HISTORY OF THE CITY OF ROSTOCK
Destruction of the Slav stronghold Rostock by the Danes
Municipal charter granted by Heinrich Borwin I
Purchase of Rostocker Heide (Rostock heath area)
Municipal charter of 1218 re-authorized by Heinrich Borwin III
Lübeck, Wismar and Rostock join forces against pirates and robbers
Three town areas merge
The Convent of the Holy Cross was endowed in 1270 by Margaret, Queen of Denmark, and her cousin Waldemar of Rostock as atonement according to a legend from around 1300. The Rostock convent is named after the founding relic, a splinter from the cross of Christ, which Margaret is supposed to have brought to Rostock from her pilgrimage to Rome. The widowed Queen probably spent the last years of her life in the convent that had been authorized in 1276 by Pope Innocent II. After her death in 1282 she was buried in the Doberan Monastery. This fact seems to contradict her role as the only founder. It is more likely that citizens of Rostock played a greater role as founders than has been assumed up till now.
Rostock alliance of general peace
Ducal village Warnemünde purchased
Right of coinage acquired
Full jurisdictional rights acquired
Unrest in the towns, craft guilds acquire more rights
University founded
Uprising of the townspeople (Rostocker Domfehde)
Reformation implemented in Rostock
Defeat in the conflict with Duke Johann Albrecht I of Mecklenburg
Rostock Inheritance Agreement gives the Dukes of Mecklenburg sovereignty over the town
Election of a body of representatives of the townspeople
Last meeting of the Hanseatic Diet with Rostock as one of the last members
Fire destroys 700 houses and shops
Rostock town charter set out in writing
Patriotic Association founded in Rostock
First sea bathers come to Warnemünde
Rostock Trades Association founded
Beautification Society founded
Rostock Art Society founded
Rostock Civic Militia established
Railway line Rostock-Bützow-Kleinen
Shipbuilding yard Tischbein & Zeltz established
First seagoing iron screw steamer built
New Trade Regulation Code comes into force
Lloyd railway station (now Main Train Station) opened
Neptun Company PLC (shipbuilding yard) set up
Museum of Art and Antiquity opened at Friedrich-Franz-Straße 1 (now August-Bebel-Straße
Church of the Holy Ghost consecrated in Kröpeliner-Tor suburb
Zoo opened
Spa building in Warnemünde inaugurated
Book-burning in Vögenteichplatz
New Heinkel production plant in Marienehe inauguarated
November pogrom ("Crystal Night"). Synagogue in Augustenstraße set on fire
Heavy air raids with much destruction
Red Army units occupy the city
Building of the first houses after the war begins in a suburb with streets names of composers
Expansion of the Warnow shipbuilding yard to the largest of the GDR
State-owned Deutsche Seereederei Rostock (German Shipping Company Rostock) established
Laying of foundation stone for Lange Straße
Laying of foundation stone for residential area in Reutershagen
International port opened
Groundbreaking ceremony in Lütten Klein
First demonstration in the streets of the city
Round Table begins its work
Democratic local elections
