Places of romance

The Kosegarten house is a meeting and event site. A permanent exhibition is devoted to the life of the famous pastor Kosegarten, which was famous by his banks. The friends of this romantic were among Friedrich Schleiermacher, Caspar David Friedrich, Wilhelm von Humboldt or Johann Jacob Grümbke. With Goethe, Schiller and Herder, he was in a lively correspondence and praised the beauty of creation and his island. Ernst-Moritz Arndt was a tutor at Kosegarten for several years.

The wide range includes experience exhibition, World Heritage cinema, Skywalk Königsstuhl, Bistro, nature adventure area, special exhibition, guided tours and much more.

Experience exhibition : Discover the nature of the Jasmund National Park on 2,000 square meters-the origin in the chalk, life underground and the life cycles of different national park residents. They are accompanied by an audio guide system, three themed trips are available. For children there is an extra trip with Mimi and Krax. Since 2023, in addition to the audio trip in German and English, the languages ​​have also been available Dutch, Polish, Danish and Swedish for young and old. A theme trip in German sign language, easy language and a version for the blind and visually limited guests enables a barrier -free excursion to the experience exhibition.

World Heritage cinema : Get an impression of the phenomenon of the old beech forests in the Jasmund National Park. Visorely and excitingly tells of Dirk Steffens in a 15-minute film on three screens.
Skywalk Königsstuhl : Enjoy the unique view of the Baltic Sea from the new barrier -free Skywalk on Rügen's chalk coast. From the entrance of the National Park Center, it is only a few steps to the platform.
Short leadership : Listen interesting facts about the Jasmund National Park and the UNESCO World Heritage "Old Buchenwald Germany". There are fossils to touch and answers to your questions about the national park during the approximately 30 -minute short tour by an expert guide.
Special exhibition : You can find the special exhibition every year changing and in keeping with the annual topic in the chalk hall of the center. In 2024, matching the 250th birthday of Caspar David Friedrich, everything revolves around the romance in the Stubbenkammer. The "habitat. Create ”will be the focus from February 2025 with nature photographs.
Hikes, holiday programs and more: keep an eye on the event calendar - during the holiday season and on special holidays you can look forward to additional hikes, programs and events for young and old.

The Königsstuhl National Park Center can only be reached on foot by bike or local public transport by VVR via line 19 and line 23. The passage by car is not permitted due to nature conservation reasons. Please either use the Hagen parking lot, at the Sassnitz exit or the parking garage at Sassnitz Stadthafen:

Address for your navigation device:

Large car park Hagen
Stubbenkammerstr. 57
18551 Lohme OT Hagen

Parking at the
Stubbenkammerstr.
18546 Sassnitz

If you are in possession of a blue EU parking pattern, you can also drive to the center. Two designated parking areas are available here.

Information on accessibility

All examinated areas meet the quality criteria of the labeling "accessibility tested - barrier -free for people with walking disabilities and partially barrier -free for wheelchair users, people with hearing disability, deaf people, people with visual impairment and blind people and people with cognitive impairments" . Further details can be found under trips for everyone. 

• There are two marked parking spaces for people with disabilities (parking space size: 360 cm x 500 cm, distance: 40 m).
• The Königsstuhl bus stop is 20 m away.
• The path from the parking lot/bus stop to the entrance to the ticket house is easy to walk and pass and has a maximum longitudinal inclination of 2 % over a distance of 10 m. 
• The ticket house is outside the National Park Center. The cash counter is 106 cm high. 
• The path from the ticket house to the National Park Center is easy to walk and pass and has a maximum longitudinal inclination of 8 % over a distance of 10 m. 
• The National Park Center is continuously accessible.
• All rooms and facilities that can be used and raised for the guest are infinitely variable or accessible via lifts.
• The elevator cabins are at least 108 cm x 138 cm in size. The elevator door is 90 cm wide. In the exhibition, exhibition supervision helps to use alternative elevators with the stairs.
• All doors/passes can be used and raised for the guest are at least 90 cm wide.
• Outside paths are easily accessible and passable. There are seating.
• The circular route on the Skywalk is 185 m long, 200 cm wide and easily accessible and passable. 
• The exhibits/stations/objects and the information on the exhibits are mostly visible and readable while sitting.  
• There are no undermining tables in the bistro (maximum height 80 cm, undermining at a height of 67 cm and a depth of 30 cm). 

