Steffenshagen

Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Rostock
Office :	Bad Doberan Country
Height :	50 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.32 km 2
Residents:	536 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	58 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	18209
Area code :	038203
License plate :	LRO, BÜZ, DBR, GÜ, ROS, TET
Community key :	13 0 72 099
LOCODE :	DE TFG
Office administration address:	Kammerhof 3 ; 18209 Bad Doberan
Website :	www.doberan-land.de
Mayor :	Georg Endmann
Location of the municipality of Steffenshagen in the Rostock district

Steffenshagen is a municipality in the Rostock district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). The municipality is administered by the Bad Doberan-Land office based in the city of the same name .

geography

The community is located on the northeast side of the cooling , a ridge between the cities of Kröpelin and Kühlungsborn . Steffenshagen is only about six kilometers away from the Baltic Sea coast (beach of the oldest German seaside resort Heiligendamm ). The community consists of the parts Nieder Steffenshagen and Ober Steffenshagen.

history

Steffenshagen was founded by German colonists. In 1273 the place was first mentioned in a document as Stephaneshaghen . A damage calculation from the Doberan Monastery from 1312 names German names such as Arnold, Wedemann, Kruse, Dietrich and Hildebrand. Steffenshagen is mentioned in several medieval documents.

The church was the patronage church of the Doberan abbot. Since the secularization in the middle of the 16th century, Steffenshagen belonged to the ducal domanial association.

Culture and sights

Museum courtyard: Memorial courtyard around a 200 year old post mill with historical workshops (bakery, forge, carpentry). The windmill was moved from Buschkuhnsdorf in Saxony-Anhalt and built and restored in Steffenshagen in 1998.
The Gothic , three-aisled village church Steffen Hagen is a hall church from brick . The choir is from the end of the 13th century. The building was partially expanded in the second half of the 19th century, and the historicizing tower also dates from this time. Inside the church there is a carved altar from the second half of the 15th century, a pulpit from the 18th century, a triumphal cross group from the 14th century and a Romanesque granite baptism.
Former school building in Niedersteffenshagen

church
Center of Steffenshagen
Post mill in Steffenshagen
Old school in Niedersteffenshagen
Cobblestone street in Steffenshagen
Draw well

Individual evidence

↑ 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 ).

Web links

Commons : Steffenshagen - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Official site of the circle

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-MV-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 ).