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Hiddensee Landsat
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. Name The name ''Hedinsey'' surfaces as early as the ''Prose Edda'' and the ''Gesta Danorum'' written by Saxo Grammaticus and means "Island of Hedin". The legendary Norwegian king, Hedin, was supposed to have fought here for a woman or even just for gold. Under Danish rule the name ''Hedins-Oe'' ("Hedin's Island") was common. Even in 1880 the island was shown in German maps as ''Hiddensjö'' and, in 1929, in German holiday guides as ''Hiddensöe''. Its full Germanization to ''Hiddensee'' is thus relatively recent. Geography Hiddensee is abo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dornbusch Lighthouse
Dornbusch Lighthouse () refers to the lighthouse officially designated as ''Leuchtfeuer Dornbusch/Hiddensee'' ("Dornbusch/Hiddensee Beacon") in the north of the German island of Hiddensee in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on the Baltic Sea coast. Its international serial number is ''C 2588''. The lighthouse stands on the 72-metre-high ''Schluckswiek''Birgit Toussaint, Frank Toussaint, Matthias Hünsch: ''Leuchttürme an der Deutschen Ostseeküste.'' Edition Maritim 2009, . in the so-called ''Hochland'' ("highland") area of the island. Access Since 1994 the lighthouse, with its 102 steps, has been open to the public. So that it does not become too crowded at the top, only 15 visitors may be admitted at any one time. Visitors must be at least six years old. When wind speeds reach Force 6 or higher, the tower is closed for safety reasons. Technical details The lighthouse was built in 1887/1888 of brick construction. It was taken into service on 19 November 1888. It was modi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dornbusch (Hiddensee)
The Dornbusch is a region of low rolling hills in the northern part of the German Baltic Sea island of Hiddensee. It consists mainly of ice age depositions, that were left behind after the glacier thawed. It is one of three island cores of the Hiddensee responsible for the emergence of the lowland. The Dornbusch measures about 2.45 kilometres from north to south and about 2.85 kilometres from east to west. Its highest point, at 72 metres above sea level, is the ''Schluckswiekberg'', on which the Dornbusch Lighthouse, the symbol of Hiddensee, stands. With much of its cliffed coast still active it represents an important landscape in the West Pomeranian Lagoon Area National Park and is part of protection zone II. Numerous footpaths run through its varied countryside. History The formation of the uplands goes back to the last glaciation phase in northern Germany, the Weichselian. The Dornbusch was created about 12,500 years ago by a small finger of the ice front that left its ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kloster Hiddensee
Kloster is the German and Scandinavian word for monastery. It may also refer to: Places * Kloster, Styria * Kloster, Denmark * Kloster, Sweden * Klošter, settlement in Slovenia People * Asbjørn Kloster (1823–1876), Norwegian educator and social reformer * Knut Kloster (1929–2020), Norwegian shipping magnate; grandson of Lauritz * Kristin Kloster Aasen (born 1961), Norwegian Olympics official, horse breeder, and lawyer * Lauritz Kloster (1870–1952), Norwegian shipping magnate; grandfather of Knut * Line Kloster (born 1990), Norwegian track and field athlete * Martin Alexander Kloster-Jensen (1917–2011), Norwegian linguist * Robert Kloster (1905–1979), Norwegian museum director and art historian * Uriel Ramírez Kloster (born 1999), Argentine footballer Other * ''Das Kloster'', a collection of magical and occult texts compiled by Johann Scheible See also * Klosters Klosters is a Switzerland, Swiss village in the Prättigau, politically part of the Municip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Gustavs
Arnold may refer to: People * Arnold (given name), a masculine given name * Arnold (surname), a German and English surname Places Australia * Arnold, Victoria, a small town in the Australian state of Victoria Canada * Arnold, Nova Scotia United Kingdom * Arnold, East Riding of Yorkshire * Arnold, Nottinghamshire United States * Arnold, California, in Calaveras County * Arnold, Carroll County, Illinois * Arnold, Morgan County, Illinois * Arnold, Iowa * Arnold, Kansas * Arnold, Maryland * Arnold, Mendocino County, California * Arnold, Michigan * Arnold, Minnesota * Arnold, Missouri * Arnold, Nebraska * Arnold, Ohio * Arnold, Pennsylvania * Arnold, Texas * Arnold, Brooke County, West Virginia * Arnold, Lewis County, West Virginia * Arnold, Wisconsin * Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Massachusetts * Arnold Township, Custer County, Nebraska Other uses * Arnold (automobile), a short-lived English car * Arnold of Manchester, a former English coachbuilder * Arnold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cottage
