Meyer Werft is a German shipyard headquartered in Papenburg at the river Ems. Founded in 1795 and starting with small wooden vessels, today Meyer Werft is a builder of luxury passenger ships. 700 ships of different types have been built at the yard. Its "Dockhalle 2" is the third largest shipbuilding hall and the building with the fifth-largest usable volume in the world as of 2022.
Dockhalle 1 of the Meyer Werft, with the research vessel RV Sonne under construction.
Rostock officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock, is the largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the state, close to the border with Pomerania. With around 210,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city on the German Baltic coast after Kiel and Lübeck, the eighth-largest city in the area of former East Germany, as well as the 39th-largest city of Germany. Rostock was the largest coastal and most important port city in East Germany.
Image: 2018 Petrikirche Rostock
Image: Rostock nördl Altstadt mit der Marienkirche
Image: Petrikirche in Rostock IMG 1681
Image: Hafen panoramio Georg Denda (1)