The University of Greifswald, formerly known as "Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald", is a public research university located in Greifswald, Germany, in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
The Hauptgebäude (main building) was constructed between 1747 and 1750. Today it houses the rector's office and some parts of the university administration as well as a baroque assembly hall.
Greifswald's red town hall, the seat of the lord mayor, is situated in the historic city centre. As Greifswald is a small, coastal student town, the relationship between the university and the town has mostly been close. For instance, it was Heinrich Rubenow, then lord mayor of the city, who pushed for the establishment of a university in his town, and who became the university's first rector in the year 1456.
Johannes Bugenhagen during a sermon (part of an altar triptych in Wittenberg's church)
The renowned Romanticist painter Caspar David Friedrich immortalised the city in several of his paintings, e.g. Wiesen bei Greifswald (English: 'meadows near Greifswald'; 1820–1822, oil on canvas).
Greifswald, officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg. In 2021 it surpassed Stralsund for the first time, and became the largest city in the Pomeranian part of the state. It sits on the River Ryck, at its mouth into the Danish Wiek, a sub-bay of the Bay of Greifswald, which is itself a sub-bay of the Bay of Pomerania of the Baltic Sea.
Image: Greifswald Town Hall
Image: Kloster Eldena im Mai
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Image: Neuer Hafen Yachtzentrum Greifswald und Holzteichquartier M V Foto 2011 Wolfgang Pehlemann Steinberg DSCN8665
