Tourist Attractions in Greifswald

 
The old Hanseatic town of Greifswald lies 5km/3mi west of the outflow of the river Ryck into the Greifswalder Bodden, an offshoot of the Baltic. For centuries the town played an important part in maritime trade. The patriotic poet Ernst Moritz Arndt and the painter Caspar David Friedrich lived and worked in Greifswald.

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Greifswald grew up around the Hilda Monastery, which was founded in 1199. It was later dissolved and used as a residence, a university, a quarry, and eventually labeled an ancient monument and preserved.

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