Insel Hiddensee

Also known as Hiddensee

Hiddensee () is a car-free island in the Baltic Sea, located west of Germany's largest island, Rügen, on the German coast.

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Within Vinony's link graph, Insel Hiddensee is referenced by 407 other articles, and connects out to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, German Democratic Republic and Protestant Reformation.

The entry is geolocated on the map in landmark_dim, across 6 mapped points.

It is catalogued under topics including Car-free islands of Europe, German islands in the Baltic and Hiddensee.

Its subject is documented across 45 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

German place.name: Hiddensee
German place.image_photo: Hiddensee Dornbusch.jpg
German place.image_caption: Dornbusch Lighthouse on Hiddensee Island
German place.image_flag: Flagge Hiddensee.svg
German place.image_coa: Wappen Hiddensee.svg
German place.image_plan: Hiddensee_in_VR.svg
German place.state: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
German place.district: Vorpommern-Rügen
German place.Amt: West-Rügen
German place.elevation: 0-72
German place.area: 19.07
German place.postal_code: 18565
German place.area_code: 038300
German place.licence: RÜG
German place.Gemeindeschlüssel: 13 0 73 040
German place.website: website

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Insel Hiddensee
Population: 993
Area: 19.07
Elevation: 1
Official website: www.amt-westruegen.de/index.php?id=33
Image: Hiddensee asv2022-08 img05 Gellen Strand.jpg
Dialing code: 038300
Licence plate code: RÜG

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Commons gallery: Hiddensee
postal code: 18565
Commons category: Hiddensee
P8168: Wilhelm Ihne
hashtag: InselHiddensee

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Name
Geography
Settlements
Grieben
Kloster
Vitte
Glambeck (deserted village)
Neuendorf
Plogshagen
Geology
Overview
Hills, ravines and other natural forms
Climate
Storm flood
Flora and fauna
Population development
Subdivisions
Grieben
Kloster
Vitte
Neuendorf
History
Stone Age to the end of the 17th century
19th century to the end of the Second World War
1945 until 1989
From 1989
Economy
Education
Transport
Sights and museums
Kloster
Dornbusch lighthouse
Gerhart Hauptmann House
Hiddensee Island Church
Lietzenburg
Museum of local history Hiddensee
Doktorandenhaus
Eggert Gustavs Museum
Vitte
National Park House Hiddensee
Asta Nielsen House and surroundings
Blaue Scheune
Henni Lehman Haus
Hexenhaus
Humunkulus figure collection
Neuendorf
Gellen lighthouse
Parish hall ''Uns Tauflucht''
Fishery museum ''Lütt Partie''
''Stolpersteine''
Culture
Gallery
Others
Culinary specialties
House marks
Films
See also
References
External links

Hiddensee () is a car-free island in the Baltic Sea, located west of Germany's largest island, Rügen, on the German coast.

The island has about 1,000 inhabitants. It was a holiday destination for East German tourists during German Democratic Republic (GDR) times, and continues to attract tourists today. It is the location of the University of Greifswald's ornithological station. Gerhart Hauptmann and Walter Felsenstein are buried there.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Insel Hiddensee” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.