Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #1 in Rostock, Germany

The Christuskirche was a Catholic church on Schröderplatz in the city center of Rostock. It was consecrated in 1909 and blown up in 1971 for alleged urban planning reasons. The new Christuskirche, which was built elsewhere in a residential area as a replacement, bears the same name.

Wikipedia: Christuskirche (Rostock) (DE)

The Kröpeliner Tor was built in the Gothic style around 1270 as the westernmost of the four large gates of Rostock's city fortifications. Even then, it was very large with its two floors and remained one of the most massive of the up to 22 city gates at times. Whether it was named after the small town of Kröpelin, in the direction of which it leads, or after a patrician family of the same name, is still disputed today. It represents the western end of Kröpeliner Straße.

Wikipedia: Kröpeliner Tor (DE), Website

Rostock's city fortifications enclosed the city of Rostock since the middle of the 13th century. After the original city centres of Rostock's three constituent cities had officially united into one city in 1265, the joint, approximately three-kilometre-long city wall was built, which had more than 20 city gates. These were divided into "land" and "beach gates", depending on whether they led to the Mecklenburg hinterland or to the city harbour on the Unterwarnow.

Wikipedia: Rostocker Stadtbefestigung (DE)

The Abbey of the Holy Cross in Rostock, Germany, was founded in the 13th century by Cistercian nuns. It is the only fully preserved abbey in the city. The complex includes the former abbey church which is used today as the University Church (Universitätskirche). The remaining former convent buildings house the Museum of Cultural History for the city of Rostock.

Wikipedia: Abbey of the Holy Cross, Rostock (EN)

The Blücher monument in Rostock commemorates Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, the Rostock-born commander of the anti-Napoleonic wars of liberation. The bronze figure stands on a pedestal, the four sides of which are decorated with bronze reliefs. The monument in honour of Rostock's first honorary citizen was unveiled on 26 August 1819 on the Hopfenmarkt.

Wikipedia: Blücherdenkmal (Rostock) (DE)

St. Mary's Church, Rostock, in German Marienkirche, is the biggest of three town churches found in the Hanseatic city of Rostock, in northern Germany. The other two are St. Peter's (Petrikirche) and St. Nicholas (Nikolaikirche). A fourth, St. James' (Jakobikirche), was heavily damaged during the Second World War and subsequently demolished. St. Mary's was designated in 1265 as the main parish church. Since the Protestant Reformation in 1531, it houses a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Mecklenburg.

Wikipedia: St. Mary's Church, Rostock (EN), Website

The list of memorials and stumbling stones in Rostock contains the plaques embedded in the ground in the Hanseatic City of Rostock, which commemorate the fate of people who were murdered, deported, expelled or driven to suicide under National Socialism. As in Gunter Demnig's Stolpersteine project, the stones are embedded slabs in front of the victims' homes or places of work, but are not directly related to Demnig's works. The stones have been laid in Rostock since 2000 on the initiative of the Association of Friends and Patrons of the Max Samuel House. They consist of larger stone slabs that show signs of fracture and abrasion. After Demnig did not agree to the further use of the originally used term "stumbling stone", the stones laid since 2016 are referred to as "memorial stones". The new stones were given a different look and are more weather-resistant than those laid until 2016.

Wikipedia: Liste der Stolpersteine in Rostock (DE), Website

The St. Nicholas Church of the Hanseatic City of Rostock was built from 1230 onwards and is therefore considered one of the oldest surviving hall churches in the Baltic Sea region. It is one of the three surviving large parish churches in the city and named after Bishop Nicholas of Myra. Like St. Mary's Church and St. Peter's Church, it belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Inner City Parish of Rostock in the Provost's Office of Rostock in the Mecklenburg church district of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany.

Wikipedia: Nikolaikirche (Rostock) (DE), Website

The Documentation and Memorial Site (DuG) in the former remand prison of the Stasi district administration in Rostock focuses on the work of the Ministry of State Security (MfS) of the GDR and commemorates its victims. It is one of the best-preserved pre-trial detention centers of the MfS. The DuG is embedded in the Documentation Centre of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania for the Victims of Dictatorships in Germany and was operated until August 2017 by the Rostock branch of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records (BStU) in cooperation with the University of Rostock. Between 2017 and 2021, the DuG was closed for renovation. In 2021, the State Agency for Civic Education Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania took over the sponsorship.

Wikipedia: Dokumentations- und Gedenkstätte des BStU in der ehemaligen U-Haft der Stasi in Rostock (DE), Website