Westmecklenburg

West Mecklenburg is the 7,000 km ² westernmost part of the state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It includes portions of the historical territory of Mecklenburg -Schwerin and Mecklenburg -Strelitz (part of the former principality of Ratzeburg around the town of Schönberg (Mecklenburg) ) and of Saxe- Lauenburg ( the accepted by the Barber Ljaschtschenko Agreement, the then Soviet occupation zone Prussian municipalities).

The area west of Mecklenburg consists of the counties of Northwest Mecklenburg and Ludwig pleasure Parchim and the independent city of Schwerin and law as a planning region, ie subspace for regional land use planning is defined, which is to create a regional planning association.

The area had on 30 June 2008 483 939 inhabitants. Center of the region is the state capital Schwerin, other important cities are Parchim, Ludwig Lust, Wismar, Gadebusch, Klutz, Greve mills and Hagenow.

West Mecklenburg is characterized by hilly Moränenland the Baltic country back interspersed with lakes through the Weichselian. There are cliffs, the Bay of Lübeck and Wismar Bay with the island of Poel, as well as a seaside resort on the Baltic Bolton. In the northeast, West Mecklenburg passes into the region of Central Mecklenburg, in the southeast, there is a smooth transition to the Mecklenburg Lake District.

Reorganization of the districts

According to the decision of the Diet on 5 April 2006 there should be a great circle with the county town of West Mecklenburg Schwerin from 1 October 2009. This great circle should include the present counties Ludwigslust, Northwest Mecklenburg and Parchim and the recent independent cities of Schwerin and Wismar. After the judgment of the district Constitutional Court of 26 July 2007, the reform law can not be implemented incompatible in the previously planned form than with the country's constitution.

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