Mönchgut

Moenchgut is a 29.44 km ² peninsula in south-eastern German Baltic Sea island of Rügen in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern. It separates the Bay of Greifswald on the Baltic Sea. On Moenchgut are the places Göhren, Baabe, Middelhagen, Gager and Thiessow; The peninsula is part of the Office Moenchgut -Granitz. The Moenchgut completely belongs to the Southeast Rügen Biosphere Reserve and for the most part to the nature reserve Moenchgut.

The peninsula consists of several headlands as the Reddevitzer Hoeft, small and great Zicker. The bay between Rügen and the Reddevitzer Hoeft Having called. The agreement between the Reddevitzer Hoeft and the Great Zicker is the Hagensche Wiek, the Zicker lake finally separates the great from the small Zicker. To the east, the island Greifswald Oie of the peninsula in front.

It was named the Peninsula in the Middle Ages, when it belonged to the monastery Eldena near Greifswald. Prince Jaromar II of Rügen, the country had Reddevitz, which forms the greater part of the peninsula, in 1252 handed over to the monastery. The remaining, southern part of the peninsula purchased the monastery in 1360 by the family Bonow. The monastery separated from his possession by the lying north of Baabe Mönchgraben from the rest of Ruegen. After the Reformation Moenchgut fell by the sovereign.

By the end of the 19th century the inhabitants of the county of living mainly from fishing and piloting activities. Your everyday life and the beginning of the end of the period described the peasant home writer Ina Rex in her novel leveling work of the period between 1910 and based on the life cycle of a farmer's daughter from the United Zicker in the conservative milieu Moenchgut. Known Mönchguter home researchers were Fritz and Willy Worm Dumrath.

Today, the area is mainly dependent on tourism. Among the attractions is the local history museum in Gohren, an open-air museum, which, situated on the old settlement systems, the history of the peninsula illustrated. There is also an exhibition of magnificent costumes, for which Moenchgut is known and which are still carried on folklore performances. In Göhren can the Buskam, one of the largest boulders visit. On Moenchgut is one of about 54 surviving on Rügen barrows. The Duke grave in Mönchguter forest was rediscovered in 1926 and 1962 for the first time investigated archaeologically. Seven other such megalithic sites can be visited in the nearby village of Lancken -Granitz ( megalithic tombs at Lancken -Granitz ).

In Göhren is the terminus of the narrow-gauge steam railway Orlando Furioso.

Moenchgut is also the name of a ship that travels between Rügen, Usedom and Greifswald.