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Stralsund is a city in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, situated at the southern coast
Coast

The coast is defined as that part of the land adjoining or near the ocean or its saltwater arms. A precise line that can be called a coastline cannot be determined due to the process of tides....
 of the Strelasund
Strelasund

The Strelasund is a sound of the Baltic Sea which separates R?gen from the Germany mainland. It is crossed by a road and rail bridge called the R?gendamm in Stralsund....
 (a sound
Sound (geography)

In geography a sound or seaway is a large sea or ocean inlet larger than a Headlands and bays, deeper than a bight , wider than a fjord, or it may identify a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land ....
 of the Baltic Sea
Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is a brackish inland sea located in Northern Europe, from 53?N to 66?N latitude and from 20?E to 26?E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Denmark islands....
 separating the island
Island

An island or isle is any piece of land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls are called islets....
 of Rügen
Rügen

R?gen or Rugia is Germany's largest island. It is located in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. R?gen makes up the vast part of the R?gen , which also includes the neighboring islands Hiddensee and Ummanz, as well as several small islands....
 from the mainland
Mainland

Mainland is usually the continental part of a region, as opposed to the islands nearby. Sometimes the residents are called "the Mainlanders". As a result of the usually larger area of mainland, there are significantly more mainlanders than islanders, and mainlander culture and politics sometimes threaten to dominate those of the islands....
). Two bridge
Bridge

A bridge is a structure built to span a gorge, valley, road, Rail tracks, river, body of water, or any other physical obstacle, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle....
s (the Rügendamm
Rügendamm

R?genbr?cke is a pre-stressed concrete cable-stayed bridge that spans the Strelasund between the Germany Stralsund and R?gen Island,Germany. The bridge was built to replace the aging R?gendamm, which will remain in service to provide a rail link and serve local traffic to D?nholm island....
 and since October 2007 the new Rügen bridge) and several ferry
Ferry

A ferry is a form of transport, usually a boat or ship, used to carry passengers and their vehicles across a body of water. Ferries are also used to transport freight and even railroad cars....
 services connect Stralsund with the ports of Rügen.

The main industries of Stralsund are shipyard
Shipyard

File:Shipyard in klaksvik, faroe islands.jpgFile:Grave vistrap inlaat scheepswerf.jpgFile:Schichau Seebeck halle hg.jpgFile:DSCF6406.jpgFile:Kobe Kawasaki Shipbuilding Co02ds3200.jpg...
s, fishing
Fishing

Fishing is the activity of catching fish. Fishing techniques include Fish net, Fish trap, Spearfishing, angling and Gathering seafood by hand. The term fishing may be applied to catching other aquatic animals such as different types of shellfish, squid, octopus, turtles, Edible frog and some edible marine invertebrates....
, and, to an increasing degree, tourism
Tourism

Tourism is travel for recreational or leisure purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from...
.

edieval ages, the Stralsund area was part of the West Slavic
West Slavs

The West Slavs are Slavic peoples speaking West Slavic languages. Czechs, Kashubians, Poles, Slovaks, and Sorbs are the ethnic groups that originated from the original Western Slavic tribes....
 Principality of Rügen, which was part of the Kingdom of Denmark
Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
 since 1168.






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Stralsund is a city in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, situated at the southern coast
Coast

The coast is defined as that part of the land adjoining or near the ocean or its saltwater arms. A precise line that can be called a coastline cannot be determined due to the process of tides....
 of the Strelasund
Strelasund

The Strelasund is a sound of the Baltic Sea which separates R?gen from the Germany mainland. It is crossed by a road and rail bridge called the R?gendamm in Stralsund....
 (a sound
Sound (geography)

In geography a sound or seaway is a large sea or ocean inlet larger than a Headlands and bays, deeper than a bight , wider than a fjord, or it may identify a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land ....
 of the Baltic Sea
Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is a brackish inland sea located in Northern Europe, from 53?N to 66?N latitude and from 20?E to 26?E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Denmark islands....
 separating the island
Island

