Fischland-Darß-Zingst is a 45 km (28 mi) long peninsula in the coastal district of Vorpommern-Rügen , in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern . The three parts of the peninsula, from west to east, are Fischland (part of Mecklenburg ), Darß and Zingst (part of Pomerania ).
3-709: There are six villages on the peninsula - Wustrow , Ahrenshoop , Born , Wieck , Prerow and Zingst . Between the peninsula and the mainland there is a very shallow lagoon (Low German: bodden ), the Saaler Bodden , which is part of the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park , together with the peninsula. The main part of Fischland as well as the Darß and the Zingst were originally islands. They became permanently joined to
6-544: The mainland as a result of humans sealing the floodwater channels between the 14th and 19th centuries. During the 1872 Baltic Sea flood , which inundated Prerow on the Darß, the Prerower Strom , that had hitherto separated the island of Zingst from Darß, silted up. In 1874 the Prerow-Strom was finally filled in and sealed with a dyke; Zingst thus became a peninsula. The eastern part of the Zingst peninsula and
9-663: The middle of the Darß are part of the West Pomeranian Lagoon Area National Park . 54°24′42″N 12°32′28″E / 54.411662°N 12.541121°E / 54.411662; 12.541121 Wustrow (Fischland) Wustrow ( German pronunciation: [ˈvʊstʁo] ) is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Rügen district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , Germany . The first industrial wind turbine,
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