Neustadt-Glewe

Neustadt-Glewe
Town
Coat of arms
Location of Neustadt-Glewe within Ludwigslust-Parchim district
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Coordinates: 53°22′N 11°35′E / 53.367°N 11.583°E / 53.367; 11.583
Country	Germany
State	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
District	Ludwigslust-Parchim
Municipal assoc.	Neustadt-Glewe
Subdivisions	8
Government
• Mayor	Arne Kröger (Ind.)
Area
• Total	93.91 km2 (36.26 sq mi)
Elevation	32 m (105 ft)
Population  (2021-12-31)[1]
• Total	6,969
• Density	74/km2 (190/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	19306
Dialling codes	038757
Vehicle registration	LUP, HGN, LBZ, LWL, PCH, STB
Website	www.neustadt-glewe.de

Neustadt-Glewe is a German town, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, in the district of Ludwigslust-Parchim.

History

Neustadt-Glewe was mentioned for the first time in a document in 1248.

Neustadt-Glewe was the site of a German-Nazi concentration camp (1944-1945) "KZ Neustadt-Glewe".^[2] Among its prisoners was Stanisława Rachwał, a Polish resistance fighter transferred from Auschwitz-Birkenau.^[3]

Hans Axel Holm, a Swedish writer and journalist, documented life in Neustadt-Glewe in the late 1960s when it was part of the German Democratic Republic. In his book The Other Germans: Report From an East German Town,^[4] Holm documented various aspects of everyday life in the GDR, such as being an adult who worked at a VEB (industrial state-owned enterprise) or at an LPG (collective farm); being a child or teen going to school and participating in the FDJ (youth organization); being a soldier in the NVA (army); the GDR's relationship with the Soviets, including tensions within the Eastern Bloc and the threat of Soviet interventions; recreation; housing; socialist ideology and administration; the Nazi era and its consequences; interaction with West Germans, including the themes of who left the East, who stayed, and who came to the East; and other topics. LPG farming was big business in the Ludwigslust-Parchim region at the time, and the factories in the area included a large tannery (VEB Lederwerk "August Apfelbaum", which had formerly been a large plant of Adler and Oppenheimer), a hydraulic parts factory (for VEB Hydraulik Nord), and a factory for radio parts and telephone switchboard parts (for VEB Funkmechanik).

Sights and monuments

• The Alte Burg, a 13th-century castle, considered to be the oldest military castle in Mecklenburg.
• The Schloss (palace), completed in 1720 in Baroque style, today a hotel.
• Monument to victims of Neustadt-Glewe German-Nazi Concentration Camp^{[5][circular reference]}

Population development

• 1855: 1,880
• 1890: 1,743
• 1925: 3,202
• 1984: 7,500
• 1995: 7,542
• 2010: 6,547

• 
  Alte Burg (Old Castle)
• 
  Town hall
• 
  Neues Schloss (New Château)
• 
  Church St. Marien

Transport

The Neustadt-Glewe railway station is served by the regional train line RB 14 (Hagenow Stadt–Parchim). There are connections to long-distance transport Berlin – Hamburg as well as regional transport to Schwerin and Wittenberge via the Ludwigslust railway station.

References

External links

• Media related to Neustadt-Glewe at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website

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