Gnoien is a small town in the

Rostock Rostock (; Polabian language, Polabian: ''Roztoc''), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (), is the largest city in the German States of Germany, state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the sta ...

district, in

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV; ; ), also known by its anglicized name Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, is a state in the north-east of Germany. Of the country's sixteen states, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ranks 14th in population; it covers an are ...

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 situated 40 km southeast of

Famous people

Bernd Olbricht Bernd Olbricht (born 17 October 1956 in Gnoien) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won four medals with two golds (1976: K-2 500 m, 1980: K-4 1000 ...

(born 1956), canoeist. Gnoien Fachwerkhaus 2009-08-20 090

Friedrich Heyser Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Heyser (September 12, 1857 in Gnoien – September 7, 1921 in Dresden) was a German portrait, landscape, and history painter. Life Friedrich Heyser studied from 1880 to 1883 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden as ...

(1857 - 1921), German portrait, landscape, and history painter.

References

Cities and towns in Mecklenburg Populated places established in the 13th century 1290s establishments in the Holy Roman Empire 1290 establishments in Europe {{LandkreisRostock-geo-stub