 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.