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Peilturm Kap Arkona

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Peilturm Kap Arkona

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Peilturm Kap Arkona

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Location: Putgarten, Vorpommern-Rügen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

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3. View of Kap Arkona – Vitt Fishing Village loop from Am Parkplatz

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Peter

May 7, 2022

The 23-meter-high, round brick tower was built in 1927 and served as a radio beacon for the Navy. Using directed radio waves, the tower was designed to optimize the navigation of the Sassnitz-Trelleborg railway ferry. This seemed to work quite well, but unfortunately the entire technical interior was dismantled after the Second World War.

Today the tower is used for exhibitions of arts and crafts. The viewing platform around the fully glazed dome offers visitors an excellent view of Rügen. In good weather, you can even see the Danish island of Mön.

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Catrin

December 5, 2017

Beautiful landscape, even in December when the weather is fresh. But you have few tourists and its peace.
You should have sturdy shoes with you, as it is very muddy on the paths at this time of year.

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Thomas

May 7, 2018

The Jaromarsburg

In the middle of the castle stood the temple in 1168 with the oversized wooden image of the four-headed god Svantevit.

The remains of the Arkona Temple Castle are an important testimony to Slavic cultural history in the Baltic Sea region. Protected on three sides by the cliffs and on the land side by a 25 meter high rampart, it was a place of worship for the natives of Rügen from the 6th to the 12th century - the Slavic Ranen. With the conquest and destruction of the sanctuary under the leadership of Bishop Absalon of Roskilde in 1168, the Christianization of the islanders was initiated. The Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus was an eyewitness to this decisive event. Only the descriptions in the 14th book of his "Historia Danica" have handed down details of how the Ranenburg looked before it was destroyed.

Natural erosion at the cape over the centuries has caused much of the inner castle to collapse into the Baltic Sea and have been swallowed up by the sea. For the excavation team and its leader Fred Ruchthöft, it is a race against time to secure the archaeological finds. For example, the archaeologists literally brought to light a spearhead, arrowheads, pearls and a spur. Imposing cultural-historical individual pieces from the archaeological excavations from inside the ramparts are exhibited in the observation tower.

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Location: Putgarten, Vorpommern-Rügen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

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