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34-478: Garz could refer to one of several places: Garz (Havelberg) - part of the city of Havelberg, Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt Garz (Rügen) - a city on the island of Rügen, Germany Garz (Usedom) - a smaller town on the island of Usedom adjacent to the Heringsdorf Airport and the city of Świnoujście, Poland Groß Garz ("Great Garz") — a municipality in

68-622: A daymark erected near the present-day steps during the Russo-Swedish War (1741–1743) in order to warn the population. Hence the spot was known as the Königssteig or "King's Climb". In 1833, for the arrival of the steamboat Hercules during its Imperial Russian chronometer expedition, the Prussian king, Frederick William III - Rügen was now Prussian - had a landing stage and flight of steps built. From this point in 1865,

102-565: A Slavic tribe, which was dedicated to their god Svantevit . Located at the tip of the cape, it was protected on three sides by cliffs and from the land side by a 25-metre-high burgwall . The temple located within the ramparts grew in importance as a religious centre for the Slavs of Mecklenburg after the destruction of Rethra in 1068. In 1168, the Danish king Valdemar I conquered Rügen which then became Christian . Churches were established and

136-626: A series of photographs on the Volksmarine . Just outside Putgarten is a large car park where all visitors to the cape have to park their cars or tour buses. From there the cape may be accessed on foot (1.8 km), by horse and carriage or on the Cape Arkona road train ( Kap-Arkona-Bahn ). The various sights may also be visited by bicycle. Since 1993 the Cape Arkona Train has provided services from Putgarten to Cape Arkona and

170-567: A small plaque in the ground in front of the tower. The navigation tower is used as an art museum and studio. On each tower there is a viewing platform from which there are unobstructed views of Rügen and especially the peninsula of Wittow. In clear weather you can even see as far as the Danish island of Møn . From the 9th to the 12th centuries, the Jaromarsburg was a cult site for the Rani ,

204-443: A transmission site since 1993. From 1818 to 1952 Garz/Rügen belonged to the district of Rügen ( Kreis Rügen , from 1939, Landkreis Rügen ), from 1952 to 1955 to the district of Putbus ( Kreis Putbus ), from 1956 to Rügen again ( Kreis Rügen , from 1990 a Landkreis ), and, since 2011 to the district of Vorpommern-Rügen . On 1 January 2001 Groß Schoritz was incorporated into the town of Garz/Rügen. On 13 June 2004, Zudar , on

238-525: A well-built network of cycle paths with a total length of about 42.5 kilometres. [REDACTED] Media related to Garz/Rügen at Wikimedia Commons Cape Arkona Cape Arkona ( German : Kap Arkona ) is a 45-metre (150-foot) high cape on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , Germany . It forms the tip of the Wittow peninsula, just a few kilometres north of

272-536: A year to build. South of the remnants of the ramparts at Jaromarsburg are the Veilchentreppe ("Violet Staircase"), a descent to the beach that runs from Arkona to Vitt. The name comes from the violets that grow around the staircase in spring. There are two bunkers in the immediate neighbourhood of the two lighthouses. The smaller, older bunker dates from Wehrmacht times and, in GDR days, housed an outpost of

306-684: Is also called the Schinkelturm ("Schinkel Tower"). On 31 March 1905 it was taken out of service. It is the second oldest lighthouse on the German Baltic Sea coast after the Travemünde Lighthouse . The largest tower was built in 1901/02 right next to the old tower and entered service on 1 April 1905. It is 35 metres high and has a focal height of 75 m above NN . It is made of brick and stands on an octagonal granite base. For 90 years its light source

340-493: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Garz (R%C3%BCgen) Garz lies in the south of the island of Rügen , about 5 kilometres from the coast. The surrounding area comprises low rolling hills, and the highest point is the Kanonenberg at 34 metres above sea level. Garz is 22 kilometres from Stralsund on the mainland, and 12 kilometres from

374-540: Is more likely to have been the town of Ruyendal . Around the turn of the first millennium, the inhabitants of Rügen were from the East Germanic tribe of the Rugii , who, from the 7th century, were followed by the Rani , a West Slavic tribe. In the 11th and 12th centuries, a Slavic castle with a rampart and settlement existed here as a royal residence. The well-preserved burgwall was seen by historical writers of

