Göhren, Rügen

Göhren is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Rügen district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

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 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 Bronze Age.
 * 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, Max Dreyer.
 * 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, on the road to Lobbe 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.