Strasburg, Germany

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Strasburg
Coat of arms Location
Coat of arms of Strasburg
Strasburg, Germany (Germany)
Strasburg, Germany
Administration
Country Flag of Germany Germany
State Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
District Uecker-Randow
Town subdivisions 11
Mayor Norbert Raulin (SPD)
Basic statistics
Area 86.83 km² (33.5 sq mi)
Elevation 60 m  (197 ft)
Population 5,934  (31/12/2006)
 - Density 68 /km² (177 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate UER
Postal code 17335
Area code 039753
Website www.strasburg.de
Location of the town of Strasburg within Uecker-Randow district
Map

Coordinates: 53°30′00″N 13°45′00″E / 53.5, 13.75

Strasburg (also: Strasburg (Uckermark)) is a town in the Uecker-Randow district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated 16 km west of Pasewalk, and 33 km east of Neubrandenburg.

Wolfgang Samuel's war memoir, German Boy, is partly set in Strasburg, where Samuel and his mother lived from March 1945 to December 1946. As well, Strasburg is the town which Slawkenbergius rides through in Laurence Sterne's eighteenth-century hit novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.