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408-535: Is typical of the North Vorpommern coast. The average annual temperature is 8.9 °C (48.0 °F). Precipitation amounts to 547.8 mm (21.57 in) per year. Because of its proximity to the sea, its humidity is very high. The Cape Arkona weather station has recorded the following extreme values: On 26 December 2011, there was a major rock slide at Cape Arkona, which buried a ten-year-old girl and seriously injured her mother. A weeklong search for

442-521: The Siebenschneiderstein ( Low German : Söbenschniedersteen ). The cape offers a view of the island, both from land or sea. The smaller of the two lighthouses was built of brick in 1826/27 based on plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel and taken into service in 1828. It is 19.3 metres high and has a focal height of 60 m above  sea level (NN) . The rooms of the three-storey tower are used as operating and storage rooms. It

476-572: The Volksmarine ("People's Navy") were on duty here for two to three days, three to four times a year, as part of naval exercises. The standard complement was four men. On 3 October 1990, the day of German reunification , the site was closed. The bunkers were purchased and successively renovated by the municipality of Putgarten. The Arkona Bunker now houses an art gallery and the NVA Bunker an exhibition of GDR fittings and equipment as well as

510-781: The 6th (Coastal) Border Brigade . It is generally called the Arkona Bunker . The larger, newer bunker was built from 1979 to 1986 and acted as a command post for the Sixth Flotilla , stationed on Bug , and the Baltic Fleet (VOF). Starting from a main central tunnel with two entrances, there are several autonomous individual bunkers with a total area of 2,000 square metres. They comprise three large bunkers (type FB-75) and nine small ones (type FB-3), made of prefabricated concrete elements (FB = prefabricated bunker). The FB-75 type bunker had an intermediate floor level, where

544-629: The Jasmund National Park . The protected landscape of Cape Arkona, together with the fishing village of Vitt , belongs to the municipality of Putgarten and is one of the most popular tourist destinations on Rügen, receiving about 800,000 visitors annually. On the cape there are two lighthouses , a navigation tower, two military bunker complexes, the Slavic temple fortress of Jaromarsburg and several tourist buildings (restaurants, pubs and souvenir shops). Because of its geology and

578-646: The conquest of the Jaromarsburg on Cape Arkona - to the King of Denmark Valdemar I and his army commander, Absalon of Roskilde , after earlier negotiations. In 1168, the Christian Danes destroyed the fortress in Garz, as well as the Svetovid temple in the fort at Cape Arkona . German settlers arrived from 1240 and the village of Garz emerged. In 1316, Garz was given town rights (civitatis Gartz) by

612-647: The diabetes researcher, Gerhardt Katsch , founded Germany 's first home for the clinical and sociomedical treatment of diabetics in Garz. After the institution moved to Karlsburg in Vorpommern , an outpost of the Karlsburg Institute (Central Institute for Diabetes) remained in Garz as a holiday location for treating diabetic children over the summer holidays. Since 1991, the centre of Garz has been extensively redeveloped as part of an urban development plan. Near Garz, Deutsche Telekom has operated

646-494: The 19th and 20th centuries as that of the legendary prince's residence of Charenza . Recent interdisciplinary research in the years 2004 and 2005, however, has shown that the burgwall at Venz (between Gingst and Trent on the shores of the Neuendorfer Wiek) is much more likely to have been the aristocratic seat and temple castle of Charenza . The latter was surrendered without a fight on 16 June 1168 - one day after

680-598: The Rügen prince, Vitslav III , and was first mentioned in 1316 and 1319. Thus it is considered to be the oldest town on the island. The 14th-century town church, St. Peter's, initially belonged to the Danish bishopric of Roskilde . In 1325 Rügen, including Garz, went into Pomerania . In 1478, Rügen was united with Pomerania and, after the Thirty Years' War in 1648 the Treaty of Westphalia saw Garz falling to Sweden . It

714-482: The castle and its temple destroyed. At the tip of Arkona in recent centuries, the cliffs have repeatedly collapsed into the sea, with the result that only the ramparts of the Jaromarsburg are still visible today. Several metres west of Cape Arkona is the Königstreppe ("King's Staircase"), whose 230 steps climb up the 42-metre-high cliff 230. The Swedish king, Frederick I – Rügen then belonged to Sweden – had

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748-569: The central two quarters of its length. In the middle of the centre stripe is the town coat of arms, the ratio of the height of the shield to the height of the flag being 3:5. The overall ratio of the flag is 2:3. Garz's twin town of Norderney lies in East Frisia and is one of the East Frisian Islands off the coast of Lower Saxony . The towns were twinned immediately after the reunification of Germany in 1990. The town has

