The Bay of Greifswald or Greifswald Bodden ( German : Greifswalder Bodden ) is a basin in the southwestern Baltic Sea , off the shores of Germany in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern . With an area of 514 km², it is the largest Bodden of the German Baltic coast.
6-812: The Rügische Bodden is a bay which is part of a larger stretch of water, the Greifswalder Bodden , bounded on two sides by the German mainland and on a third by the Baltic Sea island of Rügen . It is located southeast of Rügen island between Mönchgut and the Zudar peninsula. At Mönchgut, several headlands project into the bodden : the Reddevitz Höft , the Klein Zicker and the Großer Zicker. The inlet between Rügen and
12-456: Is generally found only at greater depths there). The average salinity is at 7 to 8 psu, ranging from 5.3 and 12.2 psu. Before German reunification in 1990, the Bay of Greifswald was a public watersports venue, unlike most of East Germany 's Baltic coast. The local geography made it easy to keep watch over the bay, thereby thwarting those who thought to use it to flee the country. The place outside
18-637: The German mainland. The bay is also joined to the Baltic Sea through the Strelasund , a narrow sound separating Rügen from the mainland. The bay's northern end is sometimes called the Rügischer Bodden . The bay itself has a heavily indented coastline, making it a bay of bays. The headlands of Mönchgut (in east Rügen) and Zudar (in south Rügen) – the former actually being made up of several peninsulae – subdivide
24-519: The Southeast Rügen Biosphere Reserve . In the northern part of the lagoon, off the village of Lauterbach, lies the island Vilm . 54°16′N 13°32′E / 54.267°N 13.533°E / 54.267; 13.533 Greifswalder Bodden To the west is the island of Rügen ; to the southeast, the island of Usedom ; to the east, the Bay of Pomerania , and to the south,
30-726: The Reddevitzer Höft is known as Having ; between the Reddevitzer Höft and the Großer Zicker lies the inlet of Hagensche Wiek . Other bays are the Schoritzer Wiek , the Selliner See and the Neuensiener See . Its southern boundary would be the line between the headlands of the Zudar and Mönchgut peninsulas. There are harbours in Lauterbach , Baabe and Seedorf . The bodden is part of
36-441: The bay into many smaller bays. The bay's main port is Greifswald . Amongst the islands in the east of the bodden are Vilm , Koos , Riems and the former island of Stubber , now a sandbank. The Bay of Greifswald is quite shallow, with an average depth of 5.6 m, and a maximum depth of 13.5 m. Its water is brackish rather than briny owing to inflow from rivers, and the Baltic Sea's complex hydrography (saltier water
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