All ways lead all ways to Rome - one says on the mainland on Poel one says - to lead according to Kirchdorf. Right on the island and nevertheless the secret capital Poels is due to the water. The harbor is connected with the Wismarer bay by the Kirchsee from Kirchdorf. And this was also the reason why German colonizers set up a village here. Documentarily Kirchdorf is mentioned the first time with the opening of his church Anno 1163. Whether a Slavic settlement stood here before is not to find out more, there is too little written from this time. One can accept that at the place at that the church was constructed, formerly a pagan sanctuary was. Some places lase us a Slavic origin today still recognize. Discoveries has here in the protected situation through the Kirchsee already many centuries a harbor. With fishing and trade the first Kirchdorfer earned themselves their bread.
The church tower was used, because also many mariners as a guiding point.