Laage lies between the cities Güstrow, Teterow und Rostock on a natural ford along the Recknitz river.

Der Kalte Berg is 62m above the Normalhöhennull, the tallest point of elevation in the municipal area.

The wendish Lave could be translated as footbridge or bridge; Laage then being known as the bridge-place over the flowing Recknitz.

[3] As early as the Mesolithic (around 8000 BCE) there were hunters, gatherers, and fishers settling the fertile area.

Paths made out of planks and gravel, as well as Glacial erratics were created by the 6th century CE at the latest in order to traverse the Recknitz Valley.

With the death of Prince Wilhelm the Wendish the principality of Werle died out, and the Dukes of Mecklenburg therefore inherited Laage.

The local governance consisted of a spokesperson, three viertelmann (a combination of mayor and policeman) and three deputies.

A dairy, the gas plant (1905), the waterworks and the water tower (1926) were built, and in 1915 the village received electric light.

The day before, local Social Democrats had dismantled the tank barriers erected for the defense.

The acting mayor, Otto Thode,[7] met the Soviet troops and prevented destruction in Laage.

[8] Shortly after the invasion of the Red Army, on 2 May 1945, the well-known architect de:Paul Korff took his own life together with his wife.

At the end of 1945 and the beginning of 1946, ten young people (aged 16 and over) were arrested by the Soviet secret service NKVD and sentenced by a military tribunal to heavy prison terms for “hostile attitudes towards Communism and the Red Army”.

From 1979 to 1988, the Kronskamp residential area was built with 850 apartments in Large panel system-building, among other things for the soldiers stationed in Laage.

The military airfield is operated by Jagdgeschwader 73 "Steinhoff" of the Bundeswehr and was expanded after 1994 in parallel to the civil airport Rostock-Laage.

Owner of the estates included the noble families Nortman (until 1450) and von Vieregg (until 1760), after which it was a ducal chamberlain.

The early Baroque manor house Rossewitz was built on the foundations of the castle according to plans by Charles Philippe Dieussart between 1657 and 1680.

[12] From 1990 onwards, 31 December of each year[13] The stark increase in the population in 2019 is due to the incorporation of Diekhof.

The flag consists of a yellow cloth and is covered in the centre with the figure of the city's coat of arms, which occupies two thirds of the height of the flag cloth: a visionary black bull's head with a closed mouth and a knocked out red tongue, between whose silver horns a red lily grows.

[17] The official seal shows the city coat of arms with the inscription • STADT LAAGE •.