Grabow

Grabow is a town inside the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated at the river Elde, 7 km southeast of Ludwigslust, and 34 km northwest of Wittenberge. It is twinned with Whitstable, in Kent. The name Grabow is of Slavic Polabian beginning, take hold of method "hornbeam". Names with this root arise regularly in Mecklenburg. It became most effective barely modified as Grabowe and Grabow. Pope Urban III. Mentions citadel Grabow for the first time in a letter from February 23, 1186.

The metropolis received city regulation in 1252 from the Count of Dannenberg. On 3 June 1725 the city changed into destroyed by means of a extraordinary hearth. The palace become never rebuilt. At least since the 18th century there had been Jews within the city, who left in the back of a synagogue and a cemetery. Both of them had been broken throughout the Kristallnacht. The historic center of Grabow is outstanding by its near core of timber-framed houses of the 18th century. From 1815 to 1918, Grabow was a part of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Otto Plath, the daddy of Sylvia Plath, emigrated from Grabow to America. On 1 January 2016, the previous municipality Steesow have become part of Grabow.