Göhren is a

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in the

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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

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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

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in 1953 on the Baltic Sea (Hotel Seestern, Poststraße 10) *

Göhren Village Church Göhren may refer to the following places: ;Germany * Göhren (Tramm), a village in the municipality Tramm in the district Ludwigslust-Parchim, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern * Göhren, Rügen Göhren is a Municipalities of Germany, municipality in the Vo ...

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 o ...

'', 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