IU382. ROSTOCK FISCHERBASTION

LOCATION photo source: ATTRACTIONS To the north of the Kröpeliner Tor in Rostock, reached by way of the Wallanlagen (the gardens on the line of the old fortifications), is the 17th C. Fischerbastion. SOURCE Class: [ C ] Baltic Sea Region Cultural Heritage Properties Subclass: Monuments and sites Web pages: http://www.ostsee-zeitung.de/rostock/index_artikel_komplett.phtml?SID=ab070237e2c4180bd935922defe051cb&param=news&id=2611114 http://www.gemo-netz.de/rostock/rostock_bilder/stadt/Fischerbastion_2007-09-23.php http://www.gemo-netz.de/rostock/diesunddas/Fischerbastion/Fischerbastion_Bilder/Fischerbastion_2006-04-22_6.jpg

IU381. ROSTOCK HISTORICAL CENTER

LOCATION photo source ATTRACTIONS The city hall was built between 1270 and 1290 as a two floor double-gabled house with a vaulted cellar, which was also used as a market in the Middle Ages. St. Peter’s Church was built in the middle of the 14th century. The first reference to a church on this site […]

IU380. SCHWERIN THE TECHNISCHE MUSEUM

LOCATION Werderstr. 124 19055 Schwerin, Niemcy 0385 512878 photo source: ATTRACTIONS Schwerin: The Origin of Technology The main focus of the exhibition is on vehicles. Everybody knows that shipbuilding is an important sector in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern for several hundred years already. But only few people know that there has been railway, aircraft and automobile industry here […]

IU379. SCHWERIN THE STAATLICHES MUSEUM SCHWERIN

LOCATION photo source: ATTRACTIONS The Staatliches Museum Schwerin is an art gallery and museum in Schwerin in Germany. It was established by Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1882 its historicist Haupthaus as the Staatsgalerie next to the Staatstheater. Its other locations are opposite the Schweriner Schloss and in the former residences at […]

IU378. SCHWERIN THE TOWN HALL

LOCATION photo source: ATTRACTIONS (Local Name: Altstädtisches Rathaus) The historic streets and squares of the old town of Schwerin, including the Markt, have been restored and rebuilt in recent years. At the southeast corner of the Markt stands the Old Town Hall (Altstädtisches Rathaus), the oldest parts of which date from the 14th C.; […]

IU376. YSTAD HALF-TIMBERED HOUSES

LOCATION photo source: ATTRACTIONS With its 300 half-timbered buildings, no other town in Scandinavia and few in Europe can boast such a complete picture of bygone times. And it is a district that is very much alive. Many of the old buildings house shops, eateries and other fascinating places for people who like to enjoy […]

IU375. YSTAD GLIMMIMGEHUS, CASTLE

LOCATION photo source: ATTRACTIONS Glimmingehus, located in Simrishamn Municipality, Scania, in southern Sweden, is the best preserved medieval stronghold in Scandinavia. It was built 1499-1506, during an era when Scania formed a vital part of Denmark, and contains many defensive arrangements of the era, such as parapets, false doors and dead-end corridors, ‘murder-holes’ for pouring […]

IU374. LUND MUSEUM OF CULTURAL HISTORY

LOCATION Kulturen Tegnérsplatsen, Box 1095 S-22104 Lund Sweden photo source: ATTRACTIONS (Local Name: Kulturhistoriska Museet) In Lund’s Tegnérsplats is the Museum of Cultural History (Kulturhistoriska Museet; popularly known simply as Kulturen), an open-air museum with farmhouses, pastors’ houses and town houses from all over southern Sweden; particularly notable is an old church from Bosebo in […]

IU373. LUND OLD TOWN

LOCATION photo source: ATTRACTIONS In 990, the then 1000-year old town Uppåkrais believed to have been moved to Lund’s location. The distance is only some five kilometers, but Lund is located on a hill, and on the other side of a rivulet-ford, giving the new site considerable defence advantages compared to Uppåkra, that is situated […]

IU371. PIER IN SOPOT

LOCATION photo source: ATTRACTIONS The Sopot Pier – the pier in the city of Sopot, built as a pleasure pier and as a mooring point for cruise boats, first opened in 1827, regarded as the longest wooden pier in Europe. The wooden pier is 511,5 m, stretching into the sea from the middle of Sopot […]