Rom is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the

Ludwigslust-Parchim Ludwigslust-Parchim is a district in the west of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is bordered by (clockwise starting from the west) the state Schleswig-Holstein, the district Nordwestmecklenburg, the district-free city Schwerin, the districts R ...

district, in

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV; ; nds, Mäkelborg-Vörpommern), also known by its anglicized name Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, is a state in the north-east of Germany. Of the country's sixteen states, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ranks 14th in po ...

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Geography and transport

The municipality is located 7 km east of Parchim and seven kilometers west of Lübz. The

Bundesstraße 191 The Bundesstraße 191 or B 191 is a German federal road. It begins in Celle at the B 3 and ends at the new bypass north of Plau am See connecting to the B 103. History Origins The old unmetalled road between Ludwigslust and Par ...

runs through the community. The

Bundesautobahn 24 is an autobahn in northern Germany that connects the large metropolitan regions of Hamburg and Berlin. It was one of the three transit access roads to West Berlin during the Cold War. On that road, there is a 150 km (93 mi) long s ...

can be reached via the Parchim junction, which is 18 km away from Rom. The municipality is bordered by the

Müritz-Elde waterway The Elde () is a river in northern Germany (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and a few km in Brandenburg), a right tributary of the Elbe. Its total length is . The Elde originates near Altenhof, south of Malchow. It first flows southeast towards the southe ...

in the south. The ''Darzer Hochmoor'' and the

Wocker Wocker is a river of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It flows into the Elde in Parchim. See also *List of rivers of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern A list of rivers of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany: A * Aubach * Augraben, tributary of the Nebel * ...

tal are found in the northern part. Rom had a stop on the

Mecklenburg Southern Railway The Mecklenburg Southern Railway (german: Mecklenburgische Südbahn) or Parchim–Neubrandenburg railway is a railway line in the south of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in North Germany. It was operated by the Mecklenburg Southern Railway Company which t ...

, the ''

Haltepunkt A railway stop is a spot along a railway line, usually between stations or at a seldom-used station, where passengers can board and exit the train. While a junction or interlocking usually divides two or more lines or routes, and thus has rem ...

'' Rom (Meckl). The municipality of Rom includes the villages of Darze, Klein Niendorf, Lancken, Paarsch, Rome and Stralendorf.

History

Lancken, as the oldest village of the municipality of Rom, was first mentioned in 1229 in a document. From a former

Meierhof A ''Meierhof'' or ''Meyerhof'' (from ) was a farm or building which was occupied or had been occupied by the administrator (the ''Meier'') of a noble or ecclesiastical estate. Large landlords, especially kings and churches, had extensive networ ...

(around 1700) of the estate of Greven emerged an estate of the families of Hammerstein (from 1800) of Soden (1806), Knights of Henckel (after 1824) and of the families Blanck, Stucken and until 1945, Wesendorf. In 1830, the old manor house was demolished; under the Blanck family, the still existing mansion, a brick building with hipped roof, was completed in 1846. From 1960 onwards it served as a school, from 1984 onwards it was a children's holiday home, and it is now privately owned.

Name

Rom was called ''villa Rome'' in 1310, ''Roma'' in 1320, ''Rome'' in 1329, and ''Rohm'' in 1621. The name comes from the

Polabian language The Polabian language was a West Slavic language that was spoken by the Polabian Slavs (german: Wenden) in present-day northeastern Germany around the Elbe (''Łaba/Laba/Labe'' in Slavic) river, from which derives its name ("po Labe" – ''unto ...

and refers to the ''

Lokator The ''lokator'' (lat. ''locator'': landlord, land allocator, from Latin to allocate, rent, establish, settle or locate; also ''magister incolarum''; in Mecklenburg and Pomerania also or , similar to the ''Reutemeister'' in South Germany) was a m ...

:'' Ort des Rom ("Rom's place").

Merger of municipalities

On January 1, 1951, Stralendorf was incorporated into Darze. On the same day, Lancken became part of the municipality of Rom. On June 13, 2004, Stralendorf was incorporated into Rom.Gebietsänderungen vom 01.01. bis 31.12.2004

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References

{{Authority control Ludwigslust-Parchim Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin