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7 unusual facts about Western Pomerania


Friedland, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

It is only 22km from the county seat and bigger city Neubrandenburg, but still Friedland remains a local center for surrounding communities like Galenbeck (Kotelow, Lübbersdorf, Schwichtenberg), Brunn and Boldekow, and has approximately 6200 citizens.

Henry Bolckow

Heinrich Bölckow, the son of Heinrich Bölckow of Varchow, in the region of Western Pomerania, and his wife, Caroline Duscher, was born at Sülten in the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

Henry X Rumpold

Under the service of Emperor Sigismund, Henry X was a mediator in international affairs, and he was sent in a diplomatic mission to Denmark, where after successfully negotiations with the King Eric, was arranged his betrothal with the King's first cousin Adelaide (b. 1410 - d. aft. 1445), daughter of Duke Bogislaw VIII of Pomerania-Stargard; but he died soon after in a military camp in Flubsberg.

Matthias Schweighöfer

Born in Anklam, Western Pomerania, Schweighöfer attended the renowned acting school Hochschule für Schauspielkunst "Ernst Busch", but dropped out after one year.

Ryszard Kotla

; the author of over 20 guide books, albums, folders, information leaflets about Szczecin and Western Pomerania; a member of the Polish Association of Art Historians and the Polish Association for the History of Technology.

Study of Health in Pomerania

For SHIP-0,a sample of 7008 women and men aged 20 to 79 years was drawn in the cities of Greifswald, Stralsund and Anklam and 29 communities in the surrounding region which is part of West Pomerania, a region in the northeast of Germany, adjacent to the Baltic Sea in the north and to the Polish border in the east.

Vollrath von Maltzan

Vollrath von Maltzan belonged to a long line of German nobility from Western Pomerania and Mecklenburg.


Borrentin

Borrentin is a municipality in the Mecklenburgische Seenplatte district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany.

Cape Arcona Type Foundry

For the sake of political correctness the founders always stated that the Cape Arcona Type Foundry was not named after the destroyed luxury liner SS Cap Arcona (the ship was named after Cape Arkona on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany).

Kirsten Emmelmann

Kirsten Emmelmann, née Siemon (April 19, 1961 in Warnemünde, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), is a former German track and field athlete who represented East Germany in the 1980s in the 400 meter sprint.

Max Wagenknecht

He was born in Woldisch Tychow, Pomerania, Free State of Prussia and spent most of his life in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania region where he was music teacher at the Franzburg Teachers’ College and in his later life organist and composer in Anklam.

Ostprignitz-Ruppin

Neighboring are (from north clockwise) the districts Müritz and Mecklenburg-Strelitz in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the districts

Philipp Otto Runge

Runge was born as the 9th of 11 children in Wolgast, Western Pomerania, then under Swedish rule, in a family of shipbuilders with ties to the Prussian nobility of Sypniewski / von Runge family.

Richtenberger See

The Richtenberger See (also: Franzburg-Richtenberger See) is a lake between the towns of Franzburg and Richtenberg in Western Pomerania in northeast Germany.

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.


see also

Baltic Sea watchtower

Baltic Sea watchtower, Börgerende, in the village of Börgerende, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Baltic Sea watchtower, Kühlungsborn, in the village of Kühlungsborn, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Dambeck

:For Dambeck in Western Pomerania, see Groß Kiesow.

Land of Słupsk-Sławno

Grandmaster Siegfried von Feuchtwangen and Master Heinrich von Dirschau und Schwetz integrated the region of Western Pomerania into the Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights.

Lassan

Lassan, Germany, a town in Vorpommern-Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany

New Western Pomerania

New Western Pomerania was part of the Prussian province of Pomerania and, from 1818, formed the administrative district of Stralsund, but for a time, retained a special legal status.

Old Western Pomerania

The name Old Western Pomerania was first used when that area of Swedish Pomerania that had been remained with Sweden after the Treaty of Stockholm, later transferred to Prussia under the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and was named New Western Pomerania.

Wesenberg

Wesenberg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, part of the Amt Mecklenburgische Kleinseenplatte, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany