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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 island of Rügen is part of the district of Vorpommern-Rügen, with its county seat in Stralsund. The towns on Rügen are: Bergen , Sassnitz , Putbus and Garz . In addition, there are the Baltic seaside resorts of Binz , Baabe , Göhren , Sellin and Thiessow .
Stralsund (German pronunciation: [ˈʃtʁaːlzʊnt] ⓘ; Swedish: Strålsund), [3] officially the Hanseatic City of Stralsund (German: Hansestadt Stralsund), is the fifth-largest city in the northeastern German federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg and Greifswald, and the second-largest city in the Pomeranian part of the state.
The Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park [1] (Nationalpark Vorpommersche Boddenlandschaft) is Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's largest national park, situated at the coast of the Baltic Sea. 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 Jasmund National Park (German: Nationalpark Jasmund) is a nature reserve on the Jasmund peninsula, in the northeast of Rügen island in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is famous for containing the largest Rügen chalk cliffs in Germany, the highest of which is Königsstuhl (German = "king's chair"), rising to 118 m (387 ft) above 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.
Even at the time of the opening of the Angermünde-Stralsund Railway in 1863, efforts were being made to extend services through Rügen towards Sweden.It took another 20 years, however, until 1 July 1883, before the first short section was opened between the towns of Altefähr and Bergen auf Rügen.
120 min (Stralsund–Züssow) 2 train pairs (Rostock–Stralsund) RE 27: Bergen auf Rügen – Sassnitz Fährhafen: 190: DWA LVT/S (class 672) Hanseatische Eisenbahn: 2 train pairs Sat and Sun RE 50: Rostock – Güstrow – Waren (Müritz) – Neustrelitz 205 Bombardier Talent 2 (class 442.3) DB Regio Nordost 120 min RE 51: Stralsund ...