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  • 1/20/2016
Facts : 1 In 1835 the Stralsund abbey, Kloster zum Heiligen Geist bought the island and, in 1837 and 1840 the first schools on the island were built in Plogshagen and Kloster
Facts : 2 In the years between 1854 and 1864, as part of the abolition of serfdom, the real estate on the Hiddensee was reallocated
Facts : 3 In each of the years 1872 and 1873 the island was hit by severe storm floods
Facts : 4 The first broke Hiddensee in two when the entire centre section of the island was flooded, something which could only be reversed by extensive building measures
Facts : 5 After the second storm flood the famous Hiddensee treasure (a Viking work from the 10th century) was supposed to have been found
Facts : 6 In 1905, with the founding of the medical administrative union, the first doctor on Hiddensee was appointed
Facts : 7 Three years later, the Biological Research Station was established, from which, in 1936, a bird observatory was formed, the Hiddensee Biological Research Station
Facts : 8 Between 1937 and 1939, the three parishes on the island were merged into the municipality of Hiddensee
Facts : 9 Also Thomas Mann, Albert Einstein, Siegmund Freud and Franz Kafka spent their holidays on Hiddensee in the 1920s

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