Rostock & Warnemünde

Hanseatic Metropolis with Baltic Sea Beach and Coastal Forest

The Hanseatic city of Rostock combines maritime city flair, the finest sandy beaches and tranquility in nature.

The Hanseatic and university city of Rostock is an exciting destination for autumn vacationers who like to enjoy culinary, © TMV/Gänsicke

Historic old town with brick churches, gabled houses and small alleyways

In the city center, the spruced-up gabled houses are densely packed, in between the idyllic Convent of the Holy Cross with the Museum of Cultural History and the oldest university in Northern Europe. Many shops, boutiques, cafés and restaurants are lined up along the narrow streets and around Kröpeliner Strasse. The market square is adorned with the baroque-clad sieve pink town hall. Above all, the large brick churches and all around the city wall with its mighty gates and quiet ramparts.

Maritime flair in Rostock's city harbor

The city harbor with its wide waterfront promenade is just a few minutes away from the city. With its restaurants, bars and old warehouses, it is the perfect destination for a stroll, a meal or a boat trip.

Seaside resort Warnemünde

At the point where the Warnow flows into the Baltic Sea lies Rostock's "beautiful daughter", the seaside resort of Warnemünde. In the former fishing village, cruise ships are anchored alongside idyllic captains' boats and fishing boats. The Alte Strom and the promenade invite you to stroll and linger. The kilometer-long, white sandy beach behind the Baltic Sea dunes and the seaside resort's Bädervillen are not just an invitation to come to Warnemünde in summer.

Rostocker Heide - active recreation in nature

The Rostock Heath opens up to the east of the Warnow, directly behind the dunes. The primeval coastal forest is home to numerous animal and plant species and is ideal for hiking and cycling along the Ostseeküsten-Radweg. The mild, stimulating climate of the Baltic Sea also promotes physical well-being.

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  1. © Oliver Borchert

    "So you're gone, but not forgotten"

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  3. © Frank Neumann

    TWO MEN COMPLETELY NAKED

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  4. © KOE

    2. baroque classical music / serenades

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  5. © Kunsthalle Rostock

    Olaf Heine

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  6. © Nik Konietzny

    Meike Rötzer narrates Anna Karenina

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  7. © gfgRostock

    Supra-regional practice supervisor conference 2026

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  8. SCHWARZE GRÜTZE - ENDSTATION PFANNE, WHAT REMAINS IS GOOSE BUMPS!

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  9. © Dr. Ronald Brunner

    Cabaret kaHROtte - DEPARTURE WITH KARACHO

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  10. © HR Business GmbH

    19th Job Fair Rostock

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  11. © Thomas Mandt

    Coffee gets cold at the fire station / From 4 years old

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  12. © Frank Neumann

    WHAT WAS AND WHAT WILL BE

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  13. © Steffanie Grahman

    DAT BAHN-CHAOS - TRAVELERS SHOULD BE UPHOLLEN

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  14. © Thomas Ulrich

    Fischer Fritz

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  15. © Hanser Literaturverlage

    "Vulva! Knowledge for below the belt" - Reading & Talk with Nadine Beck & Rosa Schilling

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  16. © Foto: Kunsthalle Rostock

    Curator's tour

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  17. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival: Vivaldi recomposed

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  18. © TzRW

    Halloween in the Kurhaus garden

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  19. © © Katarina Ivanisevic

    Remembering and coming to terms: What does contemporary remembrance mean?

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  20. Remembering and coming to terms: What does contemporary remembrance mean? Reading & discussion as part of the exhibition "totenstill" by Dirk Reinartz with Max Czollek (author) and Thomas Werner (Rostock Cultural Office)

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  21. Rostock building fair, © Neue Messe GmbH

    Building & renovating your own home 2026 - Rostock

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  22. © Thomas Bartilla

    THE BEST! - Music cabaret with Schwarze Grütze

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  23. © Thomas Mandt

    How to date a feminist? (How to date a Feminist)

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  24. © Dorit Gätjen

    Blue Monday - A touch of New York

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  25. © Bianca Nuvola

    CHRISTIAN HAASE - WORDS, WINE AND MIRACLES

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  26. © Henrik Werner

    A TUNNEL AT THE END OF THE LIGHT!

