The third largest city (pop. 210,000), on Germany´s Baltic Sea coast, it was part of Communist East Germany from the end of World War II till German reunification in 1990. The area was bombed by the Allies during World War II, but many of the original buildings survived the onslaughts. In medieval times, Rostock was a thriving member of the Hanseatic League, which dominated trade in northern and central Europe from the 13th through 15th centuries, and traded extensively with dozens if not hundreds of towns and cities not just in Germany but also from the Netherlands to present-day Estonia.

Read more in Tripatini contributor Allan D. Kissam´s post Time for Rostock, Germany.

Allan D. Kissam