Editing Greifswald (section)

==Sightseeing==
[[File:Greifswald Turm-des-Doms-St.-Nikolai August-2009 Crop.jpg|thumb|130px|Tower of [[St. Nikolai, Greifswald|St.-Nikolai]]]]

===Medieval churches===
Among Greifswald's [[brick gothic]] churches is the '''[[St. Nikolai, Greifswald|Dom St. Nikolai]]''' (St. Nicholas collegiate church) in the city center, which, with its {{convert|100|m|sp=us}} tall tower, is the symbol of the city. The exact date of its founding is unknown, but the original church dates from the late 13th century. The tower was built, and an organ installed in the church, in the late 14th century. In the mid-17th century, when Greifswald was part of [[Swedish Pomerania]], severe storm damage was repaired with support from the Swedish Crown. Neglect during the early [[Deutsche Demokratische Republik|DDR]] period necessitated extensive refurbishment, completed in 1989, the last full year of the DDR.

The '''St.-Marien-Kirche''' (St. Mary's Church), built adjacent to the Old Town marketplace in the mid-13th century, contains ground-level brick walls four and one-half meters (14&nbsp;ft) thick. Medieval murals depicting scenes from the Passion of Christ were restored in 1977–84. The church organ, known as the ''Marienorgel'' (St. Mary's Organ), was installed by the [[Stralsund]] organ builder Friedrich Mehmel in 1866, replacing an earlier instrument. It features 37 registers.

[[File:Greifswaldjakobi.jpg|thumb|130px|St.-Jacobi-Kirche]]

On the west side of the Old Town stands the '''St.-Jacobi-Kirche''' (St. James's Church), dating from the early 13th century. In 1400 it was rebuilt to contain a nave and two transepts, requiring the addition of four buttresses. The original half-timbered tower, heavily damaged in a 1955 fire, was rebuilt in brick.

===''Stolpersteine''===

[[File:Erinnerungstafel an die Synagoge in Stralsund (2009-04-28).JPG|thumb|115px|left|Synagogue memorial plaque]]

''[[Stolperstein]]e'', part of the European ''[[Stolperstein]]'' (literally "stumbling stone") memorial project, are scattered around Greifswald. The brass plaques, engraved with the names of Jewish residents who were murdered in the Holocaust, are embedded in the sidewalk in front of houses where they once lived. Some of the ''Stolpersteine'' in Greifswald mark the nationwide November 9, 1938, ''[[Kristallnacht]]'' pogroms in which members of the Nazi [[Sturmabteilung|SA]] and [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] murdered many German Jews, vandalized Jewish property and burned down synagogues – including the Greifswald Synagogue, dating from 1787. In 2012 all the 13 Stolpersteine were stolen, presumably by pro-Nazi extremists. The following year (2013) they were replaced.<ref>[https://www.ostsee-zeitung.de/Nachrichten/MV-aktuell/Nach-Diebstahl-Greifswalder-Stolpersteine-werden-neu-verlegt Nach Diebstahl: Greifswalder Stolpersteine werden neu verlegt. 2013. ''Ostsee Zeitung''. 15 May.]</ref><ref>[https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/person-holds-on-may-22-2013-in-greifswald-northeastern-news-photo/169315198 GERMANY-WWII-HISTORY-NAZIS-JEWS-STUMBLING STONES.]</ref>

A memorial plaque was installed on the site of the synagogue in 2008 in a ceremony attended by German Chancellor [[Angela Merkel]].
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===Objects named after [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]] perpetrators===
* [[Alfried Krupp]] Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald ([[Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Study]])<ref>[https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1sW6RPe7rwDKlFNa7micTeQezCpomKof3&ll=53.99886263313506%2C13.648038713564636&z=11 Lev Golinkin. 2022 (interactive map). Monuments and Streets Named After Nazis Worldwide. ''Forward'']</ref><ref>[http://neweasterneurope.eu/2019/06/18/krupp-in-greifswald-or-on-the-perils-of-forgetting-about-the-holocaust/ Tomasz Kamusella. 2019. Krupp in Greifswald: On the Perils of Forgetting about the Holocaust. ''New Eastern Europe''. 18 June.]</ref>
* [[Ferdinand Sauerbruch]] Street<ref>[https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1sW6RPe7rwDKlFNa7micTeQezCpomKof3&ll=53.8119763805058%2C13.805967180361511&z=9 Lev Golinkin. 2022 (interactive map). Monuments and Streets Named After Nazis Worldwide. ''Forward'']</ref><ref>Gerhard Baader, Susan E. Lederer, Morris Low, Florian Schmaltz and Alexander V. Schwerin. 2005. Pathways to Human Experimentation, 1933-1945: Germany, Japan, and the United States (pp 205-231). In: Carola Sachse and Mark Walker, eds. ''Politics and Science in Wartime: Comparative International Perspectives on the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute'' (Ser: Osiris, 2nd Series, Vol. 20). Washington DC: Georgetown University. BMW Center for German & European Studies, p 216.</ref>