Kavelstorf

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Kavelstorf is since 7 June 2009, a district of the municipality in the district of Dummerstorf Rostock in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern ( Germany ).

Geography

Kavelstorf located ten kilometers south-east of Rostock, between the lower Warnow and the Warnow inflows Kösterbeck and Zarnow. Parts of the valleys of these three waters are designated as nature reserves.

For the formerly independent municipality Kavelstorf included the districts Griebnitz, blades village and Niex.

Church

Noteworthy is the village church from the 13th century. The walls are built of field stones. Builders were Westphalian settlers who founded around 1225 Kavelstorf. Because of the massive square tower is to suggest that the Church in the Middle Ages served as the villagers fortified church. In the chancel, the east wall is decorated with two custom built in flush- Ritz technique images from the period of the Church. Make burial, and ascension of Christ dar. These images were only rediscovered in 1985. The windows in the chancel are Romanesque, which point in the nave and tower space already on Gothic elements.

Since 2000, the church is a motorway church.

Transport links

Kavelstorf lies on the railway line Neustrelitz -Warnemünde as well as the railway line Rostock Rostock seaport north. Former is included in the network of S -Bahn Rostock ( Rostock S 3 - Güstrow ); latter railway line serves only to freight. Due to the immediate situation at the motorway junction Rostock A19 and A20 Kavelstorf is well connected to the national road network.

Personalities

• Philip Augustus of Amsberg, Braunschweigischer economist, was born in 1788 in Kavelstorf.
• Wolfgang Methling, Mecklenburg state politician, was born in 1947 in Kavelstorf.