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The historic Stralsund old town island is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It features many valuable remnants of the Hanseatic time, Brick Gothic, renaissance, baroque, historicist and Jugendstil buildings. [5] The heart of the old town is the Alter Markt Square ("Old Market"), with the Gothic city hall (13th century).
As part of the planned local government reform, from 2011 the districts of Rügen and Northern Hither Pomerania, and the town of Stralsund formed a reshaped district of Northern Hither Pomerania, and the districts of Uecker-Randow, together with the town of Greifswald and parts of the district of Demmin, became Hither Pomerania-Greifswald.
After Stralsund's surrender, a Danish administration under commander von Stöcken was set up, [19] and 1028 Swedish prisoners of war were detained in the town. [20] Yet, many noble and burgher families - Pomeranian, Swedish or intermarried - remained loyal to Sweden. [ 19 ]
The historic centre of Stralsund is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar". The old town of Toruń is listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site. The beech forest in Jasmund National Park is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe.
The old town of Stralsund, together with Wismar, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. German colonists in the 12th and 13th centuries settled in numerous cities on and near the east Baltic coast, such as Elbing ( Elbląg ), Thorn ( Toruń ), Reval ( Tallinn ), Riga , and Dorpat ( Tartu ), all of which joined the League, and some of which retain ...
Stralsund (pictured) and Greifswald form the urban center of Western Pomerania. Historical Western Pomerania, also called Cispomerania, [1] [2] Fore Pomerania, Front Pomerania or Hither Pomerania (German: Vorpommern; Polish: Pomorze Przednie), is the western extremity of the historic region of Pomerania, located mostly in north-eastern Germany, with a small portion in north-western Poland, at ...
The construction of St. Nicholas Church began as a hall church with a tower in 1234, after Stralsund acquired city rights. The planning and building in the oldest part of Stralsund continued alongside the planning of the Town Hall in the Old Market. This suggests that Nicholas Church was from the beginning intended to be the council church of ...
Stralsund in Germany, an old town designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. European old towns are often recognizable by their density, small alleys and buildings ...