The island of Hiddensee

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Dornbusch Lighthouse © Manfred Betschinger/cc-by-sa-3.0

Dornbusch Lighthouse © Manfred Betschinger/cc-by-sa-3.0

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 1,300 inhabitants. It was a popular holiday destination for East German tourists during German Democratic Republic (GDR) times and continues to attract tourists today with its natural beauty. It is the location of the University of Greifswald‘s ornithological station.

Neuendorf Harbor © Picman Vitte Harbor © Picman Seen from North Dornbusch © Klugschnacker/cc-by-sa-3.0 Haus_Seedorn, house of Gerhard Hauptmann © Abubiju/cc-by-sa-3.0 Hiddensee Island map © NordNordWest/cc-by-sa-3.0 Dornbusch Lighthouse © Manfred Betschinger/cc-by-sa-3.0
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Haus_Seedorn, house of Gerhard Hauptmann © Abubiju/cc-by-sa-3.0
The municipality of the Island of Hiddensee four subdivisions:

  • Grieben is the oldest, northernmost and smallest village on Hiddensee and lies on the eastern edge of the uplands of the island.
  • The parish of Kloster gets its name from the former Cistercian abbey, which stood from 1296 to 1536 in the vicinity of the present harbour in Kloster. It was dissolved with the Reformation. Today Kloster with its Gerhart Hauptmann Haus, the island church and island cemetery with the graves of Gerhart Hauptmann, Walter Felsenstein and Gret Palucca is the cultural centre of Hiddensee. It lies on the edge of the uplands (Hochland), whose highest point is the Dornbusch.
  • Vitte, first mentioned in 1513, is the main settlement and the largest and most central village on the island. The name is a derivation of vit; a word that was used to refer to places where fish was sold. In Vitte is the parish hall and council administration. In addition there is the ferry landing
  • Neuendorf is the southernmost settlement on Hiddensee. The inhabitants of Neuendorf are known by the rest of the island as Die Süder (“The Southerners”). Although Neuendorf is only six kilometres from Vitte, its inhabitants speak a different dialect.

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