Editing Hiddensee (section)

== Sights and museums ==
{{See also|List of heritage buildings on Hiddensee}}
[[File:Hiddensee asv2022-08 img26 Vitte Strand.jpg|thumb|Hiddensee beach near Vitte]]
The "biggest" attraction on Hiddensee is the long sandy beach. It stretches practically the entire length of the island on the west side. Therefore, it has been known as a bathing resort since the late 19th century. Yet bathing attire (and also clothing etiquette in general) was very permissive even in the days of the [[Belle Époque]]. Ladies going barefoot and showing bare calves was possible everywhere on Hiddensee, where elsewhere it would have caused a scandal. In the interwar period, the island became a center of the ''[[Lebensreform]]'' and [[Naturism]]. In GDR times, due to complaints from indignant tourists, an attempt was made at times to ban [[skinny-dip]], but this was hardly noticed. Today, there is no division into textile and [[nude beach sections]] on Hiddensee, and both are permitted and common throughout the beach.<ref>vgl. Darstellung im [[Heimatmuseum Hiddensee]], letzte Tafel zur Geschichte</ref>

=== Kloster ===
[[File:Hiddensee asv2022-08 img39 Leuchtturm Dornbusch.jpg|thumb|Lighthouse on the Dornbush]]

==== Dornbusch lighthouse ====
{{Main|Dornbusch Lighthouse}}
In the north of the island, on the Schluckswiek in the so-called highlands of Hiddensee, stands the landmark of the island, the Hiddensee Lighthouse. 102 steps lead up to the tower, which has been open to visitors since 1994. However, so that it doesn't get too crowded up there, only 15 visitors can climb the tower at a time. From [[WindForce|wind force 6]], the tower remains closed for safety reasons.

==== Gerhart Hauptmann House ====
[[File:Haus Seedorn auf Hiddensee.jpg|thumb|Gerhart Hauptmann Haus]]
In the former country house Modler and later [[house Seedorn]] the writer [[Gerhart Hauptmann]] was a summer guest already in 1926. Four years later he bought it from the municipality and added an annex. From 1930 to 1943 he spent the summer months here with his wife. In 1956, it became the Gerhart Hauptmann Museum, which also hosts readings and concerts. The literature pavilion, built in 2012 in a strikingly modern form on the property, serves as the entrance and houses the ticket office, museum store (bookstore) and a permanent exhibition ''Literaturlandschaft Hiddensee.''

==== Hiddensee Island Church ====
Hiddensee Island Church was built in 1332 in front of the monastery, of which nothing is preserved today (the so-called [[monastery gate|Klostertor]] was built only after the monastery was abandoned). For centuries it served as a parish church for the inhabitants of the island. In 1781 it was rebuilt in the Baroque style - the pulpit altar, confessional, baptismal angel and baptismal font date from this period. The painted barrel vault, the so-called Hiddenseer Rosenhimmel, however, is only from 1922. Today, the island church is the seat of the Protestant parish of Hiddensee.

==== Lietzenburg ====
{{Main|Lietzenburg}}
The Lietzenburg is a listed [[Art Nouveau]] villa built by the painter [[Oskar Kruse]] in 1904/1905. It is a brick building with natural stone foundation on a hill near the Dornbusch. For many years it has served as a boarding house for artists.

==== Museum of local history Hiddensee ====
The museum of local history Hiddensee is a simple plaster building in Kloster. It offers a permanent exhibition on the island's history with about 450 exhibits, a complete copy of Hiddensee treasure found on the island, files, about 2500 photographs, postcards and slides, and an extensive library. Some works by well-known representatives of the Hiddensee artists' colony are also in the museum's collection. The building itself dates back to 1890 and was a sea rescue station.

