Travel guide Poel

 

The island of Poel offers a number of interesting sights. You should take the time during your holiday to visit the island museum, the lighthouse, the church or the bird island of Langenwerder. We present the most important sights on Poel here.

The Cap Arcona was a luxury steamer named after Cape Arkona on the island of Rügen and was the flagship of the Hamburg-South America Line.
The ship was sunk by British aircraft on May 3, 1945, shortly before the end of World War II, killing most of the approximately 4,600 concentration camp prisoners on board. Many of the victims of the sinking were also washed up on the coast of the island of Poel.
Today, a memorial in the village of Am Schwarzen Busch and a small, permanent special exhibition in the island museum commemorate this terrible catastrophe in the Bay of Lübeck.

Am Schwarzen Busch, 23999 Insel Poel

Anyone approaching the island from the mainland can see the island church from afar. This church, built in the first half of the 13th century, bears witness to the island's eventful history. Built in the Romanesque-Gothic style, the brick church with its 47-meter-high tower is Poel's landmark that can be seen from afar.
In addition to church services, the island church is available for guided tours and visits, as well as for numerous concerts, at which not only the old organ can be heard.
The sacred building, which was expanded in the 15th century, is located in the northern part of the ramparts, the southern and star-shaped ring of which enclosed the Poel fortress. The old castle was destroyed in 1632. Only the defensive walls remained and today form the border for Poel's open-air stage, the "castle wall".

Island church of Poel

In 1975, two permanent exhibition rooms were created in the former village school.
After extensive renovation work on the village school, the island museum presents an extensive and regionally limited collection on the natural history and local history of the island of Poel on 250 square meters.
A permanent exhibition on the life and works of the painter Karl Christian Klasen completes the valuable collection. The Poel boulder garden is located outside the island museum. Here you can travel through time through around two billion years of earth's history.
A model of the castle ramparts, which was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War, is currently being built on the grounds of the island museum on a scale of 1:5. Changing special and art exhibitions make a visit to the house on Möwenweg an experience time and time again.

You can find information and opening times here: Island museum of Poel

+4938425 20732 Möwenweg 4; 23999 Insel Poel OT Kirchdorf

What would an island be without a harbor? Poel has several. It's only a five-minute walk from our hotel to Kirchdorf Harbor. A typical maritime atmosphere awaits you there: fishing boats moor at the quay, sailing ships rock on the waves, fish sandwiches tempt you to eat them, passenger ships take you on an excursion.

Opposite at Niendorf Harbor you can rent small motorboats (even without a license) and set off on a tour of the protected Kirchsee.

The Timmendorf-Strand harbor is on the west coast of the island of Poel. In the combined sports boat and fishing harbor, modern motor and sailing yachts and robust fishing boats lie peacefully next to each other. In the immediate vicinity of the harbor there is a wide, fine sandy beach. The lighthouse, built in 1871, still shows ships the way through the sometimes very shallow Wismar Bay.

Insider tip: In the evening, take a seat on one of the terraces of the harbor restaurants and experience perhaps your most romantic sunset on the Baltic Sea!

Visitors coming from the sea side first see the Timmendorf lighthouse. The lighthouse was first put into operation in 1871 and was extended by almost 4 meters to its current height of 21 meters in 1931. As a signaling device at the entrance to the seaport of the Hanseatic city of Wismar, the lighthouse is still of great importance for the increasing shipping traffic.
A second, smaller "lighthouse" stands west of Gollwitz, in the north of the island of Poel.

The Wismar University of Applied Sciences is presenting a show garden for renewable raw materials with many interesting different plant species on the grounds of the modern laboratory complex Malchow/Poel Island, in the immediate vicinity of the traditional seed breeding company “NPZ Lembke Malchow”.

Information is available here: Schaugarten der Hochschule Wismar

+4938425 427811 Inselstraße 12; 23999 Insel Poel OT Malchow

In 1614, Duke Johann Albrecht II commissioned the general architect and engineer Gerhart Evert Pilooth to build a fortress with a castle in Kirchdorf on the island of Poel.

He constructed an impressive building, which was planned and built in two parts. The result was a castle complex in the shape of a five-pointed star and the hornwork, which can still be seen from the air today in the form of a star's tail.

Am Hafen, 23999 Insel Poel OT Kirchdorf

The island of Poel with its nature reserves and its bird sanctuary Langenwerder (Vogelschutzinsel Langenwerder) offers excellent living conditions for wading and water birds. But migratory birds also like to use the island extensively as a resting place.

Outside of the breeding season (July to October), organized tours of the island are offered by an ornithologist. Since the weekly tours through the nature reserve cause disturbances, the number of visitors per tour is limited to 15 people. Registration is via the stourist office (Kurverwaltung) (see telephone number). Please refer to the events calendar for dates.

Further information is available on the website of the Verein Langenwerder

+4938425 20347