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Stralsund (German pronunciation: [ˈʃtʁaːlzʊnt] ⓘ; Swedish: Strålsund), officially the Hanseatic City of Stralsund (German: Hansestadt Stralsund), is the fifth-largest city in the northeastern German federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg and Greifswald, and the second-largest city in the ...
Stralsund remained under Swedish control until the Battle of Stralsund (1807), when it was seized by Napoleon Bonaparte's army. Seized by Ferdinand von Schill's freikorps in 1809, it was subsequently re-gained by France, with Schill killed in action.
- Alter Markt 10-11, Stralsund, Germany
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The siege of Stralsund was a siege laid on Stralsund by Albrecht von Wallenstein 's Imperial Army during the Thirty Years' War, from 13 May 1628 to 4 August 1628. [3] Stralsund was aided by Denmark and Sweden, with considerable Scottish participation. The lifting of the siege ended Wallenstein's series of victories, [4] and contributed to his ...
- May to 4 August 1628
- Allied victory:, Siege lifted, Imperial troops withdraw
300–400 killed and wounded. 568 captured [2] 241 killed and wounded [2] The Battle of Stralsund took place on 31 May 1809 during the Dano-Swedish War of 1808–1809 and the Franco-Swedish War, part of the Napoleonic Wars, between Ferdinand von Schill 's freikorps and Napoleonic forces in Stralsund.
- 31 May 1809
- French victory
However, the museum, which was closed to visitors, survived the bombardment of Stralsund on 6 October 1944 almost unscathed. Stralsund was handed over almost without a fight to the Red Army on 1 May 1945, which saved further destruction in the city.
Brief synthesis. Founded in the 13th century, the medieval towns of Wismar and Stralsund, on the Baltic coast of northern Germany, represent different but complementary trading structures as leading centers of the Wendish section of the Hanseatic League from the 13th to the 15th centuries.
