Gustrow

Gustrow is a town in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is capital of the Rostock district. It has a populace of 28,six hundred and is the seventh biggest city in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Since 2006 Gustrow has had the legitimate suffix Barlachstadt. The town is thought for its renaissance Gustrow Palace, the old city and its brick gothic cathedral with Barlach's Floating Angel sculpture. The call Gustrow comes from the Polabian Guscerov and method lizard area. In 1219 the Wendish fortress Gustrowe was built in which the renaissance palace stands now.

Gustrow is stated to be founded by means of Heinrich Borwin II, a grandson of Henry the Lion, between 1219 and 1226 and changed into first referred to in 1228 within the deed of town rights of Schwerin, confirmed by using the sons of Heinrich Borwin II, who donated the cathedral as collegiate church in 1226. Gustrow turned into a house of the lords of Werle from 1229 until 1436. In 1441 the primary privileged shooting society of Gustrow was founded. The host desecration-trial of 1330 ended with the burning of 23 Jews and the destruction of the synagogue. The Kapelle des heiligen Bluts turned into constructed on the web page of the synagogue. In 1503, 1508 and in 1512 fires destroyed the metropolis and in 1556 the palace burned down.