Glowe is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Rügen district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is a state-recognised resort.

Geography

Glowe lies about 18 kilometres north of

Bergen auf Rügen Bergen auf Rügen is the capital of the former district of Rügen in the middle of the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. Since 1 January 2005, Bergen has moreover been the administrative seat of the ''Amt'' of Bergen auf ...

and is located at the western end of the boundary between the

Jasmund Jasmund is a peninsula of the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is connected to the Wittow peninsula and to the Muttland main section of Rügen by the narrow land bridges Schaabe and Schmale Heide, respectively. Sassnitz, Saga ...

peninsula and the narrow land bridge of

Schaabe The Schaabe is a bar, almost twelve kilometres long, on the German Baltic Sea island of Rügen. It joins the peninsulas of Jasmund and Wittow. Washed up and shaped by the sea, it forms a sickle-shaped shoreline on the bay of Tromper Wiek and ...

between the Baltic Sea (the bay of Tromper Wiek) and the lagoon of Großer Jasmunder Bodden.

Municipal subdivisions

The municipality consists of the villages: *Glowe *Baldereck *Kampe *Bobbin *Polchow *Ruschvitz *Spyker

History

Glowe was first documented in 1314. The name "Glowe" comes from the Slavic ''Gluowa'' or ''Glova'' and means something like "head", named after the 9-metre-high ''Königshörn'', a small headland. The small parish grew up on and around the ''Königshörn''. The area was part of the Principality of Rügen until 1326 and thereafter the Duchy of Pomerania. Under the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, Rügen, and thus the territory of Glowe, became part of Swedish Pomerania. In 1815, Glowe went, as part of

New Western Pomerania New Western Pomerania (german: Neuvorpommern or ''Neu-Vorpommern'') was that part of Western Pomerania that went to Prussia under the terms of the Congress of Vienna in 1815. The territory of New Western Pomerania corresponded to that area of earl ...

, to the

Prussian province of Pomerania Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an em ...

. Since 1818, Glowe has been part of the county of Rügen. As seaside resort tourism began to take off in the early 20th century, the former fishing village expanded more and more into the neighbouring woods of the ''Schaabewald''. From 1952-1955 Glowe was part of the county of Bergen. Thereafter the village became part of the county of Rügen again, this time in the district of Rostock until 1990, when it became part of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In 2011 the county of Rügen was merged into Vorpommern-Rügen.

Sights

* The ''Muschel'' ("mussel") in Glowe: a prestressed concrete building by Ulrich Müther in the shape of a mussel (until 1990 known as the ''Ostseeperle'' restaurant) * Sea promenade and harbour in Glowe * Spycker Castle, now a hotel once belonged to the Swedish field marshal and governor general of Swedish Pomerania, Carl Gustav Wrangel * Lake Spycker * Fishing village of Polchow with harbour * Gothic fieldstone church of St. Paul's in Bobbin dating to the 14th century * Glowe Chapel * Dinosaur Land * The DGzRS lifeboat, '' Kurt Hoffmann'', is stationed in Glowe

References

External links

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Official website of Glowe
{{Authority control Towns and villages on Rügen