Möllenbeck is a municipality

Municipalities of Germany

Municipalities are the lowest level of territorial division in Germany. This may be the fourth level of territorial division in Germany, apart from those states which include Regierungsbezirke , where municipalities then become the fifth level.-Overview:With more than 3,400,000 inhabitants, the...

  in the Ludwigslust-Parchim

Ludwigslust-Parchim

Ludwigslust-Parchim is a district in the west of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is bounded by the state Schleswig-Holstein, the district Nordwestmecklenburg, the district-free city Schwerin, the districts Rostock and Mecklenburgische Seenplatte and the states Brandenburg and Lower Saxony...

 district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Germany

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Geography and transport links

Möllenbeck lies in southwestern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern between the rivers Tarnitz

Tarnitz

The Tarnitz is a tributary of the Löcknitz in southwest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and north Brandenburg in Germany.The roughly 14 kilometre long river has its source in a small, wooded area on the municipal boundary between Muchow and Stolpe at a height of about 42 metres above sea level...

 and Löcknitz. The Löcknitz-Mühlbach flows through the municipality. The nearest town is Grabow, where there is a motorway junction and from where the Bundesstraße 5

Bundesstraße 5

The Bundesstraße 5 or B5 is a German federal highway running in a northwesterly to southeasterly direction from the Danish border near Niebüll to Frankfurt . It provides a direct route for motorists traveling between Berlin and Hamburg. In Berlin B5 forms among others the following squares and...

 federal road may be accessed. The motorway junction to the A 24

Bundesautobahn 24

is an autobahn in northern Germany that connects the large metropolitan regions of Hamburg and Berlin. It was one of the three transit access roads to West Berlin during the Cold War....

(Parchim) is twelve kilometres to the east.

The villages of Menzendorf, Carlshof and Horst belong to the parish of Möllenbeck.