Barth

Barth is a metropolis in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is located at a lagoon of the Baltic Sea going through the Fischland-Darss-Zingst peninsula. Barth belongs to the district of Vorpommern-Rugen. It is close to the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park. In 2011, it held a populace of 8,706. Barth dates back to the medieval German Ostsiedlung, earlier than the region become settled via Wends of the Liuticians or Rani tribe. Jaromar II, Danish prince of Rugen, granted the metropolis Lubeck regulation in 1255.

In the same report, he agreed to dispose of his burgh, Borgwall or Neue Burg, then at the northwestern fringe of the metropolis's projected limits. Another Wendish burgh, Alte Burg near today's train station, become not used anymore. The German city was set up on empty area between the burghs. Not a member of the Hanseatic League, the metropolis in no way grew to the importance and length of neighboring Hanseatic towns like Stralsund. The final prince of Rügen, Witzlaw III, erected a court docket at the website online of former Neue Burg in 1315. He regularly resided in Barth.