Talk:Greifswald

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	This page is within the scope of WikiProject Hanseatic League, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to articles on the Hanseatic League on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the Project's quality scale. Please rate the article and then leave a short summary here to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article.

I can't quite get behind the concept of adding the Polish word for Greifswald. Why not add French, Italian, Russian, Estonian, Spanish, etc. then, too? Anyway, I took it out. There never was a sizeable Polish speaking population in Greifswald. It would make sense to add the Swedish form, but I don't know it.

To answer your question, Gryfia was a Pomeranian city that had belonged to the Kingdom of Poland before 1199, by all means the Danish monks were NOT the first ones to have settled here, I'm not certain anyone in Germany believes that Greifswald was only settled in 1199 or that it is originally a non-Slavic town, most people in Greifswald are aware that the city had a clear Slavic Pomeranian history. This German propaganda is way beyond belief, see the article: Dukes of Pomerania for more. The town was germanized and lost its slavic feel around 1295, the same goes to Wołogoszcz ( Wolgast), Dymin ( Demmin ) and Bardo ( Barth ). As you know Pomerania was a fief of Poland therefore these territories had belonged to Poland at one point. I am not saying that Polish name has to be included but there is a clear feeling among some Poles that the some of the Vorpommern territory incl. Gryfia, Wołogoszcz, Strzalowo ( Stralsund ) should have been given to Poland in 1945 as well. Germans can try to revert history but these territories have a clear Pomeranian past and therefore are very dear to some Poles. VicFromTheBlock

That is the largest nonsense, which I ever read. Here is a Polish nationalist at the work! Muggmag 11:04, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Don't you think that "communist dictatorship" is a bit biased? I mean the PDS as the successor party of the SED still gets a seizable proportion of the vote from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, so clearly, at least some people must have liked it. I suggest substituting it with something slightly less value-ladden. Freddie

I concur with Freddie, and note that those who have written this article show absolutely no interest in its Nazi history. Google Greifswald Nazi to find 63,000 pages with references to that subject. When I have time, I will try to summarize some of that history. In the meantime, this is a glaring omission, showing extreme bias --and blinders --- in this article. Skywriter 21:47, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Considering there was no "near melt-down" in 1989 and it thus could not have been the reason for shutting down the powerplant, I took out that sentence. Greetings -- Ms.Griffin 22:22, 10. Juli 2007