Wolgast Germany Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
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MS Mona Lisa
38 Cruises
MS Victor Hugo
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Frequently Asked Questions
At the municipal harbour, which borders the old town directly: you walk down the gangway, cross the promenade, and the first gabled façades appear. No shuttle is needed.
The old bascule bridge, so nicknamed by locals, which raises its steel deck at set hours to let sailing boats and coasters through on the Peenestrom. Traffic stops, everyone watches: it is the town's daily piece of theatre.
A painted danse macabre, a cycle inspired by Holbein's famous engravings, in which skeletons and the living of every station join hands. The crypt also holds the lead sarcophagi of the last dukes of Pomerania, whose line died out during the Thirty Years' War.
The river island where the castle of the dukes of Pomerania once stood, a lavish residence dismantled after the wars of the 17th century. Nothing of it remains, but the quiet quarter of workshops and boat sheds that occupies it makes a good first loop on foot along the water.
Because the building is a small baroque house topped with a bell-shaped roof, set down beside the square like a toy: the locals named it that. The museum of local history inside recounts the harbour's past and the region's darker and brighter hours.
Philipp Otto Runge, one of the great painters of German Romanticism, who died young. His birthplace, a few streets from the harbour, displays reproductions and documents about this son of the town.
About twenty minutes by road. The historical and technical museum occupies the Second World War rocket testing site: a place of remembrance that questions as much as it documents the birth of the space age.
Yes, the imperial resorts are about forty minutes away by road: 19th-century seaside villas and long sandy beaches, at Ahlbeck and Heringsdorf alike. The contrast with the concrete halls of Peenemünde, close by, is striking.
Yes, the Peenestrom bordering the town is an open-air nature reserve: reedbeds, wet meadows and mudflats attract herons and ospreys, and with a little luck the white-tailed eagle that nests in the area.
Return to the waterside promenade: the anglers pack up their lines, the smell of smoked fish drifts near the huts, and the benches facing the channel are a perfect spot to watch sailing boats and barges manoeuvre. Currency: the euro, with cash for the harbour huts.
