Route of North German Romance

The Duke City of Wolgast, former residence of the dukes of Pomerania-Wolgast, now houses the burial of the last Pomeranian heart in the St. Petri Church. In addition to the pomeranism, the Homeyer merchant family and the shipbuilding engineer Haack as well as the painter and romantic Philipp Otto Runge shaped the city history.

While the original pictures of Philipp Otto Runge are exhibited in the Hamburg Kunsthalle, the Wolgaster birthplace shows the life path Runges. In addition to painting, he made a decisive contribution to the three -dimensional color theory, designed playing cards and wrote down fairy tales. The best known "from the fisherman and his wife" was even included in the collection of the Brothers Grimm.

In summer, the classic concerts lure to the St. Petri Church as part of the "Wolgaster Summer Musiken". All year round, approx. 52 animal species can be experienced in the Wolgast zoo and attendance. The ducal city with historical city center and maritime flair offers you by harbor tours, shipping on the roller water or the Peene stream from May to October and all year round, fish restaurants also invite you to live music and view of the water.

In the 15th century, the town hall was built in 1512, 1625 and 1713 to the city fires and was rebuilt from 1720 to 1724. The remains of the originally Gothic building are still visible. However, the facade is from the time of the late baroque. Today the registry office and the tourist information are located in the historic town hall. Lectures and cultural events take place in the fireplace room. Regional products are offered on a fresh market once a week on the Rathausplatz.

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.

From the direction of Greifswald along the Baltic Sea cycle path, the path leads along the Wolgast Tannenkamp zoo and to the Dreilindengrund. A bathing area at the Gustav Adolfs Gorge invites you to linger and along the Peenestrom you have a wonderful view of the "blue miracle", the bridge to the island of Usedom. At the height of the "Grummkreisel" daycare center there is an information board for the route of North German Romantic.

Route of North German Romance: Wolgast - The Hiktadt Runges

Philipp Otto Runge was born in Wolgast in 1777. He is considered a very versatile romantic. His drawing talent was recognized early on. As a painter, he mainly concentrated the portrait. He often drew his family and good friends, including Friedrich August von Klinkowström 1808. In addition, Runge dominated the silhouette and is considered the creator of the three -dimensional color theory. During his short life, he was only 33 years old, he also created play card motifs.

1995-2005 the port was renovated with EU funds. 26 fishing huts were set up on the quays. A functional building with sanitary facilities was part of the overall project. In this there is also a branch of the pilot and the German Society for the rescue of shipwrecked. Adjacent are restaurants that complement the offer from the fish, ice cream and coffee and cake.
Converted fishing cutters drive with visitors on the bodden and the island. A wheel and pedestrian ferry takes visitors to the island of Usedom and Retour. A visit to the Historical-Technical Museum in Peenemünde is worthwhile there.
The Freester Fischerfest takes place every year in August.

You buy fresh fish in the early morning directly from the fisherman or enjoy it on site in one of the restaurants that have both traditional and more unusual fish specialties on offer. In addition, you will get an insight into typical regional handicrafts when visiting the Freest and the local museum.

Fishing carpets freest

Freester fishing carpets, also called "Perser of the Baltic Sea", is a traditional craftsmanship from Pomerania, which was linked as additional earnings, especially in the global economic crisis of the 20s in fishing villages. Each carpet is unique and consists of thousands of hand -knotted knots.

Route of North German Romance: Fischerdorf Freeet - Romantic Travel

An old, unpaved country road connected the towns of Wolgast, Katzow, Boltenhagen, Rappenhagen and Kemnitz. In bad weather or in winter, this path was difficult to drive. Runge therefore occasionally made his way to Ludwigsburg or Greifswald on foot. Like Caspar David Friedrich, probably during his honeymoon, he crossed the Fischerdorf Freest. Fishing plays a major role here: Salt huts, smoking and fishing nets also distinguish this place today.

The village of Freest can be found on the mainland 10 km north of Wolgast near the mouth of the Peenestrom in the Baltic Sea. The view from the beach to the muzzle area and the opposite Peenemünde can be described as a real pleasure. The beach is ideal for sunbathing and also has a flat child -friendly shore with a small playground. Dogs are not allowed on the beach.

The idea for the Heimatstube had the teacher and freestern school director Erich Mundstock decades ago. He collected many objects of everyday life from past times. In 1962 Erich Mundstock founded the Heimatstube in the Freester School and gave his collection such a permanent place. With his death in 1987, the original Heimatstube was closed. After the political turn in the GDR, the former customs house used for decades was handed over to the municipality of Kröslin. In 1992 the Freester Heimatstube was reopened in the rooms of the building. Today it includes seven rooms for permanent exhibitions and rooms for exchange exhibitions and lectures. Guests of the local museum can go on a journey through time to an old living room and a kitchen, as well as a bedroom and a school room. All objects, including dolls and doll cars, a sewing room and a hairdressing room, were donated by people from the region.
However, the most famous exhibits in the local museum are the freester fishing carpets. Made by residents of the community, every carpet tells its own story.