Public toilet for people with disabilities with wrap room (floor -1, accessible via the exhibition with elevator)

• The movement areas are:
  • In front of the sink 176 cm x 131 cm; before the toilet 182 cm x 176 cm;
  • To the left of the toilet 100 cm x 55 cm; To the right of the toilet 45 cm x 55 cm.
• There are handles on the left and right of the toilet. The left handle can be folded up.
• The sink can be undermined.
• The mirror is visible while standing and sitting.
• There is an alarm trigger.

Public toilet for people with disabilities (floor -1, accessible by elevator in the stairwell)

• The movement areas are:
  • In front of the sink 171 cm x 108 cm; before the toilet 147 cm x 171 cm;
  • To the left of the toilet 56 cm x 56 cm; To the right of the toilet 80 cm x 56 cm.
• There are handles on the left and right of the toilet. The right handle can be folded up.
• The sink can be undermined.
• The mirror is visible while standing and sitting.
• There is an alarm trigger.

The Marinemuseum is a branch of the Stralsund Museum on the island of Dänholm. The small island on the Rügendamm was strategically significant during Stralsund's siege in the Middle Ages. Here later the birth for the Prussian Navy hit. Sea forces from the German Reich and the GDR were also stationed here. In the former barracks and on the open -air area, surrounded by the walls of the historic star hill, you can immerse yourself in the naval history since 1992. Numerous original objects from military seafaring such as uniforms, equipment, weapons, models as well as photos, films and documents are shown. On the open -air area, the bright blue original of a naval helicopter and a torpedo box boat are an attractions. In 2021 the new show "Warships under sailing" opened. The show "My Marinemuseum" approaches the stories of individual objects of the marine -historical collection on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Marinemuseum from a personal perspective of many committed colleagues. 

You can visit the father's old soap settlement, the family cabinet with the family tree, the Rügen and the Eldena room with famous motifs from Friedrich's work and the Caspar-David-Friedrich gallery. The tour provides comprehensive information on Friedrich's origin, career and creative as well as the history of the Friedrich family and their residential and commercial building, which is also the subject of a long-term research project of the Caspar-David-Friedrich-Gesellschaft. Changing exhibitions of current art in the Caspar-David Friedrich Gallery testify to the ongoing fascination and effect that is based on Friedrich's work and historical romance.

Due to its location in the middle of the old town of Greifswald, the center is a particularly attractive goal for everyone who wants to walk in his traces in the artist's hometown. In the immediate vicinity is the St. Nikolai cathedral, where Caspar David Friedrich was baptized, and on foot it is only a few minutes to the Pomeranian State Museum with its original Friedrich paintings.

The year 2025 in the Pomeranian State Museum

The permanent exhibition is open all year round - 14,000 years of Pommer's history await you! In addition, there is an extensive event program with lectures, tours, art breaks and much more - including the anniversary "775 years of Greifswald".

Special exhibitions
 

Again
in the spring of 2025 we open our convent building again and present moments from the art collection. Look forward to old acquaintances such as Frans Hals and Vincent van Gogh, meet artists in a new compilation and, in addition to familiar works, also discover those who have been waiting for their appearance.

New, white ceramics from Szczeccin/Szczecin
24.08.08.2025
The aim of the cabinet exhibition is to reinterpret the craftsmanship known as the "Stettiner" in the light of contemporary artistic and cultural contexts. The works shown were created in the context of ceramic workshops, in which the participants faced the task of leading a creative dialogue with the historical heritage.

Viking gold. Treasury policy since 1800
hiking exhibition with digital presentation
October 2025 to January 2026,
treasures from the Viking Age (approx. 800–1100) are found again and again in the Baltic Sea area. It was the same earlier. With the finding of these treasures, multi -layered processes of recovery begin: Who can keep the "Viking gold"? Where is it shown? Who identifies themselves? Who differentiates themselves? And how do these processes change over time? The exhibition "Treasury Policy" shows that appropriations of cultural heritage and delimitation are politically charged.