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  27. Hans Ticha: Klatscher (1), 1982, oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm, Deutsches Historisches Museum, © Hans Ticha, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025

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  28. © Thomas Ulrich

    Amadeus

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  29. © Thomas Mandt

    The Kangaroo Chronicles

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  30. © Thomas Ulrich

    3. classic light / carnival

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  31. Dutch sailor's yarn

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  32. Hans Ticha: Klatscher (1), 1982, oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm, Deutsches Historisches Museum, © Hans Ticha, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025

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  33. © Grafik: Cindy Schmid

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  34. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival: Opening of the Hanse Sail

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  35. © Cityagentur Schumann

    Pottery market Warnemünde - church square

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  36. © Grafik: Cindy Schmid

    The Black Rider (The Casting of the Magic Bullets)

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  37. Rostock Whitsun market in the city harbor, © Großmarkt Rostock GmbH, Dietmar Lilienthal

    Rostock Whitsun Market

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  38. © Schifffahrtsmuseum Rostock, E.Gross

    Family tour of the DRESDEN museum ship

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  39. © Holger Martens

    Tour through Warnemünde on World Guest Guide Day 2026 - With open eyes through the historic center of Warnemünde

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  40. © Thomas Mandt

    Don Giovanni

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  41. © Frank Neumann

    RESUMPTION - VENICE IN THE SNOW

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  42. © Foto: Kunsthalle Rostock

    Cinema of Tomorrow - Thomas Hartmann & Alexander Kluge

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  43. 20th Job Fair Rostock

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  44. © Sandra Vijandi

    7th Philharmonic Concert / Dance into Death

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  45. In a kayak from the Warnow to the Baltic Sea

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  46. © Schifffahrtsmuseum Rostock Birgit Doering

    Children's tour: Treasures and where to find them

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  47. © Frank Neumann

    FOR THE LAST TIME! - WHAT WAS AND WHAT WILL BE - Theater Monday for €8.50!

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  48. © Schifffahrtsmuseum Rostock

    MYSTERY DEEP SEA

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  49. © Canva

    Open day

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  50. © iStock:DisobeyArt

    Millennium

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  51. © FiSH Filmfestival Rostock

    23rd FiSH Film Festival Rostock

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  52. © Dorit Gätjen

    The Wizard of Oz

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  53. © TZRW/D. Gohlke

    Guided tour of the Warnemünde seaside resort

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  54. © Die Timskis

    SPRING AWAKENING - THE TIMSKIS

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  55. © Foto: Kunsthalle Rostock

    Cinema of Tomorrow - Thomas Hartmann & Alexander Kluge

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  56. © Grafik: Cindy Schmid

    Matinee: Anatevka

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  57. Tour through Warnemünde on World Guest Guide Day 2026 - With open eyes - Edvard Munch in Warnemünde

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  58. © Niederdeutsche Bühne Rostock

    DAT BAHN-CHAOS - TRAVELERS SHOULD BE UPHOLLEN

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  59. © MAYA Galerie

    Morbidez / Morbid beauty

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  60. © Kampf der Künste

    Best of Poetry Slam

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  61. © Ronald Brunner

    DO YOU DO WHAT? - Cabaret kaHROtte

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  62. © Thomas Mandt

    22 lanes

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  63. © Thomas Mandt

    Fucking fucking beautiful (The first time - in 10 short stories)

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  64. © Foto: Kunsthalle Rostock

    Curator's tour

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  65. © Swing Connection Rostock e.V.

    Colt Sievers Lounge - Dance into Valentine

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  66. © Dorit Gätjen

    Merci, Chérie

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  67. © Dorit Gätjen

    Nobody told you to move out (State of the Union)

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  68. © privat

    Meike Rötzer narrates Anna Karenina

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  69. © Compagnie de Comédie

    PREMIERE! - NO TO MONEY!

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  70. © Christina Ebenezer

    Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival: Abel Selaocoe & the Bantu Ensemble

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  71. © Maria Zaric

    Workshop: Money with impact

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  72. © Thomas Mandt

    QualityLand

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  73. Hans Ticha: Klatscher (1), 1982, oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm, Deutsches Historisches Museum, © Hans Ticha, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025

    Curator's tour

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  74. © Frank Neumann

    THEATER MONDAY FOR 8,50€ ! - VENICE IN THE SNOW

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  75. © Bettina Schaefer

    Comic workshop for young people with illustrator Lara Swiontek

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  76. © © Suzanne de Carasco

    NO SCRIBES - The literary girl band with Paula Fürstenberg, Alisha Gamish and Raphaëlle Red

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  77. © Thomas Mandt

    Jeeps

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  78. © Frank Neumann

    DINNER FOR ONE - HOW IT ALL BEGAN

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  79. © Fischer Sauerländer

    "Our pain is our strength"

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  80. © Thomas Ulrich

    Swan Lake

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  81. © Foto: Michael Kestin

    Edith - Chansons for eternity

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  82. Culture meets pleasure

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  83. © Kunsthalle Rostock

    Rostock Creative

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  84. © Grafik: Cindy Schmid

    Anatevka (Fiddler on the Roof)

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  85. © Foto: Kunsthalle Rostock

    Curator's tour

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  86. © Cityagentur Schumann

    Pottery market Warnemünde - church square

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  87. © Christian Meier

    Music at the stove

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  88. "Warmi" - portraits of strong women by Claudia Goldbach-Rios

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  89. © © Blue Note Jazz Festival Japan 2025

    Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival: GRENZGÄNGE Amaro Freitas

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  90. © Einladung

    Presence

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  91. NO TO MONEY!