Karl Gottlieb Lappe was born on April 23, 1773 in Wusterhusen as the pastor's son. To prepare for a degree, he attended the city school in Wolgast, whose rector was none other than Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten (1758-1818). Kosegarten, teacher, pastor, history professor and poet, recognized and promoted the talents of his students, which, in addition to Karl Gottlieb Lappe, also Philipp Otto Runge (1777-1810), the important painter of romance. At the Greifswald University, where Lappe studied theology, philology and philosophy, he made friends with Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769-1860), which also existed beyond the years of study.
In 1798 Lappe succeeded Ernst Moritz Arndt as a tutor at Kosegarten in Altenkirchen on Rügen. From 1801 to 1817 Lappe was a teacher at the Stralsund high school. For health reasons, he finally pulled back into the idyllic pütte, at Stralsund. Lappe died in Stralsund on October 28th.

Opening times: daily 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
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Route of North German Romanticism: rectory Wusterhusen - romantic poetry

In Lappe's extensive work, everyday and political events are reflected as well as his deep love for the Pomeranian homeland. In the Karl Lappe exhibition in the rectory, a map shows which places he visited and also described them in his poems. Some of his poems were set to music by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1828), Franz Schubert (1797-1828) and Robert Schumann (1810-1856).

The church in Wusterhusen was built in the 13th century and expanded to a three -aisled hall with a west tower at the beginning of the 15th century. Worth seeing inside the church are the baptismal stone (13th century), the altar (15th century) and the medieval paintings. A visit is possible from May September on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and on request in the parish office.

Worth seeing is the magnificent star vault and paintings exposed in restorations.

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.

Its length is 6 m, the width 3.6 m and the height 3.0 m. With a circumference of 16.9 m it has a volume of 34 m³. It consists of granite. A small hike along the beach in the Lubmin seaside resort leads to the legendary stone.
According to the Devil, the devil from Rügen threw the stone to the Wusterhusen church. The church stopped and the stone broke into two parts and fell to the beach. Even today, the devil's back of the hand can be seen on the surface.

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.

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.

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 Kemnitz church was built around 1300. The Eldena Monastery promoted the establishment of the church, which has been expanded several times in the following centuries, but was also difficult to destroy. The church received its current appearance in the middle of the 18th century. The neo -Gothic church tower with its four small corner tower was built in the 19th century. The church is under monument protection. The Heilig-Kreuz-Kirchen are consecrated or named after the Holy Cross on which Jesus died or named after him. In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania there are three other churches with this name. In Rambin on Rügen, in Rostock and in Waren.

Route of North German Romantic: Dorfkirche Kemnitz - The Captain of Klinkowströms

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.
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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".

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

The start of construction for the St. Marien Church, which is also called the "thick Marie" by the Greifswaldern, is probably in the middle of the 13th century. Together with the other two city churches St. Nikolai and St. Jacobi, the first mentioned in 1280. The church was built as a hall church and is now one of the most impressive testimonies of North German brick gothic. Worth seeing inside the church are the medieval court hall, the large cargo tread in the tower, the memory chapel, the altarpiece - a replica of Correggios "Holy Night" and the richly decorated pulpit (16) . Century).
 

Due to the development and planting, it is now hidden, but still to be guessed through the church towers of St. Nikolai, St. Jakobi and St. Marien - Caspar David Friedrich's view of the sketch for "Wiesen near Greifswald". He looked at the silhouette of the Hanseatic city from a northwest direction, roughly where the new cemetery is today. The resulting painting is world famous today and is exhibited in the Hamburg Kunsthalle.

The lush green meadows have not changed at the gates in the city, which still serve as pastures. The Ryck makes its way through the green. Here you can not only enjoy the peace and view, but also take a walk or a little hike.

It is best to experience the life and work of the romantician on the Caspar-David-Friedrich Bildweg in and around his birthplace Greifswald. The Hanseatic city can get to know the Hanseatic City from a romantic perspective by bike or on foot in the footsteps of Caspar-David-Friedrich. Within 15 stations, you can follow the artistic-romantic path of the most important landscape painter of romance and be enchanted by him with signs and information boards. Stations of the image path are, for example, the birthplace, which today houses the Caspar-David-Friedrich-Zentrum or the Pomeranian State Museum, in which numerous works by the painter are to be viewed in the original.

The small fishing village of Stahlbrode offers a variety of stimuli for its visitors. Let your mind wander in untouched nature and enjoy the fresh sea air - sunbathing on the small natural beach or just experience the maritime flair of the place. Thanks to the central location, excursions to the Hanseatic cities of Greifswald and Stralsund are ideal. In addition, you can quickly get by car ferry for a day trip to the island of Rügen. Culinary lovers also get their money's worth here.

After a three -year construction period (August 2004 to October 2007), the Rügen Bridge was opened by Chancellor Angela Merkel at the end of 2007. Construction costs amounted to around 125 million euros. With a total length of 4,097 meters (including 2,831 meters of bridge construction), the three -lane bridge, the largest island in Germany, connects to the mainland. It relieves the Rügendamm, which was the only connection to the island until then. At peak times, this measures a vehicle volume of 30,000 vehicles daily. The two pylons of the inclined cable bridge are 127.75 meters and, with the curved, form a sailing yacht. In addition, the largest diagonal bridge in Germany is 42 m high and thus forms an ideal transfer height for international shipping traffic.

