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1648—1815: Sweden
After the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), Greifswald and the region surrounding it officially became part of the Kingdom of Sweden as a result of the Thirty Years' War. Swedish Pomerania, as it was then called, remained part of the Swedish kingdom until 1815, when it became part of Prussia as the Province of Pomerania. The Thirty Years' War caused much starvation all over Germany, and by 1630, Greifswald's population had shrunk by two thirds. Many buildings were left vacant and fell into decay. Soon other wars followed: the Swedish-Polish War and the Swedish-Brandenburg War both involved the then Swedish town of Greifswald. In 1659 and 1678, Brandenburg troops bombarded the town. The first bombardment hit principally the northeast of the town, where 16 houses burned down. The second bombardment levelled 30 houses and damaged hundreds more all over the town. Cannon balls of this second bombardment can still be seen in the walls of St Mary's Church today. During the Northern War (1711-1713), Greifswald had to house soldiers, who vandalized several homes. In 1713, the town hall and the stables burned down. In 1736, an even greater fire destroyed 26 houses and damaged several others. In 1669 and 1689, the Swedish government issued decrees (Freiheitspatente) absolving anyone of taxes who built or rebuilt a house. These decrees were in force, though frequently modified, until 1824.[3] In 1763, Greifswald Botanic Garden was founded.
1815—today: Germany
About 1900, the city - for the first time since the Middle Ages -expanded significantly beyond the old city walls. Also, a major railway connected Greifswald to Stralsund and Berlin; a local railway line further connected Greifswald to Wolgast. The city survived World War II without much destruction, even though it housed a large army garrison. In April 1945, Oberst Rudolf Petershagen surrendered the city to the Red Army without a fight. From 1949 to 1989, Greifswald was part of the German Democratic Republic. During this time, most historical buildings in the medieval parts of the city were neglected and a number of old buildings were pulled down. The population increased significantly, because of the construction of a power plant in Lubmin, which was closed in the early 1990s. New suburbs were erected in the monolithic industrial socialist style (see Plattenbau). They still house most of the city's population. These new suburbs were placed east and southeast of central Greifswald, shifting the former town center to the northwestern edge of the modern city. Reconstruction of the old town began in the late 1980s. Nearly all has now been restored. Before that almost all of the old northern town adjacent to the port was demolished and subsequently rebuilt. The historic marketplace is especially worth mentioning, and is one of the most beautiful in northern Germany. The city attracts many tourists, due to its proximity to the Baltic Sea. Greifswald's greatest population was reached in 1988, with about 68,000 inhabitants, but it decreased afterwards to 55,000, where it has now stabilised. Reasons for this included migration to western cities as well as suburbanisation. However, the number of students quadrupled from 3,000 in 1990 to more than 11,000 in 2007 and the university employs 5,000 people; nearly one in three people in Greifswald are linked in some way to higher education. Despite its relatively small population, Greifswald retains a supra-regional relevance linked to its intellectual role as a university town and to the taking of the central functions of the former Prussian Province of Pomerania after World War II, such as the seat of the bishop of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church, the state archives (Landesarchiv) and the Pomeranian Museum (Pommersches Landesmuseum). Three courts of the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern are also based at Greifswald: * the Supreme Administrative Court (Oberverwaltungsgericht); * the Supreme Constitutional Court (Landesverfassungsgericht); and * the Financial Court (Finanzgericht)
City Council
