Nature is the largest builder. But sometimes it's about something rude with their creations, as on Ruegen, where pinnacles broke out the famous chalk cliffs and plunged into the Baltic Sea. It hit one of the most distinctive rock formations of the island, the "Wissower clinics" between Sassnitz and the highest point of the chalk cliffs, the 119 Meter high Koenigsstuhl. But not - and that's the good news - the famous chalk silhouette, the Caspar David Friedrich almost 200 Years his painting "Chalk Cliffs on Rügen" (1816) inspired. Which is namely the Victoria-view overlooking the Königstuhl and remains safely accessible. How ever, the entire high bank trail has not suffered.
Spectacular: Rügen's chalk cliffs
For the, who wants to trace the Cretaceous, offer several sightseeing at. The "sudden chalk riffs falling" - as she described the extremely moving doctor, Philosopher and painter Carl Gustav Carus, a student Frederick - can be seen in almost poetic guided walk from Sassnitz to Lohme by Stubnitz, a closed woodland, enjoy.
"Trees are poems, writes the earth to heaven. "And" Death is only a trick of nature, to as much as possible to preserve life ", the accompanying lady quoted from the literature. Na, because one can see that the overgrown forest just in a different light.
"Little King chair" is mirroring in the lake in Neddesitz
Gerhart Hauptmann had done it to the Lohme lies at the end of the Jasmund National Park, das year 2005 150 Years celebrated seaside resort: "And, he who flees from the noise of the world,/ who keeps quiet for the best,/ who – if he wanders through the woods - / understands the beauty of nature,/ who – when the sun goes down - / on high banks is dreaming,/ has certainly at such times -/ what he seeks in Lohme - found ".
Spectacular "on high banks", 60 Meters above the cliff, Panorama Silence Hotel entices you to stay and dine on the veranda Fontane (www.lohme.com). In local trials for "Effi Briest" Theodor Fontane had the romantic idyll of the then 130 compared souls counting village with the Italian Sorrento and the sunsets with those in Capri.
Dropping down from the Cape Arkona and Peilturm
Not hikers get on a shuttle bus in the parking lot to Hagen, with which they reach the observation deck Victoria view. More like the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-view, Kleine Stubbenkammer, Kreidekomplex Lenzer Bach, Kieler Bach and Kiel banks have to hike. Arrived there, you should run across the wooden stairs and the rubble beach.
Or you could rent a Cessna - with either three or six seats - and starts from the airfield Güttin at Bergen on a round trip: Whitecaps on a turquoise and azure sea shimmering compete with the white of the protracted length, steep chalk coast. In between, the king chair - in fact a painter motif.
As a highlight, the new National Park Center Jasmund turns. Through headphones, the information comes to "adventure trip through nature" with exhibits to touch, Listen and try. Those who place themselves under the suspended boulder, can move four tons of stone!
Cape Arkona harmoniously side by side: Edged Schinkel Lighthouse 1827, today with the civil registry, and the thin high with red hood, of him 1902 replaced.
Another, no less beautiful cliff is situated at Cape Arkona on the peninsula Wittow, reach the drivers about the narrow isthmus Schaabe. Putgarten they have to park the car, thus the Arkona-Bahn brings them to Rügen's most northern point,. If you have the two lighthouses, the square of the architect Schinkel of 1827 and the slender high with red hood, of him 1902 replaced, climbed and absorbing the vastness of the landscape in itself, one should also here the never-ending wooden steps descend to rugged cliffs, rough sea and a lot of flints. Fossils can also be found, especially sea urchins, and brown cylindrical "thunderbolts", that is, radicals extinct squid. and Bernstein, so does one find!
Snow White the banks Chapel glistens at the fishing village of Vitt
Back at the top, one takes the high lakeside path to the fishing village Vitt, past the 1927 Originally built to house Funkpeilturm the Navy and a ten-meter-high earthen wall, Rest of the Slavic Jaromarsburg. In the octagonal snow-white shores Chapel of the ravine begins, leading to the excellent by Unesco as memorial area fishing: crouching houses with thatched roofs pulled down and a romantic view of cliffs and Peilturm. From Vitt from one the Bähnle brings to the parking lot again.
