Thelkow

Thelkow is a municipality in the northeast of the district of Rostock in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern ( Germany ). The community is managed by the Office of Ticino, located in the eponymous city. To Thelkow include the districts Kowalz, Liepen, Sophienhof and Starkov. Thelkow and Liepen were first mentioned in 1358.

Geography

The municipality is situated on an undulating ground moraine Thelkow about 30 km east of Rostock. In the north the Recknitz limits the municipality. The landscape is characterized by many small lakes and kettle holes. The highest point of the municipality is the Muhlenberg with 55 m above sea level. NN. Forest areas are mainly located on the Recknitzhängen in the north of the municipality and between the villages Thelkow and Liepen. The Federal Highway 20 runs with a portion of the south of the church. The nearest towns are Ticino and Gnoien.

History

In older documents of the place Telekowe or Telekow was named. The origin of the name is derived with the location of the Telka. The first documented mention was Thelkow 1358th A Bertelstorp de Telekowe and a clergyman name Jacobus were called here. On June 2, 1390 a squire Henneke Buk to the squire Claus Bassewitz pledged in addition to several elevations from the village Kowalz the forge and the pitcher to Thelkow. Around this time of Bassewitz their long-running ownership seem to have established in the town. 1513 Thelkow was owned by the family of the Liihe who ruled here until 1783. Thereafter, the property changed hands several times, known mecklenburger noble families, such as were of Malt tooth and Oertzen below. The church belonged in the Middle Ages Archidiakonat Altkalen in the diocese of Pomerania. Schliemann called as construction the 13th century. The church building is classified by its architecture at the end of the Romanesque period and the beginning of the Gothic.

In Thelkow the rectory were ranked the church with the cemetery and the enclosure, the single belfry and the war memorial and the manor and in its form largely preserved farm Oberdorf 4 as a monument, in Kowalz the manor park was declared a National Monument.

In 1967, the sports community Thelkow Recknitz East was established, operate in approximately 110 members, the sports of football, volleyball and gymnastics.

Attractions

→ See also List of monuments in Thelkow

• Village church Thelkow of field and partly brick from around 1260 to 1280
• Lieper Castle; Hillfort of an early Slavic hill fort dating from the 8th century
• Castle lake in the forest northwest of Liepen
• Nature reserve Teufelssee with Neolithic Urdolmen
• Two Neolithic passage tombs with megaliths are located northeast of Liepen.
• Manor house of the estate Starkow with park and Gutshausgarten; privately owned

Urdolmen at the Devil

Hunebeds a passage tomb at Liepen

Personalities

• Heinrich Behm (1853-1930), Lutheran theologian and Bishop of Mecklenburg -Schwerin, was born in Thelkow.
• Margaret of Oertzen, born of Plüskow (1854-1934), writer and author of children 's books, was born on Good Kowalz.