The oldest location of the German Sea Museum has its domicile in the former Dominican monastery of St. Katharinen. In the newly opened exhibition area, numerous exhibits and modern stations present the development of life from the sea and its diversity, shed light on the interactions between humans and sea and show strategies for sustainable fishing. New airy showcases run like gentle waves over two floors. On the upper floor, high -level habitats with prepared and modeled animals trace the path from Antarctic to the Arctic. A 15 -meter -long biodiversity wall recognizes the often underestimated biodiversity of the invertebrate sea animals such as octopus, jelly and crabs. Particularly popular objects, such as the leather turtle "Marlene", the five -meter -high original coral reef pillars from the Red Sea and the famous Finnwalkeleton in the choir can also be seen again after the modernization. The globe from the former entrance area is now used for a digital example with marine -related topics.

The newly opened exhibitions in the Marine Museum will be supplemented in 2025 with an aquarium trip through the underwater world of the tropical seas.

Diving completely without wet - this is possible in the Stralsund oceanum. Scientific exhibitions were combined with breathtaking aquariums. The world's largest exhibition about whales with replicas of the sea giants in its original size, e.g. B. a 26 m long blue whale. A multimedia show conveys special features and information about the danger of the whales.

In addition to the exhibitions, the "Meer für Kinder" experience area invites you to play and linger in a dune landscape with a lighthouse slide. On the roof terrace there is a spacious penguin system with a panoramic view of the silhouette of the UNESCO World Heritage City of Stralsund.

The thematic route through the northern seas with 50, sometimes huge aquariums is unique. The two acrylic slices offer visual surface on two levels over 80 square meters on different types of sharks and rays as well as silvery shimmering fish swarms. In Europe's largest Baltic Sea exhibition, the museum guests can expect exciting insights into the habitat of Kegelrobbe, sea eagle or the tiny plankton. The island of Helgoland is dedicated to an extraordinary tunnel aquarium through which visitors can run through.

Offers for families:

• Family discount
• Audio guide for children
• Free app "Question Walfred!"
• Experience area "Sea for Children", multimedia and hands-on stations for children throughout the museum
• Free collection cards for searching, learning and playing
• Still and changing rooms
• Leavings for strollers
• Rental buggies
• Free baby carrier on request
• no queue in line for pregnant women

Information on accessibility

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

• step and threshold-free entrance
• All doors/passes are at least 90 cm wide
• Exhibition rooms accessible by elevator
• Elevation 1: 140 x 184 cm
• Elevation 2: 101 x 216 cm
  • Job door each 90 cm wide
• Toilet for people with disabilities available at every level (with handles)
• Wheelchair and rollator possible on request
• Guided tours for people with walking disabilities and wheelchair users possible on pre -registration
• Route is continuously navigable, seating is available
• Two marked parking spaces (Neue Semlowerstrasse)
  • Parking space size: 250 x 530 cm
  • Distance to the entrance: 45 m
• An audio guide is available that can be operated independently by people with visual impairment/ blind people
• The "Fragwalfred!" App offers 360 ° views, site plans from all levels of the museum, tips on the way the Walfred route is given in the various interactive theme chats and videos with subtitles 

Everything is real here - you can feel that immediately in the 700 -year -old museum house. It offers a view behind the scenes and journey through time - unique in Germany. Because even dust and soot are preserved here. Above all, the Krämer and merchants of the Hanseatic League have left pure. 

The hallway was alive: sacks and barrels were felled. The wooden cargo bike, which is still original, distributed them to the memory floors by rope elevator. All space was needed for goods. It was therefore used to it in the Kemladen, the extension in the courtyard. If you pull your head in, you can search for the house tree in the basement and find the pretty on the "pretty room" on the upper floor. What was cooked in the black kitchen and where do the artistic wallpaper come from? For the youngest guests there are coloring templates with the wallpaper patterns at the cash register. 

The shoveling allocation of the old town hall has been standing into the Stralsund sky for centuries and has thus become the symbol of the city. The most important profile of the German Baltic Sea coast still gives us fame and wealth of Hanseatic period. The Stralsund town hall was not only the seat of the Council and the site of the case law, but initially a building that was filled with lively business. The six -aisled, arched basement hall probably served as a Tuchhalle. Sales stalls were housed on the ground floor. The northern head building on the Old Markt with its famous show wall shows a two -aisled vault on the ground floor. The hall above, today Löwenscher Hall, was originally the meeting room of the city's upper class and is still the place where the city providers come together once a month to meet citizens' sessions.

Today business and gastronomy revive the area of ​​the town hall that is accessible to everyone. Events take place regularly in the large vaulted cellar of the town hall. Above all, of course, the large artisan market as part of the Stralsund Christmas market.

Unfortunately, visits to the town hall are not possible.

The small island of Strale or Strela, which was immediately upstream of the city of Stralsund, created a natural harbor, which the seafaring peoples have always valued. It is already mentioned in 1288 in the 1st city book. Due to the lively shipping traffic of the Danes in the 12th and 13th centuries in the waters around Rügen and before Stralsund, but in particular in connection with the defeat of a Danish fleet in 1326 near the island, it was probably renamed Dänholm.
The well -known, changing history of the island is predominantly militarily shaped. The first secure documents and plans for fastening systems on the island have been handed down from the time of the Thirty Years' War. In 1628 Wallenstein, as the then imperial general on behalf of the German emperor, granted the command to secure and fasten all ports of the Baltic Sea due to the lack of his own fleet, which was to create a counterweight to the strengthening Swedish Empire.
The Swedish military was also well aware of the favorable location of the island. After the 1628 ratified alliance contract between the city and the Kingdom of Sweden, it began with the immediate improvement and the expansion of the existing fastening systems and tried to control the strelasund and control of the city using new fortifications. For Stralsund, the Swedish era ended on June 7, 1815.

