Garlin
Garlin is a village in the municipality of Karstädt in Brandenburg’s Prignitz district. Karstädt records it as a street village first mentioned in 1255. The Brandenburg heritage list records the village church and the rectory on Garliner Dorfstraße as separate monuments.
Garlin — a street village in the Prignitz fields
Garlin’s roofs and gardens run in a narrow band through open farmland. The street and church give the village a shape that is especially clear in the aerial photograph.
Follow the line of the Dorfstraße and look at the sequence of buildings and garden plots. The fieldstone church stands out for its timber-framed west tower. The parish description notes a doorway beam marked 1705 and later changes to the window openings. Those details make the building a useful way to read how the village changed over time.
Written by Le Roi du Village. It sets out what is documented, not what is worth seeing.
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Brandenburg heritage register — monuments 09160091 and 09160092 factory-dossier-aac4d6d1a8508315516e3482. Supplies: summary, editorial, media_review. Reliability 3/5.
Gemeinde Karstädt — Garlin factory-dossier-aac4d6d1a8508315516e3482. Supplies: summary, editorial, media_review. Reliability 3/5.
GeoBasis Brandenburg — location reference factory-dossier-aac4d6d1a8508315516e3482. Supplies: summary, editorial, media_review. Reliability 3/5.
Kirchenkreis Prignitz — Garlin church factory-dossier-aac4d6d1a8508315516e3482. Supplies: summary, editorial, media_review. Reliability 3/5.
Wikimedia Commons — aerial photograph and licence factory-dossier-aac4d6d1a8508315516e3482. Supplies: summary, editorial, media_review. Reliability 3/5.
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