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LOCATION photo source: ATTRACTIONS One of the most beautiful streets in the spa-style architecture on the German Baltic sea coast is the „Wilhelmstraße” in the Baltic seaside resort Sellin. The splendid hotel and pension buildings delight the eye with its abundantly decorated verandas and balconies. Especially the numerous art nouveau villas present itself in playful […]

LOCATION photo source ATTRACTIONS The former Hanseatic town of Stralsund, on the sound of the same name, is a treasurehouse of historic buildings. The old town with its famous Town Hall, Gothic parish churches, old monasteries, fortifications and burghers’ houses is surrounded by beautiful lakes and gardens The Altstadt (Old town) of Stralsund Germany which […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]