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  Greifswald
It is situated at the coast of the Baltic Sea and the mouth of the Ryck river.
After rapid growth Greifswald was one of the co-founders of the Hanseatic League at the end of the 13th century.
The town of Greifswald was captured by Sweden in 1631.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/gr/Greifswald.html   (151 words)

  
 Greifswald - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
GREIFSWALD, a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Pomerania, on the navigable Ryk, 3 m.
Greifswald is, however, best known to fame by reason of its university.
Greifswald was founded about 1240 by traders from the Netherlands.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Greifswald   (343 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: University of Greifswald
In 1436, when on account of dissensions among the townspeople, the University of Rostock was placed under interdict by the Council of Basle, it was removed to Greifswald with the consent of the same council, where it remained for seven years.
After the return of the university to Rostock, six professors remained at Greifswald, whereupon the burgomaster, Heinrich Rubenow, hismself a doctor of laws and a member of one of the most influential and aristocratic families of the city, conceived the idea of establishing a university in his native city.
At the instance of the Greifswald council, the preacher Johann Knipstro proclaimed the reformed dectrines in the city.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/07025a.htm   (882 words)

  
 Hanseatic City of Greifswald
Greifswald, Hanseatic City and university town, is situated between the two largest islands of Germany, the Isles of Rügen and Usedom.
The monastery "Hilda" was founded in 1199 by Cistercian monks and is regarded as the cradle of Greifswald.
The University of Greifswald was founded in 1456; it has been centre of tradition and constant source of innovation ever since.
www.vorpommern.de /1/english/index_hansestadt_greifswald.htm   (340 words)

  
 Dom St. Nikolai Greifswald: Medieval construction
A hall church with five bays and three aisles subdivided by octagonal rows of piers was constructed to the west of the old choir, at the western end of which work was begun at the same time on the cellar with horizontal glazed header beams.
One reason for the change of plan was presumably the intention to lend the Greifswald provost church the appropriate facilities for establishing a collegiate chapter or cathedral chapter.
As early as 1395 once the bulk of the choir designated on several occasions as novo choro in written sources dating from 1411 may have been completed, are the clerics at St. Nikolai were allowed to wear special headwear, the beret, otherwise generally reserved for founders of cathedrals and collegiate churches.
www.dom-greifswald.de /Medie.251.0.html   (601 words)

  
 The history of physics in Greifswald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In 1918 Seeliger became a professor of physics in Greifswald and developed himself in the following period as one of the pioneers of gas discharge physics and plasma physics.
Physics in Greifswald is dominated through the school of Seeliger, whereby new theoretical and experimental methods have found entrance in the classical physics of gasdischarges.
A further important fact for the physics of gasdischarges in Greifswald is the institute for low temperature plasma physics at the university (INP), a former institution of the academy of science.
www.physik.uni-greifswald.de /general/physik.hist.html   (488 words)

  
 Greifswald
Well-known to all Greifswald people, the Greifswald rubbish dump situated in the north of the town is nowadays a green and idyllic place to look at.
The building process was completed with facilities for a simultaneous precipitation, the treatment of problematic waste water, the operation of sewage pumping stations, an intermediate storage of waste water, and furthermore by a screening and sand washing plant and an exhaust air treatment plant.
Besides Greifswald, also the municipalities of Friedrichshagen, Neuenkirchen, Wampen, Wackerow, Hinrichshagen, Potthagen and Weitenhagen are connected to the waste water treatment plant.
www.uni-greifswald.de /SER2006/excursion_greifswald.html   (470 words)

  
 Greifswald | Stadt- und Studieninformationen von der Deutschen Burschenschaft
Greifswald kann somit eine persönliche und intensive Betreuung anbieten.
Die Greifswalder Burschenschaft Rugia wurde 1856 gegründet und zählt heute mit einer Aktivitas von etwa 15 Studenten zu den zahlenmäßig größeren Verbindungen in Greifswald.
In Greifswald gibt es zwei Mitgliedsbünde der Deutschen Burschenschaft.
www.burschenschaft.de /studieninformationen/greifswald.htm   (1304 words)

