Wessin is a village and a former municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The village is rural and the main land use within the boundary is farming.

History

On the northern edge of the village is the stone church, which dates from the 12th century AD. The grounds of the ''Kurzzeitpflege am Tulpenbaum'' former manor house contain one of Germany's largest and oldest specimens of

Liriodendron tulipifera ''Liriodendron tulipifera''—known as the tulip tree, American tulip tree, tulipwood, tuliptree, tulip poplar, whitewood, fiddletree, and yellow-poplar—is the North American representative of the two-species genus ''Liriodendron'' (the other ...

, at approx in height. The former municipality included the villages of Badegow and Radepohl. Since 1 January 2011, all three villages are administratively part of the town

Crivitz Crivitz is a town in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated 18 km east of Schwerin. The founder of the town Crivitz, Wisconsin named it after his hometown Crivitz. It has a friendship lin ...

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{{authority control Villages in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania