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Ankershagen
Municipality
Gutshaus Rumpshagen [de] in Ankershagen
Coat of arms
Location of Ankershagen within Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district
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Coordinates: 53°28′36″N 12°58′0″E / 53.47667°N 12.96667°E / 53.47667; 12.96667
Country	Germany
State	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
District	Mecklenburgische Seenplatte
Municipal assoc.	Penzliner Land
Government
• Mayor	Martin Brummund
Area
• Total	28.18 km (10.88 sq mi)
Elevation	58 m (190 ft)
Population
• Total	518
• Density	18/km (48/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	17219
Dialling codes	039921
Vehicle registration	MÜR
Website	www.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
• Manor house Rumpshagen
• Manor house Friedrichsfelde (since 1999 the infopoint of Ankershagen with a chance to see Storks) near the Müritz National Park
• 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)

References※

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