Country Germany District Rostock Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Area 82.37 km² Local time Tuesday 5:44 PM Dialling code 038209 | State Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Elevation 45 m (148 ft) Postal codes 18190 Population 5,831 (31 Dec 2008) Postal code 18190 | |
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Sanitz is a municipality in the Rostock district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
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Map of Sanitz, Germany
Geography
Sanitz is located approximately 15 km (9 miles) east of Rostock.
It is subdivided into the following districts:
History
Sanitz is mentioned in the sources in 1256 when it was called Kirchdorf. The mention involved the church at Dänschenburg which was described as a daughter church of Sanitz. A subsequent mention occurs in an agreement of 2 June 1291 involving Henry I of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, at the time the local Bishop, who granted the lordship of the Rostock region to his ward Nicholas whose own heirs would retain these privileges. In the fourteenth century Sanitz is recorded as having been held by asuccession of vassals such as Bernard Kopmann from Rostock, the knight Siegfried of Plön, Reimar von Wedel, the Rostock council member Dietrich Horn, along with his son, the major Dippold Horn. After this the village was inherited by the Cistercian monastery at Doberan who held it until the Reformation. In 1552 the monastery fell victim to a programme of Secularization in the area and the village was transferred as a ducal domain to Robnitz and thereafter leased out to various land owning families. In 1879 the village passed into the control of nearby Toitenwinkel.