Granitz

The Granitz is a wooded mountain ridge in the southeast of the island of Rügen, between the seaside resorts Binz, Sellin and Lancken -Granitz. The 982 -acre designated as a nature reserve forest area belongs since 1991 to the Southeast Rügen Biosphere Reserve.

Characteristic of the Granitz is their inventory of beech and sessile oak and its undulating landscape of towering Stauendmoräne which is similar in many a mountain landscape. In the north and east of the Granitz is bounded by a steep coast of the Baltic Sea. In the south, the Moenchgut and in the north the Narrow Heath joins. In the Granitz is the 23 -acre Black Lake and some boiler Moore. Several non-local se Softwood stocks are to be placed in a natural forest.

By Granitz perform any roads, but many biking and hiking trails. As urban transport and shuttle serve the Rügen narrow gauge railway and the hunting lodge Express.

At the highest elevation, 107 m above sea level. NN high temple mountain, let the Prince Wilhelm Malte I. Putbus in the 19th century built the hunting lodge Granitz. Other prominent landmarks are the Granitzhaus, the grave conditioning Finnish warriors and the Kreuzeiche. The grave of the Finnish warrior, as was a field name indicates in older maps, is the grave of an unknown Finnish soldiers of 1806, who was probably in Swedish service.

The name is probably of Slavic origin and are derived from personal names Raner Granza, which is also seen as Saxo Grammaticus name Prince in 1168. In 1888, the Ausflugsgaststätte Forest Hall was built on the cliff top path Binz- Sellin on the Falkenberg coast. However, by coast aborts the building had to be abandoned and demolished in the 1980s. Few remains of foundations on steep slopes of the Baltic Sea coast are reminders of the building.

The area surrounding the Granitz is characterized by many hill ( Bronze Age ) and megalithic tombs (Neolithic ). Prince Malte I. Putbus was also around Putbus and the Granitz at all intersections and junctions erect special signs that are still visible today and also are under a preservation order.

See also: Granica 54.38695529444413.649139405556Koordinaten: 54 ° 23 ' 13 " N, 13 ° 38' 56.9 " E

  • Geography (Rügen)
  • Forest area in Europe
  • Forest area in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern
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