Peenemunde

Peenemunde is located in the small village with the same name on the western part of Usedom Island in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Region. Found close to the entrance in Greifswalder Bay, the port offers tourists docked here access to the Baltic Sea or to the nearby cities of Greifswald and Stralsund. Peenemunde is a well-known location in the area, being the birth place of the famous V-2 long-range rockets used during World War II. Those interested in learning more about the history of the rockets can visit the Peenemunde Historical Technical Museum located in the former observation bunker. Part of the European Route of Industrial Heritage the museum is dedicated to rockets and missiles developed here during World War II and has on display a V-I and a V-II rocket. Other attractions are the Phanomenta, one of Germany’s 5 exhibitions of this kind where visitors learn more about physics, the Maritime Museum where a U-461 type submarine is displayed, or the Toy museum.