Walkendorf
Walk Village is a municipality in the district of Rostock in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern ( Germany ). The community is managed by the Office Gnoien based in the same city.
Geography
The municipality is located north Walkendorf the Mecklenburg Switzerland and south-east of Rostock in a hilly area between the small towns Gnoien and Ticino. The small streams and ditches in the municipality, including the leading through the village of Grand Bach are on the Warbel, a small tributary of the Cernosin, drained. West of the village Walkendorf is 3 acres of Schloßsee and the 0.5 -acre Egelsee. The community is dominated by arable land. Is it only forest north and west of Stechow. Located in the outskirts there are 90 hectares of mixed woodland here. Northeast of Dalwitz is a further 30 acres of mixed forest area, the beech wood. The highest elevation reached southeast of Stechow 61 m above sea level. Sea level and the lowest point in the municipality is 14 m above sea level. NN in the boggy Warbelniederung east of the village Walkendorf.
To Walkendorf include the districts Dalwitz and Stechow.
History
1216 emerged the place name the first time in a document. From 1273 to the beginning of the 16th century Walk village belongs to the monastery Dargun. In the communist era was the "people's own good" part of a experimental farm of the Agricultural Academy in Berlin. The Trust sold the Good Walk village after the German reunification. In the community, the Friends of the homeland and culture maintenance in the northern district Güstrow his home in the Old Ausspanne in Walkendorf. The manor Dalwitz with its moat has now been restored.
Attractions
→ See also List of monuments in Walkendorf
- Village Church Walk Village of the second half of the 13th century. In it, wall and ceiling paintings around 1370 /80 and a carved altar from the second half of the 15th century have been preserved.
- Cemetery Linde 10.50 meters in circumference, one of the strongest in Mecklenburg
- Memorial stone from the 1950s on the graves of three unidentified POW in the cemetery at the church
- Old Ausspanne, Ausspanne and pitcher from the late 17th century
- Manor house with parking in Dalwitz
- Wossidlo house. Museum of the folklorist and linguist Richard Wossidlo, who was born in the community related to the 1971 set desolate old manor Friedrichshof
Transport links
The northern neighboring community Lühburg is located on the national road 110 (Rostock - Demmin ), Walk the Strand district Dalwitz on the road connecting Gnoien to Güstrow. About seven kilometers north leads the federal highway 20 past (junction Ticino). In Ticino is connected by train to Rostock.
Sons and daughters
- Henning Friedrich von Bassewitz (1680-1749), politician and Dobbertiner monastery Captain
- Adam Gottlob Moltke (1710-1792), Danish Chamberlain
- Sabine Elisabeth Oelgard of Bassewitz (1716-1790), German writer
- Friedrich Ferdinand Suwe (1777-1851), German chemist
- Richard Wossidlo (1859 -1939), folklorist