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In 1628 the imperial troops tried unsuccessfully to capture Stralsund. [General] Wallenstein exclaimed that he must conquer Stralsund if the city was chained to Heaven! The city received support from the Danish General Holcken ... In the course of the winter Wallenstein abandoned the siege. Johann Heinrich Zedler: Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon aller Künste und Wissenschaften. 1744. |
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| Stralsund quickly became one of the most important Hanse cities. In 1249 the city was in fact attacked by Lübeck out of fear of competition. In 1316 Stralsund warded off a Danish attack. By then the city had become one of the most important Hanseatic cities after Lübeck. In 1370, in the Treaty of Stralsund, the Hanseatic League won the right to confirm the election of the Danish King. New trading routes reduced the importance of the Hanse and Stralsund in the course of the 1500s. In 1629-1814 Stralsund was under Swedish rule, and Prussian later. After World War II the city became part of the GDR. |
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Exhibits
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The Treaty of Stralsund, signed on 24th May 1370, concluded many years of war between Denmark under King Valdemar Atterdag and the Hanseatic cities. Of the 31 original seals, 19 have been preserved.
Stadtarchiv, Stralsund.
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The Siege of Stralsund in 1628, when Swedish troops, with Danish support, resisted a German Catholic attacking force. Contemporary print.
Det Nationalhistoriske Museum på Frederiksborg Slot, Hillerød
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The Swedish King Gustav Adolf comes ashore in Pomerania in 1630. Oil painting. Stiftelsen Läckö
Instituttet, Läckö.
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The Siege of Stralsund in 1678, when the Swedish city was captured by Danish and Brandenburg forces. Drawing by Erik Dahlberg.
Riksarkivet, Stockholm.
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Georg Philip Rugendas
Oil painting of the Capture of Stralsund, 1715. The Swedish forces in Stralsund capitulated on 23rd December 1715 to the combined Danish-Prussian-Russian army.
Det Nationalhistoriske Museum på Frederiksborg Slot, Hillerød.
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Three models of cannons that belonged to the Swedish General Axel von Löwen. In 1722 he suggested the establishment of a Swedish galley fleet for the defence of Finland against Russia.
Kulturhistorisches Museum der Hansestadt Stralsund.
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Seal stamp of the city of Stralsund from 1329 showing a cog and the symbol of the city: an arrow.
Kulturhistorisches Museum der Hansestadt Stralsund.
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Four reliefs from the pews of the Novgorod traders in the St. Nicolai Church, Stralsund, c. 1350-1400. The reliefs show how the important trading goods furs and honey were procured.
Evangelische Kirchengemeinde St. Nicolai, Stralsund.
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Medal struck in 1716 to mock the Swedish King Karl XII when he had lost Stralsund.
Kulturhistorisches Museum der Hansestadt Stralsund.
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Model of the refrigerator trawler Seiner, which was built at Volkswerft Stralsund, one of the GDR’s most important yards.
Kulturhistorisches Museum der Hansestadt Stralsund.
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Figures of the two thieves from a Calvary scene on the former altarpiece, 1633, in Krogstrup Church, North Zealand, presumably carved in a workshop in Stralsund. Nationalmuseet, Danmarks
Nationalmuseet, Danmarks Middelalder og Renæssance, Copenhagen.
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Tom Beyer: The Shipyard Viewed towards the Rügen Dam. The painting is an example of the ‘Socialist Realism’ that was characteristic of the GDR.
Kulturhistorisches Museum der Hansestadt Stralsund.
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The axe served as the symbol of office for the harbourmaster in Stralsund at the end of the nineteenth century.
Kulturhistorisches Museum der Hansestadt Stralsund.
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The bark Eugen, Captain W. Lachmund. Painting from 1858.
Kulturhistorisches Museum der Hansestadt Stralsund.
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Medal struck to commemorate the Catholic General Wallenstein’s unsuccessful siege of Stralsund in 1628.
Kulturhistorisches Museum der Hansestadt Stralsund.