Goehren (Ruegen)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 54 ° 21 '  N , 13 ° 44'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Western Pomerania-Ruegen
Office :	Mönchgut-Granitz
Height :	37 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.39 km 2
Residents:	1277 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	173 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	18586
Primaries :	038303, 038308
License plate :	VR, GMN, NVP, RDG, RÜG
Community key :	13 0 73 031
Office administration address:	Göhrener Weg 1 18586 Baabe
Website :	www.goehren.de
Mayor :	Thorsten Döring ( SPD )
Location of the community of Göhren in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen

The Baltic resort of Göhren is a municipality on the Mönchgut peninsula in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). It is administered by the Mönchgut-Granitz office based in Baabe .

Göhren and the Nordperd , a cape in the Baltic Sea

geography

The community of Göhren includes the most easterly point of Rügen: Cape Nordperd . It separates the north beach from the south beach. The north beach is the actual bathing beach with the spa promenade.

Between the Göhrener Seebrücke and the Nordperd lies the buskam, the largest boulder found in Germany to date .

history

Göhren was mentioned in documents in 1276 and 1295 in the boundary descriptions of the Eldena monastery . Göhren later owned the monastery. The place was part of the Principality of Rügen until 1326 and then the Duchy of Pomerania . With the Reformation and the abolition of the Eldena monastery, Göhren came into ducal possession.

With the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, Rügen and with it the town of Göhren became part of Swedish Pomerania . In 1815 the municipality and Western Pomerania changed to the Prussian province of Pomerania .

Göhren developed into an important holiday resort in the 19th century and has had the title of Seebad since 1878, although this was only given to it by its residents. In 1885 the village had 245 inhabitants. In 1887, the imperial lady-in-waiting Adeline Countess von Schimmelmann founded the world's first seaman's home in Göhren. The construction of the Rasender Roland narrow-gauge railway strengthened tourism development from 1899, and from then on Göhren really became a seaside resort . The small train is still running today and connects Göhren with the seaside resorts of Baabe , Sellin and Binz . It ends in Putbusser district Lauterbach . During the GDR era, vacation capacities were further expanded. In 1962/64, the so-called holiday villages with simple wooden accommodations were created. In 1965 a campsite was set up in the dune forest in the direction of Baabe in the immediate vicinity of the Baltic Sea , which is now operated by Regenbogen AG. In 1976 Göhren had 1,800 residents and 4,400 guest beds, which were mainly managed by the FDGB holiday service. The place had around 70,000 holiday guests annually. Until the fall of the Wall, a memorial stone stood on the promenade to commemorate the visit of the first President of the GDR , Wilhelm Pieck , to Göhren. The stone can be seen today on the grounds of the museum courtyard.

Since 1818 Göhren belonged to the district or district of Rügen . It was only part of the Putbus district from 1952 to 1955 . The community then belonged to the Rügen district in the Rostock district until 1990 and became part of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the same year. The district of Rügen, which has been called this again since 1990, was merged in 2011 in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen.

Attractions

The local museum in Göhren with the memorial stone for the honorary citizen Ruth Bahls

The church in Göhren

→ See: List of architectural monuments in Göhren

• The Göhren pier was rebuilt in the 1990s. Their length is 270 meters.
• The grave mound bacon Busch is next to the Göhrener church and dates from the Bronze Age .
• The Mönchgut museums are four listed sites that represent this open-air museum. It is the Mönchgut Heimatmuseum with the Ruth Bahls memorial stone in front of it , the motor sailer Luise , the museum courtyard (since 1971) and a thatched fisherman's house, the Rookhuus .
• The dragon house was the last place of life and work of the "poet of the Baltic Sea" and of the time, the important playwright Max Dreyer .
• Buskam : The largest boulder in Germany, it is located approx. 300 m off the coast east of Göhren.
• Memorial stone for the victims of the " Rose Action " 1953 on the Baltic Sea coast (Hotel Seestern, Poststrasse 10)
• The village church of Göhren dates from the 20th century (1929/30).
• The Hessenlager ground monument on the road to Lobbe goes back to a military camp from 1812.

