![Rugischer Bodden](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Rugischer_Bodden.PNG)
The Rügische Bodden is a bay which is part of a larger stretch of water, the
Greifswalder Bodden
The Bay of Greifswald[Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the North and Central European Plain.
The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from ...]
island of
Rügen
Rügen (; la, Rugia, ) is Germany's largest island. It is located off the Pomeranian coast in the Baltic Sea and belongs to the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
The "gateway" to Rügen island is the Hanseatic city of Stralsund, where ...
. It is located southeast of Rügen island between
Mönchgut
Mönchgut (''Monk's Estates'' in German) is a peninsula of 29.44 square kilometers with 6600 inhabitants in the southeast of Rügen island in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It lies just between the Greifswalder Bodden and the rest of ...
and the
Zudar
The Zudar is a peninsula on the German Baltic Sea island of Rügen. It is about 18 square kilometres in area and sharply divided.
Location
The peninsula lies between the bay of Schoritzer Wiek, the lagoon of Rügischer Bodden (the northe ...
peninsula. At Mönchgut, several headlands project into the ''
bodden
Bodden are briny bodies of water often forming lagoons, along the southwestern shores of the Baltic Sea, primarily in Germany's state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. These lagoons can be found especially around the island of Rügen, Usedom an ...
'': the
Reddevitz Höft, the
Klein Zicker and the Großer Zicker. The inlet between Rügen and the Reddevitzer Höft is known as
Having; between the Reddevitzer Höft and the Großer Zicker lies the inlet of
Hagensche Wiek
Hagensche Wiek is a cove in the east of the Rügischer Bodden that cuts deeply into the Mönchgut peninsula, the southeast tip of the German island of Rügen.
It is about 5 kilometres long, 2.5 kilometres wide and opens towards the sout ...
. Other bays are the
Schoritzer Wiek, the
Selliner See and the
Neuensiener See. Its southern boundary would be the line between the headlands of the Zudar and Mönchgut peninsulas. There are harbours in
Lauterbach,
Baabe
Baabe is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Rügen district in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
Sights
* ''Baaber Bollwerk'' viewing point
* Thatched
Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed ...
and
Seedorf.
The ''bodden'' is part of the
Southeast Rügen Biosphere Reserve
The Southeast Rügen Biosphere Reserve (german: Biosphärenreservat Südost-Rügen) is a biosphere reserve in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, which covers the southeastern part of the island of Rügen (including Granitz and Mönch ...
.
In the northern part of the lagoon, off the village of Lauterbach, lies the island
Vilm
The Baltic Sea island of Vilm lies in the bay south of the much larger island of Rügen, and is one of Germany's most remote and tranquil spots. Covering less than , Vilm is the remnant of a moraine left as the glaciers retreated about 6000 ye ...
.
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Bays of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Bays of the Baltic Sea
Geography of Rügen