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# Kritzow

## Owner
- Project: Autobahn
- Place: [A14](place_a14.md) in [Mecklenburg-Vorpommern](place_mecklenburg_vorpommern.md)

## Shown
The first exit. The sign: Kritzow. km 0.0 - the A14 begins here at the junction with the A20. The landscape flat and open, fields on both sides. The road new enough that the verges still look engineered rather than grown.

## Holds
[km 0.0](piece_the_kilometerstein.md): Kritzow.
* [Kreuz Wismar](place_a14_02_kreuz_wismar.md) is next on [A14](place_a14.md) going south.

## Offers
Ausfahrt 1 - the exit ramp. The ordinary road below.

## Withheld
The Gutshaus Kritzow stands two kilometres from this exit. It operated as an estate continuously from the seventeenth century until the Bodenreform of autumn 1945, when it was expropriated and divided into forty parcels on 13 October 1945. The farmhouse and outbuildings still stand, converted into apartments. The motorway does not acknowledge them.

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# Kreuz Wismar

## Owner
- Project: Autobahn
- Place: [A14](place_a14.md) in [Mecklenburg-Vorpommern](place_mecklenburg_vorpommern.md)

## Shown
The junction. The A14 meets the A20 here - the Ostseeautobahn running east toward Rostock, west toward Lübeck. A cloverleaf on the Gemeindegebiete of Lübow and Hornstorf. The sign bears Wismar's name, though the city is several kilometres north.

## Holds
[km 1.6](piece_the_kilometerstein.md): Kreuz Wismar. A14 / A20 junction.
* [Kritzow](place_a14_01_kritzow.md) is 1.6 km north on [A14](place_a14.md).
* [Jesendorf](place_a14_03_jesendorf.md) is next on [A14](place_a14.md) going south.

## Offers
Junction with [A20](place_a20.md). Access east toward Rostock, west toward Lübeck.

## Withheld
In 1350, the Jewish community of Wismar was expelled following accusations connected to the Black Death. They had lived in the city since at least the thirteenth century. The Hanseatic council issued the order. No record survives of how many people left or where they went.

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# Jesendorf

## Owner
- Project: Autobahn
- Place: [A14](place_a14.md) in [Mecklenburg-Vorpommern](place_mecklenburg_vorpommern.md)

## Shown
The sign: Jesendorf. The road here running south through the Nordwestmecklenburg landscape - small lakes visible between tree lines, fields opening on both sides. The exit serves a commune of four villages: Jesendorf, Nepersdorf, Trams, and Büschow.

## Holds
[km 12.5](piece_the_kilometerstein.md): Jesendorf.
* [Kreuz Wismar](place_a14_02_kreuz_wismar.md) is next on [A14](place_a14.md) going north.
* [Schwerin-Nord](place_a14_04_schwerin_nord.md) is next on [A14](place_a14.md) going south.

## Offers
Ausfahrt 3 - the exit ramp. The ordinary road below.

## Withheld
The church in Jesendorf was built in 1338. It is the oldest structure in the municipality - older than the Reformation that changed what happened inside it, older than the Thirty Years War that burned neighbouring villages, older than every political system that has governed this landscape since. It stands between the playground and the fire station.

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# Schwerin-Nord

## Owner
- Project: Autobahn
- Place: [A14](place_a14.md) in [Mecklenburg-Vorpommern](place_mecklenburg_vorpommern.md)

## Shown
The sign: Schwerin-Nord. The road descending toward the northern edge of the city, the Schweriner Außensee visible or near-visible through the tree lines to the east. The approach to the state capital from the Wismar direction.

## Holds
[km 28.0](piece_the_kilometerstein.md): Schwerin-Nord.
* [Jesendorf](place_a14_03_jesendorf.md) is next on [A14](place_a14.md) going north.
* [Schwerin-Ost](place_a14_05_schwerin_ost.md) is next on [A14](place_a14.md) going south.

## Offers
Ausfahrt 4 - the exit ramp. Access to northern Schwerin and the Außensee shore.

## Withheld
At the northern tip of the Schweriner Außensee, near this exit, stands the earthwork of the former Slavic fortress of Dobin. In 1147 it was the site of a siege during the Wendish Crusade - a crusade launched not against Muslims in the Holy Land but against the Slavic Obotrites of this coastline. Niklot held the fortress. The Saxon-Danish army, led by Henry the Lion, was repelled. The earthwork is still there. It is a cycling waypoint now.

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# Schwerin-Ost

## Owner
- Project: Autobahn
- Place: [A14](place_a14.md) in [Mecklenburg-Vorpommern](place_mecklenburg_vorpommern.md)

## Shown
The sign: Schwerin-Ost. The city-side exit, closest to the urban core. The Schloss visible or near-visible from certain approach angles - the neo-Gothic towers and golden dome rising above the lakeside tree line.

