VirtualGlobetrotting: Germany: Rostock

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Six German Navy Type 143A Gepard class fast attack craft
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The Type 143A Gepard class is Germany's last class of missile bearing Fast Attack Craft (FPB, Schnellboot in German) and the only one still in service with the Deutsche Marine (German Navy since 1990).

AIDA Cruises Headquarters
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Aida Cruises is a German cruise company. Originally founded as Deutsche Seereederei with a ship called Völkerfreundschaft ("Friendship Between Peoples"), the company entered the cruise industry in the 1960s.[1] The company is now operated by Carnival Corporation who owns 11 cruising brands altogether. AIDA ships are dedicated to the German-speaking market and renowned for their youthful style and casual service. As a seagoing "club resort", AIDA ships incorporate the successful elements of upmarket clubs and resorts in the premium and four-star range, with a host of on-board amenities and facilities that attract younger, more active vacationers.

Abandoned turntable and roundhouse
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Abandoned shipways
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Küstenwache (German Coast Guard) coastal patrol boat BP 26 Eschwege

Sailing ship play structure
This is one cool playground!

Fyrskepp nr. 23 Västra Banken (lightship)

Ship's superstructure on a barge
Probably assembled elsewhere and being brought here for final attachment to the ship to the SW in the drydock.

MS Georg Büchner
Hinkkanen (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Hinkkanen.
The Charlesville was built in 1950 by Cockrill-Ougree of Hoboken, Belgium as the last of a class of five sister ships. She was built as a cargo-passenger liner for the Compagnie Maritime Belge's service from Antwerp to Matadi in the Belgian Congo. She was eventually sold to a German shipping company in 1967 and was renamed Georg Büchner. In 1974 she was transferred to another German shipping company. Finally she was preserved in Rostock in Germany in 1977 as the Georg Büchner. Initially she served as a maritime training school. In 1997 she was transferred to the ownership of the City of Rostock. There she serves as a youth hostel, hotel and training facility. Today she remains a rare survivor of a cargo-passenger combi liner.

Ostseestadion
doitsurt (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: doitsurt.

M/V Capella, Concrete Ship
mlc1us (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mlc1us.
The last ship of a fleet of Navy supply vessels built without steel. M/V "Capella", built in 1943 in Ostwine, is the last surviving ship of Hitler's old concrete fleet. Amazingly, she is still afloat. In 1988, the ship was declared a German Technical Monument and in 2003, it became part of the Rostock Maritime Museum.

Circus tent on the waterfront
Not sure if it is really a circus.

Wiro Hochhaus
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.
At 253 ft, this is the tallest building in Rostock

Water Tower Rostock
neotrix (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: neotrix.

Ship parts on a barge

Traditionsschiff Typ Frieden
Hinkkanen (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Hinkkanen.
Traditionsschiff Typ Frieden, originally named Dresden, was built in 1956-57 by VEB Warnowwerft, Warnemünde, DDR, as the fifth of the fifteen Frieden class cargo ships. She was delivered to the Deutsche Seereederei, Rostock, on 27. July 1958. On 11.November 1969 she was taken out of service as there was found to be considerable defects in her machinery. On 13. June 1970 she was opened to public as museum ship and today is part of the Rostock Shipbuilding and Maritime Museum (Rostocker Schiffbau- und Schifffahrtsmuseums).

Ship being assembled from pre-fabricated sections

Meyer's Mühle (Windmill)
neotrix (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: neotrix.

Small plane in flight over Rostock

Windmill

Waterfront fair

Hansa Rostock trainings facility

Warico Terminal
gamma (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: gamma.

MS Oosterdam
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By: Rene73.

DBBT
gamma (VirtualGlobetrotting)
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Rostock Power Station
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Baltic Lloyd
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Windmill blades in transit

Rostock Velodrome
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Outdoor, Concrete, 250m

RFH

University of Rostock
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By: kkeps.

Playing Basketball

Petrikirche (Rostock)
fin (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: fin.
St. Peter's Church (German Petrikirche) is the oldest town church of Rostock.

Sculpture of Njörd
mlc1us (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mlc1us.
Germanic Sea and Wind God

Rostock-Krummendorf Transmitter
kkeps (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kkeps.