The Warnow ( German pronunciation: [ˈvaːno] ) is a river in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany . It flows into the Baltic Sea near the town of Rostock , in its borough Warnemünde .
7-654: The source of the Warnow is in Grebbin, a small village 10 kilometres (6 mi) north of Parchim , at the western end of the Mecklenburg Lake District . It flows north through Sternberg , Bützow and Schwaan before reaching Rostock. In 2003, Germany's first modern toll road, the Warnow Tunnel was opened, connecting the port of Rostock on the east bank with the west bank of the river. There
14-633: A folk-etymologisation of the name of the river. This article related to a river in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Parchim Parchim ( German: [ˈpaʁçɪm] ; Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch : Parchen ) is a town in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , Germany . It is the capital of the Ludwigslust-Parchim district. It
21-566: Is in Indaial , a city of Brazil, a river with the same name. When Hermann Blumenau came to America and started to explore the country, he gave this name to the river in the Brazilian city because it resembled the river in Germany. The origins of the name are uncertain. Recent work suggests a non-Indo-European (perhaps specifically Hattic ) element ar(i)n ('spring, stream'), giving rise to
28-624: The Slavic form Warnow through the prosthesis of /v-/. The Warnabi , a medieval Slavic tribe, probably derived their name from the Warnow. The ancient geographer Claudius Ptolemäus mentioned a river around 150 CE whose location would correspond to the Warnow, which he called the Χαλοῦσος (Latin: Chalusus). The river also appears in a few medieval sources under names along the lines of Goderak : Guðakrsá ('God-field's river') in Knýtlinga saga chapter 119 and Saxo Grammaticus's Gesta Danorum in
35-457: The phrase ad Gudacram amnem ('to the river Gudacra'; xiv.25.16). Meanwhile, Arnold of Lübeck's Chronica Slavorum mentions that Berno, Apostle of the Obotrites 'pro Gutdracco Godehardum episcopum venerari constituit' ('instituted the veneration of Bishop Godehard in place of Gutdracco'). This Gutdracco is otherwise unknown, and there is some suspicion that the name of this god arose as
42-707: Was reunited with Werle-Güstrow in 1307. One branch of the family of the duke of Mecklenburg resided in Parchim during part of the 14th century. It became a prosperous industrial town during the 16th century, but this prosperity was destroyed by the Thirty Years' War . Motorcycle speedway is held at the Mecklenburgring, in the north west outskirts of the town off the Dammer Weg. The club Motorsportclub Mecklenburgring Parchim e.V. organise race meetings at
49-588: Was the birthplace of Helmuth von Moltke the Elder , to whom a monument was erected in 1876. Founded about 1210, it was the seat of the short-lived Lordship of Parchim-Richenberg , a partition of the Duchy of Mecklenburg , from 1226 until 1248 when the lord relocated to Richenberg. Parchim was absorbed into the Lordship of Werle in 1255. In 1277 Werle was partitioned and Parchim became the seat of Werle-Parchim until it
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