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 .
7-613: The Wieker Bodden lies between the peninsula of Bug to the west and the main section of the peninsula of Wittow to the north and east. In the south the bodden is bounded by the Rassower Strom , which forms a link from the Vitter Bodden in the west to the Großer Jasmunder Bodden in the east. The bodden gets its name from the village of Wiek on its perimeter. Apart from Wiek the larger village of Dranske also lies on
14-455: Is the name both of the westernmost tongue of land ( Landzunge ) on the peninsula of Wittow on the German island of Rügen , as well as the name of the former village there. Bug begins south of the village of Dranske and belongs territorially to that municipality. One theory suggests the name Bug goes back to a landowner, Baronet Antonius de Buge, first mentioned in 1284. Another suggests that
21-508: The bodden side, from north to south, are the Blevser Haken , Eckort , Fischer Haken and Neubessin (not to be confused with the nearby Neubessin on the island of Hiddensee). The Bug is the largest spit on the island of Rügen, and is still growing. The windwatts of Altbessin and Neubessin in front of the island of Hiddensee to the west are growing towards Bug. Only a regularly dredged shipping channel separates Bug from
28-563: The Wieker Bodden. In Wiek the construction of a loading bridge was started before the First World War for the shipping from Kreide. The bridge is still there today, albeit in a state of decay. In the northern part of the bodden it is very shallow and thus very popular with windsurfers and kitesurfers . 54°36′N 13°15′E / 54.600°N 13.250°E / 54.600; 13.250 Bug (R%C3%BCgen) Bug
35-550: The island of Hiddensee. The southern part of the Bug belongs to the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park . The Bug was a military out-of-bounds zone for many years. That enabled nature to develop relatively undisturbed. The Bug has woods, dunes and species-rich wet areas. The woods are mostly laid out as a forest . As in the northeast of the neighbouring island of Hiddensee the formation of new land in
42-596: The west of the Bug is the Baltic Sea with the northern part of the island of Hiddensee . To the southwest is the lagoon of Vitter Bodden . A large inlet separates the peninsula from the main body of Rügen itself, comprising the lagoon of Wieker Bodden in the northeast, and the Buger Bodden and the channel of the Rassower Strom in the southeast. Its southernmost point is the Buger Haken ("Hook of Bug"). Other spits on
49-423: The word Bug is derived from the German word Biegung = "bend". It is also possible that it may have come from a Slavic word bug = beech . The peninsula of Bug runs in a southwesterly direction from the village of Dranske for a distance of 8 km and has an area of 500 ha. It is only 55 metres wide at its narrowest point in the northeast; in the southwest its maximum width measures about 1,500 metres. To
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