On the way to the Galerie der Romantik
After the great anniversary 2024, Caspar David Friedrich remains: The new gallery of romance focuses on the most famous Pomerania. The topping -out ceremony was celebrated in July 2024, and so it is only a matter of time before the opening is due! There you will be received a chapel that is multimedia on Friedrich's poetic image world. You can experience how his pictures took shape, you can delve into the originals and learn what kind of person's soap-son from Swedish-Pomerania. Or did you already know that Caspar David Friedrich Kanarienvögel breeded and was famous and notorious for his huge full beard?

Pomerania - Land by the sea
take your time to discover the eventful history of the region on both sides of the Oder! Of the first hunters and collectors to the 20th century, 14,000 years of history awaits you - with impressive exhibits, elaborate media stations and installations. Discovered exciting people from the prehistory and the Middle Ages, from Stone Age Greater Stone Graves, Slavic trade nets and the heyday of the Hanseatic League. Find out why Martin Luther, a Saxon princess and a Pomeranian Duke gather on the unique croy carpet, why the Swedes completely measured their province of Pomerania and how fishing villages became sophisticated Baltic Sea resorts. The 20th century with its breaks and continuities illuminated objects and contemporary witness reports - from the world wars to flight and displacement, "Ostmecklenburg" in the GDR, "West Pomerania" in Poland to the "Pomerania Renaissance" after German reunification.

A glass road connects the buildings of the museum complex.

If you have seen a lot, you have to take a break. The Franziskaner monastery, the museum shop and the museum catering "Naturally Büttners"-Restaurant & Manufaktur cordially invite you.

See you soon in the Pomeranian State Museum

As part of the old urban harbor, the museum port extends from the Steinbeck bridge to the old grain storage and shapes the Maritime flair of the Hanseatic city. The oldest ship, which visitors can admire in the museum port, is the "Pommerland" zeesboot from 1880. At www.museumshafen-greifswald.de, all ships are listed here. 15 of them offer excursions and fellow sailing trips. Sailing can also be made at the annual Gaffelrigg.

By the way: On request, the Museumshafen Greifswald association also organizes group tours through the museum port and the museum yard, in which old ships are restored.

The slim baroque onion hood with two lanterns replaced the Gothic tower helmet in 1652. In 1456 the University of Greifswald was opened in St. Nikolai. Today it is the venue for the Greifswald Bachwoche.

Evangelical Cathedral, first mentioned in 1280, nine and a half of the Joch long basilica made of brick with three -sided closed choir, chapel cultivation and sacristy on the north side, 1st half of the 15th century, including the previous building of a five -aisy, three -aisle brick hall church, around 1400 expansion by a four and half -year -old choir and surrounded chapel wreath.

The painter Caspar David Friedrich made the church of his hometown world famous. The parish church became the cathedral only with the laying of the Bishopric's Seat of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church from Stettin to Greifswald in 1947. The tower with the onion hood and the four corner towers is particularly striking. The Greifswald Bach weeks take place annually in the light -flooded basilica.

With his paintings and drawings, Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) made the ruin of the medieval Cistercian monastery Eldena widely known. The remains of the once important monastery are embedded in a park with an old tree population, including 180-year-old oaks, which shape Friedrich's ideas and shape the romantic atmosphere of the facility. The main accent of the ruin is the imposing west facade of the former monastery church with the high pointed -arched window opening.