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. 

The village church in Gustow is a Gothic parish church that was built around 1250. It was only in the 15th century that the main ship of the church was completed with vaults. In 1677 a parts of the church was destroyed in a fire and in the years 1708–1734 replaced by brick in baroque format. Near the church is a medieval Sühnestein - called "Mordewangen", which was set up to remember a slain preacher.

The late baroque manor house was completed in its current form shortly before 1750. The building is single -storey, seven -axis and has a red crippled whale roof. The high granite base, modest jewelry elements and the adjacent parking wall give it a special charm.

The birthplace of Arndt is now home to the office of the national Ernst Moritz Arndt Society EV, which was founded in 1992, the regular readings, diverse lectures and art exhibitions. The house has long since become one of the most important Rügen meeting places for locals and guests, art and historical friends. Between 1997 and 2003 the Arndt Society carried out the restoration of the house and the adjacent park. The park invites you to linger and walk in every season. The hall can be rented for group or family celebrations. Special tours and lectures for groups are offered.

It was built in 1936/37 according to a design by the Berlin architect Erhard Schmidt. The founder of the museum was Ernst Wiedemann (1883 - 1958), teacher and cantor in Garz, deserved Rügen researcher and publicist. Since the inauguration, the museum has born the name of the writer Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769 Rügen - 1860 Bonn), who was born in the neighboring village of Groß Schoritz. The work and effect of the controversial political publicist offer plenty of material for a critical examination of literature and history.
Literary -inspired exhibitions also give our visitors insight into the cultural history of the city and the island of Rügen. The extraordinary museum and bibliophile collection forms the foundation of the content for a lively program of the museum, which as a cultural dialogue room always also asks questions to the present.

There are countless large stone graves near Putbus, which also includes the "Teetsbusch" and the "Hexenbusch" near Neukamp near the Greifswald Boddens. The large stone grave "Hexenbusch" on the Tempelberg is also referred to as a "bat". Both terms correspond to the associated field names. Four side stone pairs and three cover stones sunk into the burial chamber are still preserved from the grave itself. The Hünengrab is a funnel mug, ie approx. 5500-5000 year old, large dolm trees from three jochs. In the grave room, vertical stone slabs, so -called quarters, could be discovered.

The park was created in 1804 by the city founder Wilhelm Malte I to Putbus, originally in French style. He was later continued in the style of an English landscape park. The classicist castle, which the park had been created, was unfortunately torn down in the 1960s. The orangerie, the Marstall, the Mausoleum, the parish and the castle church, as well as the monkey and bird house are still preserved.

Then as now, Putbus is not only known for his castle and the circus, but also through its scenic surroundings. Not surprising that even Caspar David Friedrich traveled to the Putbus area. He incorporated the impressions obtained into the painting "A look at Putbus" and "Landscape with Rainbow".

If someone does a trip, then he can tell something, says the vernacular. Often, however, travel pits for ideas that you take home with you and follow it. The architecture of the English town of Bath Prince Wilhelm Malte I. so that he put on a place in Putbus on Rügen based on its model: the circus putbus. Classicist buildings line this round space on which all streets run together. A strictly structured park fills out the inner ring of the square, the center of which is marked by a 19 meter high obelisk. The Circus Putbus is considered the last uniformly executed Rondellplatz in Germany. It was created from 1828 and was converted with classicist white houses until 1845, which also gave the city the nickname "White City".

Since the 1970s, the Orangerie Putbus has been able to establish itself as a "artistic exhibition center on the island of Rügen", with a radiation in cultural policy, which is not only important regionally. After the reunification, the Kunstverein set exhibition accents until the mid -1990s, then the city of Putbus on its own. 2009 and 2010 was the orangery domicile of the “Gallery of the District”, which by the Kunstverein became an important address for the imparting positions of contemporary art. The Kulturstiftung Rügen, tenant in the orangery since 2011, pursues a balanced exhibition program in the sense of its founder Hans Marquardt (1920-2004), whereby its own exhibitions from the collection of the cultural foundation and the artists represented by them also play a role. But also positions that have been represented by the Gallery of the district of Vorpommern-Rügen since 1995 until today.
Opening times: Tue - Sun 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Track according to the timetable: Lauterbach-Putbus-Binz-Granitz-Sellin-Baabe-Göhren, all 2nd class with bicycle transport. The historic narrow-gauge railway has a track width of 750 mm and "rest" steam companies with a maximum speed of 30 km/h past the car traffic jam and search for parking space.

With a route length of 24.2 km, the frenzied Roland needs an abundant hour and offers pure railway romance. The Pressnitztalbahn MBH from Jöhstadt in Saxony has been the operator of this idyllic small railway since the beginning of 2008.

