Stubber

Geographical location

The Great Stubber is a low-tide at low water rocky shoal in the eastern Bay of Greifswald. In the Middle Ages the Stubber was an island that served the bay fishermen as a base. By the tongs of stones the island was constantly smaller. In the 19th century there took a lot of gravel for road construction in Greifswald. As a result, the Stubber was first flooded in the first half of the 20th century. The still remaining large boulders represent a danger for pleasure boats dar. for the shipping is the Stubber marked with a Untiefentonne. Since 2006, the race "Around Stubber " in mid-August is again performed annually.

The name Stubber derives from the Slavic: Stopin represents stage. In 1678, the Bank Stubber served as a rallying point of the entire war fleet to invade the island of Rügen ( 1678) which ended with the successful capture of the Swedish -controlled island of Rügen by Brandenburg- Prussia and Denmark Allies.

Since 2004, the Great Stubber is used as a residence place after this species was completely eradicated by 1930 on the German Baltic coast of the Baltic gray seal (H. g balticus ). As of 2006, approximately 7 to 25 gray seals were counted on all year the Great Stubber increasingly.