• The beaches have a total length of 5 km, with a smooth transition between the beaches.
  • North beach: Up to 30 m wide and white, fine sand beach with the 270 m long pier
  • South beach: Stony and narrower beach that stretches to Lobbe.
• The Göhren war memorial erected in 1922 .

politics

The municipal council of Göhren has consisted of eleven members since the local elections in 2019, four of whom belong to the voter community Bürger für Göhren, three of the CDU and two of the SPD, in addition to the mayor Torsten Döring (SPD) . A single applicant also belongs to the representation.

Coat of arms, flag, official seal

The municipality has no officially approved national emblem, neither a coat of arms nor a flag . The official seal is the small state seal with the coat of arms of the region of Western Pomerania . It shows an upright griffin with a raised tail and the inscription "OSTSEEBAD GÖHREN - LANDKREIS VORPOMMERN-RÜGEN".

Economy and Infrastructure

Shopping street in the town center

Göhren station - the end of the Rügen small train

tourism

The community of Göhren is mainly characterized by tourism . In addition to hotels and pensions , which are largely kept in the style of spa architecture , there is a campsite in Göhren. On the south beach of Göhren is a rehabilitation - clinic of the pension insurance Central Germany (built in 1995).

traffic

Göhren can be reached by car via Europastraße 22 / B 96 (to Bergen) and from there via B 196 . The next long-distance train station with IC and ICE traffic is in Ostseebad Binz . Göhren is also the terminus of the Rügen Kleinbahn , a narrow-gauge railway that runs from Göhren via Sellin and Binz to Putbus.

In local public transport , the municipality is also connected by the Vorpommern-Rügen transport company with line 20 ( Klein Zicker - Göhren - Binz - Sassnitz - Königsstuhl ). In the summer season the buses between Binz and Göhren run every 15 minutes in the morning and in the afternoon, and until midnight in the evening. In summer, individual trips also offer the possibility of transporting bicycles. A local bus line also runs seasonally, it connects the central town and the other districts.

An inclined elevator has been connecting the train station and pier with the town center since 2015 .

Göhren in literature

• In 1904, Elizabeth von Arnim reported in her travel novel Elizabeth auf Rügen about an overnight stay in Göhren.
• In the final chapter of the 1953 novel A man wants to go up by Hans Fallada , the main character Karl Siebrecht plans a trip to Göhren with his family and is looking forward to “the landing bridge with its steamers”.

Personalities

The local researcher, museum founder and honorary citizen of the town Ruth Bahls (1909–1994) was born in Göhren .

literature

• Ernst Bahr: Göhren . In: Helge bei der Wieden , Roderich Schmidt (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 12: Mecklenburg / Pomerania (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 315). Kröner, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-520-31501-7 , p. 189.
• Rügen hiking atlas. VEB Tourist Verlag Berlin, Leipzig, 7th edition, 1989.

Web links

Commons : Göhren  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Göhren  - travel guide

• Literature about Göhren (Rügen) in the state bibliography MV
• Göhren on the website of the Mönchgut-Granitz office
• Website of the health resort administration of the community of Göhren
• Live images from Göhren (LiveCam: Beach and Kurplatz and panoramic view ). Ed. Ostseebad Göhren

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistisches Amt MV - population status of the districts, offices and municipalities 2019 (XLS file) (official population figures in the update of the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ↑ A countess and her seaman's homes in Göhren. In: tour-de-ost.de. March 10, 2006, archived from the original on September 13, 2012 ; accessed on May 4, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Lehmann / Meyer, “Rügen AZ”, Wähmann-Verlag, Schwerin, 1976, p. 35
4. ↑ Ostseebad Göhren. (No longer available online.) In: www.ruegen.de. Archived from the original on June 4, 2016 ; accessed on May 4, 2016 . 
5. ↑ election result in 2019 votemanager.kdo.de, accessed July 2, 2019
6. ↑ Main Statute, Section 1, Paragraph 2 (PDF).
7. ↑ Information from the community of Göhren , accessed on June 30, 2017