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Malchow | |
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 Main island of Malchow | |
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Location of Malchow within Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district
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| Coordinates:53°28′N12°25′E / 53.467°N 12.417°E /53.467; 12.417 | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern |
| District | Mecklenburgische Seenplatte |
| Municipal assoc. | Malchow |
| Subdivisions | 6 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | René Putzar |
| Area | |
• Total | 44.71 km2 (17.26 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 75 m (246 ft) |
| Population (2024-12-31)[1] | |
• Total | 5,961 |
| • Density | 133.3/km2 (345.3/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 17213 |
| Dialling codes | 039932 |
| Vehicle registration | MSE, AT, DM, MC, MST, MÜR, NZ, RM, WRN |
| Website | www.inselstadt-malchow.de |
Malchow (German pronunciation:[ˈmalçoː]ⓘ) is amunicipality in theMecklenburgische Seenplatte district, inMecklenburg-Western Pomerania,Germany.
It is situated on the riverElde, 25,5 km west ofWaren, and 35 km north ofWittstock.
The site of Malchow was a center forSlavic paganism during theMiddle Ages. It was sacked bySaxons during the 1147Wendish Crusade against thePolabian Slavs.
The German town of Malchow, founded on an island between the Plauer See (Lake) and Fleesensee, was first mentioned in writing in 1147 and received a town charter under Schwerin Law in 1235.
In 1298,Malchow Abbey, aCistercian nunnery, moved to the south shore ofLake Malchow, opposite the island. Over several following centuries, the town expanded to the mainland in the northwest, to which the original settlement was linked by a succession of bridges, and gradually this mainland settlement came to predominate.
A munitions factory of the Alfred Nobel Co. was established in Malchow in 1938, during the Nazi period, and during World War II hundreds of prisoners of war and also women and children were used as forced labor there. In 1943, theRavensbrück concentration camp extended to Malchow, and during the next two years many inmates, including numerous Hungarian Jewish women, lost their lives there under appalling conditions.
After the war, Soviet Occupation authorities accused some 30 teen-aged Malchow residents of anti-Soviet activities, and 12 of these eventually lost their lives in Soviet captivity or were executed.
After the reunification of Germany in 1990, the historic town center of Malchow was extensively restored. Today the former Cistercian abbey houses the Mecklenburg Organ Museum.
The town is surrounded by the lakes of theMecklenburgische Seenplatte and the woods of theMüritz National Park.
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