The first seaside resort of Rügen, now the district of the former residence city of Putbus, is located directly opposite the island of Vilm, which is under nature conservation. The distance to the city of Putbus with its worth seeing classicist city center and the large landscape park is approx. 2 km. Guests moored at the municipality of the municipality, the princely yacht club Putbus or on the Fischersteg. Ferry and passenger ships start from here towards Baabe or island Vilm and invite you to tours.

Small booths, cafes and restaurants offer something to eat and drink for every taste. You can also buy freshly caught fish here or you can enjoy it smoked on the smoked ship Berta.

About 6,000 years ago, the approximately 94 hectare island of Vilm was created from moraine left by glaciers. It is still an untouched natural paradise today. Forests made of ancient oaks and huge beeches shape the landscape. The beginning of the Vilmer settlement can be traced back to the Stone Age. Once a sacred place of the Slavs, later a Christian pilgrimage site and medieval hermitage, in the 19th century, princely summer residence and soon afterwards meeting point of landscape painters - Vilm always had a great attraction. This is probably the most clear in painting. Over the past 200 years, the island has been visited by over 350 painters. The entire island has been a nature reserve since 1936.

Guided tours across the island of Vilm take place from the end of March to the end of October. Daily 10 a.m. and a second tour if necessary - from 1.30 p.m. The starting point is the port of Lauterbach. With the engine ship "Julchen" you drive to the island of Vilm. The excursion leads partly through rough terrain and includes a distance of 3 kilometers. Returns take 15 minutes each. The tour for 2.5 hours.

The participation fee is to be paid in cash and on the day of the tour on the engine ship "Julchen". EC card payment not possible.

Important: The self -authorized entering the island and taking animals with you are prohibited. Due to the limited number of participants, prior registration is absolutely necessary. 
 

• Hotel of the upscale categrory with 85 spacious rooms and suites
• Built in 1818 / converted and renovated in 2007
• Classicist building with an impressive column colonnade
• Over 600 m² of spa area with 2 natural sole basin, fresh water pool (7 x 10 m; 1.35 deep), numerous applications for cosmetics and regeneration
• Restaurant and bar
• Lift in the house (2)
• WiFi in the hotel
• Parking directly at the hotel
• Bike rental in the hotel
• Hiking trails and cycle paths directly at the hotel
• Beach promenade below the hotel
• Bathing beach on the Greifswald Bodden 300 m
• Ship tours directly from Lauterbach
• Visit to the island of Vilm from Lauterbach
• Train connection to Lauterbach

Let yourself be impressed by the history and development of the Goor forest! You will inspire imposing trees, hills and fantastic views of an Baltic Sea bay of the island of Rügen. During the hike, they immerse themselves in this magical forest by the sea, come to rest and deepen contact with nature and themselves. This forest, which develops into the "jungle", is largely in care of the Michael Succow Foundation to protect nature. Guided hikes on the path with the diploma landscape ecologist Steffi Deickert after registration and agreement. Alternatively: The path can be walked on every day with an accompanying brochure. The accompanying brochure to the path is available for a protective fee for the Hotel Badehaus Goor.

The goat stones or "victory stones" are an approximately 35 m long large dolm trap with a partly well -preserved trapezoidal cure bed and two large guard stones. When this impressive large stone grave was archaeologically examined in 1969, in addition to the typical finds from the funnel cup culture, seven Slavic urns also appeared. In the case of megalithic graves, a new use over longer periods - here over 4000 years - is not unusual in the form of turmoil.

Author: Dr. Katrin Staude / Archäo Tour Rügen, archaeo-tour-ruegen.de

The ferry connects the Moritzdorf district belonging to the municipality of Sellin west of the Baaber with the east of Baaber Bollwerk of the municipality of Baabe. Without a ferry, an eight kilometer long detour around the Selliner See north would have to be taken. A wooden rowing boat serves as a ferry, which is rored by the ferryman over which Baaber, which is only about 50 meters wide. The ferry offers a maximum of 15 passengers and is one of the smallest ferries in Germany. Bicycles and strollers are also transferred. This ferry connection has existed since 1891. The first owner was the dealer Martin Looks. From 1887 there were plans for the construction of a bridge, but these were not implemented. The ferry runs as needed within year -round ferry times. The ferry guests call the ferry by beating a metal tube or calling loudly. A mobile phone number is also shown.

The large stone grave "Goldbusch" is located on a flat hill between altensia and Moritzdorf. In 1969 this grave was archaeologically examined. It was discovered that the wearing stones were not embedded in a pit as usual, but were placed on the upcoming soil and that a clay pack of stability was stable. In addition to funnel mugs from around 3000 BC. BC, including hatchets, chisel, blades, ceramics and cross -cutters, younger finds from the individual grave culture could also be recovered during the excavation. 

Author: Dr. Katrin Staude / Archäo Tour Rügen, archaeo-tour-ruegen.de

One of them was the Bockwindmühle in altensia. In 2006 the last mill builder Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was rebuilt the altensia mill. Old views and references from Bauer Erwin Schälke, who as a boy whistled the grain for cattle on the parental courtyard, served as the basis. The mill park draws attention to an old craft with an exhibition and events. In the tool shed, the mill story in the southeast of the island of Rügen comes back to life. On weekly baking days, tasty bread is baked for visitors in a wood oven according to old Pomeran recipes. The baking days can be found in the event calendar of the spa administration Sellin. Attention - failures can occur due to the weather!

