Ankershagen

Municipality in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

53°28′36″N 12°58′0″E / 53.47667°N 12.96667°E / 53.47667; 12.96667CountryGermanyStateMecklenburg-VorpommernDistrictMecklenburgische Seenplatte Municipal assoc.Penzliner Land Government • MayorMartin BrummundArea • Total28.18 km² (10.88 sq mi)Elevation58 m (190 ft)Population • Total518 • Density18/km² (48/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codesDialling codes039921Vehicle registrationMÜRWebsitewww.ankershagen.de

Ankershagen is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Components of the municipality Ankershagen are Ankershagen, Bocksee, Bornhof, Friedrichsfelde and Rumpshagen.

Geography

Ankershagen is located directly on the Müritz National Park on an east-west glacial terminal moraine ridge , which forms the watershed between the waters flowing into the Baltic Sea and the North Sea: to the north the streams flow into the Baltic Sea and to the south into the North Sea (Havel and Elbe).

Main sights

• Church Ankershagen^[2]
• Manor house Rumpshagen
• Manor house Friedrichsfelde (since 1999 the infopoint of Ankershagen with a chance to see Storks) near the Müritz National Park^[3]
• Heinrich Schliemann Museum

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  Trojan horse at the museum
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  Heinrich Schliemann Museum, formerly the vicarage
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  Village church in Ankershagen
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  Ash in Ankershagen
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  Church in Rumpshagen

People

• Johann Heinrich Voß (German poet and translator) in Ankershagen 1769 - 1792
• Heinrich Schliemann (German businessman and archaeologist, and an advocate of the historical reality of places mentioned in the works of Homer)

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