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Vorpommern-Greifswald is a district in the east of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the districts of Mecklenburgische Seenplatte and Vorpommern-Rügen, the Baltic Sea, Poland ( West Pomeranian Voivodeship) and the state of Brandenburg.
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Pomerania Occidental-Greifswald (en alemán: Vorpommern-Greifswald) es uno de los seis distritos del estado federal alemán de Mecklemburgo-Pomerania Occidental. Está situado al extremo oeste del estado limitando al norte con Pomerania Occidental-Rügen y el mar Báltico , al este con Polonia , al sur con el estado de Brandeburgo y al oeste ...
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Greifswald is located in the northeast of Germany, approximately equidistant from Germany's two largest islands, Rügen and Usedom. The city is situated at the south end of the Bay of Greifswald, the historic centre being about five kilometres (three miles) up the river Ryck that crosses the city. The area around Greifswald is mainly flat, and hardl...
Early history
Greifswald was founded in 1199 when Cistercian monks founded the Eldena Abbey. In 1250, Wartislaw III, Duke of Pomerania, granted town privileges to Greifswald according to the Lübeck law.
Middle Ages and Reformation
In medieval times, the site of Greifswald was an unsettled woodland which marked the border between the Danish Principality of Rügen and the Pomeranian County of Gützkow, which at that time was also under Danish control. In 1199, the Rugian Prince Jaromar I allowed Danish Cistercian monks to build Hilda Abbey, now Eldena Abbey, at the mouth of the River Ryck. Among the lands granted the monks was a natural salt evaporation pond a short way up the river, a site also crossed by an important sou...
1631/48—1815: Sweden
During the Thirty Years' War, Swedish forces entered the Duchy of Pomerania in 1630. Greifswald was besieged by Swedish troops on 12 June 1631 and surrendered on 16 June. Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden had returned from Brandenburg to supervise the siege, and upon his arrival received the university's homage for the liberation from Catholic forces. After the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), Greifswald and the region surrounding it became part of the Kingdom of Sweden. Swedish Pomerania, as it was...
Greifswald and Stralsund are the largest cities in the Vorpommern part of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Of great importance to the city's economy is the local university with its 12,000 students and nearly 5,000 employees in addition to many people employed at independent research facilities such as the Friedrich Loeffler Instituteand spin-off firms. Gre...
City Council
Politics in Greifswald, as in most of Western Pomerania, is traditionally dominated by the centre-right CDU. The city council is elected for five year terms. Since the last election on 25 May 2014, the 43 city council seats are allocated as follows: 1. CDU– 11 seats 2. Die Linke– 8 seats 3. SPD– 6 seats 4. Greens– 5 seats 5. FDP– 2 seats 6. AfD- 2 seats 7. Pirates- 2 seats 8. local citizens' movements – 7 seats
University
Founded in 1456, the University of Greifswald is one of the oldest universities in both Germany and Europe. Currently, about 12,300 students study at five faculties: theology, law/economics, medicine, humanities and social sciences, and mathematics/natural sciences. The university co-operates with many research facilities, such as: 1. the Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (plasma physics) has its second site (after Garching) in Greifswald and is experimenting with a stellarator, Wendelstei...
Secondary schools
1. Alexander-von-Humboldt-Gymnasium 2. Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Gymnasium (founded in 1561 as schola senatoriaand one of the oldest schools still existing in Germany) 3. Johann-Gottfried-Herder-Gymnasium (fused with the Jahn-Gymnasium in 2006) 4. Ostseegymnasium
Museums, exhibitions, and cultural events
Greifswald has a number of museums and exhibitions, most notably the Pomeranian State Museum (German: Pommersches Landesmuseum): history of Pomerania and arts, including works by Caspar David Friedrich, a native of Greifswald. The University of Greifswald also has a large number of collections, some of which are on display for the public. Events and attractions hosted in Greifswald include: 1. Theater Vorpommern: theatre, orchestra and opera 2. Stadthalle Greifswald: medium-sized convention c...
Cinemas
Art house is shown regularly at the film club "Casablanca", which has existed since 1992. It puts its focus on the heritage of 35mm films. The Koeppenhaus shows art house cinema as part of its special programmes. The cinema initiative "KinoAufSegeln" screening art house open air on the site of the Greifswalder Museumswerft, Greifswald's shipyard museum. It exists since 2015. All three are active members of the Verband für Filmkommunikation(Association for Film Communication) of Mecklenburg-Vo...
