Bresegard

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Bresegard is a small municipality in the German province of Mecklenburg.

To be precise there are two towns in Mecklenberg with the name Bresegard. This article is about Bresegard bei Picher, meaning it is near the town of Picher. The other Bresegard is near the town of Eldena, and is called Bresegard bei Eldena. Bresegard bei Picher is part of the county office (gemeinde) of Hagenow and is part of the district (landkreiss) of Ludwigslust. Both Bresegard municipalities are about equa-distant from Ludwiglust. Bresegard bei Picher is near the main highway between Berlin and Hamburg.

It is worth noting that this area of Germany (Mecklenburg) had once been occupied by Slavic peoples, and the suffix 'gard' in the name Bresegard reflects this. [Slavic towns may often have the suffix 'grad', which means town or city. Although the suffix 'gard' may spelled differently the root link to the Slavic languages can be discerned]. A similar example of lingering slavic language influence is the city of Schwerin, which used to be called Zuarin before the complete 'germanization' of the area.

Bresegard bei Picher was part of the area intially captured or occupied by American troops at the end of World War Two. In other words Bresegard was on the American side of the line of contact between American Soviet forces. Due to previous agreements by the Allied powers, this part of Germany was transferred to Soviet control some several weeks after American occupation. As a small remote village Bresegard did not suffer war time destruction.

Click on the following link to the German language Wikipedia article on Bresegard bei Picher for more detailed information about that city: | Bresegard bei Picher