Politics in Greifswald, as in most of Western Pomerania, is traditionally dominated by the conservative CDU. The city council is elected for five year terms. Since the last election on 13 June 2004, the 42 city council seats are allocated as follows: * CDU (conservatives) - 16 seats * Left Party (socialists) - 9 seats * SPD (social democrats) - 8 seats * Greens - 3 seats * FDP (liberals) - 2 seats * others - 4 seats
Culture
Greifswald has a number of museums and exhibitions, most notably the Pomeranian State Museum (German: Pommersches Landesmuseum): history of Pomerania and arts, including works by Caspar David Friedrich, a native of Greifswald. The University of Greifswald also has a large number of collections, some of which are on display for the public. Bearing in mind the population of only 55,000 people, Greifswald offers a wide range of events, for instance: * Theater Vorpommern: theatre, orchestra and opera * Stadthalle Greifswald: medium-sized convention centre * Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Greifswald is one of several sites of the state's classical music festival * Nordischer Klang is the largest festival of Nordic culture outside of the Nordic countries themselves * Bach festival * Eldena Jazz Evenings * Gaffelrigg summer fair * Museumshafen: historic ships in the "museum port" * regular literary events in the Koeppenhaus * St. Spiritus cultural centre * Greifswald International Students Festival (GrIStuF e. V.) * Radio 98eins (open radio) * Greifswald Night of Music (Greifswalder Musiknacht) * Greifswald long-ship festival (Greifswalder Drachenbootfest)
Description
Coordinates: 54°5′0″N 13°23′0″E / 54.08333°N 13.38333°E / 54.08333; 13.38333 Greifswald (German pronunciation: [ˈɡÊaɪ̯fsvalt][2]) is a town in northeastern Germany. Situated approximately 200 km to the north of Berlin in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, it borders the Baltic Sea and is crossed by a small river called the Ryck. The population is about 55,000, including 12,500 students and 5,000 employees of the University of Greifswald. Besides the university, the town is internationally known because of the construction of the Nord Stream gas-pipeline between Russia and Germany.
Economy
Greifswald and Stralsund are the largest cities in the Vorpommern part of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Of great importance to the city's economy is the local university with its 12,000 students and nearly 5,000 employees in addition to many people employed at independent research facilities such as the Friedrich Loeffler Institute and spin-off firms. Greifswald is also the seat of the bishopry of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church as well as the seat of the state's chief constitutional court, and chief financial court. Tourism plays a vital role as Greifswald is situated between the islands of Rügen and Usedom on the popular German Baltic coast, which brings in many tourists. One of Europe's largest producers of photovoltaic modules, Berlin-based Solon SE, has a production site in Greifswald. The world's third largest producer of yachts worldwide, Hanse Yachts, is based in Greifswald. In the energy sector, a transnational gas pipeline from Russia to Germany will stop in Lubmin (near Greifswald). The Danish company DONG Energy intends to build a power station, Kraftwerke Greifswald in Lubmin, 20 km from Greifswald. Riemser Arzeimittel is a pharmaceutical company based on the island of Riems, which is part of the city of Greifswald. Siemens Communications F & E produces goods here as well. In a 2008 study [4], Greifswald was declared Germany's most dynamic city. According to another 2008 study, Greifswald is the "youngest city" in Germany having the highest number of households lead by people under 30 years of age.[5]
Geography
Greifswald is located near the Bay of Greifswald, which is the part of the Baltic Sea between the islands of Rügen and Usedom. The Ryck River passes through the old town, which is 5 kilometers (3 mi) from the Dänische Wieck ("Danish Bay", on the southern end of the Bay of Greifswald). The small nearby islands of Koos and Riems are also part of Greifswald. The area is flat, the highest point reaching only 36 metres above sealevel. The coastal part of Greifswald at the mouth of the Ryck, named Greifswald-Wieck, evolved from a fishing village. Today it provides a small beach, a marina and the main port for Greifswald.
