Kirchdorf (Poel)

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Church Village
Municipality of the island of Poel
Coordinates: 53 ° 59 ′ 47 ″  N , 11 ° 26 ′ 19 ″  E
Residents : 1016
Postal code : 23999
Area code : 038425
The village church on Poel

Kirchdorf is part of the municipality of Ostseebad Insel Poel . With 1016 inhabitants (as of 2016), the port town is the largest town on Poel .

location

Kirchdorf is located about eleven kilometers north of Wismar on the north bank of the Kirchsee , a bay of the Baltic Sea that cuts far into the island of Poel .

history

The former fortress was built around 1620 according to plans by Ghert Evert Piloot. It was equipped with a castle and a village church and was surrounded by an outer work. The complex was badly damaged in the Thirty Years' War and largely fell into disrepair in the 17th century. The buildings were excavated in the 19th century and 1934. Some earth walls and ditches have been preserved.

Attractions

Located in the south of the village and built in the second half of the 13th century village church is a historically significant attraction. The 47 meter high tower has been a landmark for ships entering the Wismar Bay for centuries . The church is still partially surrounded by the remains of the ramparts of the former fortress Poel, which together with the island of Walfisch, the Wismar Bay and the port entrance to Wismar controlled and secured.

Sons and daughters of the place

  • Ernst Susemihl (born on November 20, 1807 in Kirchdorf on the island of Poel; died on February 3, 1863 in Pankow) was a German translator and young Hegelian

Transport links

The island of Poel is connected to the mainland by a road embankment. Kirchdorf can be reached with regular buses. There are also regular ferry connections from Kirchdorf to Wismar from April to October.

Port of Kirchdorf with a ferry in the background

literature

  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume II: The district court districts of Wismar, Grevesmühlen, Rehna, Gadebusch and Schwerin. Schwerin 1898, new print Schwerin 1992, p. 222 (227ff.). ISBN 3910179061
  • Heinrich Trost (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments in the Mecklenburg coastal region. With the cities of Rostock and Wismar. Edited by Gerd Baier u. a., Henschel, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-362-00523-3 , pp. 99-101.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Districts and population ostseebad-insel-poel.de, accessed on July 13, 2019
  2. ↑ Heinrich Trost (ed.): The architectural and art monuments in the Mecklenburg coastal region. With the cities of Rostock and Wismar. Edited by Gerd Baier u. a., Henschel, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-362-00523-3 , pp. 99-101. Page 99