Wittenhagen
Witten Hagen is a municipality north of Pomerania in the district of Vorpommern - Rügen. It is administered by the Office Miltzow based in Sundhagener district Miltzow.
Geography and transport
Witten Hagen is located about ten kilometers north of the town of Pomerania and about 17 kilometers south of Stralsund. The municipality is located in a very wooded area. The Federal Highway 20 can be reached via the port of Pomerania -east (about 13 km).
The railway line Berlin- Stralsund (Berliner Northern Railway ) runs through the municipality, in Witten Hagen keep the regional trains.
Villages of the municipality
- Abtshagen
- Glashagen
- Kakernehl
- Witten Hagen
History
With the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 came Vorpommern and thus also the place Wittenhagen under Swedish rule after the place previously belonged to the Duchy of Pomerania. In 1815 the church and Pomerania came to the Prussian province of Pomerania.
Witten Hagen was until 1952 part of the district of Pomerania and was thereafter until 1994 Circle of Pomerania in the district of Rostock. Since 1990, belongs to the spot to Mecklenburg- Vorpommern.
Attractions
→ See also List of monuments in Witten Hagen
- Healing Spirit Church in Abtshagen, nave of 1380, wooden tower of 1667, neo-Gothic interior from 1843, original Buchholz organ from 1842 ( restored in 2001 )
- Manor House in Glashagen as three-story brick building built in 1900
Personality
- Ernst Otto Hopp (* 1841 in Abtshagen, † 1910), writer