The
island of Ummanz lies in the
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 ...
, off the west coast of the island of
Rügen, and belongs, like the latter, to the county of
Vorpommern-Rügen in the German state of
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
Ummanz is around 20 square kilometres in area and thus, after Rügen, the second largest island in the former county of Rügen. It is part of the
. The island is bounded to the west and northwest by the
Schaproder Bodden
The Schaproder Bodden is a '' bodden'' on the Baltic Sea coast between the island of Hiddensee in the west and the islands of Rügen and Ummanz in the east. To the north the Schaproder Bodden is linked to the Vitter Bodden by the so-called ''Trog ...
, to the north, by the inlet of
Udarser Wiek
The Udarser Wiek is a bay on Germany's Baltic Sea coast, about 8 km² in area, between the islands of Rügen in the north and Ummanz in the south. In the west, the ''bodden'' transitions into the Schaproder Bodden and in the southeast to the ''Gahl ...
, to the east by the lake of ''Koselower See'' and the ''Breite'' and to the south by the
Kubitzer Bodden
The Kubitzer Bodden is a type of lagoon known as a ''bodden'' on the Baltic Sea coast in the southwestern area of the island of Rügen in Germany. In the north the ''bodden'' is bounded by the ''Lieschow'' peninsula on Rügen. In the east and sout ...
. The island of Ummanz is very flat; its highest point lying just 3 metres above
sea level (NN).
Since 1901 the island has been linked to the island of Rügen by a 250-metre-long bridge. The largest settlement on the island is the parish village of
Waase; other villages are Haide, Markow, Suhrendorf, Freesenort, Tankow and Wusse. Together with several villages on Rügen itself it forms the municipality of
Ummanz
The island of Ummanz lies in the Baltic Sea, off the west coast of the island of Rügen, and belongs, like the latter, to the county of Vorpommern-Rügen in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
Ummanz is around 20 square kilometre ...
.
From 1341 the island was owned by the
Heiliggeisthospital at
Stralsund. As a result, Stralsund's citizens exercised lordship over the island for centuries on behalf of the church foundation.
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German islands in the Baltic
Islands of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania