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The Abbey of the Holy Cross is a Brick Gothic former Cistercian nunnery founded in 1270 by the Danish queen Margaret Sambiria, with its church completed in 1360. After the Reformation it continued as a Lutheran women's convent until 1920; the church now serves as the university church, and the convent buildings house Rostock's Cultural History Museum.

St. Mary's Church is a Brick Gothic basilica in Rostock's old town, first mentioned in 1232 and enlarged into its present cross-shaped form by the late 14th century; its baroque tower lantern was finished in the 18th century. Inside stand a medieval astronomical clock, a 1770 organ with 83 stops, a 1721 gilded high altar and a 1574 pulpit.

Warnemünde Church is a neo-Gothic brick church built between 1866 and 1871 to a cross-shaped plan by architect Theodor Krüger, with rose windows in its transept gables. It holds a carved Gothic altar from 1475, a 1591 Renaissance pulpit, and a 3.72-metre oak figure of Saint Christopher from around 1500.