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  92. © Foto: Kunsthalle Rostock

    Curator's tour

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  93. © © Oliver Look

    Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival: Malte is looking for the best rhythm in the world

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  94. © Kunsthalle Rostock

    dead quiet

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  95. © Felix Wickner

    WOYZECK

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  96. © Michael J. Rüttger

    MUSIC FOR OPTIMISTS - JAKOB HEYMANN

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  97. VENICE IN THE SNOW

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  98. © Henrik Werner

    THEATERMONTAG for 8,50€ - ROhrSTOCK - EIN TUNNEL AM ENDE DES LICHTS!

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  99. © Thomas Mandt

    Either way, life is

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  100. © Jacqueline Boulanger

    JAZZ LADY meets BIG BAND

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  101. © Max Czollek © Katarina Ivanisevic

    Curator's tour

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  102. © Ronald Kley

    In a kayak from the Warnow to the Baltic Sea

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  103. rosemary, © Paul Strassner

    rosemary live 2026

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  104. © TZRW

    Warnemünde Easter program with a view of the sea

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  105. © Frank Neumann

    THE FAREWELL DINNER

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  106. © Schifffahrtsmuseum Rostock

    Exhibition REEDER, RUDER, SEEMANNSGARN

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  107. Volpone or The Fox

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  108. ON! Live at the MAU Club, © ON!

    ON! - LIVE at the MAU-Club

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  109. © Thomas Ulrich

    Don Quixote

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  110. © Schifffahrtsmuseum Rostock

    Pirate coin minting workshop

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  111. © Dorit Gätjen

    Old love

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  112. © Felix Meyer

    FELIX MEYER & JOHANNES BIGGE - COINCIDENCE OR MAGIC

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  113. Logo_Job Fair Rostock, © HR Business GmbH

    19th Job Fair Rostock

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  114. © Peter Adamik

    6th Philharmonic Concert / Dramas

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  115. © Thomas Mandt

    Michael Ende: Momo

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  116. © Foto: Kunsthalle Rostock

    "The artist Wilfried Schröder" - A conversation

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  117. Hans Ticha: Klatscher (1), 1982, oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm, Deutsches Historisches Museum, © Hans Ticha, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025

    Curator's tour

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  118. © TZRW, Taslair

    34th Hanse Sail Rostock

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  119. Helper collects garbage in green area, © Rostock Müllfrei e.V.

    Garbage collection campaign in Lütten Klein

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  120. The Crime Dinner, © engesser marketing gmbh

    Crime dinner Rostock

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  121. © Joachim Kloock

    St. Martin's procession in Warnemünde

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  • © H & P Touristik GmbH

    H&P Touristik in Warnemünde

    • Wachtlerstraße, 18119 Rostock Warnemünde

    Family-friendly apartments in central, quiet location, a few minutes walk to the beach, spa promenade, spa house, own children's playground, bread service.

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  • ramparts near the monastery of the Holy Cross, © Irma Schmidt

    Rostock ramparts

    • Freely accessible at any time
    • 18055 Rostock

    The ramparts were built in 1270 for the city defense. The city wall, formerly more than 3 km long, with many towers and cradle houses and 22 gates at widely varying levels (30 m), was later transformed into a park.

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    Beach bars on the Baltic coast and inland

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    Special animal tours in the nature experience centers

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Your vacation in Rostock & Warnemünde: The most important questions

What are the top sights in Rostock?

The old town impresses with the Kröpelin Gate, St. Mary's Church and the baroque town hall. A stroll along the city harbor with its old warehouses and modern restaurants is a must. The University of Rostock, founded in 1419, is also one of the highlights.

What makes Warnemünde so special?

Warnemünde impresses with its wide sandy beach, the Alter Strom with its maritime flair and the historic lighthouse. The Teepott with its unique architecture and the promenade invite you to take a stroll.

Are there family-friendly offers in Rostock and Warnemünde?

Yes! Rostock Zoo, the Warnemünde Museum of Local History and child-friendly beaches offer fun for the whole family. There are also numerous playgrounds and family-friendly events.

Which activities are particularly popular in Rostock and Warnemünde?

In Rostock you can stroll through the historic old town, visit museums or relax at the city harbor. Warnemünde offers beach fun, harbor tours and walks along the pier.

What is the best way to get from Rostock to Warnemünde?

The S-Bahn connects Rostock and Warnemünde in around 20 minutes. Alternatively, you can cycle along the Baltic Sea Cycle Path or take the B103 by car.

Which culinary specialties should you try?

Fish fry on the Alter Strom, fresh smoked fish and regional dishes in the numerous restaurants are a real treat. The fish markets and harbor festivals are particularly recommended.

Are there barrier-free offers?

Both Rostock and Warnemünde offer barrier-free access to many sights, beaches and public transport. You can obtain information on this from the local tourist information offices.

Where can I find further information and help on site?

The tourist information offices in Rostock and Warnemünde offer comprehensive advice, city maps, event tips and assistance in finding accommodation.