Bodden are briny bodies of water often forming lagoons , along the southwestern shores of the Baltic Sea , primarily in Germany 's state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern . These lagoons can be found especially around the island of Rügen , Usedom and the Fischland-Darss-Zingst peninsula. Some of them are protected reserves, forming the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park .
12-687: The Barther Bodden (German for Barth Lagoon ) is a bodden water between the Zingst peninsula and the mainland town of Barth . It is a brackish lagoon that is part of the Darss-Zingst Bodden Chain . Its largest inflow is the Barthe stream. Large parts of the Barther Bodden have a depth of less than 2 meters, so that shipping is very restricted. Today, it is limited almost exclusively to sport boats and pleasure cruisers. To
24-531: A tendency toward eutrophication . Due to erosion of cliffs and sedimentary deposition, the shape of the bodden coasts remains unstable. Sudden changes have been caused by stormfloods, which repeatedly closed connections to the sea or opened new ones in the past. Bodden-type bays can be found in Mecklenburg , and in Denmark , where they are called Nor ( da ). However, the most typical bodden are located off
36-726: Is further connected to the Oder Lagoon by the Peenestrom , another bodden-type strait with Spandowerhagener Wiek , Krösliner See , Hohendorfer See , Krumminer Wiek and Achterwasser . The bodden are important sanctuaries for many species of birds and are especially important resting places for migratory birds like cranes and geese. This was the reason for the establishment of the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park ( Nationalpark Vorpommersche Boddenlandschaft ), comprising most of
48-417: Is used as cattle pasture and, during the autumn migration is an important stopover for cranes . 54°23′41″N 12°44′44″E / 54.39472°N 12.74556°E / 54.39472; 12.74556 Bodden They have a distinctive geological origin and are enclosed by peninsulae, spits and islands, leaving only narrow connections to adjacent bodden or the open sea. Freshwater inflow from
60-709: The German mainland. It is crossed by a bridge called the Strelasund Crossing from Stralsund . It runs northwest to southeast from a small shallow bay just north of Stralsund called the Kubitzer Bodden through to another such bay, the Greifswalder Bodden in the southeast. The sound is nowhere much more than 3 km wide, reaching its greatest width towards its southeast end. It is roughly 25 km long. The only island of any size in
72-490: The Holocene , resulting in lakes with depths of no more than 4–6 metres. Thermal and saline stratification is extremely unstable under these conditions, and bodden have the typical dynamics of small bodies of water with a sea connection, which is a rapid filling and draining due to tidal and wind action, and inflow of fresh water. The frequent movement of water can lead to a scouring effect, but can also with heavy pollution show
84-662: The Rügischer Bodden with Schoritzer Wiek , Wreechensee , Having Inlet with Neuensiener See and Selliner See , and Hagensche Wiek . To the south, the Bay of Greifswald comprises Gristower Inwiek , Kooser See and Dänische Wieck ( Danish Bay ). The Bay of Greifswald is connected to the West Rügen bodden chain by the Strelasund , a bodden-type strait with Glewitzer Wiek , Puddeminer Wiek and Deviner See ; it
96-641: The Pomeranian mainland between the mouth of the Recknitz river and the island of Usedom . Several adjacent bodden between the Fischland-Darß-Zingst peninsula, Hiddensee , the northern and western peninsulae of Rügen and the Pomeranian mainland are grouped as Bodden chains ( Boddenketten ): Another bodden is the Bay of Greifswald ( Greifswalder Bodden ), the northern parts of which constitute
108-607: 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. The Strelasund has been the site of two battles. The first in 1362 and the second in 1369 both pitted Danish king Valdemar IV against
120-521: The bodden between Darß and Rügen . Traditionally bodden have been good fishing areas, rich in mesolithic community sites, in particular the Pomeranian bodden of Rügen , Greifswald and Peenestrom . From these waters anglers regularly land 10–15 kg pike . Strelasund The Strelasund or Strela Sound is a sound or lagoon of the Baltic Sea which separates Rügen from
132-603: The mainland and saltwater inflow from the open sea, which depends on wind direction and force as well as the proximity of the bodden to the sea, result in fluctuating salt gradients and distinctive ecosystems. During the Littorina Sea transgression, an island archipelago was formed by the carving of narrow glacial basins and channels resulting from meltwater . Bodden were formed in a comparatively short period between spits and offshore sandbars. These shallow glacial scoops were then subjected to extensive sedimentation during
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#1732801664246144-484: The north is the Zingster Strom , the river-like section of the bodden south of Zingst. Here the bodden reaches its greatest depths of over six metres. To the northwest lie the well-known islands of Kirr and Barther Oie , both important breeding areas for gulls , terns , waterfowl and waders . These rise just a few centimetres above the water level of the bodden and are out of bounds to visitors. The Kirr
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