Medieval churches
Among Greifswald's brick gothic churches is the Dom St. Nikolai (St. Nicholas collegiate church) in the city center, which, with its 100 meters (330 ft) tall tower, is the symbol of the city. The exact date of its founding is unknown, but the original church dates from the late 13th century. The tower was built, and an organ installed in the church, in the late 14th century. In the mid-17th century, when Greifswald was part of Swedish Pomerania, severe storm damage was repaired with support f...
Stolpersteine
Stolpersteine, part of the European Stolperstein (literally "stumbling stone") memorial project, are scattered around Greifswald. The brass plaques, engraved with the names of Jewish residents who were murdered in the Holocaust, are embedded in the sidewalk in front of houses where they once lived. Some of the Stolpersteine in Greifswald mark the nationwide November 9, 1938, Kristallnacht pogroms in which members of the Nazi SA and SSmurdered many German Jews, vandalized Jewish property and b...
Objects named after Holocaust perpetrators
1. Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald (Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Study) 2. Ferdinand SauerbruchStreet
According to a 2009 study, 44% of all people in Greifswald use their bicycle for daily transport within the city, which, at the time, was the highest rate in Germany. There are also public local and regional bus operators.Local buses are run by SWG (Stadtwerke Greifswald). Greifswald is situated at an equal distance of about 250 km (160 mi) to Germ...
Early Times
1. Bartholomäus Sastrow(1520–1603), mayor of Stralsund and autobiographer 2. Sibylla Schwarz(1621–1638), poet 3. Count Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld(1651–1722), Swedish field marshal 4. Christian Thomsen Carl(1676–1713), a Danish naval officer, saved the town council's archives 5. Joh. Chr. Andreas Mayer(1747–1801), physician 6. Christian Wilhelm Ahlwardt(1760–1830), philologist 7. Caspar David Friedrich(1774–1840), Romantic painter. 8. Karl Schildener(1777–1843), lawyer and local historian 9. Ludwi...
19th C.
1. Heinrich Eddelien(1802–1852), a Danish history painter 2. Johann Karl Rodbertus(1805–1875), economist and socialist. 3. Edmund Hoefer(1819–1882), novelist and literary critic. 4. Wilhelm Ahlwardt(1828–1909), orientalist 5. Rudolf Schirmer(1831–1896), ophthalmologist 6. Heinrich Heydemann(1842–1889), classical philologist and archaeologist 7. Elisabeth of Wied (1843–1916) first queen of Romania as the wife of King Carol I. 8. Hans Hartwig von Beseler (1850–1921), WWI Colonel general 9. Max...
20th C.
1. Wolfgang Koeppen(1906–1996), author 2. Magnus von Braun(1919–2003), chemical engineer, aviator and rocket scientist 3. Gerhard Gentzen(1909–1945), mathematician and logician 4. Ray GuilleryFRS (1929–2017), physiologist and neuroanatomist 5. Josef Sommer(born 1934), actor 6. Doris Gercke(born 1937), writer of crime thrillers 7. Hans Lüssow(born 1942), naval officer, Vice Admiral of the German navy, inspector of the navy 8. Lutz Feldt(born 1945), naval officer, Vice Admiral of the German nav...
Vorpommern-Greifswald is a district in the east of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the districts of Mecklenburgische Seenplatte and Vorpommern-Rügen, the Baltic Sea, Poland ( West Pomeranian Voivodeship) and the state of Brandenburg.
Der Landkreis Vorpommern-Greifswald ist ein Landkreis im Land Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Er liegt fast ausschließlich im mittleren und südlichen Teil Vorpommerns, umfasst aber zusätzlich ein kleines mecklenburgisches Gebiet am Galenbecker See und die südlich davon gelegene uckermärkische Stadt Strasburg . Kreisstadt ist die Hansestadt Greifswald.
Vorpommern-Rügen is a district in the north of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the Baltic Sea and the districts Vorpommern-Greifswald, Mecklenburgische Seenplatte and Rostock. The district seat is the Hanseatic city of Stralsund.
