a market-town of North Germany, grand duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, on the Hamburg and Berlin Railway, 20 miles S. of Schwerin. The principal building is the summer palace of the grand duke, having a gallery of about 200 pictures, some of them good specimens of the Dutch school, and a collection of Slavonic antiquities found chiefly in the duchy. Attached to the palace are a spacious park and garden. The Russian chapel contains the tomb of the Archduchess Helena, Grand Duchess of Russia, who died in 1803. Pop. 5500.