Editing Güstrow (section)

==History==
[[File:Guestrow-1653-Merian.jpg|thumb|left|17th-century view of the town]]
The name Güstrow comes from the [[Polabian language|Polabian]] Guščerov and means [[lizard]] place.<ref>[[Ernst Eichler (Linguist)|Ernst Eichler]]: ''Städtenamenbuch der DDR.'' Leipzig 1988, p. 125.</ref>

In 1219 the [[Wends|Wendish]] castle Güstrowe was built where the renaissance palace stands now.  Güstrow is said to be founded by [[Heinrich Borwin II]], a grandson of [[Henry the Lion]], between 1219 and 1226 and was first mentioned in 1228 in the deed of city rights of [[Schwerin]], confirmed by the sons of Heinrich Borwin II, who donated the cathedral as [[collegiate church]] in 1226. Güstrow was a residence of the lords of [[Werle]] from 1229 until 1436. In 1441 the first privileged shooting society of Güstrow was founded.

The [[host desecration]]-trial of 1330 ended with the burning of 23 Jews and the destruction of the synagogue. The ''Kapelle des heiligen Bluts'' (Chapel of the Holy Blood) was built on the site of the synagogue. In 1503, 1508 and in 1512 fires destroyed the town and in 1556 the palace burned down.

After the division of Mecklenburg (1621) it became the capital of the small [[Duchy of Mecklenburg-Güstrow]]. ([[Albrecht von Wallenstein]], the imperial general in the [[Thirty Years' War]], was a duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow.)

In 1695 the last duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow died, and the duchy ceased to exist. Güstrow became a part of the [[Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin]].

The famous sculptor [[Ernst Barlach]] lived in Güstrow from 1910 to his death in 1938.

During [[World War II]], Güstrow was the location of a labour camp of the [[Reich Labour Service]], a [[Gestapo]]-operated prison and a [[Forced labour under German rule during World War II|forced labour]] subcamp of the prison in [[Bützow|Dreibergen]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tenhumbergreinhard.de/1933-1945-lager/rad-abteilungen/vi-mecklenburg.html|title=VI Mecklenburg|access-date=23 September 2023|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bundesarchiv.de/zwangsarbeit/haftstaetten/index.php?action=2.2&tab=7&id=1609|title=Gestapogefängnis im Arbeitshaus und Schloss Güstrow|website=Bundesarchiv.de|access-date=23 September 2023|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bundesarchiv.de/zwangsarbeit/haftstaetten/index.php?action=2.2&tab=7&id=1796|title=Außenkommando der Strafanstalten Dreibergen-Bützow in Güstrow bei der Heeresmunitionsanstalt Priemerwald|website=Bundesarchiv.de|access-date=23 September 2023|language=de}}</ref> After the war, it formed part of [[East Germany]].