Middle Mecklenburg

The Central Mecklenburg region makes up the infrastructure the most developed part of the country of the overall rather underdeveloped state of Mecklenburg -Vorpommern. For Middle Mecklenburg, the Hanseatic city and largest city of 200,000 inhabitants of the state of Rostock is expected with the surrounding district of Rostock. The main river in this region is the Warnow. The distance run in a star shape at Rostock, the metropolitan area of ​​the port city is accessed, among others, by the S -Bahn Rostock in public transport. Major cities are next to the Rostock district towns of Bad Doberan and Güstrow. Tourist attraction is mainly the Baltic coast of Mecklenburg Bay with the salt lagoon, the cliffs and the resorts Rerik, Kühlungsborn, Heiligendamm, Warnemünde and Graal- Müritz. In the south, the Middle Mecklenburg goes to the very natural Mecklenburg Lake District. In the east the Recknitz forms the border with Western Pomerania, in the west, there is a smooth transition to West Mecklenburg.

Reorganization of the districts

According to the decision of the Diet on 5 April 2006 there should be a great circle of Central Mecklenburg -Rostock with the county town of Rostock from 1 October 2009. This great circle should include the present districts of Bad Doberan and Gustrow, and the former independent city of Rostock. After the judgment of the district Constitutional Court of 26 July 2007, the reform law could not be implemented in the proposed form as incompatible with the Constitution of the country. The districts of Bad Doberan and Güstrow were instead with the district local government reform in 2011 summarized the new district of Rostock with the county seat in the town Güstrow.