A healthy spirit rests in a healthy body, says a Latin wisdom. It is also based on the concept of the spa park "Friedensberg". The aim of the "trim-dich path" for body, mind and soul is to achieve inner peace.

The body is a temple - in this place of silence it is put back in order. A staircase takes visitors from the hustle and bustle of everyday life into a world of Nordic deities. Guided by pointers, visitors have access to their own emotional world. The physicist Albert Einstein visited the Baltic Sea resort of Sellin in 1915. He knew that problems can never be solved with the same awareness that it created.

In order to drive your own development forward, guided self -diagnoses are offered. If you want to explore this place of power on your own, two useful aids are offered: the novel “The Secret of the Friedensberg” and “instructions for self -use”; Both available in the spa administration.

In 1906 the first lakeboth was built in Sellin with a length of 508 m. In July 1920, a restaurant on the bridge head burned down. In the winter of 1924 the Packeis tore away the landing bridge from the entrance hall to the bridgehead of the then lake bridge. A new pier was then built, but this was also the victim of the driving ice in the winter of 1941/42. In 1992 the foundation stone was laid for the new construction of the pier, the old and new landmark of Sellin. In 1998 the two-story T-shaped building was rebuilt. The pier has a total length of 393 m.

The school building in Middelhagen was built in 1825. For about 150 years, village school teachers have taught the Middelhäger children diligently. Today the children go to school in Göhren, Binz or Bergen. But the school building has remained. In the school museum you can experience in a historical lesson how lessons in a class school worked, how the school developed on Mönchgut, or how the living conditions of a cantor and village school teacher were designed.

The Mönchgut peninsula with its gentle hills, the bodden, bays and land tongues resembles a small island group. The Mönchgut was a popular travel destination in the times of the romantic. Here there were still picturesque motifs, reed -covered fishing houses, the mountains, the robulaic Pomeranian landscapes - and above all these views of the "Zickerschen Alpen" up to 60 meters high. The untouched nature of the peninsula already attracted romantic artists. In 1801, Caspar David Friedrich drew the Mönchgut coast from a hill on the northper near Göhren.

The Mönchgut Museumhof, the oldest and largest open -air museum on Rügen, consists of a complete peasant homestead with a residential building (currently museum management and administration, no visitor traffic possible!), Stable barn, car barn and pigsty. The court is documented from 1574. The oldest parts of the barn date from around 1680. After the free purchase from serfdom in 1847, the farm was managed by a fisherman, fisherman and pilot with a field area of ​​17.5 hectares. Today, arable and craftsman devices, agricultural machines, cars, carriages and sledges impressively demonstrate the arduous everyday life of the Mönchguter fishing farmers and country craftsmen. Exhibition topics are agriculture and harvesting, beekeeping and milk processing as well as traditional house construction. The herbal and flower garden underlines the unique charisma of the courtyard.

The Granitzhaus on the island of Rügen is a former forest and inn from 1901, which today houses the information center for the Southeast Rügen Biosphere Reserve. It stands directly opposite the Granitz hunting lock near Binz. In 1726, the then prince to Putbus Moritz Ulrich I had a hunting house built on the open space in front of today's Granitzhaus. This consisted of a main house and two side pavilions. Four consecrated deer heads on the front of the main house pointed out the purpose of the building: hunting. In the main house, the princely hunting company took quarters during the hunting season.

The current exhibition in the Granitzhaus is interactive, it makes you curious and stimulates thinking. Visitors can expect a “treasury” with very special treasures from the region. In addition, there is an animation for the subsequent development of the region on a 3-D model, which also clearly shows the settlement history of Southeast Rügen and the development of the Baltic Sea.

Entry to the exhibition is free of charge.

The first Binz pier was built in 1902 as a 560 meter long building. In 1905 the bridge was destroyed in a storm flood. After reconstruction of the pier, she received the name Prinz-Heinrich-Brücke. On July 28, 1912, a balcony broke under the load of the numerous visitors when creating a steamer and tore 50 people into the water, 17 people were killed. In the winter of 1942, the weathered bridge was destroyed by ice gear, wind and waves. In the winter of 1942, the weathered bridge was destroyed by ice gear, wind and waves.
In 1994 a new, 370 meter long pier was built and inaugurated. From the Binz pier, ship trips along the chalk coast are possible, which enable a unique view of Rügen's landmark. Depending on the season, the departure times and frequency of ship trips vary. A boat trip in the morning along the chalk coast is highly recommended. The journey from the Binz pier takes about 2.5 hours.

