Sights on Rügen

The island was comparatively late discovered as a tourist destination. In 1900 still, one could only get on the island by steamships and eventually by dinghy because the flat coast of the Baltic Sea made a landing of the steamships impossible. Passengers had to wade ashore and wet clothes were a certain possibility.   

The 1906 construction of the piers in Binz and Sellin allowed tourists to safely step dry foot on the island.  This was the kickoff for tourism on the Baltic Sea island, and today more than ever, the two piers magically attract tourists.

Around 1908 coal-fired steamships (in the backgound of the picture) brought tourists as well as material to Sellin and Binz via Stralsund and Thiessow and landed here on the new pier. One of the boats was called “Glückauf” and  therefore it was obvious that our hotel founder named the hotel in 1908 after the steamship “Glückauf”. It is now 112 years since the founding and for that reason we can toast together: “Happy Birthday, Glückauf!”