The Hilda (Eldena) monastery was founded in 1199 after Cistercian monks had to give up their monastery in Dargun in a row. The new monastery was built east of the later town of Greifswald, at the mouth of the Ryck river into the Danish Wiek. In 1248, the “Oppidum Gripheswald” was first mentioned in a document under the possessions of the monastery and in 1250 the city rights were awarded to today's Greifswald. The monastery ruin is located in the Eldena district, in the immediate vicinity of the Fischerdorf Wieck and the Greifswald Bodden.
In the Middle Ages, Eldena was the most important monastery in the region, the economic and spiritual center of the area and reached its heyday around 1400. It was structured from the early 13th century to the beginning of the 15th century. The monastery existed until the Reformation movement in the region in 1533 and subsequently refused.
In 1634, the University of Greifswald from the last Pomeranian Duke Bogislaw XIV received the office of Eldena and thus the monastery grounds and associated lands. After looting in the Thirty Years' War by Imperial and Swedish troops, the remains of the medieval monastery complex fell more and more. Since the second half of the 17th century, they have even been used as a quarry for fortress and Greifswald university buildings.
The rescue of the facility is largely thanks to the intervention of the romantic ideas of Prussian Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm (1795–1861, later King Friedrich Wilhelm IV.). In 1827 he found the ruin in a neglected state. As a result, from 1828-1832 the first clean-up and renovation work and a park to open up the site took place. Instead of the lack of long house pillars of the nave, oaks were set. The merger of the eternal recurring nature with the venerable structural testimonies of an irretrievable past time carries a profound symbolism, which also captivates today's visitors at all years and times of the year.
Caspar David Friedrich, born in Greifswald in 1774, made the monastery ruin Eldena world famous. He is now the most important painter and draftsman of German early romance and used sketches of the monastery ruins in his paintings "Winter", "Monastery ruins in the Giant Mountains" and "Abbey in the Eichwald". Some of his works are exhibited in the Pomeranian State Museum. In the Caspar David Friedrich Center in the Greifswald city center you can experience the life and work of the painter impressively.
The expansion of the Office of the Office and the establishment of an agricultural academy in 1835, which existed until 1876, must be emphasized from the retrofitting history of the facility. The still existing monastery buildings were also used for agriculture.
The monastery ruin has been owned by the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald since 1937. Nowadays the monastery ruin and the surrounding park is a popular local recreation area, landmark of the city and backdrop for film recordings and various events. In summer, theater performances, the Eldena monastery market (since 2014), the Jazz Festival Eldenaer Jazz Evenings (since 1981) and other concerts and events take place. The monastery ruin is a station on the Caspar David Friedrich Bildweg and the European Route of Brick Gothic.
Parking & journey: https://www.greifswald.de/de/freizeit-kultur/veranstaltungen/klostermarkt/anfahrt-klosterruine-eldena/

Route of the North German Romance: Klosterruine Eldena-Friedrich's favorite motif
Caspar David Friedrich was on September 5th Born in Greifswald in 1774 and is considered the most important painter and draftsman of the German early romanticism. In his paintings "Winter" and "Abbey in the Eichwald", he used sketches of the Eldena monastery ruin as templates and made them world -famous. During his home visits, Caspar David Friedrich always rediscovered the architecture of the monastery ruins. He drew them from all perspectives. The high west facade was of particular interest to him, it forms the center of many of his works. Through his pictures, the ruin came into the focus of the public. Here is the start or destination of the theme wheel route "Route of North German Romantic".

The Ludwigsburg district belongs to the municipality of Loissin and enthusiastically as a special destination with one of the last still preserved castles of the Pomeranian dukes in Germany

The Renaissance Schloss Ludwigsburg, idyllically located on the edge of the Greifswald Boddens, was on behalf of Ernst Ludwig, Herzog to Pommern-Wolgast, built for his wife Sophia Hedwig. It is largely preserved in the original. After the death of Sophia Hedwig in 1631, the facility changed the owner several times until it was sold to the Greifswald Kaufmann Weissenborn in 1810. After the expropriation of the Weissenborn family in 1945, the property fell into disrepair due to a lack of maintenance. Since 1997, the non-profit association has been trying to do the Ludwigsburg Schloss- und Gutshofanks. V. in cooperation with the Weissenborn family for the rescue of these historic gems. In the years 2020/21, parts of the property were adopted for a symbolic purchase price in the property of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, which has been planning and executing

the historical importance of the place since then has not been limited to Pomeranian Duchy History. Friedrich August von Klinkowström was born on August 31, 1778 at Ludwigsburg Castle, a friend and companion of Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge, the two most important painters of North German romance. At the request of his father, an officer, Friedrich August von Klinkowström initially performed military service for eight years before he traveled to Dresden

in Dresden at the beginning of the 19th century at the side of the Greifswalder Caspar David Friedrich to study them. Acquaintance of Philipp Otto Runge from Wolgast. Later Runge was supposed to visit his heart friend Klinkowström in Ludwigsburg. So the castle is also a meeting place for the "romantic".

