DEUTSCHLAND	GERMANY
Bundesland: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
Landkreis: Mecklenburgische Seenplatte

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Waren is situated at an elevation of 75 m on the river Elde at and in the lake Malchower See within the Mecklenburg Lake Plateau, about 25 km west of Waren. The municipality has a population of about 6,600 (2017).

The site of Malchow was a center for Slavic paganism during the Middle Ages. It was sacked by Saxons during the 1147 Wendish Crusade against the Polabian Slavs. The German town of Malchow, founded on an island between the Plauer See (Lake) and Fleesensee, was first mentioned in writing in 1147 and received a town charter under Schwerin Law in 1235. In 1298, Malchow Abbey, a Cistercian nunnery, moved to the south shore of the Malchower See, opposite the island. Over several following centuries, the town expanded to the mainland in the northwest, to which the original settlement was linked by a succession of bridges, and gradually this mainland settlement came to predominate. A munitions factory was established in Malchow in 1938, during the Nazi period, and during World War II hundreds of prisoners of war were used as forced labor there. In 1943, the Ravensbrück concentration camp extended to Malchow. After the reunification of Germany in 1990, the historic town center of Malchow was extensively restored.

The town church [left] was built in 1870–1873 in Gothic revival style.

[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malchow_(Mecklenburg), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malchow]