Guided hike with Hannelore Sievert | Participation: 15 euros
Our hike begins at the former Friedrich-Wilhelm-Bad, now the Goor bathhouse, which Wilhelm Malte I zu Putbus had built in 1818. As the first Prussian seaside resort, it invited distinguished bathers from all over Europe to enjoy a relaxing summer retreat on the Bodden. We embark on a short journey back in time to the birth of bathing culture on the Island of Rügen. Names of painters, writers and kings are associated with this place.
Behind the ancient bathing temple is the Goor Forest, part of the 157-hectare Goor-Muglitz nature reserve in the South-East Rügen Biosphere Reserve. Over a distance of approx. 6 km, we hike through a variety of forest landscapes, past large tree formations, cliff and beach sections. We walk through small valleys and cross gentle hills in a varied ground moraine landscape. Here on the ridge, we still find some evidence of the Bronze Age, the burial mounds. They are lined up like a ribbon on the hilltop of the Goor and tell of the settlement history of the Island of Rügen.
When Caspar David Friedrich hiked the Rügen coast around 200 years ago, he was looking for motifs for his paintings. He captured the aesthetics of this landscape in his sketches and invented completely new images from them. Let us symbolically take his walking stick to discover the traces of Romanticism in the Goor and on the Bodden coast. This wooded stretch of coast is unique and unmistakable. Of course, we will have enough time to take a breather during the hike to experience its tranquillity and beauty.
