Mollenstorf

Mollenstorf is a district of the city Penzlin in the district Mecklenburg Lake District Mecklenburg -Vorpommern ( Germany ).

In the independent until June 7, 2009 Church Mollenstorf lived 248 inhabitants ( 31 December 2007) to 11.1 km ². Last honorary mayor Mollenstorfs was August Muth.

Geography

Mollenstorf located four kilometers west of the city center of Penzlin. The municipality Mollenstorf belonged to the district Ave.

History

The area around Mollenstorf must, like all of Mecklenburg -Vorpommern, have been settled very early by Neolithic cultures. This is evidenced numerous archaeological finds. Not far from the path of Mollenstorf to Great Thank lies a group of three mounds from the Bronze Age, which are protected as archaeological monuments and also in the legendary world were reflected.

For the historiography of medieval missing documents. Until their extinction in 1548 the Bardenfleths lived in this area.

It is very probable that the identification of Mollenstorp and Mollenstorf loud second person registers of Mecklenburg document book is correct.

As of 1558 the place was called Mollenstorf. The church was first mentioned in 1335 and is an early Gothic building in the form of a quadrangle around which the cemetery is created. A free-standing belfry stands on the west side of the church with two bells from the 14th and 15th centuries.

In 1764, Justus acquired from the estate Gundlach Mollenstorf; it then remained for nearly two centuries until 1945 in the hands of the family. Around the turn of the century from the 19th to the 20th century were built by the family of the Gundlach farm workers houses, a large horse barn and the barn. Thus, the Gutscharakter of the village was built. 1923 the village received electricity.

In 1945, Russian soldiers immortalized in the hanging in a belfry bells cemetery, they punctured with MG- sheaves, what you can "admire" today.