Rerik
Sign in to saveRerik (; formerly Alt-Gaarz) is a town in the Rostock district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated on the Baltic Sea coast, 19 km west of Bad Doberan, and 27 km northeast of Wismar. In 1938, Rerik was named after the old Slavic-Scandinavian settlement Reric, that was believed to have been situated near present Rerik.
Key facts
- German location.type
- Stadt
- German location.image_flag
- Flag of Rerik.svg
- German location.image_coa
- Wappen Rerik.svg
- German location.image_photo
- Rerik I.JPG
- German location.image_caption
- Church
- German location.image_plan
- Rerik_in_LRO.svg
- German location.state
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- German location.district
- Rostock
- German location.Amt
- Neubukow-Salzhaff
- German location.elevation
- 10
- German location.area
- 34.22
- German location.postal_code
- 18230
- German location.area_code
- 038296
- German location.licence
- LRO, BÜZ, DBR, GÜ, ROS, TET
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 13 0 72 085
- German location.website
- www.rerik.de
- German location.mayor
- Wolfgang Gulbis
- German location.party
- SPD
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- seaside resort
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Neubukow-Salzhaff
- Population
- 2186
- Area
- 34.22
- Elevation
- 9
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Official website
- www.rerik.de
- Image
- Rerik I.JPG
- Dialing code
- 038296
- Licence plate code
- TET
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- postal code
- 18230
- Commons category
- Rerik
- inception
- 1938-01-01
- P8168
- Richard Paul Wagner
- different from
- Rarog Gord
- hashtag
- Rerik
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Rerik West
- Notable people
- External links
- References
Rerik (; formerly Alt-Gaarz) is a town in the Rostock district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated on the Baltic Sea coast, 19 km west of Bad Doberan, and 27 km northeast of Wismar. In 1938, Rerik was named after the old Slavic-Scandinavian settlement Reric, that was believed to have been situated near present Rerik.
It is the setting for Alfred Andersch's debut novel, Flight to Afar (1957).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rerik” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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