Editing Bad Doberan (section)

=== Late Modern period ===
[[File:Doberan Stadtansicht um 1900.jpg|thumb|Bad Doberan around 1900]]
[[File:Bad Doberan, Mecklenburg - Stahlbad.jpg|thumb|Stahlbad]]
Renowned architects, such as [[Carl Theodor Severin]], students of the two old masters of [[Classicist]] architecture, [[Carl Gotthard Langhans]] and [[Friedrich Gilly]], and Johann Christoph von Seydewitz built in rapid succession in the pure Classicist style: the guest house (''Logierhaus''), the parlour building (''Salongebäude'') with its prestigious ballroom in the [[Empire (style)|Empire style]], the [[Prince's Palace]] (''Prinzenpalais''), the [[Stahlbad (Bad Doberan)|''Stahlbad'']] bathing house, several town houses and the critically acclaimed Chinese-style pavilions, including the gem of garden architecture, the so-called [[Kamp (Bad Doberan)|''Kamp'']]. The prince's gratitude to the builder who shaped the appearance of Doberan so much, was thin; Severin died in poverty and oblivion in Bad Doberan, where he is buried at an unknown location. The heyday (1793: 900, 1840, 3,000, 1870: 4,000 inhabitants) only lasted a few decades. Gradually Heiligendamm evolved, once just an appendage of Doberan's, into an independent resort, and around Doberan it became quiet again.

[[File:Bad Doberan Molli (02) 2006-09-24.JPG|thumb|The ''[[Molli railway|Molli]]'' steam train in Bad Doberan]]
Neither the granting of town rights to Doberan in 1879 (motto: Hirsch, crook and swan, are the arms of Doberan) nor the construction of the railway line from Rostock via Bad Doberan to Wismar in 1883/84, nor the establishment of a [[narrow gauge steam railway]] between 1886 and 1910 altered the situation much. The railway, known locally as ''[[Molli]]'' still runs today via Heiligendamm to [[Kühlungsborn]], passing through the centre of the town.

The town earned the status of a resort and the prefix ''Bad'' in 1921 ("Bad" means "spa" or "resort" and is a common prefix in Germany).

In August 1932, [[Adolf Hitler]] was granted an honorary citizenship; Bad Doberan was the first town in Germany to do so. In fact, as the certificate was lost, there was disagreement for several years as to whether he had been granted honorary citizenship or not. However, in Spring 1932 the [[Nazi Party]] had an absolute majority in the town council assembly, and published articles still exist from that time, so it was generally accepted that Hitler was really honoured in this way. With the town hosting the G8 summit in June 2007, it was decided on April 2 that Hitler should be removed from the town's roll of honour, although normally an honorary citizenship of this kind ends upon the death of the person involved.<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1887948.htm Town embarrassed by Hitler link. 02/04/2007. ABC News Online<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

On June 12, 2011, a [https://www.flickr.com/photos/the-view-from-up-here/5826897828/in/set-72157626823199653/ document surfaced] that most likely points to [[Rosenkopf]] as the first German town to grant Adolf Hitler honorary citizenship (July 22, 1932), not Bad Doberan.