With its farm buildings, Ludwigsburg finally documents an agricultural estate at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, as was typical for Pomerania at the time. The ensemble is rounded off by the small but fine palace chapel from 1708 - in its tower the oldest still functioning church tower clock strikes Vorpommern - as well as a wonderful castle park that invites you to linger.

The complete renovation of the Ludwigsburg Castle and Gutshof facility will take a few more years. In the meantime, not all parts of the system are accessible to visitors. Several times a year, the support association organizes a herbal and smoked market on the site in a very special atmosphere. Outside of these and other events, the support association will be happy to open the exhibitions during the season (April to September) by appointment.

Experience the story of the Vorpommerns up close using examples of old buildings and be inspired by the original nature!

The beach is located about three kilometers outside the village, directly on the Danish Wieck. Ideally to reach by bike via a traffic -calmed road. The Baltic Sea coast bike path leads here. The guarded parking lot costs two euros a day.
The beach is very nice with a lot of sand and partial grass growth. From here you have a wonderful view over the Bodden on the Silhouette Greifswald and the harbor.
The cozy restaurant with a large terrace invites you to warm kitchen and cold ice. From May to October, this has opened for you every day. In the colder season is up on weekends.
Toilet use is also possible. There is a large playground for the little ones and plenty of space to romp.

Those who want to go to chicken gods, petrified witnesses of past times and of course amber, who bumps the three kilometers along the natural beach from the Lubmin seaside resort towards Vierow harbor or turned around. It is a circuit when you decide to walk along the beach, past the large Teufelsstein (a granite block in the water) and the back tour along the high bank on the small hiking trail with a view of the Greifswald Bodden.
In spring and autumn, migratory birds rest in the shallow water of the bodden and collect for the trip.

Route of Northern German Romance: Hafen Vierow - Friedrich's honeymoon

The village of Vierow was a small farmers and Büdnerdorf at the beginning of the 19th century with access to the Greifswald Bodden. People lived from fishing in the sideline. An indication of this gives a drawing by Caspar David Friedrich on June 03, 1818. The drawing on the beach shows two fishing boats and dried nets. He used this as the basis for other coastal paintings. During this time he was on a honeymoon with his wife Christiane Caroline Bommer. They visited Friedrich's home and the surrounding area, including the cities of Neubrandenburg, Wolgast, Greifswald and next to the island of Rügen, also small towns such as Vierow.
The current location of the drawing is already located in the Greifswald Bodden due to the strong coastal erosion. If you stand on the beach and look over the Greifswald Bodden you can understand the fascination that exerts the water and the coast.

Lubmin is not only a real insider tip as a holiday and travel destination. A five -kilometer -long bathing beach with solid, fine -grained sand and flat water offers ideal conditions for a vacation with young children and family. The pine forest, which extends behind the beach, holds the wind off the attractive cliff and offers a wonderful view of the pier. The surrounding area and the beach are also ideal for cycling and foot hikes. The newly renovated great beach promenade is also a very popular excursion and recreation destination. It is an attractive eye -catcher between the remarkable elegant old villas, the wonderful pine forest and the infinitely long white sandy beach. Numerous hotels, holiday apartments of each category and motorhome parking spaces directly on the beach leave nothing to be desired. Restaurants and shops are also located near the pier. 

Route of North German Romanticism: Sebad Lubmin - The coast in Friedrich's field of view
The landmark of the Lubmin seaside resort is the 350 meter long pier reaching into the Bodden. Lubmin is the only seaside resort in the Greifswald Bodden and a popular holiday destination for families. At that time most of the residents of the village were farmers, there was no sufficient sea bay for a beach fishing. In 1801, Caspar David Friedrich went on the first trip. In his picture "View from the south coast of Rügen", in addition to the villages of Wusterhusen, Wolgast and the island, he also noted the Prussian side and thus made a differentiation to Swedish-Pomerania. The seaside resort of Lubmin is not mentioned by name, although it already existed on cards at that time. It was probably because Lubmin and Wusterhusen lie on the same airline from its focus.

