Greifswald
town in Vorpommern-Greifswald District, Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, Germany
Facts
28 propertiesIdentity
- Instance of
- urban municipality in Germany, college town, district capital, major regional center, Hanseatic city, Hanseatic city[10][11][12][13]
- Inception
- 1199[28]
- Official website
- www.greifswald.de[29]
- Native label
- Greifswald[48]
- Official name
- Greifswald[47]
Location
- Location
- Western Pomerania[21]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 54.083°, 13.383°
- Located in or next to body of water
- Ryck, Dänische Wiek[7][8]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Vorpommern-Greifswald District, Rostock District, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern[5]
Population and size
- Area
- +50500000, +50.81
- Elevation above sea level
- +5
More facts +13
- Short name
- Gr
- Applies to jurisdiction
- Vorpommern-Greifswald District[30]
- Archives at
- Greifswald City Archive[27]
- Described by source
- Regesta Imperii, Topographia Electoratus Brandenburgici et Ducatus Pomeraniae, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[41][42][43][44]
- Different from
- Greifswald, Wikidata item
- Hashtag
- Greifswald
- Head of government
- Stefan Fassbinder[9]
- Licence plate code
- HGW[25]
- Member of
- Wendish cities, Städte- und Gemeindetag Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Union of the Baltic Cities[2][3][4]
- P14586
- 77986
- Position held by head of the organization
- Mayor of Greifswald
- Twinned administrative body
- Osnabrück, Kotka, Hamar Municipality, Szczecin, Goleniów, Lund Municipality, Newport News[14][15][16][17][18][19][20]
🏷️ Also known as
en University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald
en Greifswald
ar غرايفسفالت
de Griepswold
de Hansestadt Greifswald
de Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald
el Γκράιφσβαλντ
fa گرایفسوالد
he גרייפסוואלד
hi ग्राइफ़्सवाल्ड
ja グライフスヴァルト
ko 그라이프스발트
ru Грайфсвальд
th ไกรฟส์วัลท์
tr Griepswold
tr Hansestadt Greifswald
tr Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald
zh 格赖夫斯瓦尔德
zh-hant 格賴夫斯瓦爾德
🔖 Identifiers · 57
- VIAF cluster ID
- 124343659
- Library of Congress authority ID
- n81054169
- GND ID
- 4021965-3
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Greifswald - Town Hall.jpg ↗
- Alvin ID
- alvin-place:1110
- ArchINFORM location ID
- 5043
- BHCL UUID
- 61cb86c0-dcfc-4227-b677-b275713e9faf
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
- 119737030
- British Museum place ID
- x56186
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
- greifswald
- Dewey Decimal Classification
- 2--431783
Show all 57 identifiers +45
- Early Modern Letters Online location ID
- dd31ddbd-6c66-4deb-a29f-58710404ddb7
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- place/Greifswald
- FAST ID
- 1213361
- Facebook location ID
- 108087009226242
- FactGrid item ID
- Muhammad Rafiq Tarar
- Freebase ID
- /m/0ykhp
- GeoNames ID
- 6551180
- German municipality key
- 13075039
- German regional key
- 130750039039
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- greifswald
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
- 0031096
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
- Greifswald
- Historical Gazetteer (GOV) ID
- object_263182
- Image Archive, Herder Institute
- Greifswald
- Klexikon article ID
- Greifswald
- Klimadashboard.de region ID
- 0da2511f-cdac-4af7-92c0-6ce354b72ba0
- Latin Place Names ID
- g/gryphiswaldae
- Lex ID
- Greifswald
- Museum-digital place ID
- 481
- MusicBrainz area ID
- bc7a1dca-1d2a-4fbf-a0b1-6191152e36a0
- NE.se ID
- greifswald
- NL CR AUT ID
- ge138418
- NUTS code
- DE801
- National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
- geo/B6BAED83-1969-4D21-89A3-DB304E97AB56
- National Library of Israel ID (old)
- 000187650
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007309196505171
- National Library of Lithuania ID
- LNB:V*350222;=BA
- Nomisma ID
- greifswald
- Numista ruling authority ID
- 6145
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
- 3907776
- Open Library subject ID
- place:greifswald_(germany)
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 62363
- Provenio UUID
- b6b3c366-66f4-413c-851c-9ee9d1c136ff
- Quora topic ID
- Greifswald
- SBN place ID
- MILL001286
- SNARC ID
- Wolfgang Gewalt
- Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae thesaurus ID
- 7W7AKXWCRNCMFHGLI4LOHTIWU4
- Topic's main category
- Category:Greifswald
- UN/LOCODE
- DEGRD
- WOEID
- 654035
- Wellcome Collection concept ID
- zkzwumqv
- Who's on First ID
- 101748863
- WorldCat Entities ID
- E39PBJxGWGfyGJbrJfYprRHKVC
- YSO ID
- 234571
- Yale LUX ID
- place/d9cc8686-da8f-4617-82d7-6207b5659fcb
🔗 Connections
People born here 73
People who died here 60
← Headquarters location 21
Contained subdivisions 16
← Work location 14
← Twinned administrative body 8
Twinned administrative body 7
Country 5
Instance of 4
Located in the administrative territorial entity 3
Named after 3
← Category combines topics 3
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 3
← Place of burial 3
Described by source 2
Located in or next to body of water 2
Located in this place 2
Member of 2
Residents 2
Applies to jurisdiction 1
Capital of 1
Category for people born here 1
Category for people who died here 1
Category of associated people 1
FactGrid item ID 1
Image Archive, Herder Institute 1
Location 1
Owned entities 1
Topic's main category 1
← Capital 1
← Category's main topic 1
← Conferred by 1
← Image Archive, Herder Institute 1
← Location of formation 1
← Place of publication 1
← SNARC ID 1
← Terminus location 1
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Summary
Greifswald is an urban municipality in Germany[1].
Body
Cultural Significance
Things named for Greifswald include Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant[49], a nuclear power plant[50], in Germany[51]; Greifswalder Oie[52], an island[53], in Germany[54]; and 10114 Greifswald[55], an asteroid[56].
Why It Matters
Entities named for Greifswald include Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant[49], a nuclear power plant[50], in Germany[51]; Greifswalder Oie[52], an island[53], in Germany[54]; and 10114 Greifswald[55], an asteroid[56].