Ankershagen is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

in the

Mecklenburgische Seenplatte The Mecklenburg Lake Plateau or Mecklenburg Lakeland
- Federal Ministry of Economics ...

district, in

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV; ; ), also known by its Anglicisation, anglicized name Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, is a Federated state, state in the north-east of Germany. Of the country's States of Germany, sixteen states, Mecklenburg-Vorpom ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

. Components of the municipality ''Ankershagen'' are ''Ankershagen'', ''Bocksee'', ''Bornhof'', ''Friedrichsfelde'' and ''Rumpshagen''.

Geography

Ankershagen is located directly on the

Müritz National Park The Müritz National Park () is a national park situated roughly in the middle between Berlin and Rostock, in the south of the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It extends over large portions of the Müritz lakeland in the district of Meck ...

on an east-west glacial

terminal moraine A terminal moraine, also called an end moraine, is a type of moraine that forms at the terminal (edge) of a glacier, marking its maximum advance. At this point, debris that has accumulated by plucking and abrasion, has been pushed by the front e ...

ridge , which forms the watershed between the waters flowing into the

Baltic Sea The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by the countries of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North European Plain, North and Central European Plain regions. It is the ...

and the

North Sea The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. A sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Se ...

: to the north the streams flow into the Baltic Sea and to the south into the North Sea (

Havel The Havel () is a river in northeastern Germany, flowing through the States of Germany, states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Berlin and Saxony-Anhalt. The long Havel is a right tributary of the Elbe. However, the direct distance from ...

and

Elbe The Elbe ( ; ; or ''Elv''; Upper Sorbian, Upper and , ) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Giant Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia (western half of the Czech Republic), then Ge ...

Main sights

* Church Ankershagen *

Manor house A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were usually held the lord's manorial courts, communal mea ...

Rumpshagen * Manor house Friedrichsfelde (since 1999 the infopoint of Ankershagen with a chance to see

Stork Storks are large, long-legged, long-necked wading birds with long, stout bills. They belong to the family Ciconiidae, and make up the order Ciconiiformes . Ciconiiformes previously included a number of other families, such as herons and ibise ...

s) near the

infopoint of Ankershagen in Friedrichsfelde
14.11.2010 *

Heinrich Schliemann Museum The Heinrich Schliemann Museum is a cultural site in Ankershagen, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is a museum about the life and work of the businessman and amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890), in the building, formerly ...

File:Trojanisches Pferd am Heinrich-Schliemann-Museum Ankershagen.jpg, Trojan horse at the museum File:Schliemann-Museum Ankershagen.JPG, Heinrich Schliemann Museum, formerly the vicarage File:Ankershagen Dorfkirche@199608.jpg, Village church in Ankershagen File:AnkershagenEsche.jpg, Ash in Ankershagen File:Rumpshagen Kirche 2010-09-03 050.JPG, Church in Rumpshagen

People

Johann Heinrich Voß Johann Heinrich Voss (German: Voß, ; 20 February 1751 – 29 March 1826) was a German classicist and poet, known mostly for his translation of Homer's ''Odyssey'' (1781) and ''Iliad'' (1793) into German. Life Voss was born at Sommersdorf in Me ...

(German poet and translator) in Ankershagen 1769 - 1792 *

Heinrich Schliemann Johann Ludwig Heinrich Julius Schliemann (; 6 January 1822 – 26 December 1890) was a German businessman and an influential amateur archaeologist. He was an advocate of the historicity of places mentioned in the works of Homer and an archaeolo ...

(German businessman and

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...

, and an advocate of the historical reality of places mentioned in the works of Homer)

References

Municipalities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania {{MecklenburgischeSeenplatte-geo-stub