{{Infobox Ortsteil einer Gemeinde in Deutschland |Bundesland=Schleswig-Holstein |Höhe=40 |Einwohner= |Stand= |Art=Ortsteil |Municipality=Oeversee |coordinates={{coord|54.7235|9.4541|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |PLZ=24988 |Vorwahl=04602 }} '''Munkwolstrup''' (danish: ''Munkvolstrup'') is a village of Schleswig-Holstein that is part of the municipality of Oeversee.<ref>Kreiskarte Flensburg. Landesvermessungsamt Schleswig-Holstein 1970</ref>
== Location == Two Kilometers to the east of Munkwolstrup are the villages of Freienwill and Kleinwolstrup. Oeversee lies 1.5 kilometers south. The city boundaries of Flensburg are three Kilometers to the north.
== Hintergrund == Megalithic burial sites in the village evidence Neolithic activity in the area.<ref>[https://www.oeversee.de/aktuelles/amtliche-bekanntmachungen_aktlink_index_281_34839_49_archiv.html Gemeinde Oversee. Zehn Jahre Förderkreis Arnkiel-Park], vom: 18 June 2012</ref>
Munkwolstrup was first mentioned in 1352.<ref>[https://www.oeversee.de/nuetzliches-wissenswertes/ortsteile/ Gemeinde Oversee. Ortsteile. Die Ortsteile der Gemeinde Oeversee. Augaard]</ref> The first part of the name derives from the word Monk:<ref>[https://www.platt-wb.de/hoch-platt/?term=M%C3%B6nch Plattwörterbuch, Eintrag Mönch]</ref><ref>[https://dade.dict.cc/?s=munk dänisch-deutsch: munk]</ref> during the middle ages, the village belonged to the Cistercian Monks of Ryd Abbey.<ref>[https://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb10582588_00292.html Johannes Kok: Det danske folkesprog i Sønderjylland, København 1867], S. 282</ref>
The village can be found on Prussian and Danish maps dating 1857/1858 and 1879, respectively.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-01-13 |publisher=Königliche Bibliothek Kopenhagen |title=Generalstaben Videnskabernes Selskab Kaart over Slesvig, Östre Blad (6) |url=http://www5.kb.dk/maps/kortsa/2012/jul/kortatlas/object80505/da/}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref><ref>[http://www.deutschefotothek.de/ete?action=queryZoom/1&index=freitext&desc=df_dk_0010001_1222&medium=df_dk_0010001_1222 Preußische Landesaufnahme um 1879], abgerufen am 13 January 2021.</ref>
=== Administrative Reforms ===
* 1. Januar 1962: Juhlschau becomes part of Munkwolstrup * 1974: Munkwolstrup and Barderup merge to create the municipality of Sankelmark * 2008: Sankelmark becomes part of Oeversee
== Einzelnachweise == <references />
Category:Geography of Schleswig-Holstein