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Rügen (German pronunciation: [ˈʁyːɡn̩] ⓘ; Rani: Rȯjana, Rāna; [2] Latin: Rugia, Ruegen) is Germany's largest island. [3] It is located off the Pomeranian coast in the Baltic Sea and belongs to the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
The invasion of Rügen of 22 to 24 September 1678 was a military operation in the Swedish-Brandenburg War, or Scanian War, that ended with the annexation of the Swedish-ruled island of Rügen by the Allies – Brandenburg-Prussia and Denmark – for just under a year before it was restored by treaty to Sweden.
Hiddensee (German pronunciation: [ˈhɪdn̩zeː] ⓘ) is a car-free island in the Baltic Sea, [2] located west of Germany's largest island, Rügen, on the German coast. The island has about 1,000 inhabitants. It was a holiday destination for East German tourists during German Democratic Republic (GDR) times, and continues to attract tourists today.
Jasmund is a peninsula of the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is connected to the Wittow peninsula and to the Muttland main section of Rügen by the narrow land bridges Schaabe and Schmale Heide, respectively. Sassnitz, Sagard and the Mukran international ferry terminal are on Jasmund.
View of Cape Arkona. Cape Arkona (German: Kap Arkona) is a 45-metre (150-foot) high cape on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.It forms the tip of the Wittow peninsula, just a few kilometres north of the Jasmund National Park.
The Jasmund National Park includes the ridge of the Stubnitz north of the city of Sassnitz.The ridge is covered with primeval beech forest and the cliffs (2200 ha), also a 500-meter spanning water corridor towards the Baltic Sea (603 ha) and 200 ha in the West, with the former Quoltitz chalk quarries, meadows, moors and dry grasslands.
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
It consists of several peninsulas, islands and lagoon shore areas in the Baltic Sea, belonging to the district of Vorpommern-Rügen. The national park includes: the Darß peninsula; the western coast of the island of Rügen; the island of Hiddensee; the island of Ummanz; several tiny islets between the above places