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Stralsund (German pronunciation: [ˈʃtʁaːlzʊnt] ⓘ; Swedish: Strålsund), [3] officially the Hanseatic City of Stralsund (German: Hansestadt Stralsund), is the fifth-largest city in the northeastern German federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg and Greifswald, and the second-largest city in the Pomeranian part of the state.
The Stralsund government region is divided into four counties, three of which take their name from the towns in which the district councils are located. The fourth, however, takes its name after the island of Rügen, of which it is composed alone.
Baier took over in 1859 as the first director of the museum, the unsorted collection of works from many different areas; Most of the works of art of Löwens did not concern Stralsund and its surroundings. At that time, the collection, and thus the new Provincial Museum for New Western Pomerania and Rügen, which today is the oldest museum in ...
A winter festival, winter carnival, snow festival, or frost fair is an outdoor cold weather celebration that occurs in wintertime. Winter festivals are popular in D climates (see Köppen climate classification ) where winter is particularly long or severe, such as Siberia , Scandinavia , Canada and the northern United States .
It is one of the earliest examples of the introduction of the cathedral pattern of northern France into the Brick Gothic architecture of the Baltic region. [1] As part of the historic centre of Stralsund, St. Nicholas Church was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2002.
Siege of Stralsund (1628) Siege of Stralsund (1678) Siege of Stralsund (1711–1715) Astronomical clock, St. Nicholas Church, Stralsund; Great Sortie of Stralsund; Stralsund – Nordvorpommern – Rügen (electoral district) Stralsund (region) Siege of Stralsund (1807) Stralsund dugouts; Stralsund Hauptbahnhof; Stralsund Museum; Stralsund Theatre
Vorpommern-Rügen District was established by merging the former districts of Nordvorpommern and Rügen; along with the former district-free city of Stralsund as part of the local government reform of September 2011. [2] The name of the district was decided by referendum on 4 September 2011. [3] The project name for the district was Nordvorpommern.
The Stralsund Theatre (German: Stralsunder Theater) in the German town of Stralsund has a long tradition. Performances of theatre pieces on the Alter Markt are documented in the years 1553 ("Tragedie van deme Daniel") and 1584 ("De Tragedien van Susannen"). The present building was designed by Carl Moritz and opened in 1914.