Rostock

Rostock is a metropolis within the north German kingdom Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Rostock is on the Warnow river; the district of Warnemunde, 12 kilometres north of the town centre, is without delay at the Baltic Sea coast. Rostock is the biggest city in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, as well as its best regiopolis. Rostock is domestic to one of the oldest universities within the global, the University of Rostock, founded in 1419. The town territory of Rostock stretches for approximately 20 km alongside the Warnow to the Baltic Sea. The largest built-up location of Rostock is on the western facet of the river.

The japanese a part of its territory is ruled by using commercial estates and the forested Rostock Heath. In the eleventh century Polabian Slavs founded a agreement at the Warnow river called Roztoc; the call Rostock is derived from that designation. The Danish king Valdemar I set the city on fire in 1161. During the first partition of Mecklenburg following the death of Henry Borwin II of Mecklenburg in 1226, Rostock became the seat of the Lordship of Rostock, which survived for nearly a century. In 1251, the city have become a member of the Hanseatic League.