Grabow () is a town in the

Ludwigslust-Parchim Ludwigslust-Parchim is a district in the west of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The district seat is Parchim, a branch office of the administration is located in Ludwigslust. After Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, it is the second-biggest distri ...

district of

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. The town lies southeast of Ludwigslust, the next city, and has the river Elde passing through its

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which is characterized by 16th century timber-framed architecture. Additionally, Grabow is a member and the seat of the Amt Grabow collective municipality as well as being a part of the

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. Historically, Grabow was home to a royal residence where some monarchs of the Mecklenburg line were born.

Geography

Grabow is situated on the river Elde in the Griese Gegend region of southern

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, close to the border of the state of

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( Prignitz district). It is surrounded by a scenic landscape of primarily

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, with the city forest inside Grabow's territory covering an area of or . The town lies southeast of Ludwigslust, southeast of the state capital

Schwerin Schwerin (; Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch dialect, Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch Low German: ''Swerin''; Polabian language, Polabian: ''Zwierzyn''; Latin: ''Suerina'', ''Suerinum'') is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Germ ...

, and northwest of Wittenberge in

. Clockwise, starting from the north, Grabow's core territory is bordered by the following municipalities: Groß Laasch, Muchow, Zierzow, Prislich, Kremmin, Gorlosen, Eldena, Karstädt, and Ludwigslust. The exclave Steesow is bordered by Milow to the north and Lenzen (Elbe) to the south. Besides the main town itself, the municipality of Grabow includes several outlying villages in its

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. These include: Bochin, Fresenbrügge, Heidehof, Steesow, Wanzlitz, Winkelmoor und Zuggelrade. The former municipality of Steesow, which also included the villages of Bochin of Zuggelrade, was annexed into Grabow on 1 January 2016 despite being separated by and two other municipalities, Gorlosen and Milow, thus forming an

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. This exclave is the only part of Grabow that directly borders the state of

as the core territory of the town is separated from the border by at minimum and the municipality of Kremmin. Grabow lies on the Berlin–Hamburg railway and is serviced by the RE8 via the Grabow (Meckl) station. The A14 highway bypasses Grabow to the west.

History

The name Grabow is of Slavic Polabian origin, with ''grab'' meaning "

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". Names of the same root are common in the area. Its name only slightly changed over time as with the town being known as ''Grabowe'' (1186, 1252, 1275) and ''Grabow'' (1189, 1298). In a letter from 23 February 1186, Pope Urban III. mentioned a castle in Grabow and that the settlement belongs to the County of Dannenberg. Grabow received

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in 1252 from the Count of Dannenberg. A church in Grabow was first mentioned in 1285. Since 1319/20, Grabow has been a part of

under first the Duchy and then the

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, under which it was incorporated into the

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The old

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was built in 1687/88. On 3 June 1725, the vast majority of the town was destroyed by a great fire, this included the old town hall, which was rebuilt in 1728, remaining in use to this day; and the ducal palace, which was never rebuilt. After the fire, the incumbent first mayors, Hans Scheffer and Franz Heinrich Accidalius, commenced the rebuilding of the town in its now iconic style of close core timber-framed houses which still characterize the

. The oldest building in Grabow dates to 23 May 1702, meaning that it survived the great fire. The first known Jews in Grabow showed up in records starting in 1749. They were two men: Moses Wulff and Siemon Moses, that earned their privilege of ''Schutzjude'' on 20 November 1753. By 1767, at least four Jews lived in Grabow and a small community of Jews had formed in the town by 1780 at the latest who maintained a small burial ground. A small

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may have also existed at the time, but was superseded by a new one, located at the intersection of Schulstraße and Wasserstraße, in 1798, which fell out of use before the 1930s, and was demolished in 1975. Grabow's Jewish population peaked in 1819 with 44 (8 families). Since the 18th century, Grabow has had a small

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, which the city maintains to this day. In 1805, the painter Wilhelm Langschmidt was born in Grabow and later settled in the Elgin valley in

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. The town which grew around his trading store there still bears the name

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, after his hometown. During 1843, Grabow had a population of 3,781, thereof 32

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and 259 cavalrymen.

