Rom, Germany

Rom (German pronunciation: [ʁoːm] ) is a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The municipality is located 7 km east of Parchim and seven kilometers west of Lübz. The Bundesstraße 191 runs through the community. The Bundesautobahn 24 can be reached via the Parchim junction, which is 18 km away from Rom. The municipality is bordered by the Müritz-Elde waterway in the south. The Darzer Hochmoor and the Wockertal are found in the northern part. Rom had a stop on the Mecklenburg Southern Railway, the Haltepunkt Rom (Meckl). The municipality of Rom includes the villages of Darze, Klein Niendorf, Lancken, Paarsch, Rome and Stralendorf. Lancken, as the oldest village of the municipality of Rom, was first mentioned in 1229 in a document. From a former Meierhof (around 1700) of the estate of Greven emerged an estate of the families of Hammerstein (from 1800) of Soden (1806), Knights of Henckel (after 1824) and of the families Blanck, Stucken and until 1945, Wesendorf.