Strasburg, Germany

Strasburg
Strasburg
	Saint Mary Church
	Coat of arms
	Location of Strasburg within Vorpommern-Greifswald district
	Strasburg Strasburg
	Coordinates: 53°30′N 13°45′E
Country	Germany
State	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
District	Vorpommern-Greifswald
Subdivisions	11
Government
• Mayor	Karina Dörk
Area
• Total	86.84 km2 (33.53 sq mi)
Elevation	60 m (200 ft)
Population (2018-12-31)[1]
• Total	4,721
• Density	54/km2 (140/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	17335
Dialling codes	039753
Vehicle registration	VG, SBG
Website	www.strasburg.de

Strasburg (officially: Strasburg (Uckermark)) is a town in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is situated in the historic Uckermark region, about 16 kilometres (9.9 miles) west of Pasewalk, and 33 kilometres (21 miles) east of Neubrandenburg.

Straceburch was established in 1267 by Duke Barnim I of Pomerania at a strategically important site near the border with Mecklenburg in the west and the Margraviate of Brandenburg in the south. It was given town privileges and settled with Germans in the course of the Ostsiedlung. The region was affected by the enduring Brandenburg–Pomeranian conflict, and after the Hohenzollern elector Frederick II of Brandenburg had campaigned the territory, the Pomeranian dukes finally were forced to cede Strasburg to him according to the 1479 Treaty of Prenzlau.

The town remained a part of the Prussian Province of Brandenburg, until in 1952 the East German government established the Bezirk Neubrandenburg comprising the former Brandenburg towns of Prenzlau, Templin and Strasburg. Strasburg then was the capital of a district in its own right, which after the East German Peaceful Revolution of 1989 became part of the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Wolfgang Samuel's war memoir, German Boy, is partly set in Strasburg, where Samuel and his mother lived from March 1945 to December 1946.

International relations

Strasburg, Germany is twinned with:

Personalities

Gerd-Paul von Below (1892–1953), officer in the First World War, Major general of the reserves in the Second World War
Heinz Kindermann (born 1942), veterinary physician, politician (SPD) and deputy of the European Parliament 1994-2009

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References

"Statistisches Amt M-V – Bevölkerungsstand der Kreise, Ämter und Gemeinden 2018". Statistisches Amt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (in German). July 2019.

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[1] "Statistisches Amt M-V – Bevölkerungsstand der Kreise, Ämter und Gemeinden 2018". Statistisches Amt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (in German). July 2019.