The Hanseatic city of Wismar…
is located on the Baltic coast of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
The City is situated on the southern end of the island of Poel protected by the Wismar Bay.
The county town is one of 18 centers in the country means.
On 27 June 2002 together with the Historic Old Town of Stralsund under the name of Centres of Stralsund,
Wismar entered in the World Heritage List of UNESCO.
The name “Wismar” is first mentioned in the year 1147, the resulting 20 years later Knytlinga saga, when the Danish king Sven arrived in “Wizmar Havn” – Wismar Bay. The name “Port” is misleading here. It could be, if the legend is true, only be a mooring, that was close of the “aqua Wissemara”. The city name “Wismar” is not unique, even if the deed of 1167, about 60 years before the city’s founding pulls on a zoom. It was a deed of Henry the Lion confirming the determination of the boundaries of the diocese of Ratzeburg, where for the first time documentary evidence of the name Wismar as aqua Wissemara que dicitur, ad Aquem Wissemaram is mentioned as the eastern border of the diocese. There is a small river running east of Wismar.
In the Thirty Years’ War, Sweden Wismar was occupied in 1632 by the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 and fell along with the island of Poel and the Office Neukloster as an imperial fief to the Swedish crown. As of 1653, the city was the seat of the Upper Tribunal of the Supreme Court of the Swedish territories south of the Baltic Sea, which included the Duchy of Verden until 1712 and Swedish Pomerania until 1815. In the Scanian War of Wismar Danish troops Attacked in December 13th , 1675 and until November 1680 Wismar was occupied by the Danes
On November 13th, 1680 the Swedish Count Königsmarck drew as a representative of the Swedish king in the city, and Wismar again became a part of Sweden. Then the Swedish built Wismar into one of the strongest sea fortresses in Europe. So the harbor entrance was secured by the fortress on the island from whales. In December 1711 the gates of the city were brokenduring the battle at Lübow after Wismar has been blocked since August in the same year by a Danish corps. The fortifications were razed after the Swedish defeat in the Great Northern War, after the siege of Wismar on April 19th in 1716 it was taken in Pomerania campaign 1715/1716 by the Prussian-Danish troops.
The Swedish rule over Wismar de facto ended in 1803 when the Kingdom pledged the city of Malmö with the pledge agreement for 99 years to the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
Finally it fell and the surrounding areas but returned to Germany in 1903, when Sweden contractually waived the redemption of the pledge. The people of Wismar celebrate every year in late summer, the Swedish Festival, before the Harbour Festival, the largest event of the year in the city.
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