Timeline of Rostock

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Rostock, Germany.

Prior to 18th century[]

1218 - Rostock granted Lübeck law city rights by Henry Borwin I, Lord of Mecklenburg.^[1]
1230 - [de] (church) construction begins (approximate date).
1265 - Rostock acquires Rostock Heath.^[2]
1270 - Abbey of the Holy Cross, Rostock founded.^[1]
1290 - St. Mary's Church, Rostock construction begins (approximate date).
1323 - Warnemünde becomes part of Rostock.^[3]
1358 - Hansetag [de] (meeting of Hanseatic League) held in Rostock.^[4]
1362 - Hansetag held in Rostock.^{[citation needed]}
1378 - Population: 10,785.^(de)
1380 - Public clock installed (approximate date).^[5]
1417 - Hansetag held in Rostock.^{[citation needed]}
1419 - University of Rostock founded.
1569 - [de] (library) founded.
1588 - [de] (church) built.^[1]
1677 - [de].^[3]
1695 - Rostock becomes part of the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.^[1]

1702 - Ducal palace built.^[1]
1712 - Rostock "taken by the Swedes."^[1]
1726 - [de] (town hall) expanded.
1786 - Theatre built.^[6]
1788 - Municipal constitution effected.^[1]
1846 - [de] (newspaper) in publication.^[7]
1880 - Population: 36,967.^[8]
1883 - Vereins für Rostocks Altertümer (history society) founded.^[9]
1890 - Neptun shipyard in business.^[3]
1893 - [de] (estates hall) built.^[1]
1895 - [de] (theatre) opens
1897 - Rostocker Stadt- und Theaterorchester founded (now Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock)

1913 - Dierkow becomes part of Rostock.^(de)
1919
- Barnstorf, Bartelsdorf, Bramow, [de], Dalwitzhof, Damerow, Kassebohm, and Riekdahl become part of Rostock.^(de)
- Population: 67,953.^[10]
1922 - Heinkel aircraft manufactory in business.
1924 - [de], [de], Meyers Hausstelle, [de], [de], Waldhaus, and [de] become part of Rostock.^(de)
1934 - [de], [de], [de], [de], Marienehe [de], [de], and Schutow become part of Rostock.^(de)
1935 - Population: 104,585.^(de)
1942 - City bombed during World War II.^[3]
1949 - City becomes part of the German Democratic Republic.
1952 - City becomes seat of newly formed Bezirk Rostock district.^[3]
1953 - Uprising of 1953 in East Germany.
1954 - Ostseestadion built.
1955 - Population: 150,004.^(de)
1956 - Rostock Zoo opens.^[11]
1960
- Rostock Port opens.^[3]
- [de] and Nienhagen become part of Rostock.^(de)
1965 - F.C. Hansa Rostock (football club) formed.
1978 - [de] becomes part of Rostock.^(de)
1990 - City becomes part of the newly formed Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state in the reunited nation of Germany.
1992 - August: Anti-migrant Rostock-Lichtenhagen riots.^[3]
1994 - Rostock University of Music and Theatre established.
1995 - Vereins für Rostocker Geschichte (history society) founded.^[12]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Britannica 1910.
^ "Geschichte Rostocks" [Rostock History]. Rathaus.rostock.de (in German). Hansestadt Rostock. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "Stadt & Politik: Geschichte: Chronik" [City History: Chronology]. Rathaus.rostock.de (in German). Hansestadt Rostock. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
^ Philippe Dollinger (1999) [1970]. The German Hansa. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-19073-2.
^ Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum (1996). History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. University of Chicago Press. p. 392. ISBN 978-0-226-15510-4.
^ Schacht 1908.
^ "Zeitungsinformationssystem ZEFYS" [Newspaper Information System] (in German). Berlin State Library. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
^ "Germany: Mecklenburg-Schwerin". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1885 – via Hathi Trust.
^ Krause 1996.
^ "Germany". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921 – via HathiTrust.
^ Vernon N. Kisling, ed. (2000). "Zoological Gardens of Germany (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. p. 372. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.
^ "Verein für Rostocker Geschichte" (in German). Retrieved 16 November 2016.

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.

"Rostock". Handbook for North Germany (20th ed.). London: J. Murray. 1886.
"Rostock". Chambers's Encyclopaedia. London. 1901.
"Rostock", Northern Germany (15th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1910, OCLC 78390379
"Rostock", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
John M. Jeep, ed. (2001). "Rostock". Medieval Germany: an Encyclopedia. Garland Publishing. ISBN 0-8240-7644-3.
Susan Mazur-Stommen (2008). "Evading what the Nazis left behind: an ethographic and phenomenological examination of historic preservation in postwar Rostock". In Gavriel David Rosenfeld; Paul B. Jaskot (eds.). Beyond Berlin: Twelve German Cities Confront the Nazi Past. USA: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-11611-9 – via HathiTrust. (fulltext)

Werner Reinhold (1911) [1836]. Chronik der Stadt Rostock (in German).
Karl Koppmann (1887). Geschichte der Stadt Rostock (in German).
Beiträge zur Geschichte der Stadt Rostock (in German), Verein für Rostocks Altertümer 1890-
"Rostock". Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon (in German). 13 (14th ed.). Leipzig: Brockhaus. 1896.
Wilhelm Schacht (1908). Zur geschichte des Rostocker theaters (1756-1791) (in German). Universität Rostock. (dissertation)
Mecklenburg. Griebens Reiseführer (in German). 1919.
Friedhilde Krause; Gerhard Heitz, eds. (1996). "Rostock". Mecklenburg-Vorpommern und Brandenburg. Handbuch der historischen Buchbestände (in German). 16. Georg Olms Verlag. ISBN 978-3-487-41683-0.
Gerhard Köbler (2007). "Rostock". Historisches Lexikon der Deutschen Länder (in German) (7th ed.). Munich: C.H. Beck. p. 580. ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1.

"Archiv der Hansestadt Rostock". Rathaus.rostock.de (in German). Hansestadt Rostock. (city archives)
Items related to Rostock, various dates (via Europeana)
Items related to Rostock, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)

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