Luise

The Luise is a coastal motor sailor turned museum ship moored in Göhren on Rügen. It sits inland beside the road from Göhren to Lobbe, close to the southern beach. The vessel was built in 1906 by the Dutch yard G. & H. Bodewes as a two-masted cargo ketch.

From 1925 its owner Wilhelm Pretzien renamed it after his wife and carried bricks along the Baltic coast. Later owners used it to ship farm produce and daily goods. During the Second World War the Wehrmacht took it for training, fitting a 50-horsepower auxiliary engine. After 1948 the ship worked both North and Baltic seas until rising road transport made freight work unprofitable.

Today the Luise is part of the Mönchguter Museums. Visitors find the restored cargo hold and deckhouse open to view. Outside, old buoys, fishing boats and gear stand in a small open-air display. The ship measures just under twenty metres long and five wide, with a shallow draught of one and a half metres.