Vorpommern-Rügen

Vorpommern-Rügen is a district in the north of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the Baltic Sea and the districts Vorpommern-Greifswald, Mecklenburgische Seenplatte and Rostock. The district seat is the Hanseatic city of Stralsund.^[2]

Vorpommern-Rügen
District
Flag Coat of arms
Country	Germany
State	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Capital	Stralsund
Government
• District admin.	Stefan Kerth (Independent)
Area
• Total	3,188 km2 (1,231 sq mi)
Population  (31 December 2023)[1]
• Total	216,175
• Density	68/km2 (180/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Vehicle registration	VR, GMN, NVP, RDG, RÜG Stralsund: HST
Website	www.lk-vr.de

Vorpommern-Rügen is characterized by diverse shore line landscapes with many lagoons, beaches and cliff lines, part of them protected in the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park and in the Jasmund National Park.

The area is also a very popular destination for national and international tourism, including Rügen, the biggest island of Germany, the island of Hiddensee, the Fischland-Darss-Zingst peninsula and its adjacent town of Barth with the Stralsund Barth Airport, the port of Sassnitz and the UNESCO World Heritage city of Stralsund.

The Vorpommern-Rügen district is one of the most popular places for national and international tourism in Germany, thanks to its unique protected nature, good infrastructure, popular resort architecture spas, historical towns and vast beaches at the shores of the Baltic Sea.

History

Vorpommern-Rügen District was established by merging the former districts of Nordvorpommern and Rügen; along with the former district-free city of Stralsund as part of the local government reform of September 2011.^[2] The name of the district was decided by referendum on 4 September 2011.^[3] The project name for the district was Nordvorpommern.

Geography

Sailing at the cliff shores of Jasmund National Park, island of Rügen.

The district has a number of lakes, which include:

Name	Elevation	Surface area
Günzer See	0.3 m (0.98 ft)	0.157 km2 (0.061 sq mi)
Nonnensee	16.1 m (53 ft)	0.7 km2 (0.27 sq mi)
Prohner Stausee	2.6 m (8.5 ft)	0.55 km2 (0.21 sq mi)
Pütter See	13 m (43 ft)	0.052 km2 (0.020 sq mi)
Schmachter See	1.1 m (3.6 ft)	1.18 km2 (0.46 sq mi)
Selliner See (Rügen)	0 m (0 ft)	1.38 km2 (0.53 sq mi)

Towns and municipalities

Constituent Ämter of Vorpommern-Rügen

Amt-free towns	Amt-free municipalities
Grimmen Marlow Putbus Sassnitz Stralsund	Binz Süderholz Zingst

Ämter
1. Amt Altenpleen Altenpleen1 Groß Mohrdorf Klausdorf Kramerhof Preetz Prohn 2. Amt Barth Barth1, 2 Divitz-Spoldershagen Fuhlendorf Karnin Kenz-Küstrow Löbnitz Lüdershagen Pruchten Saal Trinwillershagen 3. Amt Bergen auf Rügen Bergen auf Rügen1, 2 Buschvitz Garz/Rügen2 Gustow Lietzow Parchtitz Patzig Poseritz Ralswiek Rappin Sehlen 4. Amt Darß/Fischland Ahrenshoop Born1 Dierhagen Prerow Wieck auf dem Darß Wustrow	5. Amt Franzburg-Richtenberg Franzburg1, 2 Glewitz Gremersdorf-Buchholz Millienhagen-Oebelitz Papenhagen Richtenberg2 Splietsdorf Velgast Weitenhagen Wendisch Baggendorf 6. Amt Miltzow Elmenhorst Sundhagen1 Wittenhagen 7. Amt Mönchgut-Granitz Baabe1 Göhren Lancken-Granitz Mönchgut Sellin Zirkow 8. Amt Niepars Groß Kordshagen Jakobsdorf Lüssow Niepars1 Pantelitz Steinhagen Wendorf Zarrendorf	9. Amt Nord-Rügen Altenkirchen Breege Dranske Glowe Lohme Putgarten Sagard1 Wiek 10. Amt Recknitz-Trebeltal Bad Sülze2 Dettmannsdorf Deyelsdorf Drechow Eixen Grammendorf Gransebieth Hugoldsdorf Lindholz Tribsees1, 2 11. Amt Ribnitz-Damgarten Ahrenshagen-Daskow Ribnitz-Damgarten1, 2 Schlemmin Semlow 12. Amt West-Rügen Altefähr Dreschvitz Gingst Insel Hiddensee Kluis Neuenkirchen Rambin Samtens1 Schaprode Trent Ummanz
1 - seat of the Amt; 2 - town