Founded during the Ostsiedlung in the medieval terrae Miserez and Ploth, Jarmen remained a rural town at an important Peene crossing.

In addition to the town itself, the following villages are within the Jarmen city limits: The municipality is within the Amt Jarmen-Tutow of Kreis Vorpommern-Greifswald.

The area was part of the Duchy of Pomerania, which in 1186 passed under Danish suzerainty,[2] and in 1227 fell under the overlordship of the multi-ethnic Holy Roman Empire.

Jarmen remained with Swedish Pomerania until 1720, when the area south of the Peene river became Prussian as a consequence of the Great Northern Wars.

[5] In 1945, the Prussian province of Pomerania was de facto dissolved as a consequence of World War II, and Jarmen became part of the Soviet Occupation Zone, since 1949 East Germany.