Facts You Didn't Know about Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

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1. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, also known by its anglicized name Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, is one of Germany’s 16 states. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern does not only possess the longest name of all 16 German states, it also has three of Germany’s 14 National Parks, the country’s two largest islands - Rügen and Usedom - and about 2000 kilometers of shoreline along the Baltic Sea. Thanks to these assets, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is a favorite among tourists.

2. Human settlement in the area of modern Mecklenburg and Vorpommern began after the Ice Age, about 10,000 BC. In the area of present-day Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, up to 5,000 megalith tombs were erected as burial sites by people of the Neolithic Funnelbeaker (TRB) culture. About two thousand years ago, Germanic peoples were recorded in the area.

3. The state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern was established in 1945 after World War II through the merger of the historic regions of Mecklenburg and the Prussian Western Pomerania by the Soviet military administration in Allied-occupied Germany.

4. With over 2,000 lakes, almost 2,000 km of coastline, and with its rivers and freshwater lagoons, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is a water-lover’s paradise. The state’s Baltic coastline with its beautiful bays and beaches attracts massive numbers of tourists each summer. Three of Germany's fourteen national parks, as well as several hundred nature conservation areas, are in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

5. The city of Schwerin is the capital of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania but the Hanseatic towns along the coast, prime among them the city of Rostock, have historically provided economic prosperity to the region. Schwerin was first mentioned in 1018 as Wendenburg and was granted city rights in 1160 by Henry the Lion, thus it is the oldest city of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The city also has a largely intact old town, thanks to only minor damage in World War II.

6. A Hanseatic trading city, Rostock was granted city rights in the 13th century and since then has been a nexus point for trade, learning and shipbuilding on the Baltic. The city was hit by bombs in 1942, but a lot of its heritage was spared, like the Medieval riches of the Brick Gothic Marienkirche, Renaissance gabled merchants’ houses or a long stretch of the city’s defensive walls going back to the 13th century.

7. The University of Rostock, established in 1419, and the University of Greifswald, established in 1456, are among the oldest universities in Europe.

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This is my ancestral home state. There is a reason many people from this part of Germany emigrated to Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois. The climate and landscape is very similar.

TMAG

I confirm it is a beautiful place to live. I lived and worked in Greifswald in 1992 for 3 years and I still visit as often as possible

allansnape

From Michigan. Nearly all of my German ancestors were from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, mostly around Rostock. My mother's maiden name is Glady, which is an anglicization of the original German spelling Glöde.

UltraVega

That's my family. I'm proud.. Love the video

AdamvinchamonVanOranjeNassau

Nice Video 👍 greetings from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

julianbatke

I have enjoyed all your videos. I am working my way through them all. Getting there, maybe half way through. All so interesting. Thank you so much!

marthavassoler

Amazing! Thank you for these. So informative! Brilliant.

kartoffeln

Grandparents "Allwardt" from Bad Doberan, and ancestors throughout. Beautiful area. Thank you.

doughinz

I'm from Mecklenburg and there is a mistake in your Video.
You said that the Germanic Tribes were the important group.
But thats wrong.
The slavic tribe of the Obodrits also called Abodrits under Prince Lubimar and his more important brother Niklot were the greadest and strongest tribe in modermday Mecklenburg.
And there are still ancestors of Niklot but only in the female line. I speak about the House of Mecklenburg also called Obodrits or Niklotids.
And so the slavs were more dominant in Mecklenburg and Westpommerania.
Some citynames are related to there culture. As an exampel Rostock was ones the slavic settelment of Rastocku.
And here the History of esspecially Mecklenburg from the 12th century to the Nazi dictatorship.
The Duke of Saxony and Bavaria Heinrich der Löwe start a crusade against the slavs in the east and so Mecklenburg becomes christian and germanised.
The son of Niklot, Pribislaw became the titel of a Count of Mecklenburg after a rebellion against Heinrich.
Pribislaws sons (Nikolaus, Pribislaw, Heinrich and Borwin) split the land a process wich will continue until the middel of the 15th century were Duke Heinrich der Dicke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin enheritated Mecklenburg-Werle and Mecklenburg-Stargard.
Later Mecklenburg was split again because of the Hamburger Vergleich in the Duchies Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz. After Hitler came to Power the former Freestates of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz were put together as the Gau Mecklenburg.

But all in all it was a good Video about my homestate.

freimannthelion

my dad's family came from Hinterpommern not too long before WWI broke out. my dad, his father, and his father before him were all raised speaking with the Pomeranian accent and we use a lot of old-fashioned words and phrases in German, to the point i got made fun of in school in central Germany for basically speaking like a grandma 🥲 doesn't help that my last name is Brendemühl and i have an "old lady name" as my first name too

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