9Greifswald a young city steeped in tradition GREIFSWALD The three brick churches of St Marien St Nikolai and St Jaco bi dominate the silhouette of the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald welcoming travellers from afar This view reflects the his torical face of the city immortalised by the painter Caspar David Fried rich who was born in Greifswald in 1774 in his painting Die Wiesen bei Greifswald The Greifswald Mead ows World famous paintings by the city s most famous son can be found in the gallery of the Pomer anian State Museum At the Caspar David Friedrich Centre which is lo cated at the Friedrichsche Seifen siederei the house where Friedrich was born you can view various exhibitions that pay homage to this great painter of the Romantic epoch From the Danish Wiek as the Baltic bay that laps at the feet of the city is called you can reach the largest museum harbour in Germany and the Greifswald Museum Shipyard both of which are situated on the banks of the River Ryck Here close to the historical city centre the maritime heritage of the old Hanseatic city still thrives And amidst the romantic atmosphere of historic fishing boats and sail freight ers boat building is in full swing using state of the art series production The headquarters of HanseYachts AG the second largest manufactur er of ocean going sailing vessels in the world is situated right here in Greifswald If you come to Greifswald from the southeast you ll be able to see the future The modern wave shaped roof of the Max Planck In stitute for Plasma Physics IPP has become a city landmark Fusion re search carried out at IPP aims to de velop a power plant that is climate and environment friendly The idea is to generate energy from the fu sion of atomic nuclei like the sun does For this purpose scientists engineers and craftsmen from all over the globe worked together to build the Stellarator Wendelstein 7 X fusion research facility in Greifswald This is the largest fusion facility of Left The yacht marina and the River Ryck

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