Baabe

Description

NV Cruising Guide

Navigation

The approach is only possible during the day. Coming from the Greifswalder Bodden, you have to steer in the Having at the latest from buoy B6 with 53° to buoy B8. Outside the buoyed fairway to Baabe, caution is advised due to the shallow shore zone.

Achtung: North of the fixed pier, a small rowing ferry (passengers/bicycles) crosses the Baaber Bek.

Berths

At the pier the place for a passenger ship is to be kept free, otherwise you look for a free place at the rear end of the pier or at the jetty. Sport boats up to 1.6m draught can be moored on free places at the Sportboot Club Baabe, approx. 200m in front of it on the right side.

Surroundings

The northeastern centre of Baabe is 1.5 km away.

On the west side of the Bek is the popular restaurant "Moritzburg" with a beautiful view of the Having. The appealing landscape invites to walks and bicycle tours.

NV Land Guide

Baabe combines the idyll of a natural harbour with the utilities of a seaside resort in a particularly pleasant way in that the moorings are far enough away from the tourist hustle and bustle. The way from the harbour to the centre of the seaside resort is one kilometre, so that many of the holiday guests refrain from a harbour tour. The holiday action is more on the east side of Baabe, on the Baltic Sea beach.

It is admittedly not quite as tranquil and quiet as in Seedorf, because again and again small groups of guests can be transferred by ferry to Moritzdorf. But that doesn't bother, on the contrary, it creates something of the atmosphere of "anno Tobak", when it was the most natural thing in the world for a ferryman to ferry his customers here by muscle power in a wooden rowboat.

Although Moritzdorf is already worth a visit as a fishing settlement out of a picture book, most of those who cross over by ferry want to visit Moritzburg, which is only called a castle, but is no longer one. 37 m above sea level, you have an excellent view over the Having to the grassy hills of the Mönchgut. While the Baaber Heide is easy to overlook, the seaside resort of Göhren hides behind wooded hills, but the seaside resort can be approached "quickly" at 30 km/h with the "Rasenden Roland", the well-known Rügener Kleinbahn .

For the conditions at the end of the 19th century, when the narrow-gauge railway was put into operation, it was definitely a "racing" one. Whistling and pounding, it meanders through the countryside between Putbus and Göhren. It produces not only steam, but also a lot of soot, as it should be for a real steam railway.

In Baabe there is also a station of the Bäderbahn, but more interesting, because more unusual, is the small railway station Phillipshagen south of Baabe, which can be reached from the port almost as quickly as the station of Baabe. It lies alone on the road to Göhren in a mixed forest. The short drive to this seaside resort is hardly worth it, but a longer rail excursion is still possible in an easterly direction. Göhren is certainly not a fashionable seaside resort and certainly no longer a fishing or pilot village. The SED called it a "bath of the working people" and was not so wrong with that, because between a feudal seaside resort dominated by villas and Göhren there are worlds.

Today you are reminded of what Göhren is no longer in the Mönchguter Museum in the middle of Göhren. Traditional costumes, fishing equipment, great-grandmother's household goods and a Mönchgut farmhouse parlour provide an insight into the old days, as does the exhibition on pilotage. In addition, the development of bathing is one of the topics in the museum that is well worth a visit. Not far away, the museum farm presents agricultural equipment and changing art exhibitions. The old fishermen's cottage "Rookhus" in the south of the village and the museum ship Luise near the beach south of Göhren are also part of the museum foursome.

Before the coast on the northern beach of the seaside resort lies the "Buskam", which weighs around 1700 tonnes and meant something like god's stone in the language of the Slavic natives. With 600 m³ it is one of the largest erratic blocks on the German Baltic coast. The 8.5 m high stone giant only looks one metre out of the water. Swimming to the stone, which is about 250 m away, is forbidden for safety reasons. Therefore, it is not possible to look at the small cavities on the cult stone, which were carved into the stone by Rügen's indigenous people about 4000 years ago. The first monks on the island are said to have erected a cross on the stone to oppose the pagan cult practices. The wedding custom of dancing a round dance on the Buskam continued for a long time. Legend has it that witches danced on Walpurgis Night and mermaids on St. John's Day on the "magic stone" and perhaps still dance there?

In a westerly direction, you can take the Bäderbahn to the Granitz hunting lodge, whose 38-metre-high observation tower on the 107-metre-high Tempelberg offers an excellent panoramic view over large parts of Rügen (see also Seedorf). The excursion with the narrow-gauge railway offers numerous combination possibilities with hikes. For example, there is the variant to walk back via Lancken-Granitz and Seedorf or to include the hiking and cliff paths between the sea bands of Göhren and Binz in the excursion.

By the way, the so-called Mönchgraben 50 metres north of the Baab railway station was once the northern border of the Mönchgut estate, when the entire disjointed headland belonged to the monks of the Eldena monastery (see Greifswald Wieck). Today, this boundary is hard to make out.

The Redevitzer Höft, southwest of the harbour, extends the excursion options. Six kilometres have to be covered to reach this headland with its barrow and redoubt. The path leads past old cottages and Büttner houses. Halfway there, we recommend a detour to Middelhagen, where you will find an old church with a wooden tower and the Mönchgut School Museum.

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