Stralsund
Proper noun
Meaning
Stralsund
A city in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Examples
Only the port of Stralsund continued to hold out against Wallenstein and the emperor, having been bolstered by Scottish 'volunteers' who arrived from the Swedish army to support their countrymen already there in the service of Denmark.
He went on to work his way up through theaters in Stralsund; Chemnitz, which was then called Karl-Marx-Stadt; Weimar; and Dresden, before being named to lead the Komische Oper in 1981.
Meier (2008), p.23 Charles was then at war with much of Northern Europe, and Stralsund was doomed.
It is especially renowned for its Brick Gothic monuments, such as St. Nikolai and the city hall of Stralsund shown here.
Prior to this, in September 1628, he arranged a joint occupation of Stralsund with Denmark in order to prevent that important fortress from falling into the hands of the Imperialists.
The German Oceanographic Museum with its Ozeaneum in Stralsund is the most popular museum in northern Germany.