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WE ARE
Rostock
the original
Rostock City Tour
Made for awesome people
Made for awesome people
After the renaissance of the newly united Germany "Rostock City Tour" was the first enterprise in Rostock trying to offer regular sightseeing tours from cruiseliners stopping at Warnemünde Seaport to the lovely and unique historical center of our "Hansestadt" (Hanseatic Town). So we proudly can call ourselves "The Original". The owner, the driver, the guide – we all already from the time of the "socialist" Eastern Germany personally connected our lifes with Rostock. Such a constellation you will find nowhere else among our competitors coming to he liners looking for abonnents.
Our guide Rainer, a professional historian and philosopher, was born in our beautiful town, lives in its famous "Stalin Style Magistrale" since 1954, loves it and knows what he is speaking about when he refers to history. Not as old as his hometown, of course, which officially was founded in 1218 (his mum founded him a little bit later), he can tell you about the life of Rostock's famous religious reformer Slüter, as if he has been an old fellow of him. But you can also ask him about "communist times", which he survived with a smile of remembering, and his answers sometimes will differ from what normally you find in mainstream descriptions around the Western world, in the opinions of younger guides, knowing this subject only from theory, or those of guides, who came to Rostock from Western parts of Germany, knowing this subject only from Western ideology – and not from "The Original". ;-)
So when you are a fan of history from Duke Henry the Lion up to the terrible bombs of Word War II, this tour is for you. Go deep with us into the spirits of older times. Many guests told us that from now on they much better understand German history. But there will be, of course, time enough also to understand the contemporary situation, to taste coffea, icecream, beer(s) and Mecklenburgian dishes on your own in our restaurants, to feel the atmosphere in our shopping centers or to spend times in a museum far away from shoeshopping family members. One bottle of beer you can already get in the bus alternatively to Coke or water. It's included. Also included is a LOL (Laughing Out Loud) overcoming you while listening – meanwhile beer, Coke or water drinking - to the guide's sometimes funny explanations. We promise! His charming Oxford School English from old Eastern times is one of the most comprehensive varieties worldwide, so that even he by himself understands most of what he is trying to tell you. So all you strong French and Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, Sächsisch and Switzerdütsch speaking nationalists, forget your scepticism, join us! And you will understand.
Have you already seen a stork with an African arrow in its throat, which, of course, is not really living any more with its exactly 200 years as a prepared member of the Zoological Instititute collection? It witnessed the death of a lot of crazy theories explaining the disappearance of storks in wintertime (so, f.i., that young little storks in winter would grow up at the grounds of the seas or change into mouses). Theories like these existed until 1822, the year, when the phenomenon of migrant birds finally became understood. Because this arrow was found in the throat of a stork. You can find it as well from Tuesday to Sunday in Zoological Institute building at University Square in Rostock! We'll show you the way – as well as to a lot of other places.
For example to our two most important hanseatic style churches (St Peter's with a spire for a long time beeing among the top ten oft he highests in the world, St Mary's with the famous astronomical clock, having parts of mechanics still in function made in 1379!), to other ancient brick gothic buildings, to newer ones in renaissance style, giving you sometimes the feeling of beeing in Italy. (Like University Main Building from 1870, which is Mecklenburgian Neorenaissance. University itself is older. Founded in 1419, it's the oldest in Northern Europe!) We show you the way to our "Stasi" Museum (opened excl. on mondays) as well as to our beautiful fortifications of the 16th century, now part of a green belt around the city center. Or to our Little Mermaid, the "drinking woman", beloved by fans more than her sister in Kopenhagen, because in Rostock was stolen (also twice, by the way) not only the head of he girl, but the whole girl itself! (Who takes from a lovely naked woman the head, when ha can have her at all? Are people in Rostock more direct, not so romantic? We think, it could have been tourists… ;-) ).
Dear guests, okay, we are not St Petersburg, Tallinn, Helsinki or Stockholm. With about 200.000 inhabitants we play in another division. But we are Rostock! We have the same right to explore the hearts of tourists the others have! Don't hesitate - come with us to find out who we are! And yes, we have free WiFi, of course. And of course, we will bring you back to he place where you started your adventure by entering our bus – the short distance of only a few hundred meters away from the cabine of your ship.
Sincerely, your Rostock City Tour Team
Rostock 2016