==== Doktorandenhaus ====
Only a few steps away from the Gerhart Hauptmann Museum, at Biologenweg 5, stands the [[Doktorandenhaus]], built in 1925 by [[Max Taut]] for the Berlin publishing director Max Gehlen.<ref>''[https://web.archive.org/web/20190822114726/https://www.seebad-hiddensee.de/kulturelles/aktuelle-termine/details/event/show/tag-des-offenen-denkmals-21/ Tag des offenen Denkmals in Kloster auf Hiddensee].'' {{in lang |de}}&nbsp;10&nbsp;September 2017,&nbsp;archiviert&nbsp;vom&nbsp;Original am&nbsp;22&nbsp;August 2019. Retrieved 2019-08-22</ref> In 1930, the island administration bought the building as a summer house for the [[Hiddensee Biological Station|Biological Station of Hiddensee]]. Since about 1990, it has served as a seminar and accommodation building for the [[University of Greifswald]].

==== Eggert Gustavs Museum ====
In the settlement area Am Bau, the Alte Schmiede was converted into a museum and opened in 2019. It honors the life and work of the artist [[Eggert Gustavs]], who died in 1996 and was the son of the island's long-time pastor [[Arnold Gustavs]], and thus aims to make him known to wider circles.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190617162334/http://www.eggert-gustavs.de/html/museum.html Info über das geplante Gustavs-Museum] (Archived 17 June 2019 in ''Internet Archive'')&nbsp;</ref>

=== Vitte ===

==== National Park House Hiddensee ====
The national park house was opened in 1998. The house in the north of Vitte is a thatched building with a trapezoidal ground plan. It contains a permanent exhibition about the [[Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park]] with a focus on Hiddensee. The exhibition's motto is "[[Ta panta rhei|Panta Rhei]] – Alles fließt".

==== Asta Nielsen House and surroundings ====
[[File:Hiddensee asv2022-08 img29 Vitte Karusel.jpg|thumb|Asta Nielsens Haus ''Karusel'']]
The round building, also called ''Karusel'' after the Danish word for [[carousel]], was built in 1923 according to plans by Max Taut for the Müller family. In 1928, the daughter of silent film actress [[Asta Nielsen]] bought it and spent the summer months there with her mother and her husband until the 1930s. Frequent visitors were [[Joachim Ringelnatz]] with his wife, [[Heinrich George]] and Gerhart Hauptmann. In 1975, the local government listed the building under [[cultural heritage management]]; in 1989, the Nielsen heirs sold the house to the municipality. In 2015, a permanent exhibition about Asta Nielsen opened. The house was located directly on the Bodden until the 1960s (see [[History 1945 to 1989]]). Right next to the Asta Nielsen House is another building by Max Taut, built in 1924 for the commercial director Karl Weidermann.

The municipality uses the house for public events, but it was badly damaged in the meantime and had to be renovated. The Ministry of Agriculture of the state of [[Mecklenburg-Vorpommern|Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania]] and the district of Western Pomerania provided around 500,000 euros for this purpose, and the municipality also had to make a small contribution. The renovation was completed in 2015, and since then wedding ceremonies can also be held in the balcony room. In addition, the house now serves as a museum and artists' residence, where, among other things, the cinematic work of the silent film actress and the life of Max Taut are shown in a permanent exhibition. Special exhibitions and seminars in adjoining rooms are added.<ref>[https://www.nordkirche.de/nachrichten/nachrichten-detail/nachricht/saniertes-asta-nielsen-haus-geht-wieder-in-betrieb/ ''Saniertes Asta-Nielsen-Haus geht wieder in Betrieb''], auf www.nordkirche.de; retrieved 15 June 2019.</ref>
[[File:Hiddensee asv2022-08 img23 Vitte Blaue Scheune.jpg|thumb|Blaue Scheune]]

==== Blaue Scheune ====
{{Main|Blaue Scheune}}
In its original layout, the Blaue Scheune is a Low German half-timbered house from the beginning of the 19th century. Since the 1970s it has housed the gallery of the owner [[Günter Fink]]. He exhibited his paintings with island motifs here and also sold them.

==== Henni Lehman Haus ====
The Landhaus Lehmann was used as the summer residence of the [[Henni Lehmann]] family from 1907 to 1937. The building was designed by the Schwerin architect [[Paul Ehmig]]. After a reconstruction, the building served as the [[town hall]] of Vitte between 1938 and 1991. Since 5 June 2000 the house is officially called Henni Lehmann House and is used for events and exhibitions as well as the local library.

