Ankershagen

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 29 '  N , 12 ° 58'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Mecklenburg Lake District
Office :	Penzliner Land
Height :	58 m above sea level NHN
Area :	28.19 km 2
Residents:	515 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	18 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17219
Area code :	039921
License plate :	MSE, AT, DM, MC, MST, MÜR, NZ, RM, WRN
Community key :	13 0 71 005
Office administration address:	Warener Chaussee 55a 17217 Penzlin
Website :	www.ankershagen.de
Mayor :	Thomas Will
Location of the municipality Ankershagen in the Mecklenburg Lake District

Ankershagen is a municipality in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on the northern edge of the Müritz National Park .

The municipality is administered by the Penzliner Land Office , based in the city of Penzlin . Since July 25, 2010 the place has been officially called "Schliemanngemeinde Ankershagen".

geography

Ankershagen is located directly at the Müritz National Park on a glacial terminal moraine ridge in an east-west direction, which forms the watershed between the waters flowing into the Baltic Sea and the North Sea : the streams flow north into the Baltic Sea and south into the North Sea ( Havel / Elbe ).

Mill Lake

The Havel rises not far from Ankershagen and then flows more than 300 kilometers until it reaches the Elbe. Strictly speaking, the Havel rises in the three source lakes Born , Trinnen and Mühlensee , which used to be part of a much larger Ice Age Rinnensee , the southern end of which can be found at the Narrow area at Granzin (Slavic border), i.e. with the Käbelicksee includes. In order to operate a mill, monks probably already pierced the eastern edge of the Mühlensee in the early Middle Ages , which thus drains into the Baltic Sea. To get pressure for the mill, they dammed the mill lake in the south with a dam that is still clearly visible today. Since this is on marshy ground, the seal was not completely successful. The water that gushes from the masonry Havel spring today seeps from the southern end of the Mühlensee under this dam. So this drains in the Baltic and North Sea. The edges of this Rinnensee are lined with numerous hills up to 38 meters above sea level, all of which lie in the forest and are comparatively flat at the top. The northernmost is the Warensberg (102.2 m above sea  level ), the name of which is derived from Germanic times - either from the god Wotan or the tribe of the Warnen . East of the Mühlensee one of these hills in the forest even has a (probably modern - it is just too well preserved) quadrangular hill . On the other hand, none of the other hills that the farmers use as arable land and pastures are flattened, not even the one on which the king's cradle lies.

Districts

The districts Ankershagen, Bocksee, Bornhof, Friedrichsfelde and Rumpshagen belong to Ankershagen.

history

Megalithic graves and graves from the Bronze Age testify to the 3rd millennium BC. The presence of people. Between Bornhof and Bocksee there is a collection of burial mounds . A particularly prominent barrow, called Königswiege , is located about 500 meters south of Friedrichsfelde. According to legend, a long time ago a king had his favorite daughter buried here in a golden cradle.

Ankershagen was first mentioned in a document in 1252. The ruins of the medieval Ankershagen Castle and the manor house next to it were the seat of the von Holstein family for centuries . The place was part of the (Grand) Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . The defensive wall was partially renewed in 1997. In 1980 the Heinrich Schliemann Museum was set up in the former rectory, where Schliemann had a formative childhood.

Bornhof was first mentioned at the beginning of the 18th century when a dairy was established.

Rumpshagen: The estate owners were the von Voss and von Gundlach families . The renovated baroque manor house Rumpshagen dates from 1732. After 1945 the manor house was used for residential purposes and as the seat of the municipal administration; it was privatized and renovated after 2000.

politics

coat of arms

Blazon : "A blue wavy strip in gold, accompanied: above by five (2: 3) green oak leaves, below by a red triangular shield with a golden anchor inside." The coat of arms and the flag were designed by the Schwerin heraldist Heinz Kippnick . It was approved together with the flag on June 11, 2002 by the Ministry of the Interior and registered under the number 263 of the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Justification for the coat of arms: In the coat of arms, the symbolism with the wavy bar refers to the nearby Havel spring lakes and with the acorn leaves to the extensive forest in the area. The anchor, the 1342 verifiable seal image of those from the anchor, is intended to commemorate the alleged founder of the place of the same name.

flag

The flag is striped in yellow, green and yellow across the longitudinal axis of the flag cloth. The yellow stripes each take up a quarter, the green stripe takes up half the length of the flag cloth. In the middle of the flag, two thirds of the height of the flag, is the municipal coat of arms. The length of the flag is related to the height as 5: 3.

Official seal

The official seal shows the municipal coat of arms with the inscription "SCHLIEMANNGEMEINDE ANKERSHAGEN • LANDKREIS MECKLENBURGISCHE SEENPLATTE".

Attractions

→ See also the list of architectural monuments in Ankershagen

• Heinrich Schliemann Museum

The memory of the discoverer of Troy has been kept in the Heinrich Schliemann Museum since 1980 . For children, a play device in the form of a Trojan horse was set up in front of the museum set up in the former rectory, Schliemann's parents' house .

• One of the largest ash trees in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania stands in front of the museum, with the museum's farm building to the right.
• The Ankershagen Church is an early Gothic stone church with molded parts made of brick . The square choir has a dome-shaped ribbed vault. The ship was converted into a two-nave hall church with four bays early on. The ribbed vault rests on three square pillars. The windows are only preserved in their original form in the east wall. They are narrow, with round arches and ogival panels. The tower has an eight - sided half - timbered tower . Decorative friezes are in the nave and choir. The interior furnishings include a wooden baptism from 1618 with fittings. A life-size crucifix , the body of which dates from the 15th century, hangs on the wall above .
• Two-storey, eleven- axis Rumpshagen manor house with a gabled central risalit and mansard roof ; Special feature: decorative broken glass in the plaster; after 1945 apartments and community rooms, today a well-renovated house.
• Small village church in Rumpshagen from 1779 made of field and brick.
• Information point at the entrance to the Müritz National Park in Friedrichsfelde

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  Trojan horse at the museum

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  Heinrich Schliemann Museum, formerly a rectory

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  Ankershagen village church

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  Ash in Ankershagen

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  Manor house in Rumpshagen

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  Church in Rumpshagen

Personalities

• Otto Held (1818–1897), manor owner and member of parliament, was born in Ankershagen.
• Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890), spent his childhood in Ankershagen.
• Johann Heinrich Voß (1751–1826), worked from 1769 to 1772 as a private tutor in Ankershagen.

Web links

Commons : Ankershagen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature about Ankershagen in the state bibliography MV
• Website of the Ankershagen community

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistisches Amt MV - population status of the districts, offices and municipalities 2019 (XLS file) (official population figures in the update of the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ^ Hans-Heinz Schütt: On shield and flag production office TINUS, Schwerin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814380-0-0 , p. 310/311.
3. ↑ ^{a b} main statute § 1 (PDF).