Location of Wismar (orange) under Swedish rule within the Kingdom of Sweden (green) in 1658
Status
Swedish Dominion
Capital
Wismar
Common languages
Low German/German, Swedish
Religion
Lutheranism
Government
Principality
Duke
• 1648–1654
Christina (first)
• 1872–1903
Oscar II (last)
History
• Peace of Westphalia
24 October 1648
• Pawned to Mecklenburg-Schwerin
1803
• Swedish Renouncement of Claim
1903
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Duchy of Mecklenburg-Güstrow
Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Swedish Wismar (Swedish: Svenska Wismar) was a Dominion under the Swedish Crown from 1648 to 1903 and corresponded roughly to the modern boundaries of the city of Wismar. The former Hanseatic city lies on the Baltic coast of modern-day Germany.
SwedishWismar (Swedish: Svenska Wismar) was a Dominion under the Swedish Crown from 1648 to 1903 and corresponded roughly to the modern boundaries of...
Wismar (German pronunciation: [ˈvɪsmaʁ]; Low German: Wismer), officially the Hanseatic City of Wismar (Hansestadt Wismar) is, with around 43,000 inhabitants...
away from Swedish power one by one, leaving Sweden with only a few northern German territories: Swedish Pomerania, Bremen-Verden and Wismar. From 1643...
The Hochschule Wismar, University of Applied Sciences: Technology, Business and Design (or short: University of Wismar), is the third-biggest and third-oldest...
The Swedish Empire (Swedish: stormaktstiden, "the Era of Great Power") was the period in Swedish history spanning much of the 17th and early 18th centuries...
Dominions of Sweden or Svenska besittningar ("Swedish possessions") were territories that historically came under control of the Swedish Crown, but never...
of Sweden's position on the southern Baltic coast and assured that Sweden was to retain Wismar and northern Swedish Pomerania. Hanover gained Swedish Bremen-Verden...
decline. Sweden took Bremen-Verden (excluding the city of Bremen), Swedish Pomerania (including Stralsund, Greifswald, Rostock) and SwedishWismar, preventing...
Swedish Pomerania (Swedish: Svenska Pommern; German: Schwedisch-Pommern) was a dominion under the Swedish Crown from 1630 to 1815 on what is now the Baltic...
spoken in the 17th-century Swedish territories along the southern Baltic Coast in Swedish Pomerania, Bremen-Verden, Wismar and Wildeshausen, as well as...
from Swedish power one by one, leaving Sweden with only a few northern German territories: Swedish Pomerania, Bremen-Verden and Wismar. The Swedish armies...
threefold attack on the Swedish protectorate of Holstein-Gottorp and provinces of Livonia and Ingria, aiming to draw advantage as the Swedish Empire was unaligned...
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additional dominions of Bremen-Verden, Wismar and Swedish Pomerania. From 1638 Sweden also held the colony of New Sweden, along the Delaware River in North...
Swedish-Brandenburgian War (German: Schwedisch-Brandenburgischer Krieg). The war was prompted by Swedish involvement in the Franco-Dutch War. Sweden had...
spanning three years between Sweden, allied with Holstein, and an alliance consisting of Denmark, Lübeck, Hamburg, Rostock, Wismar, Greifswald, and Stralsund...
Sea. It forms the natural northern and eastern boundaries of the Bay of Wismar on the German coast. The northern coast of the island is also on the south...
campaign of the Danish Army in that war opened with an attack on the Swedish enclave of Wismar in 1675. Christian V's front prepared for this main event by sapping...
country had made in every direction. Prime Minister of Sweden Privy Council of SwedenWismar One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text...
troops. Sweden further received Western Pomerania (thenceforth Swedish Pomerania), Wismar, and the Prince-Bishoprics of Bremen and Verden as hereditary...
became vice president of the newly founded Wismar Tribunal for the Swedish fiefs in the Holy Roman Empire in Wismar and thus in the jurisdiction of the court...
2002 alongside Wismar in Mecklenburg because of its outstanding Brick Gothic buildings and importance during the Hanseatic League and Swedish rule. St Mary's...
1648. Condemned 1677. Sankt Anna (46), c. 1649. Given to France 1650. Wismar (44), c. 1649. Given away 1692. Herkules (58), 1654. Rebuilt 1689-90, sunk...