Glowe

Glowe is a municipality on the island of Rügen in the district of Vorpommern - Rügen in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern ( Germany ). The community is managed by the Office North Rügen with its headquarters in the town of Sagard.

• 3.1 Coat of Arms

Geography

Glowe is located approximately 18 km north of Bergen auf Rügen is located at the western junction of the Jasmund peninsula to the isthmus of Schaabe between the Baltic Sea ( Tromper Wiek ) and the Great Jasmund. The road from Sagard by old churches through the village of Glowe.

Community structure

The municipality Glowe include the districts:

• Baldereck
• Bobbin
• Glowe
• Kampe

• Polchow
• Ruschvitz
• Spycker

History

The area was part of the Principality of Rügen to 1325 and then the Duchy of Pomerania. With the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 Rügen was and thus the area of Glowe a part of Swedish Pomerania. In 1815 complaints came as part of Neuvorpommern to the Prussian province of Pomerania. Since 1818, the area belonged to the circle or district Rügen. In the years 1952-1955 the circle mountains belong. The village belonged until 1990 to Rügen county in the district of Rostock and in the same year part of Mecklenburg- Vorpommern. The 1990 re- designated as the Rügen was 2011 in the district of Vorpommern - Rügen.

Glowe was first mentioned around the year 1314. The name " Glowe " comes from the Slavic " Gluowa " or " Glova " and means something like head, named after the 9 m high Königshörn, a small cape. Order or on the Königshörn then arose the community.

East of the village was the Swedish latch field work and the second field work Schanz line Glowe. Several wars, the 30 -year-old to the Nordic and the Napoleonic invasion, and several clashes between Brandenburg / Prussia and Sweden ( 1675-79, 1759, etc.) the defense landscape reprimanding have marked. But since they were created only as walls, reinforced with fascines, they fell slowly by erosion and overbuilding and are today no longer readily visible. The lines was reinforced by small single jumps. The Swedes took it the undulating terrain on the strait between the Baltic and the Spyckerschen lake.

The former fishing village grew then at the beginning of spa tourism in the early 20th century, more and more into the neighboring Schaabewald.

In Glowe was in GDR times, the main station and the administration of "Rügen radio", the wireless transmitter for the DSR merchant fleet and the fishing fleet. The people own Combine Buna, built and maintained in place a children's summer camp for the children of his company employees.

Glowe is a nationally recognized resort.

→ Main article: Castle Spycker

Policy

Coat of arms

Blazon: " Divided by a fünfzinnige silver -lined red bar; above in green a floating silver, on the gable with a golden crown occupied rafters and below in blue sechsspeichiges a golden ship's wheel. "

Attractions

→ See: List of monuments in Glowe

• Castle Spycker, formerly of the Swedish field marshal and Governor-General of Swedish Pomerania, Carl Gustav Wrangel belonged,
• Gothic stone church of St. Paul in Bobbin from the 14th century
• Chapel Glowe
• Polchow fishing village with a harbor
• Rügen dinosaur land
• Lake promenade and harbor in Glowe
• The "Shell " in Glowe: prestressed concrete by Ulrich Müther in the form of a shell (until 1990 Restaurant " Baltic Pearl" )
• Spyckersche lake
• The Lifeboat Kurt Hoffmann of GMRS is stationed in Glowe

Personalities

• Gödeke Michels, Pirate and a leader of the Vitalienbrüder