Neustadt-Glewe

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".{{cite web | url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1315506 | title=Neustadt-Glewe concentration camp }} Among its prisoners was Stanisława Rachwał, a Polish resistance fighter transferred from Auschwitz-Birkenau.{{cite web | url=https://www.aan.gov.pl/art,658,stanislawa-rachwal-herbert-rys-zygmunt | title=Stanisława Rachwał "Herbert", "Ryś", Zygmunt" – }}

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,{{Citation |last=Holm |first=Hans Axel |orig-year=1969 |year=1973 |translator=Thomas Teal |title=The Other Germans: Report From an East German Town |publisher=Pantheon |ol=5445359M }} 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).

• 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

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

Image:Burg Neustadt-Glewe.jpg|Alte Burg (Old Castle)

Image:Neustadt Glewe town hall.jpg|Town hall

Image:Schloss Neustadt-Glewe.jpg|Neues Schloss (New Château)

Image:Marienkirche Neustadt-Glewe.jpg|Church St. Marien

Image:Neustadt-Glewe German-Nazi Concentration Camp memorial File:Neustadt-Glewe_ehemaliges_KZ-Gelaende_2010-03-27.jpg

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.

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• [https://www.neustadt-glewe.de/ Official website]

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