Sellin

Sellin is a municipality on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern. The municipality in the district of Vorpommern - Rügen is managed by the Office Moenchgut -Granitz, located in the municipality Baabe.

• 5.1 traffic
• 5.2 Nemo / Island Paradise

Geography

Sellin is located east of a broad coastal high forest ( Granitz ) at the connection to the peninsula Moenchgut Southeast Rügen. Another special feature is that Sellin is located on the Baltic Sea and the Lake Sellin connected on the west side of the bay of Mönchgut Having the Bay of Greifswald. Sellin counts next to Binz and Göhren of the most important resorts on Rügen.

The quarters are next to Sellin, Altensien, Moritz Dorf, Neuensien and Seedorf.

History

The place was Sellin 1295 beke first mentioned as Zelinische. The name derives from the Zelino for green and bek for Bach from. So he means Gruenbach.

Over the centuries, the village belonged to the family of Putbus.

The place was until 1326 part of the Principality of Rügen and then the Duchy of Pomerania. With the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 Rügen was and thus the area of Sellin a part of Swedish Pomerania. In 1815, as part of Sellin came Neuvorpommern the Prussian province of Pomerania and in 1818 part of the county or district Rügen.

Since 1880, the village quickly developed into a fashionable seaside resort. In 1898, the merchant Hermann Holtz was elected to the Prince's request to Putbus to community leaders Sellin. Later he also became chairman of the health and spa management. On his initiative, the hot bath, the building of today's spa management arose. There was a park with a fountain and a tennis court. 1912 was the construction of the Protestant Church of Grace; In the same year the Catholic Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea was ordained.

In 1951, the Mayor Rix was murdered on the street near the parsonage. A citizens' initiative sought from 1989 onwards, the events surrounding the crime clear up.

In the years 1952-1955 the town was the county Putbus belong and belonged from 1955 to 1990 to Rügen county in the district of Rostock. Since 3 October 1990, the community is part of the state of Mecklenburg -Vorpommern.

In 1953 - as in other seaside resorts in the territory of the GDR - the "Aktion Rose", which aimed to evictions, relocations and arrests on the confiscation of private hotels and boarding houses, and for almost 40 years has led to fundamental changes in the ownership structure. 1960 burned the Church of Grace, in part.

1978, a convalescent home of the Central Committee of the SED was above the seaside resort built, today's " Cliff Hotel ". It had a large swimming pool, bowling alley and cinema, as well as a lift to the beach.

After the political changes of 1989 the buildings of the town was renewed in many areas. As of 1992, the Sellin pier was rebuilt; it was officially opened on 2 April 1998.

In the southeast of the village was built in the 1990s, a new residential area in the almost exclusively apartments were built. Size and number of these new buildings are today in contrast to the formerly historic townscape of this seaside resort.

Policy

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on 4 November 1997 by the Home Office and registered under No. 144 of the coat of arms role of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Blazon: "Divided; a flying seagull silver top in blue; geschacht bottom of black and gold. "

The coat of arms was designed by the Weimar Michael Zapfe. The lower half black and gold coat of arms was geschacht the coat of arms of the Prince of Putbus, borrowed as many years landlords.

Culture and sights

→ See also: List of monuments in Sellin

• Since 1991, the historic center has been renovated thoroughly in the context of urban development; the cityscape has been greatly improved.
• The William Street with its stately homes from the origin time of resort architecture leads to the 30 meter high cliffs where you come down a steep staircase or elevator to the Sellin pier or promenade on the south beach.
• Sellin today has the longest at 394 meters pier on Rügen.
• The gallery Hartwich in the old fire station
• The Amber Museum with the associated workshop; it exists since 1999 and is the only Museum of Amber on Rügen
• The Evangelical Church of Grace 1913
• The cath. Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea 1912
• The Warmbad Sellin 1906
• For the district of Sellin also includes the points of Granitz and declared a total reserve Black Lake.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Sellin is located on the main road 196, connecting the mountains with Göhren.

In rail transport, Sellin is accessible by narrow-gauge steam railway Orlando Furioso, which runs from Putbus to Göhren. Is in summer hour between Binz and Göhren. The trains have baggage car with bike for transportation. There are the two breakpoints Sellin Sellin West and East.

King chair and 24 Bergen - - Göhren - In public transport Close to the village is the church with the lines 20 Klein Zicker - Göhren - Binz - Sassnitz Klein Zicker tied the passenger transport Rügen GmbH. Individual trips in the summer offer the opportunity to bicycle transportation.

In Sellin it is also a " car pools " that connects the sprawling city with the beach and a " local bus ", which ensures a connection with the districts. Both transport is also free with the tourist card.

In the ship traffic there from the pier above all sightseeing trips to the chalk cliffs and the neighboring seaside resorts.

Nemo / Island Paradise

Since 1999, the Nemo leisure. Shortly after the opening of the bathroom came into the possession of the Bank Aktiengesellschaft Hamm or its subsidiary Bego in Berlin. By name disputes, however, had the name changed in island paradise Sellin / Rügen in 2004.

Personalities

• Richard Kund was an officer and explorer; he died here in 1904
• Friedrich Arenhövel; Writer, † 1954 in Sellin.
• Sophie Taeuber -Arp; Swiss painter was 1923 holiday guest
• Albert Einstein was a guest at the 1915 summer.
• Helga Brauer; East German pop singer, was "discovered" in the summer of 1954 in Sellin.
• Hans bud (1899-1999); Sellin photographer who particularly held the beach life and the joys of swimming, he became the first honorary citizen of Sellin