Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Stralsund, Germany

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Number of sights 14 sights
Distance 3.4 km
Ascend 43 m
Descend 39 m

Explore Stralsund in Germany with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Stralsund

Sight 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

218 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 2: Sowjetisches Ehrenmal

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Sowjetisches Ehrenmal Klugschnacker / CC BY-SA 3.0

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)

351 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 3: 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)

156 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Kütertor

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The Kütertor in the old town of Stralsund is one of the city gates of Stralsund.

Wikipedia: Kütertor (Stralsund) (DE)

148 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: 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)

303 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 6: UNESCO World Heritage: Historic Centre of Stralsund

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Old Towns of Stralsund and Wismar is the name of a cultural property in Germany that was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List on 27 June 2002.

Wikipedia: Altstädte von Stralsund und Wismar (DE), Heritage Website

154 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: 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

175 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: 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)

203 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: 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)

404 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 10: Ozeaneum

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Ozeaneum is a public aquarium in the German city of Stralsund. It is a main attraction of the German Oceanographic Museum, arguably one of the three largest institutions of its kind in Europe.

Wikipedia: Ozeaneum (EN), Website

359 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 11: Gorch Fock I

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Gorch Fock I is a German three-mast barque, the first of a series built as school ships for the German Reichsmarine in 1933.

Wikipedia: Gorch Fock (1933) (EN), Website

480 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 12: St.-Johanniskloster

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The St. John's Monastery in the old town of Stralsund is a former monastery of the Franciscans and was built in 1254.

Wikipedia: Johanniskloster (Stralsund) (DE)

87 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Schwarzer Speicher

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Schwarzer Speicher Klugschnacker / CC BY-SA 3.0

The house with the postal address Fährwall 4 is a listed building in the Hanseatic city of Stralsund am Fährwall.

Wikipedia: Fährwall 4 (Stralsund) (DE)

396 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 14: 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)

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