Glowe is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

in the

Vorpommern-Rügen Vorpommern-Rügen is a Districts of Germany, district in the north of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the Baltic Sea and the districts Vorpommern-Greifswald, Mecklenburgische Seenplatte (district), M ...

district, in

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV; ; ), also known by its Anglicisation, anglicized name Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, is a Federated state, state in the north-east of Germany. Of the country's States of Germany, sixteen states, Mecklenburg-Vorpom ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

. It is a state-recognised resort.

Geography

Glowe lies about 18 kilometres north of

Bergen auf Rügen Bergen auf Rügen is the capital of the former district of Rügen in the middle of the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. Since 1 January 2005, Bergen has moreover been the administrative seat of the '' Amt'' of Bergen au ...

and is located at the western end of the boundary between the

Jasmund Jasmund is a peninsula of the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is connected to the Wittow peninsula and to the Muttland main section of Rügen by the narrow land bridges Schaabe and Schmale Heide, respectively. Sassnitz ...

peninsula and the narrow land bridge of

Schaabe The Schaabe is a bar (landform), bar, almost twelve kilometres long, on the German Baltic Sea island of Rügen. It joins the peninsulas of Jasmund and Wittow. Washed up and shaped by the sea, it forms a sickle-shaped shoreline on the bay of Tr ...

between the

Baltic Sea The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by the countries of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North European Plain, North and Central European Plain regions. It is the ...

(the bay of Tromper Wiek) and the lagoon of

Großer Jasmunder Bodden The Großer Jasmunder Bodden belongs to the Northern Rügener Boddens and is a water body on the southern edge of the Baltic Sea in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Description It is a ''bodden'', a type of lagoon that occurs in nort ...

Municipal subdivisions

The municipality consists of the villages: *Glowe *Baldereck *Kampe *Bobbin *Polchow *Ruschvitz *Spyker

History

Glowe was first documented in 1314. The name "Glowe" comes from the

Slavic Slavic, Slav or Slavonic may refer to: Peoples * Slavic peoples, an ethno-linguistic group living in Europe and Asia ** East Slavic peoples, eastern group of Slavic peoples ** South Slavic peoples, southern group of Slavic peoples ** West Slav ...

''Gluowa'' or ''Glova'' and means something like "head", named after the 9-metre-high ''Königshörn'', a small headland. The small parish grew up on and around the ''Königshörn''. The area was part of the

Principality of Rügen The Principality of Rügen was a Medieval Denmark, Danish principality, formerly a duchy, consisting of the island of Rügen and the adjacent mainland from 1168 until 1325. It was governed by a local dynasty of princes of the ''Wizlawiden'' (''Hou ...

until 1326 and thereafter the

Duchy of Pomerania The Duchy of Pomerania (; ; Latin: ''Ducatus Pomeraniae'') was a duchy in Pomerania on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea, ruled by dukes of the House of Pomerania (''Griffins''). The country existed in the Middle Ages between years 1121–11 ...

. Under the

Treaty of Westphalia The Peace of Westphalia (, ) is the collective name for two Peace treaty, peace treaties signed in October 1648 in the Westphalian cities of Osnabrück and Münster. They ended the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) and brought peace to the Holy R ...

in 1648, Rügen, and thus the territory of Glowe, became part of

Swedish Pomerania Swedish Pomerania (; ) was a dominions of Sweden, dominion under the Sweden, Swedish Crown from 1630 to 1815 on what is now the Baltic Sea, Baltic coast of Germany and Poland. Following the Polish-Swedish War, Polish War and the Thirty Years' War ...

. In 1815, Glowe went, as part of

New Western Pomerania New Western Pomerania or New Hither Pomerania ( or ''Neu-Vorpommern'') was the part of Western Pomerania that passed to Prussia from Sweden under the terms of the Congress of Vienna in 1815. The territory of New Western Pomerania corresponded to ...

, to the Prussian province of Pomerania. Since 1818, Glowe has been part of the county of Rügen. As seaside resort tourism began to take off in the early 20th century, the former fishing village expanded more and more into the neighbouring woods of the ''Schaabewald''. From 1952-1955 Glowe was part of the county of Bergen. Thereafter the village became part of the county of Rügen again, this time in the district of Rostock until 1990, when it became part of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In 2011 the county of Rügen was merged into

Sights

* The ''Muschel'' ("mussel") in Glowe: a

prestressed concrete Prestressed concrete is a form of concrete used in construction. It is substantially prestressed (Compression (physics), compressed) during production, in a manner that strengthens it against tensile forces which will exist when in service. Post-t ...

building by Ulrich Müther in the shape of a mussel (until 1990 known as the ''Ostseeperle'' restaurant) * Sea promenade and harbour in Glowe * Spycker Castle, now a hotel once belonged to the Swedish field marshal and governor general of

, Carl Gustav Wrangel * Lake Spycker * Fishing village of Polchow with harbour * Gothic fieldstone church of St. Paul's in Bobbin dating to the 14th century * Glowe Chapel * Dinosaur Land * The DGzRS lifeboat, ''

Kurt Hoffmann Kurt Hoffmann (12 November 1910 – 25 June 2001) was a German film director, the son of Carl Hoffmann. He directed 48 films between 1938 and 1971. He ran a production company Independent Film along with Heinz Angermeyer. His 1958 film ''W ...

'', is stationed in Glowe

References

External links

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Official website of Glowe
{{Authority control Towns and villages on Rügen