Opening of the art and theme exhibition in Rehna Monastery. With greetings from the mayor, the director of the Grenzhus Schlagsdorf and the curator of the exhibition.
On May 17, 2026 at 4 pm, the exhibition "ORTSZEIT - Maurinmühle" will open at Rehna Monastery. It is now the sixth exhibition on Maurinmühle by the ORTSZEITen collective. After a welcoming address by the Mayor of Rehna, Martin Reininghaus, the historian and director of the Grenzhus Schlagsdorf, Dr. Andreas Wagner, will talk about the importance of artistic exploration in the context of the culture of remembrance. Afterwards, Annette Czerny, head of the art project, artist and curator of the exhibition, will guide visitors through the exhibition with the artists present. Admission to the vernissage is free.
Art penetrates the public sphere, changes perspectives and evokes discourse. It poses questions and enables viewers to engage in independent debate. In this way, visitors can approach the topic on differentlevels.
The "ORTSZEIT - Maurinmühle" exhibition series starts where scientific research ends and approaches these events on an emotional level through the perspectives of the artists.
Near Neschow in the district of Rehna is one such forgotten place. "Sweeping views over rolling hills to the horizon. A beautiful landscape. Maurinmühle. Grass has grown over the history of the place, but something has inscribed itself in the collective memory" (Annette Czerny). At the beginning of the 20th century, the former medieval flour mill and the former home of the miller's family became a boarding house, lung sanatorium and convalescent home. The darkest chapter of this place finally began in the 1940s. Under the National Socialist regime, the complex became a children's home and a "foreign children's nursing home". Among other things, children and infants of Polish, Ukrainian and Russian forced laborers were housed there and deliberately neglected. The physical traces of these cruel and deadly conditions in Maurinmühle were later removed by the GDR regime and contemporary witnesses and their descendants remained silent.historian Lukas Augustat has researched the children's home and published his findings under the title "Maurinmühle in Mecklenburg: NS children's home and 'Ausländerkinder-Pflegestätte'".
ORTSZEIT is an art project dedicated to forgotten places: places that were the scene of inhumanity in the past and where hardly any traces of what happened can still be found. Art is used to make these places visible and remind people of what happened.
The exhibition is being organized by the town of Rehna in cooperation with the Klosterverein Rehna e.V. and the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State Center for Political Education and is funded by the district of Nordwestmecklenburg.
The exhibition will be on display in the Rehna Monastery Museum from October 19 to 31, 2026. Admission in combination with the permanent exhibition costs €6.00 regular and €4.00 reduced.
The monastery museum is open from Tuesday to Friday from 10 am to 5 pm, Saturday, Sunday and on public holidays from 11 am to 5 pm.
Further information is available at www.kloster-rehna.de or at
Kloster- und Stadtinformation Rehna, Kirchplatz 1a, 19217 Rehna
Tel.: 038872/ 527 65
Mail: info@kloster-rehna.de