The Documentation Center Prora is located in the historic facility in Prora, which is planned as "KDF-Sebad Rügen". Prora belongs to the Baltic Sea resort of Binz and is located on the Prorer Wiek, the most beautiful bay of the island of Rügen. Here the approximately 4.7 km long system was built on behalf of the "Nazi community of strength through joy" between 1936 and 1939 and almost completed in the shell. The facility has been a listed building since 1992. In addition to the "Reich Party Day site" in Nuremberg, it is the largest closed architectural legacy of the National Socialist period. 20,000 people should go on vacation here at the same time. The "KDF bath of the twenty thousand" is not only an interesting example of the use of the architecture of modernity in National Socialism, but also a socially historically important testimony for the efforts of the Nazi regime, the workers whose parties and organizations were smashed in 1933 , to pacify and to win for war, habitat and racial policy. At the same time, Prora should be an expression of the proclaimed Nazi “People's Community” as well as as a constructive element to create it and thus act as a system stabilizing as a propaganda cluster. After the start of the war, police battalions were temporarily trained in Prora, which then came to drastic criminal missions behind the fronts.
In GDR times, Prora became a barracks of the NVA and thus also military restricted zone, and the largest building soldier location in the 1980s. Building soldiers did a weaponless military service and were exposed to serious work and harassment.
The Bundeswehr initially took over Prora after the turn, but left it after two years. After long clashes to adequately dealing with the historical system, a modern holiday home in Prora is created today.
The Documentation Center Prora presents the permanent exhibition "Power Vacation" with image and text boards, audio and video stations and shows a film on the history of the complex in continuous loop. Changing special exhibitions and events deepen the topics, guided tours on foot and by bike in the exhibition and in the grounds of the historical facility are offered. Projects, workshops, seminars and other formats are part of the educational program.

The 1,250 meter long and barrier-low tree top path made of larch wood and Douglasia line varied learning and adventurous experience stations. The path leads to the 40 -meter -high observation tower "Adlerhorst". Once at the top, you can enjoy a unique panoramic view of the Baltic Sea and the wide island landscape, in particular over the 1,958 hectare DBU nature of Prora. If you want to immerse yourself even deeper into the secrets of the domestic forests and their residents, you should take part in one of the guided tours over the path or hikes near the center. By imparting environmentally pedagogical aspects in connection with the nature experience, visitors should be motivated to act sustainably. But there is more to discover. In the "360 ° Naturerbe Prora" experience exhibition, the special features of the area can be explored multimedia. Interactive columns and tablets as well as virtual reality glasses are conveyed playfully.

In the hands -on workshops, interested parties can create creatively with natural materials when looping amber or tinkering. The meeting point is the nature laboratory in the environmental information center. This is not only a certified "quality -tested passive house", but also an excellent "bat -friendly house", which carries out particularly sustainable measures to maintain and acquire bats.

A seasonal cuisine with vegetarian and vegan dishes as well as a so -called "climate plate" is offered in Boomhus gastronomy. Sustainable products, raw and materials as well as sales and consumption items are preferably used throughout the center.

Its uniqueness makes the narrow heath with the stone fields a natural event of international rank. The nature reserve of the narrow heath is 40 hectares in size. The main component is 14 scree walls running in a row and about two kilometers long, parallel to the Baltic Sea coast. They sit down from 90 percent flints, the rest are crystalline beds of Nordic origin. The gray-white-shimmering flint potion is about one meter high. In between you will find a loosened vegetation with trees, shrubs, lichen and heather. The stone walls were thrown up 3,500 to 4,000 years ago by a number of strong storm floods. At that time, the sea level was up to one and a half meters higher than today. The little Jasmunder Bodden was an open sea bay at the time. The flint fields are a popular destination. A hiking trail is signposted from Mukran (parking lot "Feuersteinfelder").

The Dwasiedener Günengrab near the Hochuferweg near Sassnitz is particularly impressive with a length of 35 m, two very large guards and a well -preserved trapezoidal cunning bed, which surrounds the burial chamber in the form of surrounding stones. Caspar-David Friedrich was so fascinated by the grave that he held it in drawings and sketches. At the excavation carried out by Prof. Ewald Schuldt in 1970, various finds could be discovered primarily before and in the entrance to the burial chamber. These include ceramic shards, arrowheads, amber pearls, hatchets and other flint units. Another special feature of the grave are the wardrobes overturned and on one of the border stones attached, which still leave many questions open today.

Author: Dr. Katrin Staude / Archäo Tour Rügen, archaeo-tour-ruegen.de

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.

In the sailing area Baltic Sea, at the foot of the cliff, the idyllic marina and water hiking rest with the charm of the south in Lohme awaits you, from which there is a wonderful view of Cape Arkona. From a distance, the transmission masts and the white houses of the village of Lohme can be seen from afar. The approx. 20 m wide port entrance is the eastern passage in the wave breaker. A steep staircase leads down to the port, which was created in 1906 and modernized in 1997, which can now be accessed again after stabilization work on the steep slope. The harbor season begins on April 1st and ends on October 31. The port has approximately 50 berths and offers a good infrastructure. Sanitary and gastronomic facilities are nearby.

This stone is one of the largest boulders of Rügen, on the surface of which a number of circular reductions (bowls), a clear gutter of explosive tests and traces for the removal of round stones that were probably processed into round mills can be discovered. The granite stone with a weight of 73 t has a size of 13.5 m in addition to Caspar David Friedrich, who made some drawings of the stone around 1806, other important painters of romanticism also represent this special stone
. The Findling served has not yet been clarified. Finds of circular flints next to another hitchhike stone near Lubkow can provide evidence of the creation of the bowls. The scarred flint balls fit exactly into the bowls of the stone, so that these may have arisen by rotating turns of the flint ball. Near the stone, a flinish fragment, a leaf tip, amber pearls and human remains, was found, which enable numerous speculations for the "sacrificial stone".

