Goor (forest area)
The Goor is a seven-hectare forest area on the island of Rügen near Lauterbach , a district of the town of Putbus , which extends over 1.5 km directly on the banks of the Greifswald Bodden . The Goor forest consists mainly of red beech and English oak and is part of the Goor-Muglitz nature reserve .
The grove
The forest area consists of old and newly planted trees , especially red beeches , hornbeams , pedunculate oaks , bird cherries and conifers such as pines and spruces . In between there are several small wetlands ( forest ponds ), often also open bogs, the Kesselmoor in the north-west of the Goor is particularly worth seeing . There are also at least seven barrows in the area . There are walking and hiking trails through the forest, a circular path is laid out as a path of leisure and knowledge . It runs largely along the north bank of the Rügen Bodden and was created on the initiative of the Michael Succow Foundation for the protection of nature in cooperation with the Southeast Rügen Biosphere Reserve .
Bathhouse
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From 1816, Prince Wilhelm Malte I. zu Putbus had a bathhouse complex built for his residence town Putbus at the suggestion of his friend Karl Graf von Hahn-Neuhaus , which is considered the first seaside resort in Rügen. The house intended for guests, located in the far west of the Goor, received royal approval to bear the addition of Friedrich-Wilhelm-Bad . The facility initially consisted of two individual buildings in which baths were installed; in the Goor there were separate open-air bathing facilities for women, men and children. In 1820, the individual houses were given a connecting façade and four wooden columns in front of them . In 1824, the previous individual buildings were connected to the rear, so that two inner courtyards were created. The outer length of the house has been 50 m since then. After the Berlin architect Johann Gottfried Steinmeyer had designed and built several buildings directly in Putbus to the satisfaction of the prince, he delivered plans for the renovation of the bath complex on behalf of Malte I. The entire front was rebuilt in the neoclassical style in 1833 , 18 stone white Columns replaced the wooden columns, behind which a colonnade was created .
An imposing avenue leads to the impressive facade, running between Putbus and Lauterbach, two kilometers away. The structure has been rebuilt several times over the years. After the Second World War and after the founding of the GDR , it was used between 1958 and 1990 as the vacation home of the VEB Bandstahlkombinat Hermann Matern of the VEB Eisenhüttenkombinates Ost (EKO) Eisenhüttenstadt . This company holiday home was awarded the Order of the Banner of Labor . The associated children's and youth camp was 600 m further east in the forest. From 1991 to 2007 it was empty and an investor was wanted.
After extensive renovation and reconstruction, the main building was expanded into a spa hotel with modern additions in April 2007 and reopened under the name Hotel Badehaus Goor , it belongs to the Raulff Hotels group .
In the neighborhood
After 1945, within sight of the bathhouse, a small memorial was laid out with Julius Fučík's saying “People, I loved you, be vigilant” on a concrete obelisk . A bronze plaque attached to the foot commemorates the victims of fascism , including the prisoners of the Stutthof concentration camp , who were murdered in April / early May 1945 after the forced evacuation on the Greifswalder Bodden and in the Lauterbach area.
To the north of the bathhouse, on the northern edge of the Goor, there is a small, inconspicuous cemetery with graves of 91 war dead. Towards the end of the Second World War, thousands of refugees and displaced persons landed in Lauterbach, who were housed in barracks camps. Weak from hunger, many people died during a typhus epidemic and were then buried in this cemetery. The oldest victim was 91 years old, the youngest were less than a year old.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Explanation board for the path of leisure and knowledge , seen and photographed in July 2018.
- ↑ a b Explanation board at the bathhouse; seen and photographed in July 2018.
- ↑ Facebook entry
- ↑ On the memorial stone at the entrance to the cemetery 91 war dead are identified, the newspaper articles listed below mention 99 graves, but the author was unable to explain where this discrepancy came from when asked.
- ↑ Uwe Driest: In Lauterbach, the cemetery and memorial are reminiscent of fates . In: Ostsee-Zeitung . November 3, 2017 ( ostsee-zeitung.de [accessed on August 23, 2020]).
- ↑ Uwe Driest: Guesswork on graves in Lauterbach . In: Ostsee-Zeitung . November 4, 2017 ( ostsee-zeitung.de [accessed on August 23, 2020]).
Coordinates: 54 ° 20 ′ 39 ″ N , 13 ° 30 ′ 41 ″ E