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6 unusual facts about Rostock


Gnewitz

Located 30 kilometres east of Rostock the town's name comes from the Slavic Gnevu meaning the place of angry people.

Gutow

Gutow, Rostock, a municipality in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Mönchhagen

The municipality of Mönchhagen lies to the east of the Hanseatic City of Rostock in a predominantly flat region that is drained by the stream of the Peezer Bach into the bay of Breitling.

Roggentin

The letter processing center for the greater Rostock area is located in Roggentin.

Steinhagen

Steinhagen, Rostock, in the district of Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Wilhelm Klingenberg

Wilhelm Paul Albert Klingenberg (28 January 1924 Rostock, Mecklenburg, Germany – 14 October 2010 Röttgen, Bonn) was a German mathematician who worked on differential geometry and in particular on closed geodesics.


Alanus de Rupe

From 1459 to 1475 he taught almost uninterruptedly at Paris, Lille, Douay, Ghent, and Rostock in Germany, where, in 1473, he was made Master of Sacred Theology.

Baltic Cable

After crossing the peninsula at Priwall the cable runs at first parallel to the coast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in order to turn behind Rostock north-easterly toward Sweden.

Christian Dettweiler

He was a student of Pharmacy and in 1942 received a PhD in Botany (Plant Physiology) and was a Scientific Assistant at the Universities of Rostock and Stuttgart.

Confederation of Cologne

Since this peace was not enforceable the cities of Lübeck, Rostock, Stralsund, Wismar, Kulm, Thorn, Elbing, Kampen, Harderwyk, Elburg, Amsterdam and Briel signed the confederatio for war against Danmark and Norway.

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

Fahrenheit's great-grandfather had lived in Rostock, and research suggests that the Fahrenheit family originated in Hildesheim.

Force Attack

Force Attack is a music festival, which is organized every year on the last July weekend in Behnkenhagen in the municipality Süderholz near Rostock.

Franciscus Pahr

In the 1550s, together with his father and Dominicus, Pahr contributed to building the Silesian Brzeg Castle of Brzeg and supervised the construction of fortifications at Rostock and Schwerin.

Georg Hans Madelung

Georg Hans Madelung (born 31 July 1889 in Rostock, died 17 August 1972 in Uffing) was a German academic and aeronautical engineer.

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Born in Nossendorf, Pomerania, the son of an estate owner, Syberberg lived until 1945 in Rostock and Berlin.

Heinkel HeS 1

The engineers were convinced, and in April, von Ohain and Hahn were set up at Heinkel's works at the Marienehe airfield outside Rostock, Germany in Warnemünde.

Heinz Neukirchen

Heinz Neukirchen (* January 13, 1915 in Duisburg, Germany † December 8, 1986 in Rostock, Germany) was officer in the World War II Kriegsmarine, Vice Admiral in the People's Navy (Volksmarine) of the German Democratic Republic as well as President of the East German Directorate of Maritime and Port Industries.

Hermann Kretzschmar

In 1876 he became theatre orchestra conductor in Metz, and undertook research expeditions in England and Italy for the study of musical history; from 1877 to 1887 he was an academic and state music director in Rostock.

HSL Logistik

As of 2012 HSl Logistik provides shunting services at terminals in Bremen, Rostock and Seelze, transportation by train including path ordering, spot hire and one off locomotive hire.

Johan Adler Salvius

In 1612 he started his studies in Uppsala, but also visited the Protestant universities of Rostock and Helmstedt where he studied philosophy.

Johan Jacob Döbelius

Johan Jacob Döbelius, professor of medicine (1674 in Rostock, Germany – 1743 in Lund, Sweden)

Johannes Veghe

In 1451 he entered the house of the Brethren of the Common Life of Münster, in 1469 became first rector of the house of the Brethren at Rostock, returned to Münster in 1471, and was made rector there in 1475.

