Groß Pankow

Groß Pankow is a municipality in Prignitz district, Brandenburg, Germany. The municipality was formed in 2001 from the union of municipalities of the former Amt of Groß Pankow/Prignitz and some in Amt Pritzwalk-Land. Amt Groß Pankow/Prignitz was then dissolved.Groß Pankow is connected via German Federal Highway B 189 to the cities of Pritzwalk, Perleberg, Wittenberge and Magdeburg.GeographyThe municipality has 39 villages in 18 districts with the populations given in parentheses (As of March 1, 2010)DemographyPersonalities Carl von Karstedt, conservative Reichstag deputy, born in Kleinlinde Erhard Hübener, DDP and LDPD politician, born in Tacken Richard Kackstein, national socialist politician, born in Triglitz Joachim Wüstenberg, hygienist in Gelsenkirchen, born in Klenzenhof