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Insel Hiddensee
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Hiddensee () is a car-free island in the Baltic Sea, located west of Germany's largest island, Rügen, on the German coast.
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
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
59 sectionsContents
- 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.
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