  
 Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald is located in Greifswald, Germany, between the Islands Rügen and Usedom, and is the second oldest university in Northern Europe.
Due to the size of the town of Greifswald, it is rather a university with a town than a town with a university.
The University of Greifswald was founded in 1456, due to the great commitment of the mayor (and first rector) of Greifswald, Heinrich Rubenow, in cooperation with Duke Wartislaw IX and Bishop Henning Iven at St. Nikolai Cathedral.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ernst_Moritz_Arndt_University_of_Greifswald   (565 words)

  
 The Greifswald Werewolves
1640 the German city of Greifswald became overrun with werewolves.
The population of these beasts grew so large that any human who ventured out after dark was in danger of being accosted by one of these beasts.
After it was over, the people of Greifswald, once again could venture out into the night.
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 Destination Germany - Top Events - Greifswald - Suggested excursions
Greifswald's location amid the stunning scenery of the holiday region between the Mecklenburg Lakes and the Baltic coast makes it the perfect base for day trips to the surrounding area.
The Western-Pomeranian Boddenlandschaft national park is not far from Greifswald, stretching from the Darss-Zingst peninsula along the coast towards the western waters around Rügen and Hiddensee islands.
The national park is famous for its diverse landscape and is home to a number of endangered species of plants and animals such as grey seals, white-tailed eagles and sea holly.
www.germany-tourism.de /ENG/destination_germany/master_tlevents-id1093-fstadt_ausflugstipps.htm   (389 words)

  
 Greifswald - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Greifswald (from German Greif, "griffin", and Wald, "forest") is a town in northeastern Germany.
As a result of the Thirty Years' War Greifswald became part of the Kingdom of Sweden in 1631 and remained Swedish until 1815, when it became part of Prussia.
Greifswald's old university campus, with audimax and main building, in the historic city centre.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greifswald   (647 words)

  
 MUFON-CES: The Greifswald Lights
Many sightings of what appeared to be groups of luminous spheres were reported in the early days of of August 1990 from the coast of the Baltic Sea between the cities of Rostock, Greifswald and the Isle of Ruegen and Usedom.
Hundreds of tourists and local residents from Greifswald, Rostock, the Isle of Ruegen, the Isle of Usedom and Neubrandenburg observed, photographed and filmed the phenomena.
Since the cameraman did not hold his camera steady, the objects had be to centered, frame by frame, in order to render the objects in the image motionless and to observe any movements of the group members.
www.mufon-ces.org /text/english/greifswald.htm   (3586 words)

  
 Greifswald - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Greifswald" at HighBeam.
Newport News mulls more sisterly city love: Greifswald, Germany, would be Newport News' third sister city, joining Neyagawa, Japan, and Taizhou, China.
The Ernst-Mortiz-Arndt University in Greifswald, Germany purchased an Applied Biosystems 4700 proteomic analyzer and Qstar XL.(Mass spectrometry: sales/orders of note)(Brief Article)
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-greifswa.html   (271 words)

  
 Auslandssemester Greifswald - eine Studentin aus Minneapolis zu Gast in Greifswald
Auslandssemester Greifswald - eine Studentin aus Minneapolis zu Gast in Greifswald
Another difference I found between Greifswald and Minneapolis was the fact that there are only about 40 dental students per class, and the students are paired up and share a chair, so they’re operating half the time and assisting the other half.
However, since the students at Greifswald find their own patients, I didn’t have much work to do during the beginning of my stay.
www.dental.uni-greifswald.de /ausland/incoming/greifswald.html   (680 words)

  
 INP Greifswald - Workshop on Infrared Plasma Spectroscopy 2006
June, 2006, in the INP in the town of Greifswald, Germany.
This Workshop is the first conference which brings together physicists and chemists from different laboratories who are applying spectroscopic methods in the infrared spectral region for investigating gas discharges.
The workshop will be held in the INP Greifswald, which is a 10 minutes walk from the Parkhotel and 15 minutes from Greifswald's city centre.
www.inp-greifswald.de /ips2006.nsf/index?OpenPage&Eintrag=2937BB077802D040C1257178004613C6   (740 words)

