31 Sights in Rostock, Germany (with Map and Images)
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Explore interesting sights in Rostock, Germany. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 31 sights are available in Rostock, Germany.
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The St. Nicholas Church of the Hanseatic City of Rostock was built from 1230 onwards and is thus considered one of the oldest surviving hall churches in the Baltic Sea region. It is one of the three surviving large parish churches in the city and is named after Bishop Nicholas of Myra. Like St. Mary's Church and St. Peter's Church, it belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Inner City Community of Rostock in the Rostock Provostship in the Mecklenburg Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany.
St. Peter's Church, in German Petrikirche, was built in the 13th century and is the oldest of three town churches found in the Hanseatic city of Rostock, in northern Germany. The other two are St. Mary's Church (Marienkirche) and St. Nicholas (Nikolaikirche). A fourth, St. Jakobi, was heavily damaged during the Second World War and subsequently demolished.
The Kröpeliner Tor was built around 1270 in the Gothic style as the westernmost of the four large gates of Rostock's city fortifications. Even then, it was very large with its two floors and remained one of the most massive of the up to 22 city gates at times. Whether it was named after the small town of Kröpelin, in whose direction it leads, or after a patrician family of the same name, is still disputed today. It represents the western end of Kröpeliner Straße.
4. Dokumentations- und Gedenkstätte für Opfer deutscher Dikaturen BStU Rostock
The Documentation and Memorial (DuG) in the former pre-trial detention centre of the Stasi district administration in Rostock focuses on the work of the Ministry of State Security (MfS) of the GDR and commemorates its victims. It is one of the best-preserved pre-trial detention centers of the Stasi. The DuG is embedded in the Documentation Centre of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania for the Victims of Dictatorships in Germany and was operated until August 2017 by the Rostock branch office of the Federal Commissioner for Stasi Records (BStU) in cooperation with the University of Rostock. Between 2017 and 2021, the DuG was closed for renovation. In 2021, the State Agency for Civic Education Mecklenburg-Vorpommern took over the sponsorship.
Wikipedia: Dokumentations- und Gedenkstätte des BStU in der ehemaligen U-Haft der Stasi in Rostock (DE), Website
5. Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche zu Warnemünde
Warnemünde Church is a neogothic building in Warnemünde, which is a part of the hanseatic city of Rostock. Construction of the current brick building began in 1866 and the church was consecrated in 1871. The church of Warnemünde stands for over one hundred years in the middle of the town and is the center of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation. For the community along with many guests it is a place of rest and prayer. But it has also even given protection from flooding. The maritime atmosphere is shown by the special votive ships inside.
6. Wasserturm Rostock
The municipal water tower of Rostock is a listed technical structure with an elevated tank, which served both to supply drinking water to the inhabitants and to generate a constant water pressure in the city's water supply network. It is located on Blücherstraße, not far from Rostock's main train station. The water tower, built in 1903, is now one of Rostock's most important historical buildings. From 1959 onwards, the building was no longer needed and decommissioned, but it was not until the 1990s that it was renovated and rebuilt inside.
7. St.-Marien-Kirche
St. Mary's Church, Rostock, in German Marienkirche, is the biggest of three town churches found in the Hanseatic city of Rostock, in northern Germany. The other two are St. Peter's (Petrikirche) and St. Nicholas (Nikolaikirche). A fourth, St. James' (Jakobikirche), was heavily damaged during the Second World War and subsequently demolished. St. Mary's was designated in 1265 as the main parish church. Since the Protestant Reformation in 1531, it houses a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Mecklenburg.
8. Luther-St.-Andreas-Gemeinde Reutershagen
St. Andrew's Church was a church in the Rostock district of Reutershagen and was a church in the parish of Luther–St. Andreas in the Provostship of Rostock in the church district of Mecklenburg of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in northern Germany. It was built as a modern functional building in 1975 on the site of a makeshift predecessor building of the post-war period. After the merger of two congregations, the Martin Luther House also belongs to the community.
9. Wallanlagen
The Rostock city fortification enclosed the city of Rostock since the middle of the 13th century. After the original city nuclei of the three Rostock sub cities had officially united in a city in 1265, the common, about three kilometers long city wall was built, which had more than 20 city gates. These were distinguished in "land" and "beach goals", depending on whether they led to the Mecklenburg hinterland or the city harbor on Unterwarnow.
10. IGA-Park
The International Horticultural Exhibition, IGA for short, took place in Rostock in 2003. Unused fallow land close to the water and the rest of the former village of Schmarl an der Warnow were chosen as the location, which gave the planners the opportunity to create a horticultural exhibition related to water. Other common names for the horticultural exhibition are garden exhibition and garden show.
11. Heiligen-Geist-Kirche
The Church of the Holy Spirit is a neo-Gothic church building in Rostock, Germany. It was built between 1905 and 1908 on the corner of Margaretenstraße and Borwinstraße in Kröpeliner-Tor-Vorstadt and is used by the Evangelical Lutheran Holy Spirit Congregation, which belongs to the Rostock Provostship in the Mecklenburg church district of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany.
12. Hausbaumhaus
Wokrenterstraße is a historic street in the Hanseatic and university city of Rostock, now known as the Northern Old Town. It connects the streets An der Oberkante in the south and Am Strande in the north and marks the interface between the industrial development and the building fabric, which has been renovated using historic gable elements. This makes Wokrenterstraße unique in Rostock.