==== Hexenhaus ====
Built in 1755 as a fisherman's cottage, it is considered the oldest house in Vitte. Since 1915 the painter [[Elisabeth Büttner]] lived in the house, from 1930 it was the summer residence of the [[Pallat]] family or the resistance fighter Adolf Reichwein, who was murdered in 1944, and is still owned by the family today. In 1981, the house in Süderende 105 was listed as a historical monument. A commemorative stumbling stone is located in front of the house. The building cannot be visited from the inside.

==== Humunkulus figure collection ====
The collection of figures and props in the matter-of-fact new building made of larch wood comes mainly from the neighboring puppet theater Seebühne by Karl Huck. On display, in addition to theater posters and brochures, are, for example, [[Doctor Faustus (novel)|Doctor Faustus]], [[Long John Silver]], [[Ebenezer Scrooge]], [[Hans Christian Andersen]], [[Leo Tolstoy|Tolstoy]], [[Franz Kafka|Kafka]], [[Edgar Allan Poe]], [[William Shakespeare]], [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe]], [[Pinocchio]], [[King Kong]], [[Marilyn Monroe]], [[Helena Blavatsky|Helena]], and an extensive animal kingdom including a [[Dodo|dronte]] chick.

=== Neuendorf ===
[[File:Hiddensee asv2022-08 img02 Gellen Leuchtturm.jpg|thumb|Beacon Gellen-Hiddensee]]

==== Gellen lighthouse ====
The 12.30 m high structure (height of fire 10 m), a [[Sector light|sector]] and [[cross light]], is located south of Neuendorf at the northern border of the Gellen. It has the lighthouse number C2586 and the coordinates [https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Hiddensee&language=de&params=54.508055555556_N_13.074444444444_E_region:DE-MV_type:landmark&title=Leuchtturm+Gellen%2FHiddensee ♁54° 30′ 29″ N, 13° 4′ 28″ E]. The beacon bears the official designation "Leuchtfeuer Gellen/Hiddensee". The white steel tower with red gallery and conical roof stands on a natural stone base. It was built in 1904 by the company [[Julius Pintsch]] (Berlin) from cast segments ([[tubbings]]) and has been in trial operation since 1905, in continuous operation since 1907. The [[Ranzow]] and [[Kolliker Ort]] lighthouses (on the island of Rügen) and the [[Norddorf lighthouse]] (on the island of Amrum) were built in the same way at the same production plant ([[Fürstenwalde|Fürstenwalde/Spree]] branch). The lighthouse Gellen/Hiddensee marks the northern entrance to the Gellenstrom, in the west the fairway of the Gellenstrom and leads in the east through the Schaproder Bodden. The lighthouse was depicted on a 5-million-mark emergency banknote issued by the district of Rügen in 1923. In the [[GDR's special stamp series "Leucht-, Leit- und Molenfeuer"]] from 1975, the Gellen beacon graced the 10 pfennig stamp as a motif.

==== Parish hall ''Uns Tauflucht'' ====
So that [[church service]]s could also be celebrated in Neuendorf, the [[Church hall|parish hall]] ''Uns Tauflucht'' (Our Refuge) was built at the end of the 20th century. In addition to [[Ecumenism|ecumenical]] services, it is also used for community events such as lectures and concerts.

==== Fishery museum ''Lütt Partie'' ====
[[File:Fischereimuseum Neuendorf.JPG|thumb|Fishing museum in Neuendorf (Hiddensee)]]
In 2006/2007, a brick-built former net and equipment shed from 1885 was converted into the ''Lütt Partie'' (Small Unit) Fishery Museum. The name is from times when it was still in its former purpose. At that time there was a large and a small net or equipment shed, one was popularly called ''Grod Partie'', the smaller ''Lütt Partie''. Since 2007, fishermen from the island have been presenting and explaining fishing equipment and telling stories about fishing history and everyday work in the past and present. The museum is run by the "Fischereipartie Neuendorf e. V." association, which is financed solely by donations.