Sternberg - city wall and historic half-timbered houses
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During our stay at Lake Garder near Lohmen, we came across the place name Sternberg several times, which lies within the Schwerin-Wismar-Güstrow triangle in the Sternberger Seenland nature park.
Here, too, the lake district was formed from a hilly terminal moraine on the Great Sternberger Lake, through which the Mildenitz flows.
On the way to Wismar - a stopover in Sternberg
Speaking of cakes: unfortunately, there was a bitter disappointment here, because even the café at the museum was closed, so there was no option to drink at least a coffee anywhere in the old town!
Inside: a large altar from 1747, a small carved altar in the sacristy from around 1500, a pulpit from the 18th century, a gravestone and an epitaph by Plessen (around 1580), a Walcker organ and a fresco depicting the introduction of the Reformation in 1549, to name at least a few details.
We stroll a little through the streets in search of a café and then decide to take a walk along the Sternberg city wall, which still almost completely surrounds the city. This is how we come across the Mühlentor, which is the remains of a larger city gate. It was destroyed in 1629 during the Thirty Years' War, partially rebuilt in 1839 and extensively renovated in 1998.
(Almost) repeating history about the Jews
The trial was conducted according to canon law at the instigation of secular and spiritual dignitaries. The priest Peter Däne - vicar at the Altar of All Saints in Sternberg - had reported the Jews. He claimed that the wife of the Jew Eleasar had given him desecrated and blood-stained hosts, which he had then buried. The hosts, apparently stained red with blood, were found at the place he had indicated. All Mecklenburg Jews were then arrested, interrogated and, if they could be linked to the alleged host desecration, charged after painful questioning.
A memorial stone from 1958 is located at the former Jewish cemetery for the community's dead, which has been a memorial since 1992 for the "Good Place" desecrated by the Nazis in 1937.
Please also read:
Ljubljana - first impressions and historical background
Podgorica – today the cultural centre of Montenegro
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Sternberg - Old town with half-timbered houses Sternberg - Old town with half-timbered houses
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