13. Forst- und Köhlerhof Wiethagen
The Forst- und Köhlerhof Wiethagen is an open-air museum in Rostock-Wiethagen, where the history of the production of charcoal, wood tar and turpentine with the help of charcoal burners is shown. In 1984, the charcoal burner's house and the two remaining tea kilns were declared a technical monument. The smaller, still functional kiln is the last example of its kind in Europe.
14. Klosterkirche zum Heiligen Kreuz (Universitätskirche)
The Abbey of the Holy Cross in Rostock, Germany, was founded in the 13th century by Cistercian nuns. It is the only fully preserved abbey in the city. The complex includes the former abbey church which is used today as the University Church (Universitätskirche). The remaining former convent buildings house the Museum of Cultural History for the city of Rostock.
15. Steintor
The Stone Gate in its present form is a gate built between 1574 and 1577 in the Renaissance architectural style in the south of Rostock's historic city fortifications. It replaced the older gate that had been demolished in 1566. Along with the Kröpeliner Gate, the Petritor and the Mill Gate, the Stone Gate was one of the four main gates of the city of Rostock.
16. Blücherdenkmal
The Blucher monument in Rostock is reminiscent of Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, the general of the Antinapoleonic Wars of Liberation, born in Rostock. The bronze figure stands on a base, the four sides of which are provided with bronze reliefs. The monument in honor of Rostock's first honorary citizen was unveiled on the Hopfenmarkt on August 26, 1819.
17. St.-Johanniskirche
The St. John's Church or St. John's Church in Rostock is the church of the parish of St. Johannis in the Provostship of Rostock in the church district of Mecklenburg of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in northern Germany. As one of the Bartning emergency churches from the time of reconstruction after the Second World War, it is a listed building.
18. Botanischer Garten der Universität Rostock
The Botanischer Garten Universität Rostock, also known as the Botanischer Garten Rostock, is a botanical garden and arboretum maintained by the University of Rostock. It is adjacent to the university sports fields along Hans-Sachs Allee, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, and open daily except Monday in the warmer months.
Wikipedia: Botanischer Garten Universität Rostock (EN), Website
19. Oberforstmeister Charles Bencard
Rostock Heath is a wood and heathland region northeast of the German city of Rostock. It has a total area of about 6000 hectares and, since 1252, has been owned by the Hanseatic city of Rostock. As a result of its ownership of the Rostock Heath, Rostock is today one of the five largest communal woodland owners in Germany.
20. Zoologischer Garten Rostock
Rostock Zoo is a zoo in the city of Rostock, founded in 1899. It covers 56 hectares and with 4,500 animals from 320 species, Rostock Zoo is the largest zoo on the German east coast. Rostock Zoo is studbook keeper of Polar bears within the European Endangered Species Programme. The director of Rostock Zoo is Udo Nagel.
21. Gemeindezentrum Brücke
The Bridge community center in the Groß Klein district of Rostock is the church of the bank in the Rostock Propstei in the Mecklenburg church district of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany. The church building is a modern purpose building for services, community work and the pastor apartment.
22. Max-Samuel-Haus
The Max-Samuel-Haus is a villa in Rostock, which has been home to the meeting place for Jewish history and culture in Rostock since 1991. Cultural events such as readings, exhibitions and concerts take place in the house, an extensive library offers interested factual literature on Jewish history and culture.
23. Alte Christuskirche
The Christuskirche was a Catholic church on Schröderplatz in the city center of Rostock. It was consecrated in 1909 and blown up in 1971 for ostensibly urban planning reasons. The same name is given to the new Christ Church, which was built as a replacement elsewhere in a residential area.
24. Kirche Toitenwinkel
The Gothic village church of the Toitenwinkel is a listed church building in Toitenwinkel, a district of Rostock in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The Evangelical Lutheran parish of Toitenwinkel belongs to the Rostock Propstei in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany.
25. Astronomische Station Tycho Brahe
The astronomical station "Tycho Brahe" includes an observatory and a planetarium in Rostock, which has existed in the Gartenstadt/Stadtweide district since 1965. Since its existence, it has mainly served to support school lessons. The institution is worn by the city of Rostock.
Wikipedia: Astronomische Station „Tycho Brahe“ (DE), Website
26. Slüterhaus
The Slüterhaus Dierkow is the church and parish hall of the Slütergemeinde in the Rostock district of Dierkow. The congregation belongs to the Provostship of Rostock in the church district of Mecklenburg of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany.
27. Eisbrecher Stephan Jantzen
Stephan Jantzen is a former German icebreaker built by Admiralty Shipyard in Leningrad, Soviet Union, in 1967. After decommissioning in 2005, the ship went through a number of owners before ending up as a museum ship in its former homeport, Rostock.
28. Gedenkstätte revolutionärer Matrosen
The memorial of revolutionary sailors at the Rostock city harbour reminds of the revolutionary sailors at the end of World War I. It was created by the artists Wolfgang Eckardt and Reinhard Dietrich and officially inaugurated on 16 September 1977.
29. Leuchtturm Warnemünde
Warnemünde Lighthouse is a lighthouse situated on the Unterwarnow, the estuary of the Warnow river, in Warnemünde, a district in the city of Rostock. The lighthouse has a height of 36.9 metres (121 ft) and was put into service in 1898.
30. Kuhtor
The Kuhtor is not only the oldest of the four of the former 22 gates of the historic Rostock city fortifications, but also one of the oldest buildings in Rostock and probably the oldest preserved city gate in northern Germany.
31. Schwimmkran Langer Heinrich
Langer Heinrich is the name of a floating crane that was used in the ports of Gdansk and Rostock from 1905 to 1978. Since 1980 it has been one of the exhibits of the Rostock Shipbuilding and Maritime Museum.
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