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Dittes is a municipality in the district of Vorpommern - Rügen on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern. The community is managed by the Office Bergen auf Rügen, located in the eponymous city.

Geography and transport

Dittes is located about 6 km north- west of Bergen auf Rügen. It lies on the western edge of the transverse through the center of Rügen Endmoränenzuges. The B96 runs to the east of the church.

Districts

• Snotty
• Veikvitz
• Woorke

Attractions

→ See also: List of monuments in Dittes

• Woorker mountains ( the largest contiguous burial mound in North Germany )
• St. Margaret Church ( Dittes ) from the 15th century with one of the oldest Rügen baptismal fonts of red granite
• Functional motor flour mill

History

The place was until 1326 part of the Principality of Rügen and then the Duchy of Pomerania. With the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 Rügen was and thus the area of Dittes a part of Swedish Pomerania. In 1815 Dittes came as part of Neuvorpommern the Prussian province of Pomerania.

Since 1818 Dittes belonged to the circle or district Rügen. Only in the years 1952 to 1955 it was the county mountains belong. The village belonged until 1990 to Rügen county in the district of Rostock and in the same year part of Mecklenburg- Vorpommern. The 1990 re- designated as the Rügen was 2011 in the district of Vorpommern - Rügen.

Personalities

• Jacob Wallenius ( born December 13, 1761 Vittinge, community Heby, Sweden, † January 3, 1819 in Dittes ), Swedish - German Evangelical Lutheran theologian, university professor and librarian