Grabow (Meckl) Station
Grabow (Meckl) station is located on the Berlin–Hamburg railway in Grabow in the south west of the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Together with four other stations, which also opened on 15 October 1846, it is the oldest station in the state. The Neoclassical architecture, Neoclassical entrance building, which dates from the opening of the line, and some other buildings in the station area are heritage-listed. Location The station is located in the town of Grabow in the district of Ludwigslust-Parchim, seven kilometres from the railway junction of Ludwigslust station, Ludwigslust. It is located at kilometre 163.2 of the Berlin–Hamburg railway and is the last station in Mecklenburg before the border with Brandenburg. The station is about 500 metres northeast of the city centre. The railway crosses the river Elde southeast of the station. History Planning began for the construction of a railway line between Berlin and Hamburg around 1840. Different options were discus ...
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Grabow
Grabow () is a town in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated on the river Elde, 7 km (4.35 mi) southeast of Ludwigslust, and 34 km (21.12 mi) northwest of Wittenberge. It is twinned with Whitstable, in Kent. History The name Grabow is of Slavic Polabian origin, ''grab'' means "hornbeam". Names with this root occur often in Mecklenburg. It was only slightly changed as ''Grabowe'' (1186, 1252, 1275) and ''Grabow'' (1189, 1298). Pope Urban III. mentions castle Grabow for the first time in a letter from February 23, 1186. The city received city law in 1252 from the Count of Dannenberg. On 3 June 1725 the city was destroyed by a great fire. The palace was never rebuilt. At least since the 18th century there were Jews in the city, who left behind a synagogue and a cemetery. Both of them were damaged during the Kristallnacht. The Jews were murdered during the Nazi occupation of the town that began in 1939. Mos ...
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