Göhren is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Rügen district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

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Göhren
Municipality
Pier of Göhren on Rügen Island
Location of Göhren within Vorpommern-Rügen district
Göhren Show map of Germany Göhren Show map of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Coordinates: 54°20′N 13°44′E
Country	Germany
State	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
District	Vorpommern-Rügen
Municipal assoc.	Mönchgut-Granitz
Government
• Mayor	Carola Koos (CDU)
Area
• Total	6.89 km2 (2.66 sq mi)
Elevation	0 m (0 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[1]
• Total	1,458
• Density	210/km2 (550/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	18586
Dialling codes	038303, 038308
Vehicle registration	RÜG
Website	www.amt-moenchgut.de

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The municipality of Göhren adjoins the easternmost point of the island of Rugen: Cape Nordperd. It separates the North Beach (Nordstrand) from the South Beach (Südstrand). The North Beach is the actual bathing beach with a seaside promenade. Between Göhren Pier and the Nordperd lies the Buskam, the largest glacial erratic boulder in North Germany, which rises one metre about the sea.

• Göhren Pier was rebuilt in the 1990s. It is 270 metres long.
• Speckbusch Barrow (Hügelgrab Speckbusch) is next to Göhren church and dates to the Bronze Age.
• The Mönchguter Museums are four museums that are protected and, together, form an open-air museum. There is a local history museum, the motor yacht Luise, the museum farm (since 1973), and a thatched fisherman's house, the Rookhuus.
• The Drachenhaus was the last home and workshop of the "Poet of the Baltic" and important playwright, Max Dreyer.
• Buskam: the largest glacial erratic in Germany is located ca. 300 metres offshore, east of Göhren.
• Memorial for the victims of Action Rose in 1953 on the Baltic Sea (Hotel Seestern, Poststraße 10)
• Göhren Village Church dates to the 20th century (1929/30).
• The area monument, the Hessenlager, on the road to Lobbe is an 1812 military camp.
• The beaches have a total length of 5 km and merge into each other.
  • North Beach (Nordstrand): up to 30-metre-wide, white, fine-sand beach with a 270-metre-long pier
  • South Beach (Südstrand): rockier and narrower beach,^[2] which runs to Lobbe.