Neustadt-Glewe

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Neustadt-Glewe
Coordinates: 53°22′N11°35′E / 53.367°N 11.583°E / 53.367; 11.583
Country Germany
State Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
District Ludwigslust-Parchim
Municipal assoc. Neustadt-Glewe
Subdivisions8
Government
   Mayor Arne Kröger (Ind.)
Area
  Total93.91 km2 (36.26 sq mi)
Elevation
32 m (105 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31) [1]
  Total6,931
  Density74/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.

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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

Population development

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 BerlinHamburg as well as regional transport to Schwerin and Wittenberge via the Ludwigslust railway station.

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References

  1. "Bevölkerungsstand der Kreise, Ämter und Gemeinden 2022" (XLS) (in German). Statistisches Amt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. 2023.
  2. "Neustadt-Glewe concentration camp".
  3. "Stanisława Rachwał "Herbert", "Ryś", Zygmunt" –".
  4. Holm, Hans Axel (1973) [1969], The Other Germans: Report From an East German Town, translated by Thomas Teal, Pantheon, OL   5445359M