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Encyclopedia Britannica



ROSTOCK

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 754 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RON-SAC
ROSTOCK , a town of Germany, in the grand duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, one of the most important commercial cities on the Baltic. It is situated on the left bank of the estuary of the Warnow, 8 m. from the port of Warnemunde on the Baltic. 177 M. N.W. of Berlin by rail, 8o m. N.E. of
Lubeck
 , and 106 m. S. of
Copenhagen
 . Pop. (1905) 60,790. It consists of three partsthe old town to the
east
 , and the middle and new towns to the westof which the first retains some of the antique features of a Hanse town, while the last two are for the most
part
  regularly and handsomely built. There are also several suburbs. The town has four
gates
 , one of them dating from the 14th century, and some fine squares, among them the
Blucher
  Platz, with a statue of
Blucher
 , who was born here, and the Neue Markt. Rostock was a fortress of some strength, but the old fortifications have been razed, and their site is occupied by promenades. Rostock has five old churches: St Mary's, dating from 1398 to 1472, one of the most imposing
Gothic
  buildings in Mecklenburg, with two Romanesque towers and containing a magnificent bronze font and a curious
clock
 ; St Nicholas's, begun about 1250 and restored in 1450, and again in 189o94; St Peter's, with a lofty tower over 400 ft. high, built in 1400, which serves as a landmark to ships at sea;
See
Reinhold
 , Chronik der Stadt Rostock (Rostock, 1836) ; Krabbe, Die Universitat Rostock im 15 and 16 Jahrhundert (2 vols., Rostock, 1854), Koppmann, Geschichte der Stadt Rostock (Rostock, 1887); Volckmann, Rarer durch Rostock (3rd ed., 1896) ; the Geschichtsquellen der Stadt Rostock (Rostock, 1885) ; and the Beitrage zur Geschichte der Stadt Rostock (Rostock, 1890).


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