## Holds
[km 38.9](piece_the_kilometerstein.md): Schwerin-Ost.
* [Schwerin-Nord](place_a14_04_schwerin_nord.md) is next on [A14](place_a14.md) going north.
* [Kreuz Schwerin](place_a14_07_kreuz_schwerin.md) is next on [A14](place_a14.md) going south.

## Offers
Ausfahrt 5 - the exit ramp. Access to Schwerin city centre, the Schloss, and the Innensee shore.

## Withheld
The Schloss stands on an island in the Burgsee, separated from the city by water on all sides. It has been a fortified site since at least 973 - first a Slavic stronghold of the Obotrites, then a German fortress after Henry the Lion took it in 1160, rebuilt continuously over six hundred years. The current building dates from the 1843 to 1857 reconstruction. The island beneath it is older than any of the structures on it.

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# Kreuz Schwerin

## Owner
- Project: Autobahn
- Place: [A14](place_a14.md) in [Mecklenburg-Vorpommern](place_mecklenburg_vorpommern.md)

## Shown
The junction. The A14 meets the A24 here - the Hamburg-Berlin motorway cutting east-west. The sign: Kreuz Schwerin. The city is 25 kilometres north. The junction sits on the Gemeindegebiet of Wöbbelin.

## Holds
[km 59.1](piece_the_kilometerstein.md): Kreuz Schwerin. A14 / A24 junction.
* [Schwerin-Ost](place_a14_05_schwerin_ost.md) is north on [A14](place_a14.md).
* [Ludwigslust](place_a14_08_ludwigslust.md) is next on [A14](place_a14.md) going south.

## Offers
Junction with [A24](place_a24.md). Access west toward Hamburg, east toward Berlin.

## Withheld
Eight kilometres east, Neustadt-Glewe has the oldest surviving military castle in Mecklenburg and a concentration camp memorial on the same small-town map. The Alte Burg was built around 1250 by the Count of Schwerin on a natural dune above the Elde river, to defend the southern border of his county. It served as a ducal residence until the eighteenth century, as a technical school until 1920, as a horse depot until 1954, as a youth hostel under the DDR. The KZ Neustadt-Glewe was established in September 1944 in a former aircraft factory - a subcamp of Ravensbrück, holding up to 4,220 women, primarily Polish Jews transferred from Auschwitz. American forces liberated it on 2 May 1945. The castle and the memorial are eight hundred metres apart.

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# Ludwigslust

## Owner
- Project: Autobahn
- Place: [A14](place_a14.md) in [Mecklenburg-Vorpommern](place_mecklenburg_vorpommern.md)

## Shown
The sign: Ludwigslust. The road south of the city - the planned Baroque town with its palace axis visible from the approach. Flat wooded landscape. The exit serves a town that was the capital of the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin for seventy-two years.

## Holds
[km 68.1](piece_the_kilometerstein.md): Ludwigslust.
* [Kreuz Schwerin](place_a14_07_kreuz_schwerin.md) is next on [A14](place_a14.md) going north.
* [Grabow](place_a14_09_grabow.md) is next on [A14](place_a14.md) going south.

## Offers
Ausfahrt 7 - the exit ramp. Access to Ludwigslust town centre and the Schloss.

## Withheld
The entire Baroque town of Ludwigslust - palace, church, avenue, 127-hectare park - was built around the site of a hunting lodge. Prince Christian Ludwig chose the location in 1724 because he preferred hunting to governing from Schwerin. The capital followed the hunter. When Friedrich II commissioned the full palace between 1772 and 1776, he furnished it to match: many of the interior decorations - the panelling, the statues, a copy of the Venus de Medici - are made not of marble but of papier-mache, a material developed locally called Ludwigsluster Carton. Grandeur built from pressed paper, on a ducal budget, around a hunting lodge. Indistinguishable at a distance.

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# Grabow

## Owner
- Project: Autobahn
- Place: [A14](place_a14.md) in [Mecklenburg-Vorpommern](place_mecklenburg_vorpommern.md)

## Shown
The sign: Grabow. The road at the southern edge of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Brandenburg border close. The Elde running through the town below. Wooded landscape, flat, the Griese Gegend beginning.

## Holds
[km 73.5](piece_the_kilometerstein.md): Grabow.
* [Ludwigslust](place_a14_08_ludwigslust.md) is next on [A14](place_a14.md) going north.
* [Gross Warnow](place_a14_10_gross_warnow.md) is next on [A14](place_a14.md) going south.

## Offers
Ausfahrt 8 - the exit ramp. Access to Grabow old town and the Elde waterway.

## Withheld
On 3 June 1725 a fire destroyed most of Grabow - the town hall, the ducal palace, the majority of the town centre. The palace was never rebuilt. The town hall was reconstructed by 1727 and still stands. After the fire, the mayors oversaw a rebuilding in the style that now defines the old town: a dense core of coloured timber-framed houses along the Elde islands. The fire produced the town's current form. The palace that burned is absent from every view of it.

