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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.
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 Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park [1] (Nationalpark Vorpommersche Boddenlandschaft) is Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's largest national park, situated at the coast of the Baltic Sea.
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.
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
The town is situated between the two Hanseatic cities Rostock and Stralsund, on the mouth of the river Recknitz. The Ribnitzer See, into which the Recknitz empties, is a bay of the Saaler Bodden (Bay of Saal). The Saaler Bodden in turn is the south-western end of a chain of bays leading to the Baltic Sea.
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.
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.