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Rügen Bridge (German: Rügenbrücke) is a cable-stayed bridge made of pre-stressed concrete that spans the Strelasund between the city of Stralsund and the island of Rügen. The bridge was built to replace the aging Rügendamm , which will remain in service to provide a rail link and serve local traffic to Dänholm island.
The "gateway" to Rügen island is the Hanseatic city of Stralsund, where it is linked to the mainland by road and railway via the Rügen Bridge and Causeway, two routes crossing the two-kilometre-wide Strelasund, a sound of the Baltic Sea.
Rügen Bridge, Germany's largest bridge, connects Stralsund with Rügen Island The city lies on the sound of Strelasund , a strait of the Baltic Sea . Its geographic proximity to the island of Rügen , whose only fixed link to the mainland, the Strelasund Crossing , runs between Stralsund and the village of Altefähr , has given Stralsund the ...
The only island of any size in the Strelasund is Dänholm just off Stralsund, which carries part of the Rügendamm across the sound. On the Rügen side, the shore is in many places steep, although this is punctuated by lower shorelines with reed beds in some places. On the mainland side, however, the shores are overridingly flat.
Stralsund–Sassnitz railway is a railway line, most of which is located on the German island of Rügen and which is its most important railway. The line is the northernmost German section of the route from Berlin to Stockholm .
The Regierungsbezirk of Stralsund was formed in 1818 as one of three Pomeranian government districts. It covered Swedish Pomerania (New Hither Pomerania [aka New Western Pomerania] and Rügen) which had fallen to Prussia in 1815.
The Stralsund, also built on the Varvet yard in 1963, is 41 metres long and 11.40 metres wide. It has room for 50 passengers and 30 vehicles. The two engines each have a capacity of 144 kW. The ship can reach a speed of 7 knots. Car ferry: Wittow Nord - Wittow Süd; The route to Rügen, known as the Wittow Ferry, is worked by a ferry called the ...
Together with the Sassnitz and Stralsund railway, and the connexion to the Mukran Ferry Port, the line was electrified. Electrical services began on 27 May 1989. In 1991, the route was connected to the Deutsche Bahn's Intercity network using IC train "Rügen". Long-distance services were restructured several times, the basic services on the ...