Altkalen

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 54 '  N , 12 ° 44'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Rostock
Office :	Gnoien
Height :	45 m above sea level NHN
Area :	45.66 km 2
Residents:	789 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	17 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17179
Primaries :	039971, 039973
License plate :	LRO, BÜZ, DBR, GÜ, ROS, TET
Community key :	13 0 72 004
Office administration address:	Teterower Str.11a 17179 Gnoien
Mayoress :	Renate Awe
Location of the municipality of Altkalen in the Rostock district

Altkalen is a municipality in the east of the Rostock district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). The municipality is administered by the Gnoien Office , based in the city ​​of the same name .

geography

The municipality of Altkalen is located in a hilly area near the Peene spring between the small towns of Gnoien , Dargun and Neukalen . The Kummerower See and Mecklenburg Switzerland are approx. 10 km away. The Vurzbach flows through the municipality, which borders the Mecklenburg Lake District in the east , next to the Peene. The varied landscape is also small lakes ( New Pannekower - and Pfarrsee ) and over 4000 year-old megalithic tombs (in Lüchower forest and Postmoor embossed). The highest point is 46 m above sea level. NN between Altkalen and the Damm district . Altkalen is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Gnoien and Finkenthal in the north, Dargun in the east, Neukalen in the southeast, Lelkendorf in the south, Jördenstorf in the southwest, Schwasdorf in the west and Walkendorf in the northwest.

Altkalen includes the districts of Alt Pannekow, Damm, Granzow , Kämmerich, Kleverhof, Lüchow, Neu Pannekow and Rey.

history

Kalen is first mentioned in a document from 1174. The term "Kalen" is of Slavic origin and means "swamp", "morass". After 1236, the place Kalen, also "Kaland" (today Altkalen), located on the trade route from Stettin to Rostock, was owned by Prince Heinrich Borwin III. to Rostock as a city with strong fortifications. The new town got lands and in 1253 it was granted the town charter of Luebeck. But already in 1281 the town's rights were withdrawn. Prince Waldemar von Rostock founded Neukalen around ten kilometers south of the town of Bugelmast in a strategically much more important place . The old Kalen became a village again, to Altkalen .

On July 1, 1950, the previously independent municipality of Damm was incorporated. On January 1, 1951, Alt Pannekow was added. On January 1st, 1999 Kleverhof was incorporated.

Attractions

Church in Altkalen

Windmill in Altkalen

Rey mansion

• The Altkalen village church was built in the second half of the 13th century in place of a previous building and has very old wall and ceiling paintings.
• The Dutch windmill in Altkalen is the only windmill still producing regularly in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. After a fire in the previous mill in 1913, the mill was rebuilt with parts of a broken mill from Wittenförden and extensively renovated from 1991 to 2002.
• Megalithic graves in the Lüchower and Schlutower forest
• Wonderful oak in Lüchower forest and the wonderful book in Postmoor,
• Schlossberg with remains of a wall
• Chestnut avenues between Kleverhof and Jördenstorf
• Manor house Alt Pannekow: today residential building
• Herrenhaus Kämmerich: Two-storey brick building from 1902 with a gable
• Kleverhof mansion: One-storey plastered building with a crooked hip roof
• Rey mansion: Two-storey baroque half-timbered building from the beginning of the 18th century, now in ruins, classified as particularly endangered by the State Office for Monument Preservation. From the beginning of the 18th century until 1945 in the possession of the von Schack family . The Low German writer John Brinckman was tutor to the children of Herr von Schack here from 1842 to 1844.

→ See also the list of architectural monuments in Altkalen

traffic

Good roads lead from Altkalen in all directions. The Ticino and Bad Sülze junctions on federal motorway 20 are each 22 kilometers away. The nearest train station is in the town of Malchin, 20 kilometers to the south, on the Güstrow – Neubrandenburg railway line .

Personalities

• Heinrich Gustav Flörke (* December 24, 1764 in Altkalen; † November 6, 1835 in Rostock), German botanist, professor in Rostock
• Friedrich Carl Ludwig von Kardorff (born March 31, 1812 in Alt-Pannekow; † May 8, 1870 in Neustrelitz), German administrative lawyer and 1849/50 member of the Mecklenburg Assembly of Representatives
• Wilhelm Schmidt (1829–1909), ministerial official in Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Web links

Commons : Altkalen  - collection of images

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. ↑ Area changes in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1990 to 1999. (PDF; 71 kB) Statistical Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, January 12, 2005, p. 15 , accessed on May 20, 2015 .