The Mecklembourg , in German Mecklenburg , is an area of the septentrional Germany, ranging between the the Baltic, the Recknitz, the Trebel, the Elba, the Lower Saxony and the Holstein. It constituted a Land GDR of 1945 with 1952. It forms part of the German Land today of Mecklembourg-Poméranie-Western.
The name of Mecklenburg comes from the name of the castle of Mikilenburg (“large castle”), located between the towns of Schwerin and Wismar, and which was the ancestral residence of the Maison of Mecklembourg.
The independent cities which are in seaside and members of the Hanse are Rostock and Wismar. The two other independent cities are Schwerin and Neubrandenbourg. Mecklembourg is the country of origin of Fritz Reuter, the equivalent Low-German of Frederic Mistral.
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