  
 Destination Germany - Top Events - Greifswald - Places of interest
The vibrant university and Hanseatic town of Greifswald is situated on the small river Ryck between the islands of Rügen and Usedom on the Greifswald lagoon.
It lies on the European Route of Brick Gothic Architecture and is known for its picturesque churches and the old town with its magnificent gabled houses.
Among the oldest buildings in Greifswald are two impressive brick-built gabled houses which date back to the Hanseatic era.
www.germany-tourism.de /ENG/destination_germany/master_tlevents-id1093-fstadt_sight.htm   (385 words)

  
 information about the hanseatic and university city of Greifswald on the Baltic Sea
Greifswald (the translation means forest of the griffin) was founded in 1250 and today is a city of about 55000 inhabitants on the coastline of the German Baltic Sea.
You will find it on the mainland between the islands of Rügen and Usedom.
This small tourism website has set a clear and brief description of Greifswald as its goal focusing on the highlights of culture and architecture of this ancient hanseatic and university city.
www.greifswald-infoweb.de /english/index.htm   (87 words)

  
 1739 - Greifswald - Deutsche Gesellschaft in Greifswald - History of Scholarly Societies
It was an anomaly among the Deutschen Gesellschaften since Greifswald was itself a Swedish possession at the time and until 1815, long after the Society had disappeared.
The text of the charter is evidently set forth in the Gesetze der Königlichen Deutschen Gesellschaft in Greifswald ([Greifswald], 1740) [GBV German Union cat.
Critischer Versuch zur Aufnahme der deutschen Sprache / Deutsche Gesellschaft in Greifswald
www.lib.uwaterloo.ca /society/history/1739dgg.html   (232 words)

  
 Baltic Holiday ★ Hanseatic City of Greifswald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Satellite picture of the Hanseatic City of Greifswald
The Hanseatic City of Greifswald viewed from space.
Survey map providing streetnames of the Hanseatic City of Greifswald.
www.vorpommern.de /index.php?id=1429   (425 words)

  
 campus-germany.de - Help for Foreign Students in Greifswald (06/28/2002)
The money is to go towards hiring ten tutors who will look after international students in the first two weeks of each semester.
Greifswald has a high number of foreign students from all over the world: 540 students come from Western Europe, America, Russia, Poland, Lithuania and the Far East.
The financial support is a coup of sorts for the University of Greifswald, which managed to make its case amid fierce competition: the DAAD turned away almost three quarters of the applications it received.
www.campus-germany.de /english/10.575.1.html   (280 words)

  
 VDSt zu Greifswald - Startseite
The German Students′ Society in Greifswald (VDSt) is one of the traditional academic fraternities at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University.
After World War II, the VDSt Greifswald had no chance for re-activation being situated in the Soviet Occupation Zone.
If you are planning to study or already studying in Greifswald, we would be glad to be of assistance.
www.vdst-greifswald.de /index_en.php   (287 words)

  
 NABU - Naturschutzbund Deutschland e.V.
Der NABU Greifswald untergliedert sich in 5 Fachgruppen mit den Schwerpunkten Ornithologie, Geobotanik, Entomologie, Fledermausschutz und wechselnde Arbeitsgruppen zu verschiedenen Themen.
Durch Öffentlichkeitsarbeit versuchen wir, in Greifswald Sensibilität für natur- und umweltpolitische Fragestellungen zu fördern, mit Stellungnahmen bei Bauvorhaben und in Anhörungen nehmen wir Einfluss auf die Lokalpolitik Greifswalds.
Spenden Sie für eines unserer Projekte in Greifswald.
www.nabu-greifswald.de   (454 words)

  
 Hotels near University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
The Best Western Hotel is situated in the centre of Greifswald.
Our house offers 55 rooms, which are divided into 21 single rooms and 30 double rooms and 4 apartments.
The Mercure Hotel Am Gorzberg is a 4-star hotel in the southern part of the old Hanseatic city and university town Greifswald.
bookings.net /landmark/de/university-greifswald.en.html   (169 words)

  
 Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald - Wikimedia Commons
Deutsch: Die Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald (kurz: EMAU) ist eine der ältesten Universitäten Europas in Greifswald, Deutschland.
English: The Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald (English: Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald), is one of the oldest universities in Europe (est.
Nederlands: De Ernst Moritz Arndt Universiteit Greifswald (Duits: Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald), afgekort als EMAU Greifswald, is een universiteit in Greifswald, Duitsland
commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/EMAU_Greifswald   (134 words)

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