Röbel Explained

Type:	Stadt
Image Coa:	Wappen der Stadt Röbel-Müritz.png
Coordinates:	53.3761°N 12.6061°W
Image Plan:	Röbel in MBS.svg
State:	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
District:	Mecklenburgische Seenplatte
Amt:	Röbel-Müritz
Elevation:	65
Area:	30.17
Postal Code:	17207
Area Code:	039931
Licence:	MÜR
Gemeindeschlüssel:	13 0 71 124
Website:	www.stadt-roebel.de
Mayor:	Andreas Sprick
Party:	CDU

Röbel (pronounced as /de/) is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated on the western shore of Lake Müritz, 25 km north of Wittstock, and 27 km southwest of Waren. It is part of the Amt Röbel-Müritz.

Sights

The museum Engelscher Hof and the half-timbered former synagogue provide a permanent exhibition on Mecklenburg's Jewish history, commemorating among other things the life and work of Israel Jacobson, formerly consistorial president in the Kingdom of Westphalia and feudal landlord in Jördenstorf.

Franz Engel (1834–1920), ethnologist, biologist, and research traveler
Gustav Melkert (1890–1943), secretary of the agricultural workers' union in the then district of Müritz and member of the SPD. Used as a Nazi resister. A street in the district of Gildekamp is named after him.
Julius Runge (1843–1922), painter
Grit Breuer (born 1972), athlete
Otto Strack (1856-1935), architect who worked in Chicago, Milwaukee and New York City. Designed Pabst Hotel in New York. Noted for using steel beams in theaters and early sky scrapers.