Cape Arkona
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/place/95886
- Note
- 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 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). - Latitude
- 54.676387786865
- Longitude
- 13.437777519226
- Elevation
- 35
- Time zone
- Europe/Berlin
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Kap Arkona (Rügen): Leuchtturm von Westen
Stahlstich von Rosmäsler nach...
Object information
Image: Landesgeschichtliche Vereinigung für die Mark Brandenburg e.V., Archiv - CC BY
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