Saaler Bodden

The Saal Bodden is a lagoon and forms the southwestern part of the Darß- Zingster Bodden chain and is located east of the Fish Country Peninsula about 30 kilometers northeast of Rostock. The average depth is about two meters, which use mainly limited to leisure boating and sport fishing.

South of the Saal Bodden is the city Ribnitz Damgarten, which is shared by the mouth of the 72 -kilometer Recknitz into two parts. This southern part of the bay is called Ribnitzer lake.

Besides the Recknitz at Damgarten Ribnitz lead at the Klosterbach and Körkwitz the Körkwitzer Bach and fishermen digging into the Ribnitzer lake. In the hall called in its lower reaches Ziegelgraben Saaler creek empties into the bay.

In the northeast, the link current forms the transition to Bodstedter Bodden. Two former water arms to the Baltic Sea, the Permin and the loop are silted up since the 14th century.

The water of the Saal Bodden is weak salty (1-3 parts per thousand ).