Trent is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

in the

Vorpommern-Rügen Vorpommern-Rügen is a Districts of Germany, district in the north of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the Baltic Sea and the districts Vorpommern-Greifswald, Mecklenburgische Seenplatte (district), M ...

district, in

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 ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

Geography

Trent lies in the northwest of

Muttland Muttland comprises the main section of the German island of Rügen Rügen (; Rani: ''Rȯjana'', ''Rāna''; , ) is Germany's largest island. It is located off the Pomeranian coast in the Baltic Sea and belongs to the state of Mecklenburg- ...

on the German

Baltic Sea The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by the countries of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North European Plain, North and Central European Plain regions. It is the ...

island of Rügen, about 17 kilometres northwest of the town of

Bergen auf Rügen Bergen auf Rügen is the capital of the former district of Rügen in the middle of the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. Since 1 January 2005, Bergen has moreover been the administrative seat of the '' Amt'' of Bergen au ...

. The municipality is bounded in the north by the lagoons of the

Wieker Bodden The Wieker Bodden is a lagoon or ''bodden'', that is largely surrounded by the German Baltic Sea island of Rügen. It is part of the North Rügen Bodden Chain. Location The Wieker Bodden lies between the peninsula of Bug (Rügen), Bug to the ...

and Breetzer Bodden and in the east by the Neuendorfer Wiek bay. A small part of the parish borders on the village of Freesen on the

Udarser Wiek The Udarser Wiek is a bay on Germany's Baltic Sea coast, covering an area of about 8 km2, 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 t ...

. Trent lies on the old historic trade route, the Herring Road (''Heringsstraße''), that ran from Stralsund to the peninsula of Halbinsel

Wittow Wittow is the northernmost peninsula of the island of Rügen. Wittow was a separate island until the High Middle Ages, but since then has been connected to the Jasmund peninsula of Rügen by the Schaabe spit. Wittow is most famous for Cape Ark ...

Subdivisions

The following villages belong to Trent: Fischersiedlung, Freesen, Ganschvitz, Grosow, Holstenhagen, Jabelitz, Libnitz, Trent, Tribkevitz, Vaschvitz, Venz and Zubzow.

References

External links

Official website of Trent on Rügen Island
Towns and villages on Rügen {{VorpommernRügen-geo-stub