlin ; and the least populous is Gröde in Schleswig-Holstein . Status as of January 2024. The number of municipalities of Germany has decreased strongly over

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528-535: The road from Mirow via Lärz to Vietzen was built. From 1934 to 1936 the Müritz-Havel Canal was built from Mirow via Lärz to Vietzen. Because of the military facilities in the area, Lärz was also the target of heavy bombardments in 1944 and 1945. On 21 May 1944, the first deep attack by American fighter-bombers took place on the airfield. On 24 May 1944, thirteen US bombers dropped further bombs and on 10 April 1945, 105 US bombers dropped 232 tons of bombs on

552-499: The same time, many districts and also urban districts were merged into larger districts. There are several types of municipalities in Germany, with different levels of autonomy. Each federal state has its own administrative laws, and its own local government structure. The main types of municipalities are: In all municipalities, the mayor and the members of the municipal council are appointed by local elections that take place on

576-600: The years: in 1968 there were 24,282 municipalities in West Germany , and in 1980 there were 8,409. The same trend occurred in the New states of Germany after the German reunification: from 7,612 municipalities in 1990 to 2,380 as of 1 January 2024. While in some cases growing cities absorbed neighbouring municipalities, most of these mergers were driven by a need to increase the efficiency and reduce costs of administration. At

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