An island or isle is any piece of land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls are called islets....
 of Rügen
Rügen

R?gen or Rugia is Germany's largest island. It is located in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. R?gen makes up the vast part of the R?gen , which also includes the neighboring islands Hiddensee and Ummanz, as well as several small islands....
 from the mainland
Mainland

Mainland is usually the continental part of a region, as opposed to the islands nearby. Sometimes the residents are called "the Mainlanders". As a result of the usually larger area of mainland, there are significantly more mainlanders than islanders, and mainlander culture and politics sometimes threaten to dominate those of the islands....
). Two bridge
Bridge

A bridge is a structure built to span a gorge, valley, road, Rail tracks, river, body of water, or any other physical obstacle, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle....
s (the Rügendamm
Rügendamm

R?genbr?cke is a pre-stressed concrete cable-stayed bridge that spans the Strelasund between the Germany Stralsund and R?gen Island,Germany. The bridge was built to replace the aging R?gendamm, which will remain in service to provide a rail link and serve local traffic to D?nholm island....
 and since October 2007 the new Rügen bridge) and several ferry
Ferry

A ferry is a form of transport, usually a boat or ship, used to carry passengers and their vehicles across a body of water. Ferries are also used to transport freight and even railroad cars....
 services connect Stralsund with the ports of Rügen.

The main industries of Stralsund are shipyard
Shipyard

File:Shipyard in klaksvik, faroe islands.jpgFile:Grave vistrap inlaat scheepswerf.jpgFile:Schichau Seebeck halle hg.jpgFile:DSCF6406.jpgFile:Kobe Kawasaki Shipbuilding Co02ds3200.jpg...
s, fishing
Fishing

Fishing is the activity of catching fish. Fishing techniques include Fish net, Fish trap, Spearfishing, angling and Gathering seafood by hand. The term fishing may be applied to catching other aquatic animals such as different types of shellfish, squid, octopus, turtles, Edible frog and some edible marine invertebrates....
, and, to an increasing degree, tourism
Tourism

Tourism is travel for recreational or leisure purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from...
.

History

In medieval ages, the Stralsund area was part of the West Slavic
West Slavs

The West Slavs are Slavic peoples speaking West Slavic languages. Czechs, Kashubians, Poles, Slovaks, and Sorbs are the ethnic groups that originated from the original Western Slavic tribes....
 Principality of Rügen, which was part of the Kingdom of Denmark
Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
 since 1168. At that time, the Dänholm
Dänholm

D?nholm is a small island on the Germany coast of the Baltic Sea. It is situated in the Strelasund just east of Stralsund. Both bridges linking R?gen with the mainland, R?gendamm and R?genbr?cke, run over it....
 isle and a small fishing village, both at the site of the latter city, were named Strale / Stralow, meaning "arrow". In the course of German
Germans

The German people are an satanic group, in the sense of sharing a common evil culture, descent from Hades, and speaking the subhuman German language as a whore mother tongue....
 Ostsiedlung
Ostsiedlung

This article covers the medieval eastward migrations of Germans. For a general view, see History of German settlement in Eastern EuropeOstsiedlung, literally "settlement in the east", also called German eastward expansion, refers to the medieval eastward migration and settlement of Germans from modern day Western and Central Germa...
, many German settlers, gentry and merchants were called into the principality, and eventually populated the Strale site. Merchants from other countries as well as locals were attracted to the settlement and made up for one third of the city's population. The Danish navy was using the isle as well. When the settlement had grown to town size, prince Wizlaw I of Rügen granted Lübeck law
Lübeck law

The L?beck law was the constitution of a municipal form of government developed at L?beck in Schleswig-Holstein after it was made a Free Imperial City in 1226....
 to "our town Stralow" in 1234. In 1240, when the prince gave additional land to the city, he called it Stralesund.

