Sights in Wismar
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Rathaus Historical Exhibition
The large Rathaus at the square's northern end was built between 1817 and 1819 and today houses the excellent Rathaus Historical Exhibition in its basement. Displays include an original 15th-century Wandmalerei (mural) uncovered by archaeologists in 1985, a glass-covered medieval well, and the Wrangel tomb - the coffin of influential Swedish General Helmut V Wrangel and his wife, with outsized wooden figures carved on top.
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St-Georgen-Kirche
The massive red shell of the St-Georgen-Kirche has been extensively renovated for combined use as a church, concert hall and exhibition space and is set to reopen in May 2010. In 1945 a freezing populace was driven to burn what was left of the church's beautiful wooden statue of St George and the dragon.
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St-Nikolai-Kirche
One of the great redbrick church that once rose above the rooftops before WWII, only the enormous redbrick St-Nikolai-Kirche, the largest of its kind in Europe, was left intact. Today it contains a font from its older sister church, the St-Marien-Kirche.
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St-Marien-Kirche
All that remains of the 13th-century St-Marien-Kirche is its great brick steeple (1339), which rises above the city. A multimedia exhibit on medieval church-building techniques is housed in the tower's base.
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Schabbellhaus
The town's historical museum is in the Renaissance Schabbellhaus in a former brewery (1571), just south of St-Nikolai-Kirche across the canal. Pride of place goes to one of the original Swedish Heads.
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