Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Rostock, 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.

Wikipedia: St. Peter's Church, Rostock (EN), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Nikolaikirche (Rostock) (DE), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Kuhtor (Rostock) (DE)

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.

Wikipedia: Steintor (Rostock) (DE)

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.

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

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.

Wikipedia: Wokrenterstraße (DE)

The list of thinking and stumbling blocks in Rostock contains the tables embedded in the ground in the Hanseatic city of Rostock, which are reminiscent of the fate of the people who were murdered, deported, driven out or driven into suicide. As in the Gunter stumbling block project, the stones are in front of the victim's houses or places of activity, but are in no direct context with the desigly work. The stones have been laid in Rostock on the initiative of the friends and sponsors of the Max Samuel House since 2000. They consist of larger stone slabs that have traces of breaking and abrasion. After Demig did not agree to the further use of the originally used term "stumbling block", the stones laid since 2016 are referred to as "thinking stones". The new stones were given a different look and are more weather -resistant than those relocated until 2016.

Wikipedia: Liste der Stolpersteine in Rostock (DE)

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.

Wikipedia: Blücherdenkmal (Rostock) (DE)

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.

Wikipedia: Abbey of the Holy Cross, Rostock (EN)

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.

Wikipedia: Rostocker Stadtbefestigung (DE)

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