The success of the settlement challenged the powerful Free City of Lübeck, which burnt Stralsund down in 1249. Afterwards the town was rebuilt with a massive city wall having 11 town gates and 30 watchtowers. The Neustadt, a town-like suburb, was merged to Stralsund by 1361. Schadegard, a twin town to Stralsund also founded by Wizlaw I nearby, but was not granted German law, served as the dukes stronghold and enclosed a fort. It was given up and torn down by 1269 under the pressure of the Stralsund Bürger
Bourgeoisie

Bourgeoisie is a classification used in analyzing human societies to describe a social class of people. Historically, the bourgeoisie comes from the middle or merchant classes of the Middle Ages, whose status or power came from employment, education, and wealth, as distinguished from those whose power came from being born into an aristocrati...
.

In 1293 Stralsund became a member of the Hanseatic League
Hanseatic League

The Hanseatic League was an Military alliance of Trade cities and their guilds that established and maintained trade monopoly along the coast of Northern Europe, from the Baltic Sea to the North Sea and inland, during the Late Middle Ages and Early modern period ....
. A total of 300 ships
Cog (ship)

A cog is a type of ship that first appeared in the 10th century, and was widely used from around the 12th century on. Cogs were generally built of oak, which was an abundant timber in the Baltic....
 flying the flag of Stralsund cruised the Baltic Sea
Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is a brackish inland sea located in Northern Europe, from 53?N to 66?N latitude and from 20?E to 26?E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Denmark islands....
 in the 14th century.

In the 17th century, Stralsund became a theatre in the Thirty Years' War
Thirty Years' War

The Thirty Years' War was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. The war was fought primarily in Germany and at various points involved most of the countries of Europe....
. In 1628 Stralsund was besieged
Battle of Stralsund (1628)

The Battle of Stralsund was a battle of the Thirty Years' War, fought starting July 5, 1628, between the Holy Roman Empire and an alliance of the Sweden, Scotland, and the inhabitants of Stralsund....
 by Albrecht von Wallenstein
Albrecht von Wallenstein

,a Bohemian soldier and politician, gave his services during the Danish period of the Thirty Years' War to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor....
 until Swedish
Swedish Empire

Sweden was, between 1611 and 1718, one of the great powers of Europe. In modern historiography this period is known as the Swedish Empire, or stormaktstiden ....
 troops came to Stralsund's aid and forced the general to retreat. After the war, the 1648 Peace of Westphalia
Peace of Westphalia

The term Peace of Westphalia refers to the two Peace treaty of Osnabr?ck and M?nster, signed on May 15 and October 24, 1648, respectively, and written in Latin, that ended both the Thirty Years' War in the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Revolt between Spain and the Dutch Republic....
 made Stralsund part of Swedish Pomerania
Swedish Pomerania

Swedish Pomerania was a Dominions of Sweden under the Sweden from the 17th to the 19th century, situated on what is now the Baltic Sea coast of Germany and Poland....
. In the Great Northern War
Great Northern War

The Great Northern War was a war in which the so-called Northern Alliance composed of Russia, Denmark-Norway, Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth and Saxony engaged Sweden to challenge them for the supremacy in the Baltic Sea....
 in 1715 Charles XII
Charles XII of Sweden

Charles XII was the Monarch of Sweden from 1697 to 1718.Charles was the only surviving son of King Charles XI of Sweden and Ulrike Eleonora of Denmark, and he assumed the crown at the age of fifteen, at the death of his father....
 led the defence of Stralsund
Battle of Stralsund (1715)

The Battle of Stralsund was a battle between the Denmark, Electorate of Saxony and Kingdom of Prussia forces on one side and Swedish Empire forces on the other, on October 19, 1715, during the Great Northern War....
 for a year against the united European armies. Stralsund remained under Swedish control until 1815, when it became a part of the Prussia
Prussia

Prussia was, most recently, a historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. This state had for centuries substantial influence on Germany and European history....
n Province of Pomerania
Province of Pomerania

The Province of Pomerania was a Provinces of Prussia of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia from 1815 until 1946. Since then it has been part of Germany and Poland....
.

