Fischland-Darß-Zingst is a long
peninsula
A peninsula is a landform that extends from a mainland and is only connected to land on one side. Peninsulas exist on each continent. The largest peninsula in the world is the Arabian Peninsula.
Etymology
The word ''peninsula'' derives , . T ...
in the coastal district of
Vorpommern-Rügen, in the
German state of
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV; ; ), also known by its Anglicisation, anglicized name Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, is a Federated state, state in the north-east of Germany. Of the country's States of Germany, sixteen states, Mecklenburg-Vorpom ...
. The three parts of the peninsula, from west to east, are
Fischland (part of
Mecklenburg),
Darß and
Zingst (part of
Pomerania
Pomerania ( ; ; ; ) is a historical region on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in Central Europe, split between Poland and Germany. The central and eastern part belongs to the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, West Pomeranian, Pomeranian Voivod ...
).
''Fischland-Darss-Zingst - a sleepy and gorgeously natural peninsula''
at www.fischland-darss-zingst.net. Accessed on 18 Dec 2011.
There are six villages on the peninsula - Wustrow, Ahrenshoop, Born, Wieck, Prerow and Zingst. Between the peninsula and the mainland there is a very shallow lagoon (Low German: '' bodden''), the Saaler Bodden, which is part of the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park, together with the peninsula.
History
The main part of Fischland as well as the Darß and the Zingst were originally islands. They became permanently joined to the mainland as a result of humans sealing the floodwater channels between the 14th and 19th centuries.
During the 1872 Baltic Sea flood, which inundated Prerow on the Darß, the Prerower Strom, that had hitherto separated the island of Zingst from Darß, silted up. In 1874 the Prerow-Strom was finally filled in and sealed with a dyke; Zingst thus became a peninsula.
The eastern part of the Zingst peninsula and the middle of the Darß are part of the West Pomeranian Lagoon Area National Park.
File:Steilküste.jpg, Fischland: Sea cliffs near Ahrenshoop
Image:Prerow leuchtturm.jpg, Darss: ''Darßer Ort'' lighthouse
Image:Hafen Zingst.JPG, Zingst: Harbour
References
External links
Official website
Fischland-Darss-Zingst
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Peninsulas of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Peninsulas of the Baltic Sea