Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Stralsund, Germany

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

The Soviet War Memorial is a war cemetery on the Neuer Markt in the old town of Stralsund. It contains graves for soldiers and members of the Red Army and a monument with a relief in which a Red Army soldier and a civilian shake hands.

Wikipedia: Sowjetisches Ehrenmal (Stralsund) (DE)

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

Wikipedia: Deutsches Meeresmuseum (DE), Website

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

Wikipedia: Kütertor (Stralsund) (DE)

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 baptized in the name of the educator, cultural politician (SPD) and resistance fighter Adolf Reichwein.

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

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

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

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

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

The Church of the Holy Trinity is a Roman Catholic church building in Stralsund, Germany. The postal address is Frankenwall 7 am Frankenwall, the rear 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), Website

The Heilgeistkirche in the Hanseatic city of Stralsund is a 14th-century Gothic three-aisled brick church building within the grounds of the Heilgeisthospital near the port of the city on the Strelasund, on the waterway, corner of Bei der Heilgeistkirche.

Wikipedia: Heilgeistkirche (Stralsund) (DE)

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

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

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

Wikipedia: Fährwall 4 (Stralsund) (DE)

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

Wikipedia: Johanniskloster (Stralsund) (DE)

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)