{"id":4394,"date":"2018-11-07T08:48:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T08:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewanders.eu\/?p=4394"},"modified":"2021-10-28T19:36:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T19:36:05","slug":"rostock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thewanders.eu\/rostock\/","title":{"rendered":"Rostock"},"content":{"rendered":"
Rostock is the largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, though not its capital. It is a hub for Baltic Sea ferries, Germany’s<\/a> largest port for cruise ships by number of boardings and pleasant enough for a longer stay mostly due to its Hanseatic heritage<\/a>. <\/span><\/h5>\n

Understand : Rostock is near the Baltic Sea and to protect its fishing and access rights it annexed Warnemunde (named for being the mouth of the river Warnow), a port area to the north. Rostock was an important member of the Hanseatic League, and one of the most important ports of the GDR (East Germany). Until the collapse of the East German economy in 1989\/90 Rostock was a major center for shipbuilding and a few shipyards still remain, despite their economic woes.<\/p>\n

Access<\/strong><\/span> : Coordinates<\/em><\/span>: 54.083333, 12.133333 \/ By plane<\/strong><\/span> :\u00a0 Rostock\u2013Laage Airport (RLG IATA) 20 km south of Rostock . There are shuttle buses from the airport to town but no rail connection. There are frequent flights from Cologne, Dusseldorf, Munich<\/a> Airport, Stuttgart and Zurich to Rostock-Laage airport.
\nOr you can fly to Hamburg (HAM IATA) or Berlin (SXF IATA,TXL IATA) and travel by train to Rostock
\nBy train<\/strong><\/span> :\u00a0 Rostock Central Station . From Hamburg Central Station you can take the train to Rostock. Buy a Mecklenburg-Vorpommern-Ticket for \u20ac22-38. With this MV-Ticket you can travel with 5 people from Hamburg to Rostock. From Leipzig and Berlin Central Station Deutsche Bahn runs numerous connections each day. There are a couple of ICE trains a day from places as far away as Munich<\/a>.
\nBy car<\/strong><\/span> : From Hamburg take the motorway A1 to Lubeck<\/a> and from there take the A20 to Rostock. It’s a 1\u00bd-hour trip. If starting in Berlin you have to drive along the A24 in the direction of Hamburg until the A19 is crossing the motorway. Following the A19 you reach Rostock. It’s a trip of 2\u00bd hours<\/p>\n

By bus<\/strong><\/span> : There are numerous domestic and international bus connections to Rostock\u00a0 operators include: Flixbus. There are two bus stops: one at the ferry terminal, and one at Dierkower Kreuz which is a transfer point between buses and trams in the northeast of Rostock.
\nBy boat<\/strong> <\/span>: Rostock is one of the hubs for Baltic Sea ferries in Germany. And the busiest German port for cruises. There is a ferry from Gedser in Denmark every second hour with Scandlines. This connection covers a rather short stretch on the sea and has been suggested as an alternative to the Fehmarn Belt fixed link that is being built to link Putgarden and Rodby. Prior to European (and German) partition, there were also railway ferries along this route, but they have been moved to the aforementioned line between Fehmarn and Lolland in the 1950s and 1960s and didn’t return with the fall of the Iron Curtain. Ferry from Trelleborg<\/a> in Sweden up to 6 departures per day with Stena Line or TT-Line. Ferry from Helsinki in Finland twice a week with Finnlines.<\/p>\n

From the ferry terminal, you need to take a series of buses to go to the center of Rostock. You can also try to head for the Rostock-North S-Bahn (train) station, about 1 km away from the terminal. Therefore you may get stuck at the ferry port certain days when the bus services are low or if you can’t find the train station. A taxi ride downtown will cost you around \u20ac20.<\/p>\n

The passenger terminal in Warnemunde is used by cruise ships. It can be reached easily by train (10 minutes), by boat (1 hour) or taxi from central Rostock. All trains from Warnemunde stop in Rostock. The train station is an easy three minute walk north along the dock.\u00a0By bicycle<\/strong><\/span> : The Berlin-Copenhagen Cycle Route passes through Rostock.<\/p>\n

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