Rostock, Hanseatic city
approx. 200,000 inhabitants
What would a beach be without beach chairs? The Rostock beach chair maker Wilhelm Bartelmann manufactured the first beach chair as a one-seater in 1882. One year later his wife opened the first beach-chair rental in Rostock-Warnemünde.
The old Hanseatic city Rostock is not only the gateway to the Baltic Sea. On a tour of the city you will encounter many brick buildings, Backsteinbauten, such as the mighty Church of our Lady - Marienkirche - or one of the historical city gates, Stadttore. Are you interested in ships? On board and on the quay of the Schiffbau- und Schifffahrtsmuseum - Shipbuilding and Shipping Museum - you can see everything from a dugout to state-of-the-art ships. Not only your children will be fascinated by the Rostock Zoo. When you are lazing about in the sun on the Warnemünde beach, don?t lie directly at the water's edge. From time to time the bow wave of a ferry floods the first metres of the beach.
Historical facts
Rostock - the melodious name conjures up pictures of sea-going ships, gable houses and Gothic brick churches. It was first mentioned in 1161 in a chronicle by the Danish scholar Saxo Grammaticus. At that time "Roztoc" still stood for a Slavic castle on the east bank of the Warnow. Around 1200 the west bank was populated by German craftsmen and merchants. This trading area was granted the Lübeck town charter rights in 1218...
Tourist-Information
Neuer Markt 3
18055 Rostock
phone: 0381-3812222
fax: 0381-3812602
e-mail: touristinfo@rostock.de
Internet: www.rostock.de