Bay of Greifswald

The Bay of Greifswald is a lagoon in the southern Baltic Sea with an area of 514 km ².

The water surface is surrounded by the island of Rügen in the north, the mainland to the west and south and the opening to the Baltic Sea with the islands of Ruden and Oie Greifswald in the east. Southwest is the island of Usedom.

In the West Bay of Greifswald of Stralsund is a further connection to the Baltic Sea. The north of the bay is also known as Rügischer Bodden. The coastline of the Bay of Greifswald is strongly divided. The peninsulas Zudar, Struck and parts of the peninsula Moenchgut extend far into the waters. These divide the Bodden turn into bays, which are cut to the deep part (north of Having the Lake Sellin and Hagensche Wiek, in the west the Schoritzer Wiek and to the south the Danish Wiek ). Among the islands to the east of the bay, the islands Vilm, Koos, Riems and the former island Stubber added.

The average water depth is 5.6 m (max. 13.5 m). The waters of the Bay of Greifswald is composed of fresh water which opens the river Ryck, the weak salty water of the Peene River and the saline water of the Baltic Sea and is called brackish water.

The Lifeboat Putbus the GMRS is stationed at Station Bay of Greifswald.

Former rigs

In the south of the Bay of Greifswald at the transition to the Danish Wiek there are three abandoned oil rigs. On them were drilling in the 1970s by the VEB oil Pomerania were made, but by no productive oil deposits were discovered.

Water sports area in the former GDR

In GDR times, the Bodden was in contrast to the rest of the Baltic accessible water sports area, because the outputs to the Baltic Sea could be effectively monitored to prevent Republikflucht.