World War II

The 1930 city council election was the last in Grabow before Nazi takeover had the following result: 8 ''Bürgerliche Liste'', 5 SPD, 2 KPD. After the takeover, the city council was dissolved in November 1932 and reinstated in April 1933 with the following composition: 7

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, 5 SPD, 3 '' Kampffront Schwarz-Weiß-Rot''. It was again dissolved in October 1935 and replaced by a council of 8 advisors to the mayor. The mayor at the time, Dr. Walter Bötcher, who had been in office since 1931, originally came from the DVP and only joined the

1937. He was assisted by four 'temporary' vice-mayors and stayed in office until 1945. After

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, Jews faced increased discrimination which culminated in the ''

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'', although it is unknown if the already out-of-use

, which was sold 1932, and the

were affected during this time. Most Jews in Grabow were deported to concentration camps and murdered during

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. They are remembered by several '' Stolpersteine'' in the city, the first of which being laid in 2014. The last known Jew in Grabow was Betty Londe, née Rosenthal, who was recorded to be in a ''Mischehe'' (mixed marriage) in 1942, which ensured that she survived

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, albeit her family facing repercussions. Willi Fründt, a communist from Grabow, was deported to

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and executed on 24 December 1944 as a result of '' Aktion Gitter''. Grabow was nearly untouched by

Since reunification

In 2005, the , which annexed the in 2004, and the town of Grabow were merged into the administrative unit Amt Grabow, which persists to this day. The district of Ludwigslust, of which Grabow was a part, was merged with the district of Parchim on 4 September 2011, forming the new district of Ludwigslust-Parchim. On 1 January 2016, Grabow annexed the former municipality Steesow, which became an exclave separated by from the core municipal territory. In 2024 Grabow participated in the Summer of Pioneers, a project attempting to help revive smaller towns.

Demographics

As of the 2022 census, Grabow had a population of 5,436 (2023 estimate: 5,416), of which 2,781 (51.2%) are female and 2,655 (48.8%) are male. The median age in the municipality is 49.8, with 757 (13.9%) being under 18 and 1,653 (30.4%) being 65 or older. In 1947 the population consisted of 5,323 residents and 3,515 expellees, thus explaining the population jump to 8,838.

Citizenship

As of the 2022 census, 5,257 (96.7%) of the population have German citizenship and 176 (3.2%) do not. Broken down, the residents in Grabow by citizenship are as follows:

Religion

As of the 2022 census, most of the population in Grabow does not belong to either of the two state-recognized churches. DEU Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Grabow 220724 033

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The town church is the evangelical-lutheran St. Georgs church which lies in the centre of the

, just behind the town hall. It is the highest building in the town and was built in 1781 with the

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dating back to 1555, making it the second oldest pulpit in all of

. A church in Grabow was first mentioned in the year 1285. Two other churches lie within the town's core: the

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Maria Magdalena church located in an old horse stable since 1958, and a small

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. Grabow has no known Jews, the last one being Betty Londe, née Rosenthal, who was recorded to be in a ''Mischehe'' (mixed marriage) in 1942, which saved her from

. Despite this, Grabow maintains a

and used to have a

until the early 1930s. The

village of Bochin has its own, unnamed, evangelical-lutheran church built in 1894.

Politics

Due to being the seat of the Amt Grabow, the town's administration extends some of its jurisdiction over the other member municipalities. The municipal council as well as the '' Amt'' and city administration are located in the

at Am Marktplatz 1.

City council

As of the last election, Grabow's city council consist of 17 members. The most recent elections were the 2024 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern municipal elections, held on 9 June 2024, with the following result: ! colspan=2, Candidate ! Party ! Votes ! % ! +/- ! Seats ! +/- , - , bgcolor=, , align=left, Markus Rohst , align=left,

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(AfD) , 1,711 , 19.74 , ''New'' , 3 , 3 , - , bgcolor=, , align=left, Karl Kessner , align=left,

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(FW) , 804 , 9.28 , ''New'' , 2 , 2 , - ! colspan=3, Valid votes ! 8,667 ! 95.76 ! 1.95 ! ! , - ! colspan=3, Invalid votes ! 192 ! 2.12 ! 4.07 ! ! , - ! colspan=3, Electorate/voter turnout ! 3,017 ! 63.57 ! 8.15 ! ! , - , colspan=8, Source
Stadtvertretungswahl Grabow 09.06.2024
Previous elections had the following results: Strong Grabow () and Alternative for Grabow (, AfG) are voter groups.

Mayor

The current mayor is Kathleen Bartels ( SPD) who was elected on 21 October 2018 with 54.82% of the vote for a term of seven years. She was reelected on 11 May 2025, winning 52% of the vote. Despite her having four opponents in the 2025 election, she won reelection in the first round, one of the few people elected in the first round that day. The other candidates were Markus Rohst ( CDU) with 20.98%, Thomas Binder ( AfD) with 18.74%, and Karl Kessner ( FW) with 8.36% of the vote. List of mayors (incomplete): * 1839–1888: Franz Floerke * 1888–1912: Carl Calsow * 1919–1930: Werner Siegismund * 1931–1945: Walter Bötcher ( DVP, 1937:

) * 1950: Meta Malinowski * 1951–1953: ( CDU) * 1960–1976: Hans Hummel * 1994–2013: Ulrich Schult ( SPD) * 2013–2018: Stefan Sternberg ( SPD) * since 2018: Kathleen Bartels ( SPD)

