Kröpelin is a town in the Rostock district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany.

Kröpelin first appears in the written record in 1177 as Crapelin a settlement with Wendish origins.

The town's name probably derives from the Slavic word crepelice meaning the place of quail.

After the Second World War a memorial stone was erected to those members of the town's Jewish community who had died in the holocaust.

In 2012, the cemetery was the subject to a number of anti-Semitic attacks, including criminal damage and racist graffiti.