Althagen
The village of Althagen on the Fischland-Darß-Zingst peninsula in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has been part of the municipality of Ahrenshoop since 1950 . Until 1945 the border between Mecklenburg and Pomerania ran between Althagen and Ahrenshoop for several centuries , the street name Grenzweg still reminds of this today.
On July 1, 1950, Althagen was incorporated into Ahrenshoop.
The Bakelberg is located near the steep bank of Althagen / Niehagen . At 17.9 meters above sea level, it is the highest point on the Fischland . Althagen has a port on the lagoon coast .
The designer Gertrud Kleinhempel (1875–1948), the writer Käthe Miethe (1893–1961) and (from 1944) the painter couple Fritz Koch-Gotha (1877–1956) and Dora Koch-Stetter (1881–1968) lived in Althagen . Koch-Stetter's expressionist picture, painted in 1911, The Red House in Althagen is still one of her best-known works.
The next generation of the Koch [-Gotha and -Stetter] family of artists, the painter and ceramist Barbara Klünder (1919–1988) and her husband, the painter Arnold Klünder (1909–1976), developed together with the painter Frida Löber (1910–1989 ) and the sculptor and ceramist Wilhelm Löber (1903–1981) from 1955 the "Fischlandkeramik" in their ceramic workshops
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Coordinates: 54 ° 22 ′ N , 12 ° 25 ′ E