782-468: The county town of Bergen auf Rügen. The following municipalities belong to Garz/Rügen: Bietengast, Dumsevitz, Foßberg, Freudenberg, Glewitz, Götzlaffshagen, Grabow , Groß Schoritz, Karnitz, Klein Stubben, Kniepow, Koldevitz, Kowall, Losentitz, Maltzien, Poltenbusch, Poppelvitz, Rosengarten, Schabernack, Silmenitz, Swiene, Tangnitz, Wentorf, Zicker and Zudar. In Karennz , Kerentia or Charenza were

816-501: The district of Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt. [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garz&oldid=752989218 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

850-415: The emission of radio waves. The foundations of the associated radio operating facility inside the ramparts have survived to this day. The technical facilities of the navigation tower were destroyed, however, in 1945 All three towers were renovated in the early 1990s and are open to visitors. In the old lighthouse, there is now a museum and a branch of the registry office. Marriages may be commemorated here on

884-461: The first telegraph cable was laid under the Baltic Sea to Sweden. With the rise of the island's coastal resorts, tourism at Cape Arkona grew. Many travelers came by excursion boats that moored at the pier at the foot of the steps. The landing stage was, however, completely destroyed by the storm flood of 1953. The new Königstreppe steps were completed in 1995 at the same historic spot, taking

918-505: The fishing village of Vitt. It does not run on rails as the name suggests, but is a road train that runs on wheels on normal roads. The train is hauled by a tractor designed to look like a steam locomotive but since 1996 has actually been powered by a more environmentally-friendly gas engine . Ships operated by the Reederei Ostsee-Tour also run daily from Binz and Sassnitz to Cape Arkona. The climate at Cape Arkona

952-538: The names given to a Slavic castle that was hard fought for in 1168 and 1234 and at one time, the town was thought to be the former princely residence of Charenza , but today that seems unlikely. In 1327, a town seal bore the name Chertz in Ruya (Rügen). The name "Garz", however, probably comes from the Slavic "gardec" or "gard" and means "fortified place" or "little castle" (as in Stargard ). The precursor of Garz

986-416: The peninsula of the same name, followed suit. In January 2005, Karnitz was also added to Garz. Following the local elections of 7 June 2009 the following seats were allocated: The coat of arms was registered as no. 34 in the coat of arms roll of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The town flag has three vertical stripes: blue - white - blue. The blue stripes each occupy a quarter of the flag, the white stripe fills

1020-475: The picture book Soldaten des Volkes ("Soldiers of the People"). The bunkers were uncamouflaged. How the photograph was allowed to appear in this book is not clear, but it was withdrawn from circulation again just three days after its publication. A later edition of the illustrated book was published with the aerial image omitted. Today, the original picture book is a collector's piece. From 1986, 50–70 soldiers of

1054-478: The sleeping areas were located, and an emergency exit. Each individual shelter has a main corridor and two airlocks . Over the top is a 3-to-5-metre-high (9.8 to 16.4 ft) earth covering, from which protrude dozens of ventilation tubes. In 1985, on the 30th anniversary of the National People's Army (NVA) , an aerial photograph of Cape Arkona, with the bunker complex in the background, was publicised in

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1088-520: The weathering that occurs here, there are frequent coastal collapses, especially in winter. Cape Arkona is often referred to as "the northernmost point of Rügen", which is not true. Approximately one kilometre to the north-west, there is a point on the steep coast , known as the Gellort , which is a little further north. Directly at the foot of the Gellort is a 165-ton glacial erratic boulder known as

1122-483: Was not until 1815, as a result of the Congress of Vienna that Garz finally became a Prussian town. Around 1648, the church steeple was destroyed in a storm and replaced with today's tower. In 1765 a large fire destroyed many homes. The older town houses, most of which are oriented with their longer side parallel to the road, were built after that. The town is dominated today, as in the past, by agriculture. In 1930,

1156-530: Was two arc lamps , but they were replaced in 1995 by a Metal-halide lamp . This, combined with the rotating triple optics, emits 3 flashes every 17 seconds. The old naval navigation tower (German: Peilturm ) was built in 1927 of brick and acted as a marine navigation beacon . From 1911 to 1925, attempts were made - which were ground-breaking for that time - to improve navigation for the Sassnitz-Trelleborg railway ferry, established in 1909, using

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