Ummanz (municipality)
Ummanz is a municipality in the district of Vorpommern - Rügen in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern ( Germany ). The community is managed by the Office West Rügen based in the community Samtens. By 15 January 1996, the municipality was Ummanz ( island).
Geography
Ummanz is located about four kilometers southwest of Gingst about twenty kilometers west of Bergen auf Rügen. The community Ummanz lies in part on the same island and its opposite area on the island of Rügen. The uninhabited islands hay meadow, Love, Moravia, and Wührens Urkevitz belong to the community. The island is accessible since 1901 over a 250 meter long bridge at Waase. It is the fourth largest island in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern. In the east, bordering the municipality Ummanz to Gingst, on the south by Dreschvitz. Large parts of the community are in the National Boddenlandscape.
Districts
- Ummanz
- Dubkevitz
- Freesenort
- Great Kubitz
- Haide
- Lieschow
- Lüßvitz
- Moordorf
- Mursewiek
- Suhrendorf
- Tankow
- Unrow
- Varbelvitz
- Waase
- Wusse
History
The place was until 1326 part of the Principality of Rügen and then the Duchy of Pomerania. With the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 Rügen was and thus the area of Ummanz a part of Swedish Pomerania. In 1815 came Ummanz as part of Neuvorpommern to the Prussian province of Pomerania.
Since 1818 Ummanz 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.
Attractions
→ See: List of monuments in Ummanz
- St. Mary's Church from the 15th century with an Antwerp altarpiece of 1520 ( martyrdom of Thomas Beckett ) in Waase
- Boddenküste, dike bike path
- Old thatched cottages