Coat of arms

The town's first identifying symbol was a city seal from the 1371 which depicted the local patron saint,

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, standing above a lying crowned male while holding a shield, charged with a fitchy cross, and sword. From 1667 onwards, the seal depicted a big star above a crescent recumbent. The town was first granted a

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, resembling the current pattern and based off of the previous seal design, on 10 April 1858 by Grand Duke Franz II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Since this initial adoption in 1858 the design of the coat of arms only changed marginally with the exception of a six year period from 1940 to 1946, under Nazi Germany, where the coat of arms was replaced with a version based off of the first recorded city seal, depicting

in clad armour, fighting a dragon with a lance to which a pennant, charged with a golden swastika, was attached. In 1946 this change was reverted, changing the city's arms back to a crescent with three stars, this time however replacing the golden colour of the crescent and stars with silver. In 1991 the colour of the crescent and stars was again changed to changed to gold. Wappen Grabow

The modern version of the town's coat of arms was officially granted on 20 June 1991 by the Minister of the Interior of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Only marginally different than previous iterations, it now included a

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: "Shield Azure, a waning crescent Or accompanied at sinister by three 6-point stars of the same in triangle. The shield is crested by a mural crown Gules with three visible towers and port Or."

Flag

The flag of Grabow is a blue-yellow-blue triband with a stripe ratio of 1:2:1. The flag's central yellow band is charged with the city's coat of arms. The ratio of the flag is 5:3. It was designed by Heinz Kippnick from

and it was approved by the Minister of the Interior of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on 17 March 1999.

Culture

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Grabow well known for its "Grabower Küßchen"

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. They are produced by the Grabower Süsswaren GmbH which was originally founded by Johann Bollhagen in 1835 as the ''Bollhagenschen Pfeffernuß- und Bisquitfabrik'' that primarily produced pretzels, waffles, and '' Pfeffernüsse''. After

, it was transformed into the '' VEB Grabower Dauerbackwaren'' under East German rule and started producing the now-iconic treat. The company was re-privatized in 1991 and has been owned by the Dutch since 2010, which itself was acquired by Biscuit International in 2022. The town museum is located at Marktstraße 19, in the same building that served as the Grabower Süsswaren factory from foundation until as late as GDR-times. A community center "Generationenhaus" and youth center "Blue Sun" are all located in the Fritz-Reuter-Haus at Kießerdamm 19a. A city library, which was located in the same building, was closed in 2023. Since 30 March 2007, Grabow held an annual light festival where some of the town's buildings are lit up with colorful lights and music is played. Its been described as a mix of a '' Volksfest'' and light show. Other regular festivals include the ''Stadtfest'' (city festival) and the ''Martinimarkt'', the latter of which taking place annually on the second weekend (Friday and Saturday) of November since 1577. The motto of Grabow is "Colorful city on the Elde" () due to its colorful timber-framed architecture. A pro- AfD online

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, run by AfD city councilor Thomas Binder, named ''Stadtkieker Grabow'' is located in the town. The German punk-rock band partially originates from Grabow.

Gallery

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Twin towns

Grabow is twinned with: *

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, Denmark * Borken, Germany *

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, United Kingdom * Říčany, Czech Republic * Mölndal, Sweden

Notable people

* Frederick, Duke of Mecklenburg-Grabow (1638-1688), resided in Grabow from 1669 until his death * Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1658–1708), reigning duke of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz * Karl Leopold, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1678–1747), reigning duke in

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* Christian Ludwig II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1683–1756), reigning duke in Mecklenburg-Schwerin * Sophia Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1685–1735), Queen of Prussia * Ludwig, Hereditary Prince of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1725–1778), hereditary prince of Mecklenburg-Schwerin * The

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, a Hanseatic family is partially connected to Grabow * Wilhelm Langschmidt (1805–1866), German-South African painter * Franz Floerke (1811–1889),

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and former mayor of Grabow (1839–1889) * (1849–1898), owner of the ''Bolbrüggesche Mühle'' * Gustav Hinrichs (1850–1942), German-American conductor and composer * (1867–1945), factory owner and author * Otto Plath (1885–1940), German-American

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* Willi Fründt (1909–1944), communist executed by the

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* (1909–1987), politician ( FDP) * Katharina Brauren (1910–1998), actress * (born 1936), architect who partially lived in Grabow * Bastian Reinhardt (born 1975), footballer, played at Empor Grabow, now sports director of

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* Marco Küntzel (born 1976), footballer, played from 1981 to 1990 at Empor Grabow * Stefan Sternberg (born 1984), '' Landrat'' of

since 2018 and former mayor of Grabow (2013–2018)

Notes

References

External links

Official website (German)
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