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WISMAR , a seaport town of Germany, in the grand-duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, situated on the Bay of Wismar, one of the best harbours on the Baltic, zo m. by rail N. of Schwerin. Pop. (1905) 21,902. The town is well and regularly built, with broad and straight streets, and contains numerous handsome and quaint buildings in the northern Gothic
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paper , roofing-felt and asphalt. There is a considerable trade, especially by sea, the exports including grain , oil-seeds and butter, and the imports coal, timber and iron. The harbour is deep enough to admit vessels of 17-ft. draught , and permits large steamers to unload along its quays. Two miles from Wismar lies the watering-place of Wendorf.Wismar is said to have received civic rights in 1229, and came into the possession of Mecklenburg in 1301. In the 13th and 14th centuries it was a flourishing Hanse town, with important woollen factories. Though a plague carried off ro,000 of the inhabitants in 1376, the town seems to have remained tolerably prosperous until the 16th century. By the peace of Westphalia in 1648 it passed to Sweden, with a lordship to which it gives its name. In 1803 Sweden pledged both town and lordship to Mecklenburg for 1,258,000 thalers, reserving, however, the right of redemption after loo years. In view of this contingent right of Sweden, Wismar was not represented in the diet of Mecklenburg until 1897. In 1903 Sweden finally renounced its claims. Wismar still retains a few relics of its old liberties, including the right to fly its own flag. See Burmeister, Beschreibung von Wismar (Wismar, 1857) ; Willgeroth, Geschichte der Stadt Wismar, pt. i. (Wismar, 1898) ; and Bruno Schmidt, Der Schwedisch-mecklenburgische Pfandvertrag s ber Stadt and Herrschaft Wismar ( Leipzig
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