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Municipality in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Gohren
is a
municipality
in the
Vorpommern-Rugen
district, in
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
,
Germany
.
Geography
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The municipality of Gohren adjoins the easternmost point of the island of
Rugen
: Cape
Nordperd
. It separates the North Beach (
Nordstrand
) from the South Beach (
Sudstrand
). The North Beach is the actual bathing beach with a seaside promenade. Between
Gohren Pier
and the Nordperd lies the
Buskam
, the largest
glacial erratic
boulder in North Germany, which rises one metre about the sea.
Sights
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- Gohren Pier
was rebuilt in the 1990s. It is 270 metres long.
- Speckbusch
Barrow (
Hugelgrab Speckbusch
) is next to Gohren church and dates to the
Bronze Age
.
- The
Monchguter Museums
are four museums that are protected and, together, form an open-air museum. There is a local history museum, the motor yacht
Luise
, the museum farm (since 1973), and a thatched fisherman's house, the
Rookhuus
.
- The
Drachenhaus
was the last home and workshop of the "Poet of the Baltic" and important playwright,
Max Dreyer
.
- Buskam
: the largest glacial erratic in Germany is located ca. 300 metres offshore, east of Gohren.
- Memorial for the victims of
Action Rose
in 1953 on the Baltic Sea (Hotel Seestern, Poststraße 10)
- Gohren Village Church
dates to the 20th century (1929/30).
- The area monument, the
Hessenlager
, on the road to
Lobbe
is an 1812 military camp.
- The beaches have a total length of 5 km and merge into each other.
- North Beach (
Nordstrand
): up to 30-metre-wide, white, fine-sand beach with a 270-metre-long pier
- South Beach (
Sudstrand
): rockier and narrower beach,
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which runs to Lobbe.
References
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External links
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Media related to
Gohren (Rugen)
at Wikimedia Commons