Göhren is a

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in the

Vorpommern-Rügen Vorpommern-Rügen is a district in the north of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the Baltic Sea and the districts Vorpommern-Greifswald, Mecklenburgische Seenplatte and Rostock. The district seat is ...

district, in

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Geography

The municipality of Göhren adjoins the easternmost point of the island of Rugen: Cape Nordperd. It separates the North Beach (''Nordstrand'') from the South Beach (''Südstrand''). The North Beach is the actual bathing beach with a seaside promenade. Between Göhren Pier and the Nordperd lies the Buskam, the largest

glacial erratic A glacial erratic is glacially deposited rock differing from the type of rock native to the area in which it rests. Erratics, which take their name from the Latin word ' ("to wander"), are carried by glacial ice, often over distances of hundre ...

boulder in North Germany, which rises one metre about the sea.

Sights

* Göhren Pier was rebuilt in the 1990s. It is 270 metres long. * Speckbusch Barrow (''Hügelgrab Speckbusch'') is next to Göhren church and dates to the

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. * The ''Mönchguter Museums'' are four museums that are protected and, together, form an open-air museum. There is a local history museum, the motor yacht ''Luise'', the museum farm (since 1973), and a thatched fisherman's house, the ''Rookhuus''. * The ''Drachenhaus'' was the last home and workshop of the "Poet of the Baltic" and important playwright,

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. * '' Buskam'': the largest glacial erratic in Germany is located ca. 300 metres offshore, east of Göhren. * Memorial for the victims of Action Rose in 1953 on the Baltic Sea (Hotel Seestern, Poststraße 10) * Göhren Village Church dates to the 20th century (1929/30). * The area monument, the ''

Hessenlager The Hessenlager or Hessian Camp is a former military encampment established by Hessian-Darmstadt troops during the French occupation near Göhren on the German island of Rügen. Location The camp was located south of Göhren in the vicinity of ...

'', on the road to

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is an 1812 military camp. * The beaches have a total length of 5 km and merge into each other. ** North Beach (''Nordstrand''): up to 30-metre-wide, white, fine-sand beach with a 270-metre-long pier ** South Beach (''Südstrand''): rockier and narrower beach, which runs to Lobbe.

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