Facts

• Population 1.82 million.
• Area 23,170 sq. km.
• The state is one of Germany’s most popular domestic holiday destinations.

Famous Facts

• Much of F.W. Murnau’s classic 1922 vampire film “Nosferatu” was filmed in Wismar.
• Rostock has Europe’s only remaining astronomical clock, which was made in 1472 and has been running continuously since 1643.
• Ernst Barlach, the 20th Century’s greatest German sculptor, lived in Güstrow for 28 years. Much of his work still remains in the city, despite the Nazis’ artistic purges before World War II. The V2 rocket was developed and launched at Peenemünde. Werner von Braun, who developed it, later became chief designer of the Apollo rocket that put the ‘man on the moon’.

Where about

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) is Germany’s most north-easterly state. The northern boundary of the state is a 370 km stretch of Baltic Sea coastline and to the east lies Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, to the south Berlin and Brandenburg and to the south-west Bremen and Lower Saxony.

How to get there 

Rostock-Laage airport is served by national and international carriers.

Frequent trains run from Berlin to Rostock, and to Wismar and Schwerin.