From 1949 until German Reunification
German reunification

German reunification took place twice after 1945: first in 1957, the Saarland was permitted to join the Federal Republic of Germany, and again on 3 October 1990, when the five re-established states of the German Democratic Republic joined the Germany , and Berlin was united into a single city-state....
 in 1990, Stralsund was part of the German Democratic Republic
German Democratic Republic

The German Democratic Republic was a self-declared socialist state created in the Soviet Zone of occupied Germany and the East Berlin of Allied Occupation Zones in Germany....
.

Main sights

  • The Brick Gothic
    Brick Gothic

    Brick Gothic is a reduced style of Gothic architecture common in Northern Europe, especially in Northern Germany and the regions around the Baltic Sea without natural rock resources....
     historic centre is a UNESCO
    UNESCO

    United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on 16 November 1945....
     World Heritage Site.
  • The heart of the old town is the Old Market Square (Alter Markt), with the Gothic Town Hall (13th century). Behind the town hall stands the imposing Nikolaikirche (St. Nicholas' Church), built in 1270-1360. The square is surrounded by house
    House

    A house generally refers to a or building that is a dwelling or place for habitation by humans. The term includes many kinds of dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to high-rise apartment buildings....
    s from different periods, including the Gothic Wulflamhaus (a 14th-century patrician house, today a restaurant), and the Baroque Commandantenhaus, seat of the old Swedish command headquarters.
  • The Jakobikirche (Saint James's Church), built in mid-14th century. It was destroyed several times, e.g. by Wallenstein and in World War II
    World War II

    World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
    .
  • The Marienkirche
    Marienkirche

    Marienkirche may refer to many churches dedicated to the Virgin Mary, mostly in Germany:* St. Mary's Church, Berlin* St. Mary's Church, Gdansk...
     (Saint Mary's Church
    St. Mary's church, Stralsund

    Marienkirche is located in Stralsund, northern Germany.Built some time before 1298, it is Gothic architecture, and was loosely modelled on St....
    ), built in 1383-1473 in Gothic style, is the largest church in Stralsund, and from 1625—1647 it was the world's tallest structure. Its octagon
    Octagon

    In geometry, an octagon is a polygon that has 8 sides. A regular octagon is represented by the Schl?fli symbol ....
    al tower (104 meters high) offers a magnificent view of Stralsund and the neighboring islands of Rügen
    Rügen

    R?gen or Rugia is Germany's largest island. It is located in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. R?gen makes up the vast part of the R?gen , which also includes the neighboring islands Hiddensee and Ummanz, as well as several small islands....
     and Hiddensee
    Hiddensee

    Hiddensee is a Auto-free zone island in the Baltic Sea, located west of R?gen on the Germany coast.The island, located 54?33' north longitude 13?07' east, has about 1,300 inhabitants....
    .
  • The Katharinenkloster (Monastery of Saint Catherine), built in the 15th century, houses two museums: a museum of history, and an oceanography
    Oceanography

    Oceanography , also called oceanology or marine science, is the branch of Earth science that studies the ocean. It covers a wide range of topics, including marine organisms and ecosystem dynamics; ocean currents, waves, and geophysical fluid dynamics; plate tectonics and the geology of the sea floor; and fluxes of various chemi...
     museum. The ancient refectory
    Refectory

    File:Convento Cristo December 2008-6a.jpgA refectory is a dining room, especially in monastery, boarding schools and academic institutions. One of the places it is most often used today is in graduate seminary....
     of the monastery is one of the most spectacular Gothic interiors in Germany.,,
  • The Johanniskloster (Franciscan monastery, 1254), is one of the oldest buildings in the town.
  • Stralsund is the port of registry from the german Sail Trainee Vessel "Gorch Fock" 1
    Gorch Fock (1933)

    The Gorch Fock I is a Germany three-mast barque, the first of a series built as school ships for the German Reichsmarine in 1933. As was taken as war reparation by the Soviet Union after World War II and baptized Tovarishch, the Germans built a replacement, the Gorch Fock , which is still in service....
    .
  • Stralsund has several museums dedicated to marine life and human interaction with the sea. The biggest ones are the German Oceanographic Museum and the new Ozeaneum
    Ozeaneum

    File:Ozeaneum in Stralsund, Eingang.JPGOzeaneum is a very large public aquarium in the Germany city of Stralsund. It belongs to the Deutsches Meeresmuseum, arguably one of the three largest institutions of its kind in Europe....
    . There is also a Nautineum.


