Baltic Sea Region Cultural Heritage Properties
LOCATION photo source: ATTRACTIONS The medieval towns of Wismar and Stralsund, on the Baltic coast of northern Germany, were major trading centres of the Hanseatic League in the 14th and 15th centuries. In the 17th and 18th centuries they became Swedish administrative and defensive centres for the German territories. They contributed to the development of […]
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LOCATION photo source: ATTRACTIONS The Folklorefestival in Hansestadt Wismar is an annual event that takes place in July and combines folk dancing, music and song. There are dancers and musicians from international folklore ensembles of the CIOFF sections in America, Africa, Europe and Asia and active members from dance, costume and music groups, orchestras, music […]
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LOCATION photo source: ATTRACTIONS The city is not only protected by nature, inasmuch as on one side the sea comes right up to the city wall, and on the other side there are swamps and marshes; it has also been so strongly fortified that it has become one of the most important cities on the […]
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LOCATION Museum of Navigation / St Mary’s Church August Bebelstrasse 1 D-18055 Rostock Germany photo source: ATTRACTIONS Rostock’s shipbuilding and maritime museum is situated on the 10,000 tons former motor vessel DRESDEN, which now bears the name “Traditionsschiff Typ Frieden”. The ship has been moored to the bank of the Warnow River opposite the sea […]
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LOCATION photo source: ATTRACTIONS The Monastery of the Holy Cross was founded around 1270 as a convent for Cistercian nuns. The building was constructed in the first half of the 14th century. Following the Reformation, the building complex was used as a home for elderly gentlewomen (from 1562 until 1920), later as a residential complex […]
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LOCATION photo source: ATTRACTIONS The long road to Rostock is next to the present road Kröpeliner the second West-East connection in the historical heart of the Hanseatic city . It leads from the gate Kröpeliner suburb to New Market , for the road is blocked, however the long road resulted in the original grid-shaped street […]
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LOCATION Kunsthalle Rostock Hamburger Straße 40 18069 Rostock Deutschland Telefon: ++49 (0381) 3817001 Telefax: ++49 (0381) 3819130 photo source: ATTRACTIONS The museum is now an art collection of about 520 paintings, 6000 graphic sheets and 200 sculptures mostly of East German art. The museum is now an art collection of about 520 paintings, 6000 graphic […]
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LOCATION photo source: ATTRACTIONS Kröpeliner Straße is so short, you will certainly reach some old, giant brick building, looking way lost between all these fancy, glass-covered shops. But thereby you can be sure to have found one of Rostock’s most famous sights, the medieval Kröpeliner Tor. Among the huge variety of cultural offers, there is […]
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LOCATION photo source: ATTRACTIONS The Cultural History Museum was opened in 1859 and has been located within the medieval walls of the Holy Cross Convent since 1984. The permanent exhibitions feature medieval art, 16th to 19th century arts and crafts from the Ahrenshoop and Schwaan artists’ colonies, and coins, notes and medals from the numismatic […]
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