Hagensche Wiek is a cove in the east of the Rügischer Bodden that cuts deeply into the Mönchgut peninsula, the southeast tip of the German island of Rügen .
5-664: It is about 5 kilometres long, 2.5 kilometres wide and opens towards the southwest onto the Rügischer Bodden, the northern half of the Bay of Greifswald . In the north, the Hagensche Wiek is bounded by the narrow, elongated peninsula of Reddevitzer Höft , in the south by the actual Mönchgut with the Zicker Hills ( Zickersche Berge ), up to 66 metres high. In the east the cove approaches within 1,000 metres of
10-519: 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 is generally found only at greater depths there). The average salinity
15-526: 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. 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, the German mainland. The bay is also joined to the Baltic Sea through
20-769: The Baltic Sea coast not far from the village of Lobbe in the municipality of Middelhagen . The municipalities of Gager and Middelhagen with their hamlets of Alt Reddevitz and Mariendorf lie on the Hagensche Wiek. In Gager is the only harbour on the bay, used by fishing and sports boats and protected by a mole . The cove is part of the Southeast Rügen Biosphere Reserve . 54°18′45″N 13°39′40″E / 54.31250°N 13.66111°E / 54.31250; 13.66111 Bay of Greifswald The Bay of Greifswald or Greifswald Bodden ( German : Greifswalder Bodden )
25-530: 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 the bay into many smaller bays. The bay's main port
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