Mühlen Eichsen

Mills Eichsen [my lən aɪksən ː ] is a municipality in the district of North West in Mecklenburg -Vorpommern ( Germany ). The community is managed by the Office Gadebusch based in the same city.

Geography

The municipality mills Eichsen located between the state capital Schwerin and the town of Greve mills on the Stepenitz that the Dalberg Kuhle and the large flows through the municipal area Eichsener lake. About a kilometer south of mills Eichsen is the cremation cemetery of the pre-Roman Iron Age, one of the most significant cemeteries in the core area of Jastorf Culture, systematically explored since 1994.

To mills Eichsen include the districts Goddin, United Eichsen, Schoenfeld, Schoenfeld mill and Webelsfelde.

History

The name of mills Eichsen and Great Eichsen was in the 12th and 13th centuries Eichsen in history also Exem, Ekessem or exes. The place was evidenced by the Isfriedschen sharing contract in 1194 to the diocese of Ratzeburg and was mentioned in 1230 in Ratzeburg tithe register which according parishes lists the time the diocese belonging villages. Today's mills Eichsen was only one mill homestead called Molnecsen, which was first mentioned on April 2, 1283 Great Eichsen was named Magna Eixen. The subsequent designation Lütken or small Eichsen for mills Eichsen, which is attested in 1357, did not sit through. By 1200, gave the Count of Schwerin places Sülstorf, Goddin, Eichsen and Moraas in the Altmark Advertise (Elbe ) -based St. John. He acquired in consequence more places and moved its headquarters from later Sülstorf by Kraak, where a Commandery was established. Mills Eichsen received before 1283 a church, to whose patronage was fought between the Bishop of Ratzeburg and the Order. On April 2, 1283 the dispute was settled, the Order received the patronage of the churches wholesale and mills Eichsen. Great Eichsen became the seat of a prior and a part of the Brotherhood, here also a great place for the church was built in a cross shape, which was designated in the 16th century as " Munster to Great Eichsen ". In consequence, this church became the place of pilgrimage, which was also attended by the Duke of Mecklenburg family often.

At the Reformation the Commandery was disbanded until 1552 was the Schwerin canon Paschen Gustävel Prior, then the Good Great took over Eichsen with all justices of the ducal chancellor and Council Johann Lucka. Duke Johann Albrecht I claimed the high justice, tax, land and hunting episode. 1560 Contract with Lucka was closed and the Good zurückverschrieben the Duke, who wrote about it to his wife Anna Sophia of Prussia as private property. After her death in 1591 he sold the estate together with Goddin to Kurt von Sperling. Mills Eichsen was sold in 1639 by Duke Adolf Friedrich I. to the Gadebuscher bailiff Hundt. In the following decades the owners (of Rantzau of Stralendorff, by Schwartz, of Thiemen of Könemann, von Leers ) changed.

Attractions

→ See also List of monuments in mills Eichsen

• Village church and manor house with park in mills Eichsen
• St John 's Church in the village of Great Eichsen
• Erected by the Danish architect Joseph Christian Lillie in the classical style mansion Schönfeld in the town district Schönfeld
• Old water mill dating from the 13th century

Transport links

Federal highway 208 ( Wismar - Gadebusch ) crosses in mills Eichsen the connecting road from Schwerin to Greve mills. The nearest train stations are in Greve mills and Gadebusch - 13 km from the mills Eichsen away.

Pictures

Church in Great Eichsen

Former watermill in mills Eichsen

Mansion Schönfeld in the same district