Karlsruhe-class cruiser

Rostock served as a torpedo boat flotilla leader with the High Seas Fleet following her commissioning; her flotilla frequently screened for the battlecruisers in the I Scouting Group, including during the Battle of Dogger Bank in January 1915 and operations off the British coast in early 1916.

KUHS

Kuhs, a municipality in the Rostock district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Marienehe Charterhouse

The site was later used for the construction of the Heinkel works, and after the war for the Rostock Fischkombinat ("fishery centre").

Mecklenburg Railway Company

On 10 March 1846 the Company received a concession to build a railway from Hagenow via Schwerin to Wismar as well as from Bad Kleinen via Bützow to Rostock and Güstrow.

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

It also offers important historical cities, such as Stralsund, Wismar, Greifswald and Rostock as former Hanseatic cities - or Schwerin, Güstrow, Ludwigslust and Neustrelitz as former residences.

MS Bluefort

PK-banken chartered her to TT-Line and she started operating under their brand TR-Line's route TrelleborgRostock on December 30.

Puttgarden station

In 1961, a large ferry terminal was built in Puttgarden and in 1963 it was put into operation together with the Fehmarn Sound Bridge, because the traditional ferry from Germany to Denmark between Rostock-Warnemünde and Gedser was at the time beyond the Iron Curtain, and the replacement route from Großenbrode Quay to Gedser was too complicated.

Rostock Piranhas

The team's home ice is the Eishalle Rostock at the Schillingallee in the Kröpeliner-Tor-Vorstadt (KTV) area of Rostock, next to DKB-Arena.

RV Maria S. Merian

The Merian was financed by the German government and is assigned to the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research at Warnemünde, with Rostock as its home port.

RV Sonne

An order worth Euro 124.4 millions for a new geoscientific research ship was placed with Neptun Werft, Rostock in May 2011.

SIV.AG

The company employs at present about 300 employees at its head office in Roggentin before the gates of the Hanseatic and University City Rostock (University of Rostock) in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania as well as in the settlements Böblingen, Magdeburg and Meerbusch.

Søylen Eiendom

Søylen Eiendom is the owner of several properties in Oslo, Tønsberg and Moss in Norway as well as in Rostock, Germany and Zurich, Switzerland.

SS Donau

SS Donau (Rostock, 1922) was a 2,575 ton cargo ship completed as the Osterndorf for the Vinnen Bros in June 1922, by Neptun AG in Rostock, Germany.

SS Donau (1939) was a 2,931 ton cargo ship completed in March 1939, by Neptun AG in Rostock, Germany.

SS Westfalen

SS Westfalen (1900) was a 2,384 ton cargo ship completed in March 1901, by Neptun Werft in Rostock, Germany.

StattAuto

In 2004 StattAuto started offering carsharing services in Berlin, Hamburg, Potsdam and Rostock.

Theophil Großgebauer

Theophil Großgebauer (24 November 1627, Ilmenau – 8 July 1661, Rostock) was a German theologian active at the University of Rostock, most notable for his work Wächterstimme aus dem verwüsteten Zion.

Warin

2 km to the south of Warin, on the northern edge of Blankenberg, there is a railway line which ultimately connects to Berlin Hauptbahnhof, approximately 180 km, to the south east, should visitors wish to travel to Warin for a relaxing time, or for the Warinese to experience a dramatic change of pace in the metropolis of Berlin, as an alternative to Hamburg or Rostock.

Wartislaw III, Duke of Pomerania

First, a Mecklenburgian expedition led by Henry Borwin III of Mecklenburg-Rostock annexed most of Circipania, the western part of the duchy comprising the terrae Gnoien, Altkalen and Demmin, leaving only the residential burgh of Demmin under Wartislaw's control.

Wiesenburg–Roßlau railway

Passenger services in the 1970s and 1980s included express trains on the RostockPotsdamKarl-Marx-Stadt and on the Berlin–Belzig–Dessau–Aschersleben routes.


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