In Sassnitz, the chalk is mined. Sassnitz with chic promenade and new town harbor exudes maritime flair. From start here excursion boats, which offer a perfect and long-term view of the chalk cliffs.
From the sea to Rügen can discover just too: With 574 kilometers of coastline, the peninsulas Moenchgut, Jasmund, Wittow, Pulitz and Zudar, the sister islands of Hiddensee, Ummanz and Vilm, With 20 ports, sleepy fishing ports, modern marinas and international ferry terminal, and the Bodden and Wieken tourism experts have every reason, to praise the "Archipelago" complaints as maritime vacation landscape.
Emerged old wrecks like the Gell Kogge of 1330 - Hundreds are still to be in seven to nine feet of water off Rügen - have to be examined in Sassnitz at the Museum of Underwater Archeology.
Rather oppressive is the entry to the next door anchored in the harbor British submarine "H.M.S. Otus“ der „Oberon-Class“, that with 68 Man was off the Falkland Islands and the Persian Gulf in use and 1991 was retired.
A rapid skim over the water park "Nemo" in Sellin and a comfortable ride on the "Orlando Furioso", the 110 Year-old Ruegen Kleinbahn, get the circulation back into clock.
"Our complaints chalk is very affectionate, so you something to take even after showering with home "Not only the Cliff hotel in Sellin -. a special feature here is the lift to the beach, the still Erich Honecker was built - celebrates the whiting: The whole body is rubbed with the white porridge you sweat 20 Minutes in the "Seraglio" steam bath or weightless on a waterbed. The 69 Million year old marine deposit, recognized by the German Spa Association as a remedy, to help against rheumatic diseases, but at least have a relaxing effect.
Im Precise Resort Rügen, formerly Jasmar Resort Rügen, Neddesitz at Sagard you live close to the Cretaceous. On site namely "chalk begins- and nature trail Gummanz ", one Kreidebruch and degradation in an open-air museum, making but also flora and fauna experience. Who else knows the "small burnet", the "hard-Eye Solace" and "Wild rowan"? Romantic in the lake, a chalk cliffs reflected, called "Little King chair". To the hotel, 1998 a mansion in art nouveau style from the year 1901 built, heard the "Jasmar Therme", a fun park, extending through an 1000 sqm toasty warm bath- and sauna interior and exterior as well as beauty- and wellness area excels.
With the Emperor Pavilion, where can dine royally and marry, the pier, the attraction of Sellin.
over 20 Hotels, primarily in the Baltic Sea resorts of Binz and Sellin, the "cities" of the white seaside architecture with turned wooden porches, use the chalk for the beauty and skin problems. Seven hotels are from the German Wellness Association (DWV) certified, including "Cliff Hotel" and "Hotel Ambiance" in Sellin - this is the place with the beautiful pier and the "Kaiser Pavilion", where you can get married -, and "Hotel meerSinn" in Binz, its restaurant "sea salt" characterizes a Gault Millau hood. In any case, the chalk helps, as overnight stays by 30 plus prove percent in winter, to drive the wellness tourism in the air.
Even on the peninsula Mönchgut Zicker with Klein as southerly and easterly point Nordperd as of complaints and the "Zickerchen Alps", after all 60 meter high!, sees to a chalk cliff. Sea air makes you hungry, and the Mönchguter kitchen offers unusual. She loves the Süßsauersalzige and served garfish with hot rhubarb and Speckflunder on hot gooseberries.
North of Prora, the one with 4,5 Kilometers longest real estate in the world, as "KdF seaside resort of Twenty Thousand" 1936 built and under Hitler as a holiday home for German workers on the most beautiful beach of Ruegen today partly museum and block 5 since 2011 Jugendherberge, spread to inland 20 Minute walk from the parking lot - no, no chalk cliffs, But Flint fields immense dimensions of. No matter, whether scientists puzzle, who they managed here, Every visitor should look for a chicken stone in the stone ground - these are the with a through hole. you can see the sky through the opening, every wish comes true.
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Infos:
www.ruegen.de
getting there:
Thanks to good DB connections and bus- and rail connection to Rügen feasible for non-drivers.
accommodation:
Grand Hotel Binz
grandhotelbinz@aol.com
www.grandhotelbinz.de
Photos:
Elke Backert
