| Type: | Stadt |
| Image Coa: | Wappen Neustadt-Glewe.svg |
| Coordinates: | 53.3667°N 46°W |
| Image Plan: | Neustadt-Glewe in LUP.svg |
| State: | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern |
| District: | Ludwigslust-Parchim |
| Amt: | Neustadt-Glewe |
| Elevation: | 32 |
| Area: | 93.91 |
| Postal Code: | 19306 |
| Area Code: | 038757 |
| Licence: | LUP, HGN, LBZ, LWL, PCH, STB |
| Gemeindeschlüssel: | 13 0 76 105 |
| Divisions: | 8 |
| Website: | www.neustadt-glewe.de |
| Mayor: | Arne Kröger |
| Party: | parteilos |
Neustadt-Glewe is a German town, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, in the district of Ludwigslust-Parchim.
Neustadt-Glewe was mentioned for the first time in a document in 1248.
Neustadt-Glewe was the site of a German-Nazi concentration camp (1944-1945) "KZ Neustadt-Glewe".[1] Among its prisoners was Stanisława Rachwał, a Polish resistance fighter transferred from Auschwitz-Birkenau.[2]
Hans Axel Holm, a Swedish writer and journalist, documented life in Neustadt-Glewe in the late 1960s when it was part of the German Democratic Republic. In his book The Other Germans: Report From an East German Town, Holm documented various aspects of everyday life in the GDR, such as being an adult who worked at a VEB (industrial state-owned enterprise) or at an LPG (collective farm); being a child or teen going to school and participating in the FDJ (youth organization); being a soldier in the NVA (army); the GDR's relationship with the Soviets, including tensions within the Eastern Bloc and the threat of Soviet interventions; recreation; housing; socialist ideology and administration; the Nazi era and its consequences; interaction with West Germans, including the themes of who left the East, who stayed, and who came to the East; and other topics. LPG farming was big business in the Ludwigslust-Parchim region at the time, and the factories in the area included a large tannery (VEB Lederwerk "August Apfelbaum", which had formerly been a large plant of Adler and Oppenheimer), a hydraulic parts factory (for VEB Hydraulik Nord), and a factory for radio parts and telephone switchboard parts (for VEB Funkmechanik).
The Neustadt-Glewe railway station is served by the regional train line RB 14 (Hagenow Stadt–Parchim). There are connections to long-distance transport Berlin – Hamburg as well as regional transport to Schwerin and Wittenberge via the Ludwigslust railway station.