As early as 1652, Carl Gustav Wrangel, after whose family the place was named, had a new building in the foundation of a castle destroyed in the Thirty Years' War, in which he temporarily resided. This new baroque lock was completed in 1664. In 1657/58 in Wrangelsburg, a circular chapel was also built in Gothic forms in Wrangelsburg, for whose equipment the sculptor Ficke from Stralsund and the painter Malchow were responsible. It has not been used since the late 18th century and was therefore soon removed. In 1809, Caspar David Friedrich made the drawing “The Dilapidated Church in Wrangelsburg”.

The changing owners of the Wrangelsburg Castle already indicate its varied history; Among other things, Malte Friedrich von Putbus was once the owner. By Homeyer, a grain clerk from Wolgast, had the new manor house built around 1880 after the old castle was badly destroyed in the 17th century.
Both buildings are surrounded by an idyllic park in English style, in which the oldest Douglasia in Germany is located, and are located directly on Lake Castle. Because of the beautiful nature, the landscape park in 2003 was used as an external location of the IGA Rostock and still attracts numerous visitors today.

Caspar David Friedrich and Wrangelsburg

On his hike on May 5, 1809 from Greifswald to Neubrandenburg, Friedrich found only a dilapidated castle and chapel in Wrangelsburg. The chapel served him as a study. The chapel was a 1650 baroque oval building with a center support. Unfortunately, nothing more indicates the chapel today. 

During his birthplace in Wolgast, his way of life in the Hamburg Kunsthalle is found in Wolgast. In addition to painting, Runge made a decisive contribution to the three -dimensional color theory, designed playing cards and wrote down the first fairy tales in Germany. The best known - "from the fisherman and his wife" - was added to the Grimm brothers' collection.

Route of North German Romantic: Rungehaus Wolgast - The birthplace of Runges
Philipp Otto Runge was born on July 23, 1777. Like Friedrich August von Klinkowström, he had ten siblings. Already in his early childhood, his teacher, the poet Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten, was recognized and promoted at the Wolgaster school. After an apprenticeship in Hamburg, Runge decided in 1799 to study art in Copenhagen. After his return, he met Caspar David Friedrich and also moved to Dresden. Runge nevertheless spent several years in Wolgast, where he developed his theory of three -dimensional color theory. One of his most famous works "Wilhelmine Helwig" is located in the Pomeranian State Museum in Greifswald.

The city harbor in Wolgast is the place of departure for the classic harbor tours, ship trips on the roller water or the Peene stream. Here are the leisure captains with their houseboats and sailing yachts. At around 100 attempts per year, you also have the chance to observe the large river cruise ships from the Peenbrücke or put on and off. All year round, fish restaurants often invite you to a meal with live music and view of the water. Every year to the Wolgaster Hafenagen days on the first weekend in July, Hafenstraße turns into a maritime stroll mile with a lot of hustle and bustle and various demonstrations on and in the water.

Route of North German Romantic: Hafen Wolgast - two painters - A motif
of the city harbor Wolgast conveys a maritime flair. Such motifs were of particular interest for romantics and were happy to be shown in pictures. As a hometown of Runges, it is not surprising that he settled at the port for a drawing. In 1806 the picture "Landscape on the Peene" was taken. A ship with a Swedish flag was clearly shown here. Caspar David Friedrich also took the opportunity to draw at the Wolgaster harbor during his honeymoon in 1818. He often visited the city of Wolgast during his home stay, as sketches of the remains of the Volgaster Castle at the time.

The Veste Landskron was built in 1576-1579 for Ullrich II of Schwerin, the son of Ullrich the I. (builder of Spantekow). The stately main building made of bricks and relatively small, non -hewn boulders had its walls over a deep basement three floors. The castle is 25 m long and 15 m wide.

The Veste was surrounded by a low ring wall and a steep sloping wall with moat. On the west side, the attachment was reinforced by five small bastions with stone chest weirs that have fallen into a fallen stone. To the east of the main building was the castle forecourt surrounded by a high wall. The palace chapel stood on its south side, on the east side a farm building. In the north there are still remnants of a gatehouse with an adjacent waxplate and the horse stables with wells. The castle complex was damaged in the Thirty Years' War. Landskron Ruin was already 100 years after the foundation. The protected trees of the ruin is particularly valuable. The stems on the wall on the Schlossplatz are certainly as old as the ruin with a trunk circumference of up to 4.50 m.