A cottage, during Feudalism in England, England's feudal period, was the holding by a cottager (known as a cotter or ''bordar'') of a small house with enough garden to feed a family and in return for the cottage, the cottager had to provide some form of service to the manorial lord.Daniel D. McGarry, ''Medieval history and civilization'' (1976) p 242 However, in time cottage just became the general term for a small house. In modern usage, a cottage is usually a modest, often cosy dwelling, typically in a rural or semi-rural location and not necessarily in England. The cottage orné, often quite large and grand residences built by the nobility, dates back to a movement of "rustic" stylised cottages of the late 18th and early 19th century during the Romantic movement. In British English the term now denotes a small, cosy dwelling of traditional build, although it can also be applied to modern construction designed to resemble traditional houses (" mock cottages"). Cottages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slavs
The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia; they predominantly inhabit Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, and Northern Asia, though there is a large Slavic minority scattered across the Baltic states and Central Asia, and a substantial Slavic diaspora in the Americas, Western Europe, and Northern Europe. Early Slavs lived during the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages (approximately from the 5th to the 10th century AD), and came to control large parts of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe between the sixth and seventh centuries. Beginning in the 7th century, they were gradually Christianized. By the 12th century, they formed the core population of a number of medieval Christian states: East Slavs in the Kievan Rus', South Slavs in the Bulgarian Empire, the Principality of Serbia, the Duchy of Croatia and the Banate of B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gellenstrom
The Gellenstrom is a shipping channel in the Baltic Sea and forms the northwestern access to the ports of Stralsund and Strelasund. It is located in the Baltic Sea west of the peninsula of Gellen which gives it its name and which forms part of the island of Hiddensee. In addition, it is the main route from the Darss-Zingst Bodden Chain to the Baltic. The Gellenstrom has a guaranteed depth of 3.70 metres and is controlled by the Gellen light which marks its northern approach. The maximum speed limit is 10 knot (unit), kn. To the south is the port of Barhöft, which is also accessible from the Gellenstrom via the Barhöft Creek (''Barhöft -Rinne''). To the west is the island of Bock (island), Bock, which was formed from sand dredged from the channel. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitter Bodden
The Vitter Bodden is a type of lagoon called a ''bodden'' between the northern part of the island of Hiddensee (with the Neubessin and Altbessin peninsulas) to the west and north and the peninsula of Bug, the Wieker Bodden and the northern part of the Schaprode peninsula to the east. In the north the ''bodden'' borders on the Bay of Libben on the open Baltic Sea and in the south on the Schaproder Bodden. It is one of the West Rügen Bodden.''Die General Karte No. 1 - Schwerin-Rostock-Rügen'', 1:200,000 scale, Mairs Geographische Verlag/Falk Verlag, Ostfildern, 2008. The ''bodden'' was named after Vitte, the main settlement on the shores of the ''bodden'' on Hiddensee. The ''bodden'' is part of the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park The Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park at www.naturef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schaproder Bodden
The Schaproder Bodden is a ''bodden'' on the Baltic Sea coast between the island of Hiddensee in the west and the islands of Rügen and Ummanz in the east. To the north the Schaproder Bodden is linked to the Vitter Bodden by the so-called ''Trog'' between the Fährinsel and the ''Stolper Haken'' of Rügen island. To the south the ''bodden'' transitions into the Kubitzer Bodden. A boundary would be the line between the southern tips of the Hiddensee (Geller Haken) and Ummanz or the link from the Geller Haken - Insel Heuwiese. The Schaproder Bodden is 4.5 metres deep at three places, otherwise it is very shallow (mostly under 1.5 metres deep). Another source claims water depts. of 6 m.''Bootsangeln auf den Rügener Boddengewässern'' retrieved 15 August 2018. The ''bodden'' was named after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bessin
Bessin () is an area in Normandy Normandy (; or ) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy. Normandy comprises Normandy (administrative region), mainland Normandy (a part of France) and insular N ..., France, corresponding to the territory of the Bajocasses, a Gallic tribe from whom Bayeux, its main town, takes its name. History The territory was annexed by the count of Rouen in 924. The Bessin corresponds to the former diocese of Bayeux, which was incorporated into the Calvados '' département'' following the French Revolution. Ecology Part of the Bessin is now administered as a national park for its importance as marshland. References Geography of Calvados (department) Former provinces of France {{Calvados-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
