Zuggelrade
Zuggelrade is a village and ortsteil in the municipality of Grabow within the Ludwigslust-Parchim district of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
Geography
Zuggelrade is surrounded by a forest on all sides and lies on the Bochiner Straße which runs south of the village proper.It is one of the few settlements in southern Ludwigslust-Parchim that historically and geographically belong to the region of Prignitz rather than the Griese Gegend.
The village lies around north of Lenzen (Elbe), the nearest town, and south-west of the municipal centre in Grabow. The centre of its previous municipality, Steesow, a village of the same name, lies around north-east of Zuggelrade. The closest settlements to Zuggelrade are the villages Bochin to the south-east and Krinitz to the north-west, both roughly away respectively.
History
Zuggelrade was first mentioned in 1542 as Czuckelrade. In 1542, it was mentioned as Zuchelradt, and some later documentation attribute the name Zuckehade to it.The village historically belonged to the district of in the geographical region of Prignitz in Brandenburg until the dissolution of the states in East Germany which saw the village become part of the Bezirk Schwerin. After German reunification, the village was added to the new state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as part of the former district of Ludwigslust. As opposed to Lenzen and the settlements closest to it, Zuggelrade and its immediate neighbors decided to stay in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern rather than joining Brandenburg in 1992.
In 1960, Zuggelrade was home to an LPG Type I farming cooperative with 22 members and or in farmland named "Frieden". In 1968 it was merged with the LPG "Thomas Müntzer" in Bochin into the LPG "August Bebel" in Steesow.
The previously independent municipality of Zuggelrade was annexed into the municipality of Bochin in 1965, which was itself annexed into Steesow in 1973. On 1 January 2016, Zuggelrade, as part of the municipality of Steesow, was annexed into Grabow, becoming a hinterland village of the town.
In early April 2019, a forest fire started near Zuggelrade that affected around. Despite a difficult logistic situation, 40 firefighters from Grabow and Lenzen were able to extinguish the flames later that day.