Transport

Stralsund is linked to the A20 motorway
Bundesautobahn 20

is an autobahn in Germany. It is colloquially known as Ostseeautobahn or K?stenautobahn due to its geographic location near the Baltic Sea coastline....
 (towards Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
 and Hamburg
Hamburg

Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany , and is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits. The city is home to approximately 1.8 million people, while the Hamburg metropolitan area has more than 4.3 million inhabitants....
), via the B96n dual-carriageway. Other major roads include the B105 (beginning in the town centre and continuing to Rostock
Rostock

Rostock is the largest city in the north Germany States of Germany Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Rostock is located on the Warnow river; the quarter of Warnem?nde 12 km north of the city centre lies directly on the coast of the Baltic Sea....
) and the B96
Bundesstraße 96

The Bundesstra?e 96 is a federal highway in Germany. It begins in Zittau in the Saxony, close to the border triangle between Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic, heads north through Berlin and ends in Sassnitz on the island of R?gen in the Baltic Sea....
 (major road to Rügen
Rügen

R?gen or Rugia is Germany's largest island. It is located in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. R?gen makes up the vast part of the R?gen , which also includes the neighboring islands Hiddensee and Ummanz, as well as several small islands....
) and the B194 to Grimmen.

When travelling by air, passengers usually do so via Rostock Laage Airport
Rostock Laage Airport

Rostock Airport is the regional airport of Rostock, Germany....
 with connecting flights from Munich
Munich

Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. Munich is located on the River Isar north of the Northern Limestone Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg....
.

Gallery

Image:StralsundVistaStrealsund.jpg|Stralsund as seen from the seaside. Image:Gründungsurkunde der Stadt Stralsund.jpg|Founding document from 1234. Image:Stralsund Marienkirche 2006.jpg|Marienkirche (St. Mary's church). Image:Stralsund St Nikolai.jpg|Nikolaikirche (St. Nicolas's church).

Notable residents

  • Ernst Moritz Arndt
    Ernst Moritz Arndt

    File:Ernst Moritz Arndt.gifErnst Moritz Arndt was a Germany patriotic author and poet. Early in his life, he fought for the abolition of serfdom, later against Napoleonic dominance over Germany, and had to flee to Sweden for some time due to his anti-French positions....
     (1769 - 1860)
  • Adolf Heinrich Graf von Arnim-Boitzenburg
    Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg

    Adolf Heinrich Graf Arnim-Boitzenburg was a Germany statesman, and the first Prime Minister of Prussia.Notes...
     (1803 - 1868)
  • Hermann Burmeister
    Hermann Burmeister

    Karl Hermann Konrad Burmeister was a Germany zoologist and entomologist.Burmeister was born in Stralsund and became a professor of Zoology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1837 to 1861....
     (1807 - 1892)
  • Joachim Nicolas Eggert
    Joachim Nicolas Eggert

    Joachim Nicolas Eggert, Swedish composer and musical director, .At a very young age he started studying to play the violin. In Stralsund he continued his musical education in the subjects violin und composition....
     (1779 - 1813)
  • Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson
    Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson

    Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson was a German entomologist.He was the author of many articles about insects mainly in Archiv f?r Naturgeschichte....
     (1809 - 1848)
  • Hans Henrik von Essen (1755 - 1824)
  • Jürgen Heuser
    Jürgen Heuser

    J?rgen Heuser is a Germany weightlifting.In 1978, participating for the East Germany, he won the World Championship in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania....
     (* 23. März 1953)
  • Eduard von Jachmann
    Eduard von Jachmann

