Sellin is a municipality on the Island of Rügen, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

History

Seebad Sellin Wilhelmstrasse Villa Vineta

First mentions of Sellin date to 1295. From 1880 on, the town gained importance as a Baltic Sea spa town. After the '' Wende'' in 1989, the building stock in the village was extensively renovated. In 1992, Sellin Pier was rebuilt and was officially opened on 2 April 1998.

Culture and sights

''Wilhelmstraße'', with its houses from the resort architecture period (turn of the 19th and 20th century), runs up to the steep coast, up to 30 metres high - where there is a steep flight of steps or a lift to

Sellin Pier Sellin Pier (german: Seebrücke Sellin) is a pier in the Baltic seaside resort of Sellin on the German island of Rügen. The pier has a restaurant near the beach over the water and has a diving gondola (''Tauchgondel''). History Initial pl ...

or the promenade on the South Beach (''Südstrand''). Sellin has the longest pier on Rügen: 394 metres. Since 1991 the historic centre has been thoroughly renovated as part of a programme of urban development. Other sights are the ''Galerie Hartwich'' in the old fire station (''Feuerwehrhaus''), the Amber Museum with its associated workshop and the ''Gnadenkirche''. The Sellin Amber Museum was founded in 1999 and is the only one on Rügen. The lake of Schwarzer See in the

Granitz The Granitz is a wooded ridge in the southeast of Germany's largest island, Rügen, between the Baltic Sea resorts of Binz and Sellin. The woods cover an area of 982 hectares and are designated as a nature reserve. Since 1991 they have been ...

also belongs to the municipality and has been designated a strict nature reserve.

Personalities

* Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943), the Swiss painter was in 1923 vacation guest * Albert Einstein (1879-1955), physicist and Nobel Prize winner in 1921, was guest in the summer of 1915

References

External links

Sellin - Official website
Seaside resorts in Germany Towns and villages on Rügen Populated coastal places in Germany (Baltic Sea) {{VorpommernRügen-geo-stub