Middle Ages and Reformation
In medieval times, the site of Greifswald was an unsettled woodland which marked the border between the Danish Principality of Rügen and the Pomeranian County of Gützkow, which at that time was also under Danish control. In 1199, the Rugian Prince Jaromar I allowed Danish Cistercian monks to build Hilda Abbey, now Eldena Abbey, at the mouth of the River Ryck. Among the lands granted the monks was a natural salt evaporation pond a short way up the river, a site also crossed by the important via regia trade route. This site was named Gryp(he)swold(e), which is the Low German precursor of the city's modern name. However, legend says the monks were shown the best site for settlement by a mighty griffin, living in a tree that was supposed to have grown on Greifswald's oldest street, the Schuhagen. The town's construction followed a scheme of rectangular streets, with church and market sites reserved in central positions. It was settled primarily with Germans in the course of the Ostsiedlung, but settlers from other nations and Wends from nearby were attracted, too. The salt trade helped Eldena Abbey to become a hugely influential religious centre, and Greifswald became a well-known market. When the Danes had to surrender the Pomeranian lands south of the Ryck after losing the Battle of Bornhöved in 1227, the town became of particular interest to the Pomeranian dukes. In 1241, the Rugian prince Wizlaw I and the Pomeranian duke Wartislaw III both granted Greifswald market rights. In 1250, the latter granted the town Lübeck law, after he had been permitted to acquire the town site as a fief from Eldena Abbey in 1248. When Jazco of Salzwedel from Gützkow founded a Franciscan friary within the walls of Greifswald, the Cistercians at Eldena lost much of their influence on the city's further development. Just beyond Greifswald's western limits, a town-like suburb (Neustadt) arose, separated from Greifswald by a ditch. In 1264, Neustadt was incorporated and the ditch was filled in. Eldena Abbey and the major buildings of Greifswald were erected in Brick Gothic style. Enjoying a steady population increase, Greifswald became at the end of the 13th century one of the earliest members of the Hanseatic League, which further increased its trade and wealth. After 1296, Greifswald's citizens no longer needed to serve in the Pomeranian army, and Pomeranian dukes would not reside in the city. In 1456, Greifswald's mayor Heinrich Rubenow laid the foundations of one of the oldest universities in the world, the University of Greifswald, which was one of the first in Germany, and was, periodically, the single oldest in Sweden and Prussia respectively. In the course of Reformation, Eldena Abbey ceased to function as a monastery. Its possessions fell to the Pomeranian dukes; the bricks of its Gothic buildings were used by the locals for other construction. Eldena lost its separate status and was later absorbed into the town of Greifswald. The religious houses within the town walls, the priories of the Blackfriars (Dominicans) in the northwest and the Greyfriars (Franciscans) in the southeast, were secularized. The buildings of the Dominicans (the "black monastery") were turned over to the university; the site is still used as part of the medical campus. The Franciscan friary ("the "grey monastery") and its succeeding buildings are now the Pomeranian State Museum.
Notable people
* Magnus von Braun, chemical engineer, aviator and rocket scientist * Caspar David Friedrich, Romantic painter * Hans Fallada, author * Wolfgang Koeppen, author * Toni Kroos, footballer * Josef Sommer, actor * Robin Szolkowy, pair figure skater * Kurt Wolff (aviator), World War I flying ace
Secondary schools
* Alexander-von-Humboldt-Gymnasium * Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Gymnasium (founded in 1561 as schola senatoria and one of the oldest schools still existing in Germany) * Johann-Gottfried-Herder-Gymnasium (fused with the Jahn-Gymnasium in 2006) * Ostseegymnasium
See also
* Pomerania, Hither Pomerania, Swedish Pomerania * Greif (brigantine) Robin Szolkowy, World Champion figure skater, 2008-2009
Transport
Greifswald can be reached by train from Hamburg, Berlin and Rostock. There are also train connections from and to Stralsund and the popular summer tourist destinations Usedom and Rügen. Greifswald has a port on the Baltic Sea. The city centre is about 3 km off the shore, but can be reached by small boats on the river Ryck. Greifswald is well connected with Hamburg and Berlin via the Autobahn 20, and Bundesstraße 105 and 109. Germany's capital city Berlin can be reached by car within two hours or less.
University
Founded in 1456, the University of Greifswald is one of the oldest universities in both Germany and Europe. Currently, about 11,000 students study at with five faculties: theology, law/economics, medicine, philosophy, and mathematics/natural sciences. The university co-operates with many research facilities, such as: * the Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (plasma physics) which its second site (after Garching) in Greifswald and is experimenting with a stellarator, Wendelstein 7-X. * Alfried Krupp Institute of Advanced Study * Friedrich Loeffler Institute on the Isle of Riems (National Research Institute for Animal Health) * Institut für Niedertemperatur-Plasmaphysik (Institute of Low Temperature Plasma Physics) * Technologiezentrum (Centre for Technology) * Biotechnikum (Centre for Bioscience)