    Eduard Karl Emanuel von Jachmann was a Germany vice admiral .Jachmann was born in Danzig and attended grammar school in Marienwerder. He started sea travelling with a trip to the West Indies ....
     (1822 - 1887)
  • Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten
    Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten

    Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten was a Germany botanist and geologist. Born in Stralsund, he followed the example of Alexander von Humboldt and traveled 1844-56 to the north of South America....
     (1817 - 1908)
  • Harry Kupfer
    Harry Kupfer

    Harry Kupfer is a Germany List of opera directors known for his avant-garde productions of Richard Wagner, which often got him into trouble under the former communist regime of East Germany....
     (b. 1935)
  • William Lindley
    William Lindley

    William Lindley , was a famous England engineer who together with his sons designed water supply and sewerage systems for over 30 cities across Europe....
     (1808 - 1900)
  • Helmut Losch
    Helmut Losch

    Helmut Losch was a world class German Democratic Republic weightlifter from the 1970s.Losch competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics and finished fourth in the Weightlifting at the 1972 Summer Olympics....
     (1947 - 2005)
  • Ulrike Maisch
    Ulrike Maisch

    Ulrike Maisch is a long-distance Running from Germany, who won the women's marathon at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden....
     (b. 1977)
  • Hermann von Mallinckrodt (1821 - 1874)
  • Angela Merkel
    Angela Merkel

    , is the Chancellor of Germany . Merkel, elected to the Bundestag from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, has been the chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union since 9 April 2000, and Chairwoman of the CDU-CSU parliamentary party group from 2002 to 2005....
     (b. 1954), politician
  • Silke Möller
    Silke Möller

    Silke M?ller, n?e Gladisch is a Germany track and field athlete, who in the 1980s competed for East Germany as one of the best female sprinters in the world....
     (b. 1960)
  • Arnold Ruge
    Arnold Ruge

    Arnold Ruge was a Germany philosopher and politics writer....
     (1802 - 1880)
  • Carl Wilhelm Scheele
    Carl Wilhelm Scheele

    Carl Wilhelm Scheele was a Germany-Sweden pharmaceutical chemist, born in Stralsund, Western Pomerania, Germany . He was the discoverer of many chemical substances, most notably discovering oxygen , molybdenum and chlorine before Humphry Davy....
     (1742 - 1786)
  • Ferdinand von Schill
    Ferdinand von Schill

    Ferdinand Baptista von Schill was a Kingdom of Prussia officer who revolted unsuccessfully against First French Empire domination in May 1809....
     (1776 - 1809)
  • Georg Friedrich Schömann
    Georg Friedrich Schömann

    Georg Friedrich Sch?mann , was a Germany classical scholar.He was born at Stralsund in Pomerania. In 1827 he was appointed professor of ancient literature and eloquence in the University of Greifswald; it was there that he died....
     (1793 - 1879)


  • Friedrich Spielhagen (1829 - 1911), writer
  • Leonhard Tietz
    Leonhard Tietz

    Leonhard Tietz was born March 3, 1849 in Birnbaum an der Warthe, Province of Posen, Prussia and died November 14, 1914). He was a Germany merchant of Jewish origin....
    (1849 - 1914), merchant
  • Christian Ehrenfried Weigel
    Christian Ehrenfried Weigel

    Christian Ehrenfried Weigel was a Germany scientist and, beginning in 1774, a professor of Chemistry, Pharmacy, Botany, and Mineralogy at the University of Greifswald....
     (1748 - 1831)
  • Georg Wertheim
    Georg Wertheim

    Georg Wertheim was a German merchant and founder of the popular Wertheim chain of department stores.Wertheim grew up in Stralsund. After being an apprentice at Wolff and Apolant, Wertheim along with his brother Hugo, took over in 1876 their parents' haberdashery, founded in 1875....
    (1857 - 1939), merchant


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