Menzlin
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Menzlin
Ziethen municipality
Coordinates: 53 ° 53 ′ 12 " N , 13 ° 37 ′ 35" E
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| Height : | 17 m above sea level NHN |
| Incorporation : | July 1, 1950 |
Menzlin is a district of the municipality of Ziethen near Anklam in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
history
In the 9th century, there was an approximately 18 hectare settlement near the Peene and next to the " old camp " in the municipality . The settlement, whose location today bears the field name Peeneberg , was one of the largest trading centers of the 9th and 10th centuries in the Baltic Sea region. Excavations and surface finds have produced large quantities of artifacts from the aforementioned times. As in Wollin (Jumne, Jomsburg , Vineta ) there was a joint settlement of Slavs and Vikings, proven by the ship settlements and many finds.
Archaeological evidence of this settlement was a stone paved road to the Peene, a bridge over the Peene and a continuation of the stone paved road from this bridge towards Görke . The dendrochronological investigations of the timbers used by the road and the bridge prove the temporal relationship. A port is suspected, but has not yet been proven. The Via Regia from Stettin via Menzlin to Wismar and on to Lübeck and Hamburg was the "most important east-west road in the north" of the medieval West Slavic settlement area. At Menzlin she crossed the Peene Valley using the stone road described and the bridge over the river.
The place Menzlin was first mentioned in a document in 1231 when Duke Wartislaw III. transferred the village called Mancelin = Menzlin to the Stolpe monastery . In addition, in 1257, when Bishop Hermann von Cammin gave the place Mantselin along with other villages as a donation to the newly consecrated church of Ziethen.
During the Swedish times, six of the seven farms in the village came into the possession of the noble family von Owstin auf Quilow as manors . The seventh remained as a free court due to a Swedish royal privilege. Allegedly the farmer Köppen (or Koeppen) should give King Karl XII. von Sweden had provided assistance from Bender during his return . This is a similarly misinterpreted legend as on the Gützkower ferry . Charles XII. Bender didn't come by here in 1714, but rather on his inspection rides in the Swedish-Western Pomerania border area with Brandenburg-Prussia.
In 1841 the manor was sold to Magnus von Wedell, who had a mansion that no longer exists here. Until the end of the Second World War , the property was leased to the Malchus family. In 1952 an LPG was founded in Menzlin , which was privatized after the fall of the Berlin Wall . In the 1960s, a village or LPG culture house with a restaurant and dance hall was built here, which was no longer operated after 1990 and is now slowly falling into disrepair.
Attractions
- Menzlin is best known for the Viking Age and Slavic trading center located about 1.5 km south of the town within the area natural monument " Old Camp " .
- South of the old camp is the Menzlin polder , which has been rewetted since 2000 . An observation tower built as part of the Vorpommersche Dorfstrasse initiative enables the fauna and flora of the polder and the Peene to be observed .
Personalities
- Herbert Lange (1909–1945), SS officer, head of the Chelmno extermination camp
- Viktor Freiherr von Malchus was the last resident of the manor.
literature
- Rolf Bahler: Menzlin is always worth a trip . in: Heimatkalender ANKLAM and its surroundings 2007, year 78, NF 16. Founded by Max Sander. Schibri-Verlag, Uckerland 2006, pp. 18-21, fig., ISBN 3-937895-38-8
- Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen , Part IV, Volume II, Anklam 1868, p. 1140 ff.
- Lutz Mohr : The "Viking dead stone ships" north of the Peene near Menzlin not far from Anklam in East Western Pomerania and their time . In: Stone Cross Research (SKF). Studies on German and international land monument research, ed. by Rainer H. Schmeissner. Series B (anthologies), Vol. 18, No. 24 (NF. 9), Regensburg 1997, pp. 59-67.
- Manfred Niemeyer: East Western Pomerania. Sources and literature collection on place names , Vol. 2: Mainland. (= Greifswald contributions to toponymy. Vol. 2), Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, Institute for Slavic Studies, Greifswald 2001, ISBN 3-86006-149-6 . P. 88.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Klempin : Pommersches Urkundenbuch 1st volume, Stettin 1868, p. 216, no. 272.
- ^ Rodgero Prümers: Pommersches Urkundenbuch. 3rd volume, Friedrich Nagel, Stettin 1891, pp. 438-439.
- ^ Rewetted Menzlin Polder