Lelkendorf

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 51 '  N , 12 ° 44'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Rostock
Office :	Mecklenburg Switzerland
Height :	20 m above sea level NHN
Area :	29.83 km 2
Residents:	464 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	16 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17168
Area code :	039956
License plate :	LRO, BÜZ, DBR, GÜ, ROS, TET
Community key :	13 0 72 066
Office administration address:	von-Pentz-Allee 7 17166 Teterow
Website :	Lelkendorf on amt-mecklenburgische-schweiz.de
Mayor :	Ralph Franck
Location of the municipality of Lelkendorf in the Rostock district

Lelkendorf is a municipality in the east of the Rostock district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). The municipality is administered by the Mecklenburg Switzerland Office with its seat in the non-official city of Teterow .

Geography and community structure

The municipality of Lelkendorf in Mecklenburg Switzerland northeast of Teterow is characterized by a small terminal moraine that reaches 67 m above sea level in the Long Mountain . This hilly area is bordered by the Vurzbach in the north and east and by the Peene in the south and partly in the west. Peene and Vurzbach form the border to the Mecklenburg Lake District in the southeast . A large part of the Lelkendorf district lies in the Mecklenburg Switzerland and Kummerower See nature reserve .

Lelkendorf is surrounded by the neighboring communities Altkalen in the north, Neukalen in the east and southeast, Alt Sührkow in the southwest and Jördenstorf in the west.

The districts of Groß Markow , Küsserow, Küsserow-Hof, Ludwigsdorf, Sarmstorf, Seeland and Sperlingshof belong to Lelkendorf .

history

The place Lelkendorf appears for the first time in a document as early as 1225. The feud Lelkendorf was from 1224 to 1945 in the family of Levetzow . The manor house, which dates back to the 13th century, burned down the troops from Wallenstein in 1629. The new manor house ( castle ) Lelkendorf, a renaissance plastered building , was built soon after 1629. In 1898, the renovation was carried out in the Tudor style according to plans by Paul Schultze-Naumburg . The last owner of the estate and manor house was the Baron von Levetzow in 1945; his descendants and others bought the manor in 1990. The architect and businessman Joachim von Levetzow (* 1943) converted parts of the palace complex into condominiums and founded the Kultur pro Regio association in 2003 (including temporary art gallery, theater performances).

On January 1, 1951, the previously independent communities of Groß Markow, Küsserow and Sarmstorf as well as the district of Klein Wüstenfelde were incorporated into the dissolved community of Gehmkendorf.

In 1993 a zoo with farm animals threatened with extinction was opened in Lelkendorf .

Attractions

Manor house ( castle ) Lelkendorf

Church in Groß Markow

→ See also the list of architectural monuments in Lelkendorf

• The first manor house ( castle ) Lelkendorf from the 13th century was destroyed by Wallenstein's mercenaries in the Thirty Years' War in 1629 . It was then rebuilt and expanded in the Renaissance style. In 1898, according to plans by the architect Paul Schultze-Naumburg , it was rebuilt in the English Tudor Gothic style and the mighty tower with a viewing platform was added.
• The four-storey brick storage facility on the Lelkendorf estate was built in 1883. It was renovated in the 2000s.
• The Lelkendorf Pet Park houses around 500 animals from 38 domestic and farm animal breeds, some of which are acutely threatened with extinction, such as B. Girgentana goats, Cachena cattle , Juan Fernández goats , Red & White Husum pigs (also known as Husum protest pigs), Chinese mask pigs (Meishan), English park cattle, Exmoor ponies and Tajik goats.
• Heimatstube in the old school of the village
• Schnurstein spring, whose deep water is valued
• Groß Markow was also owned by the von Levetzow family for centuries. The modest single-storey manor house, with a plastered mansard roof, was built in 1829 in the classicism style . On the garden side, the facade has been loosened up by a semicircular protruding central risalit . Most of the farm buildings of the former estate were demolished after 1945. The manor house with park is used as a holiday home.
• The neo-Gothic church Groß Markow was built in 1840 by order of Alexander von Levetzow (1786–1861), canon of Magdeburg and Halberstadt and heir to Groß Markow, Kläden and Darnewitz , the west tower was completed in 1890. The glass painting equipment for all windows was also carried out in 1890 by the glass painting company Ferdinand Müller from Quedlinburg on behalf of the von Levetzow family. The baptismal font, held by an angel made of marble, was made after a model in the Frauenkirche ( cathedral ) in Copenhagen .

Transport links

The community is located on the connecting road from Teterow to Neukalen , from the nearby town of Neukalen roads lead to Malchin and Demmin . The nearest train station is located in Teterow, 14 kilometers away, after the Malchin – Dargun railway line , on which Lelkendorf was located, was shut down in 1996. The train has been used as a draisine route since 2002 .

Web links

Commons : Lelkendorf  - 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 ).