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# Gross Warnow

## Owner
- Project: Autobahn
- Place: [A14](place_a14.md) in [Brandenburg](place_brandenburg.md)

## Shown
The sign: Gross Warnow. The A14 has crossed the state border into Brandenburg. The landscape continuous - flat, wooded, the Prignitz opening to the south. The first exit in a new federal state.

## Holds
[km 84.6](piece_the_kilometerstein.md): Gross Warnow.
* [Grabow](place_a14_09_grabow.md) is next on [A14](place_a14.md) going north.

## Offers
Ausfahrt 10 - the exit ramp. The ordinary road below.

## Withheld
The village church of Gross Warnow is a late Gothic fieldstone building, its nave from the late Middle Ages, its tower added in 1865. Inside stands a carved altarpiece from the early sixteenth century - a Mondsichelmadonna in the central shrine, eight saints in the wings, ornamental tracery work around the frame. The wooden pulpit dates from the mid-sixteenth century. Both pieces survived the Thirty Years War, the Seven Years War, two world wars, and the DDR. The exit sign gives no indication that either exists.

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| **003** | **A20** | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | MV section complete (28 exits), state file integrated, audit complete | 1-2 | ✓ COMPLETE: Exit 26 gap verified (proposed/unbuilt), 4 missing exits added (Friedland, Strasburg, Pasewalk-Nord/Süd) | Pasewalk-Süd → A19 |
| **004** | **A19** | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | Complete: Rostock (km 0.0) to Brandenburg border (km 128), 20 exits with full narrative content | 2-3 | ✓ COMPLETE: Warnowtunnel (only tolled Autobahn section), Kavelstorf sandsturm 2011 (8 dead), Röbel gap (24 km longest exit-free), Battle of Wittstock 1636, Jewish emancipation history | Röbel/Müritz (km 101) → Brandenburg border (km 128) |
| **005** | **A11** | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | Polish border, Pomellen to Penkun (MV) + Schmölln (Brandenburg) | 1 | ✓ COMPLETE: 2 MV exits + 1 Brandenburg exit, pre-war Reichsautobahn surface rebuilt, Penkun castle museum (1190 Pomeranian fortress, restored 1992-2001) | Penkun → Schmölln → Kreuz Uckermark |
| **006** | **A14** | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | Schwerin loop, Dreieck Schwerin to Kreuz Wismar | 1 | 5 exits, Schwerin Schloss + Schweriner See | Kreuz Wismar → A24 |
| **006** | **A14** | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | Schwerin region, Kritzow to Ludwigslust (MV) + Gross Warnow (Brandenburg) | 1 | ✓ COMPLETE: 8 MV exits + 1 Brandenburg exit, Schwerin Schloss (ducal palace 1471+, DDR expropriation to 1990s), Schweriner See | Ludwigslust → Grabow → Gross Warnow |
| **007** | **A24** | Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | Southwest corridor, Zarrentin through Suckow | 1-2 | 7 exits, DDR-built/West-paid, pre-war bridges replaced | **Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Complete** |

**Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State Complete after Phase 007** ✓
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* [km 0.0](piece_the_kilometerstein.md): [Pomellen](place_a11_01_pomellen.md)
* [km 9.3](piece_the_kilometerstein.md): [Penkun](place_a11_02_penkun.md)

- [A14](place_a14.md) - Schwerin Region, Kritzow to Ludwigslust
* [km 0.0](piece_the_kilometerstein.md): [Kritzow](place_a14_01_kritzow.md)
* [km 1.6](piece_the_kilometerstein.md): [Kreuz Wismar](place_a14_02_kreuz_wismar.md)
* [km 12.5](piece_the_kilometerstein.md): [Jesendorf](place_a14_03_jesendorf.md)
* [km 28.0](piece_the_kilometerstein.md): [Schwerin-Nord](place_a14_04_schwerin_nord.md)
* [km 38.9](piece_the_kilometerstein.md): [Schwerin-Ost](place_a14_05_schwerin_ost.md)
* [km 59.1](piece_the_kilometerstein.md): [Kreuz Schwerin](place_a14_07_kreuz_schwerin.md)
* [km 68.1](piece_the_kilometerstein.md): [Ludwigslust](place_a14_08_ludwigslust.md)
* [km 73.5](piece_the_kilometerstein.md): [Grabow](place_a14_09_grabow.md)

## Offers
The A20 provides the state's primary backbone for east-west traffic. Low traffic density - among the lowest of any German state. Access to Baltic ferry connections at Rostock and Stralsund. The straightness of the road is matched only by the emptiness beyond it. Direct route to Poland.

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