Ankershagen

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

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)