Mölln is in this archive for its events: 1 published here, with their dates.
What this page is
This page gathers what Cultural Heritage Online documents in Mölln, Germany: the entries are the ones already published, each with its own sources, its position and its photographs. It is the shortest way to everything we hold in the city, and it is updated as the archive grows.
Why visit
Mölln is known as the Eulenspiegel town, and it is the birthplace of Johann Gottfried Müthel, born here on 17 January 1728. It lies on the old salt road between Lüneburg and Lübeck, inside the Lauenburg Lakes nature park.
Origins and history
Between 1165 and 1180 the knight Konrad Wackerbarth founded Mölln as locator, moving nine Slavic farmers from the mouth of the Delvenau and settling twelve Saxon hides on the site of the Ohlendorp; around 1210 the core was moved to the Werder between the Möllner See and the Schulsee and surrounded by walls. The place is first mentioned in a document in 1188, as stagnum mulne, in Barbarossa's privilege for Lübeck. After Mölln fell to Denmark in 1201, King Waldemar II granted it town rights in 1202; after twenty-five years of Danish rule it passed in 1227, after the battle of Bornhöved, to the duke of Saxe-Lauenburg. Lübeck had held the shipping rights on the Stecknitz since the privilege of 1188, and together with the old salt road these routes increased the commercial importance of the town.
Key facts
- Country: Germany
- Region: Schleswig-Holstein
- Places in this archive: 0
- Centre of the documented entries: 53.6302°N, 10.6917°E
What is on in Mölln
- Birth Anniversary: Johann Gottfried Müthel — January 17, 1728 — 17 January 2027
Sources
The dates and the titles above are our own record. The history on this page rests on the two sources listed.
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