Author: Dr. Katrin Staude / Archäo Tour Rügen, archaeo-tour-ruegen.de

The 60 m high temple mountain is located in the immediate vicinity of the street between Sagard and Glowe, not far from the village of Bobbin. It offers a view of the large Jasmunder Bodden, which is located west. On clear evenings you can see the lighthouses of the island of Hiddensee and Cape Arkona. In autumn, this observation area serves many photographers to photograph the numerous cranes who visit their night camp on the big Jasmunder Bodden in the evening. But you can also experience romantic sunsets at this point.

Glowe has increasingly developed into a wonderful holiday and tourism location in recent years. The redesign of the port with approx. 400 berths, the approximately 2 km long beach promenade and the spacious spa field offer a lot of variety for every vacationer.

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.

This impressive approx. 34 x 11-18 m (L x B) large megalith grave from the funnel cup culture (approx. 4100-2800 BC) is an extended dolmen with a trapezoidal corn bed, two partly 3 m high guard stones ( of a total of four) and two burial chambers as a special feature. The discovery of an Arabic coin, a Grandmajadian dirham, as well as an iron age urn, was sensational as a sustainable in one of the burial chambers that contained a primer and knife remnant. The coin, but also the secure ceramic from the southern part of the grave, date into the Slavic period.

Author: Dr. Katrin Staude / Archäo Tour Rügen, archaeo-tour-ruegen.de

The Altenkirchen priest priest Gotthard Ludwig Kosegarten has initiated the construction of the Uferkapelle. In 1806, building the chapel was started after plans by the Pomeranian Landbaunte Rühs. The construction activity was interrupted by the Napoleonic wars and the Ufer chapel was only completed and consecrated in 1816. The chapel is a simple octagonal building. As early as 1852, the porch was grown with the sacristy. The pulpit altar, designed in romanizing and eclectic forms, only came into the chapel in 1882. Above the altar there is a copy of the painting "Der falling Peter" (Mt 14, 22-33) by Philipp Otto Runge (1777-1818) above the altar. The painting was commissioned in 1805 by Kosegarten as an altarpiece to his former Volgaster student. In 1990 the murals "People in Sturm", the Italian artist Gabriele Mucchi (1899–2002), one of the most important representatives of Italian realism, was carried out. The ecumenical banking services take place every last Sunday of the month at 3 p.m. in summer.

The Cape Arkona area monument belongs to the Putgarten community next to the Fischerdorf Vitt and is one of the most popular excursion destinations on Rügen.The chapter houses a whole series of sights in addition to the 45 -meter -high cliffs: the castle wall of the Jaromarsburg is located directly on the head of Cape. In addition, the glass dome of the restored direction tower glitters. The Schinkelturm, the large lighthouse and the Peil tower, can be visited. In the garden of the lighthouse keeper house, cultural events take place regularly. Artists and handicrafts have settled in the Peil tower and around the two lighthouses. Guided tours through the two bunker systems, and not to forget the uniquely beautiful landscape, round off the Cape Arkona experience.

The Schinkelturm was built in 1826/29 and is now a museum and registry office (wedding hotline: 038391 4000), the round tower is still in operation. It was built in 1902 and has a height of 35 m. The brick masonry rejuvenates upwards and gives the tower a slim look. The third tower on the Cape is a separate line tower of the navy, where there is an exhibition by the Rügen Museum of primary and early history. The viewing platform offers a fantastic view of the coastal area.

In September 2009, the ship's pier was handed over after only 4 months of construction with a celebration of its destination. From June to September, the Dranske ship's pier offers the opportunity to experience a trip to the nearby island of Hiddensee. However, it also gives up close insights into windsurfing. The ship's pier also has 5 guest places with a water depth of 1.8 - 2.0 m. The service facilities for sailors include water, electricity and toilet.

The Bug peninsula extends from Dranske over a distance of 8 km and an area of ​​500 hectares in the southwestern direction. It is only 55 meters wide in the narrowest point in the northeast, in the southwest the maximum width measures about 1,500 meters. To the west, the bow connects to the Baltic Sea. The northern part of the island of Hiddensee is upside down on the Baltic Sea. The Vitter Bodden borders the southwest of the bow. In the northeast, the Wieker Bodden and in the southeast of the Buger Bodden and the rassower electricity separate the peninsula from the island of Rügen. The southernmost tip is the buger hook. The southern part of the bug has been part of the Vorpommersche Bodden landscape National Park since September 12, 1990. The bug was a military restricted area for many decades. As a result, nature was able to develop somewhat undisturbed. Natural history guides are currently being carried out over the south bug. Registration takes place via the tourist office in Dranske.
 

The district bridge is located directly in the renovated harbor facility of Wiek, between the south and north harbor, and has a formative effect of the entire port and townscape. The approximately 130 -meter -long and four and a half meter wide bridge was built in 1914 and was built as a loading ramp for bulk goods, here in particular chalk, as one of the first monolithic reinforced concrete structures in the Baltic Sea area in order to enable the envelope from the rail to the ship. Due to the First World War, despite completion, it has never been put into operation in the intended manner. The Wieker Kreidebrücke has become a floating, walk -in promenade that offers a wonderful view. The bridge has become a testimony of the past and has now become a modern tourist contact point. Rügen, but in particular the municipality of Wiek, has been richer in a destination.