P335 - Germany - Sellin, Isle of Rügen

Sellin pier, Isle of Rügen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Rügen or Rugia is Germany's largest island. It is located in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Rügen makes up the principal part of the Rügen District, which also includes the neighboring islands Hiddensee and Ummanz, as well as several small islands.

Rügen is one of the most requested holiday destinations in Germany. The first bathing facility on Rügen opened 1794 at a mineral-rich spring in Sagard. In 1818, Putbus' suburb Lauterbach became Rügen's first seaside ressort. Since the 1860s, Sassnitz became a seaside resort, followed by Binz in the 1880s. During World War II, Prora was constructed as a mass tourist ressort, but not finished. Today, the most popular seaside resorts are the Schaabe beaches between Altenkirchen and Juliusruh, including Drewoldke, Glowe and Breege, and the eastern beaches between Sassnitz and Göhren, including Neu Mukran, Prora, Binz, Sellin, and Baabe. The latter are accessible via a historic narrow gauge railway employing steam locomotives, called Rügensche Bäderbahn. Tourist destinations apart from seaside resorts are Cape Arkona, the wood covered Stubbenkammer hills on Jasmund with interesting chalk cliff formations, the wood covered Granitz hills with the Jagdschloß palace, and the inland places of Bergen auf Rügen, Ralswiek and Gingst.
The island also offers a huge variety of different beach and shore areas. Rügen is often visited by Wind- and Kitesurfers and offers more than fifteen different locations for surfing. The most popular locations are Dranske, Rosengarten, Wiek, Suhrendorf and Neu Mukran.

Sellin is a municipality on the Isle of Rügen, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

呂根島（Rügen）是德國最大的島嶼，位於德國東北部的波羅的海，屬於梅克倫堡-前波莫瑞州。呂根島南北最長處為52千米，東西最寬處為41千米，總面積926平方千米，海岸線總長達574千米，有不計其數的海灣和半島。呂根島通過大橋與陸地上的漢薩同盟城市施特拉爾松德相連。
呂根島和希登湖島（Hiddensee）及其他一些小島一同構成了呂根縣，首府位於呂根島上的貝爾根（Bergen auf Rügen）。呂根島由於它多樣的海濱風貌和綿長的沙灘，成為旅遊和度假的勝地。

呂根島是德國的旅遊勝地之一，佔據了梅克倫堡-前波莫瑞州旅遊業的約四分之一，大部分遊客選擇在4月和10月之間前往呂根島，旅遊旺季是6月至8月，冬季也不乏度假遊客。呂根島上最重要的海濱浴場和療養度假地包括賓茨（Binz）、塞林（Sellin）和格倫（Göhren），薩斯尼茨（Sassnitz）是德國國家級的療養地。呂根島獨特的自然和文化風光也吸引著遊客，騎自行車、步行或駕駛帆船尋訪整個島嶼，除了阿爾科納（Arkona）海岬、白堊岩、普洛拉（Prora）海濱浴場、格蘭尼茨（Granitz）狩獵宮等經典景點和普特布斯市（Putbus）的經典建築外，拉爾斯維克鎮（Ralswiek）的施特特貝克節日慶典（Störtebeker-Festspiele）每年6月底至9月初在雅斯蒙德大淺海灣舉行，是德國最成功的露天劇院之一。

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