The travel region Mecklenburg-Schwerin includes the southwest of the country Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with the state capital Schwerin and the district of Ludwigslust-Parchim (with the exception of the east around the Plauer See, which is part of the Mecklenburg Lake District belongs). The landscape is characterized by lakes, rolling hills and forest areas. In addition, the magnificent palaces of Schwerin and Ludwigslust beckon here. The travel region includes the two former residential cities of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, but is not congruent with the entire historical area of this dominion.
Regions
The Mecklenburg-Schwerin region can be divided into the following landscapes:
- Lewitz and Griese area - the southwest part of the Mecklenburg inland with the Lewitz between Schwerin, Neustadt-Glewe and Parchim and the Griesen area between Neustadt-Glewe, Dömitz and Hagenow.
- Mecklenburg Elbe lowlands - the strip along the Elbe between Dömitz and Boizenburg.
- Schwerin lake landscape Adjacent to the Schweriner See and Neumühler See with side lakes, including the state capital Schwerin.
- Schwerin west and Schaalsee - the area around the Schaalsee, Wittenburg and Rehna.
- Sternberger Seenland - around the city of Sternberg.
places
- Bad little ones
- Boizenburg - City of Ceramic Tiles; not far from the border to Schleswig-Holstein.
- Crivitz
- Doemitz - old railway bridge.
- Hagenow - historical center with half-timbered houses from the 17th to 19th centuries.
- Ludwigslust - Former residence of the dukes of Mecklenburg-Schwerin with the "Mecklenburg Versailles"; baroque planned town.
- Neustadt-Glewe
- Parchim - District town of the Ludwigslust-Parchim district.
- Schwerin - State capital of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and former residence of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
- Sternberg - Center of the Sternberger Seenland
Other goals
- schweriner Lake - the second largest north German lake after the Müritz.
background
Neighboring regions are the Mecklenburg Baltic Sea coast to the north and northeast that Mecklenburg Lake District in the southeast, belonging to Brandenburg Prignitz in the south, the Lower Saxony Elbe lowlands (on the edge of the Wendlands and the Lueneburg Heath) in the southwest and that Duchy of Lauenburg in southwestern Holstein in the west.
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getting there
With the automobile You can get to West Mecklenburg from the southwest via the A 24 from the direction of Berlin and Hamburg (leads past Parchim and Hagenow, among others). At the Schwerin Cross you can change to the A 14, which leads north towards Schwerin and Wismar and south towards Ludwigslust. Coming from Lübeck or Rostock you can take the A 20 to the Wismar junction and then switch to the A 14, which leads to the destination region. The B 189 runs from the south Magdeburg above Stendal in the direction of Ludwigslust (from Pearl Mountain as B 5)
As for the journey with the train concerns, there is only one node in West Mecklenburg that deserves such a name: not Schwerin or Wismar, but the locality Bad little ones on the northern edge of Lake Schwerin. Here you can go Kiel, Hamburg and Berlin to Wismar, Rostock and Pasewalk change.
Although the region is cut off from the ICE system, it still has good long-distance connections. In Ludwigslust there is even a Eurocity from Hamburg Budapest.
Along the former inner-German border between Mecklenburg and Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony, the Europe-wheelaway iron curtain (also known as the “Green Belt” cycle path) and partly the Elbe cycle pathwho, inter alia. leads through Dömitz and Boizenburg. From the Lueneburg Heath on the one hand and the Mecklenburg Lake District on the other hand, the leads Mecklenburg Lakes Cycle Route after Ludwigslust and Parchim.
mobility
Tourist Attractions
- Ludwigslust: Baroque residential palace ("Mecklenburg Versailles") with a large park and a late-baroque-classicist planned town
- Residence ensemble Schwerin, traditional princely seat, consisting of the Schwerin castle in the style of romantic historicism, theater, museum, castle church, stables, laundry and gardens
- schweriner Lake
- Neumühler See
activities
kitchen
More on the topic of kitchen can be found at: Eating and drinking in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
nightlife
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climate
Compared to north-west Germany, spring is cold; in April and May there are often rough north-east winds; the summer heat is due to the proximity of the Baltic Sea moderate, but in autumn this has a warming influence. The annual rainfall decreases in a striking way towards the Baltic Sea.
