The Zudar is a peninsula on the German Baltic Sea 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 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 Rügische Bodden is a bay which is part of a larger stretch of water, the Greifswalder Bodden, bounded on two sides by the German mainland and on a third by the Baltic Sea island of Rügen. It is located southeast of Rügen island between Mö ...
(the northern part of the
Greifswalder Bodden
The Bay of Greifswald[Strelasund
The Strelasund or Strela Sound is a sound or lagoon of the Baltic Sea which separates Rügen from the German mainland. It is crossed by a road and rail bridge called the Rügendamm in Stralsund. It runs northwest to southeast from a small shallow ...]
.
The peninsula is 900 metres wide at its narrowest point, and its highest elevation is found in the east of the peninsula at a height of . The Zudar also has the southernmost point of Rügen, the ''
Palmer Ort''
History
Until 12 June 2004 the municipality of Zudar that lies on the peninsula was independent. From that date it was incorporated into the town of
Garz.
Gebietsänderungen vom 01.01. bis 31.12.2004
Statistisches Bundesamt This also affected the former Zudar parishes of Freudenberg, Foßberg, Glewitz, Grabow, Losentitz, Maltzien, Poppelvitz and Zicker.
In 1854, Max Hofmeier, who was later a gynaecologist and head of the University of Würzburg
The Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (also referred to as the University of Würzburg, in German ''Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg'') is a public research university in Würzburg, Germany. The University of Würzburg is one of ...
, was born on Zudar.
Sights
* St. Laurence's Church (''St.-Laurentius-Kirche'')
* 1963 farmworkers' houses (''Landarbeiterhäuser'')
Transport
The Glewitz Ferry – the second most important link between Rügen and the mainland after the fixed Strelasund Bridge – runs between Stahlbrode and the Zudar.
References
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Peninsulas of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Peninsulas of the Baltic Sea
Vorpommern-Rügen
Geography of Rügen