Neustadt-Glewe
Neustadt-Glewe is a town in state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, in the district of Ludwigslust-Parchim, Germany.
History
Neustadt-Glewe was mentioned for the first time in a document in 1248.Neustadt-Glewe was the site of a Nazi concentration camp "KZ Neustadt-Glewe". Among its prisoners was Stanisława Rachwał, a Polish resistance fighter transferred from Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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, Holm documented various aspects of everyday life in the GDR, such as being an adult who worked at a VEB or at an LPG ; being a child or teen going to school and participating in the FDJ ; being a soldier in the NVA ; 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, a hydraulic parts factory, and a factory for radio parts and telephone switchboard parts.
Sights and monuments
- The Alte Burg, a 13th-century castle, considered to be the oldest military castle in Mecklenburg.
- The Schloss, completed in 1720 in Baroque style, today a hotel.
- Monument to victims of Neustadt-Glewe German-Nazi Concentration Camp
Population development
- 1855: 1,880
- 1890: 1,743
- 1925: 3,202
- 1984: 7,500
- 1995: 7,542
- 2010: 6,547
Transport