11 Sights in Stralsund, Germany (with Map and Images)

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Explore interesting sights in Stralsund, 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 11 sights are available in Stralsund, Germany.

Sightseeing Tours in Stralsund

1. St. Marien-Kirche

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St. Mary's Church is a large Lutheran church located in Stralsund, northern Germany. It was built sometime before 1380 and showcases remarkable Gothic architecture, serving as an outstanding example of the prevalent Brick Gothic style in northern Germany and the Baltic states. Standing at 151 metres (495 ft) tall, it held the title of the world's tallest building between 1549 and 1647, with the exception of the period between 1569 and 1573 when the tower of St. Pierres Cathedral in Beauvais was completed and subsequently collapsed. Recognized as part of the historic center of Stralsund, the church was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2002.

Wikipedia: St. Mary's Church, Stralsund (EN), Website

2. St.-Nikolai-Kirche

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St.-Nikolai-Kirche Klugschnacker / CC BY-SA 3.0

St. Nicholas Church is the oldest of the three major parish churches of the Hanseatic city of Stralsund in Germany. It was dedicated in 1279 to St. Nicholas of Myra, the patron saint of sailors. Since 1524 it has been an Evangelical Lutheran church. It is one of the earliest examples of the introduction of the cathedral pattern of northern France into the Brick Gothic architecture of the Baltic region. As part of the historic centre of Stralsund, St. Nicholas Church was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2002.

Wikipedia: St. Nicholas Church, Stralsund (EN)

3. Zoo Stralsund

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Stralsund Zoo is an institution for the care of native animal species in the Hanseatic city of Stralsund. The area at the city forest in Grünhufe covers about 16 hectares. In 2005, the zoo was recognized as a "Zoological Garden", but continued to bear the name "Tierpark". In addition to numerous native animals, many animals from other continents are also shown. The keeping of a large group of white donkeys is very rare in Germany.

Wikipedia: Tierpark Stralsund (DE), Website

4. German Maritime Museum

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The Stralsund Oceanographic Museum, formerly also the Museum of Oceanography and Fisheries, Aquarium and German Oceanographic Museum, in Stralsund is the main building of the German Oceanographic Museum Foundation; in addition, there are three other locations of the foundation, the Ozeaneum, the Nautineum and the Natureum.

Wikipedia: Deutsches Meeresmuseum (DE)

5. Ernst-Thälmann-Denkmal

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The Ernst Thälmann Monument in Stralsund is a monument that commemorates Ernst Thälmann. The monument with a man-sized bronze sculpture on a stone pedestal stands on the Sund promenade and was inaugurated in 1962. Together with the Sund promenade, it is one of Stralsund's architectural monuments.

Wikipedia: Ernst-Thälmann-Denkmal (Stralsund) (DE)

6. Pfarrkirche Hl. Dreifaltigkeit

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The Holy Trinity Church is a Roman Catholic church building in Stralsund, Germany. The postal address is Frankenwall 7 am Frankenwall, the back wall facing Frankenstraße is listed there under the number 38. In the list of monuments in Stralsund, the church is listed with the number 258.

Wikipedia: Dreifaltigkeitskirche (Stralsund) (DE)

7. Kloster zum Heiligen Geist

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The Church of the Holy Spirit in the Hanseatic city of Stralsund is a 14th-century Gothic three-nave church building made of brick within the grounds of the Heilgeisthospital near the harbour of the city on the Strelasund, on the Wasserstraße, at the corner of Bei der Heilgeistkirche.

Wikipedia: Heilgeistkirche (Stralsund) (DE)

8. Adolf Reichwein

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Adolf Reichwein is the name of a ship built in 1949, which has been an exhibit of the German Oceanographic Museum in Stralsund since its decommissioning in 1973. It was named after the pedagogue, cultural politician (SPD) and resistance fighter Adolf Reichwein.

Wikipedia: Adolf Reichwein (Schiff, 1949) (DE)

9. Marinemuseum

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The Navy Museum Denholm is a branch of the Stralsund Museum and is located on the small island of Denholm between mainland and Rügen. You reach them via the Rügen dam. The path to the so-called star chance is well marked with sea signs.

Wikipedia: Marinemuseum Dänholm (DE)

10. Sowjetisches Ehrenmal

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The Soviet War Memorial is a war cemetery at the Neuer Markt in Stralsund's Old Town. It contains graves for soldiers and members of the Red Army and a monument with a relief depicting a Red Army soldier and a civilian shaking hands.

Wikipedia: Sowjetisches Ehrenmal (Stralsund) (DE)

11. Kulturkirche St. Jakobi

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The St. The church of Jakobi in the town of Stralsund was first mentioned in 1303 and is thus the youngest of the three Protestant parish churches in Stralsund. It is currently used as a cultural church.

Wikipedia: St.-Jakobi-Kirche (Stralsund) (DE), Website

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