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

{{Coord, 54, 14, 41, N, 13, 22, 36, E, type:isle_region:DE-MV, display=title Peninsulas of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Peninsulas of the Baltic Sea Vorpommern-Rügen Geography of Rügen