Dassow (German pronunciation: [ˈdaso]) is a town in the Nordwestmecklenburg district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany.

The city crest for Dassow, Germany is a castle gate with a thorn bush growing in it.

The church of St Nicholas is built in the early Gothic style and constructed of brick, characteristic of a region without ready access to building stone.

The town's commercial traditions are evidenced by a large eighteenth-century warehouse at the mouth of the Stepenitz River.

Here agricultural and other produce from the surrounding area could be gathered for onward conveyance to the great port at nearby Lübeck.

Districts within the city of Dassow with its old core including Vorwerk and Siedlung are: In a clockwise direction, beginning in the north, the following cities and municipalities border on Dassow: Kalkhorst, Roggenstorf, Papenhusen, Schönberg and Lübeck (Priwall, now a district within Travemünde).

Dassow has today banks, medical practices, a pharmacy, kindergarten and school as well as all the necessary infrastructure facilities, which a modern town should exhibit as a center for the surrounding communities.

The PCO Group was formed January 1, 2006, as a merger of The Popcorn Company and Octagon GmbH.

[9] There were 48 people with the last name of Dassow who migrated to the United States via ship between December 10, 1853, and April 7, 1890.

According to the US Census Bureau, Dassow is the 52,272nd most popular family name (surname) in the United States with a frequency of 0.000% and a percentile is 86.286.

There are few Dassow households outside of the United States and Germany: Two in Canada, two in Australia, seven in Great Britain and an unknown number in Brazil.

[18][19] St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Germanville began meeting in a building known as the Dassow School in 1879.