Big Wotig

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Big Wotig
Waters Peenestrom
Geographical location 54 ° 6 '52 "  N , 13 ° 46' 30"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 6 '52 "  N , 13 ° 46' 30"  E
Großer Wotig (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
Big Wotig
length 2.6 km
width 500 m
surface 82 ha
Highest elevation 0.3  m above sea level NN
Residents uninhabited

The Große Wotig is an island in the northern Peene River . It is located in the eastern municipality of Kröslin . The Große Wotig is separated from the mainland in the southwest by the Alte Peene, a branch of the Peene river. In the north-west is the Krösliner See, a bay of the Peene River. The island is about 2.6 kilometers long and up to 500 meters wide. The area is about 82 hectares. The height is 0.1 to 0.3  m above sea level. NN . Large parts of the island are flooded at medium high tides.

The Great Wotig is the largest of the six islands in the floodplain area of ​​the northern Peene River. Together with the small Wotig adjoining to the south-east , the large Wotig was mentioned in the Wolgast town register of 1574 as an urban pastureland ("Wische"). The use of pastureland as pastureland can also be proven through the Swedish land survey of Western Pomerania at the end of the 17th century. In 1817 the Wolgast construction team , who owned a large part of the pastureland, built a dam with a bridge to the island.

The salt grassland is now part of the Großer Wotig nature reserve , and entering the island is prohibited. Of the 86 proven breeding bird species, mainly plover species and other coastal birds, 25 species are on the Red List of breeding birds in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

literature

  • Dietrich Sellin: On the bird world of the "Großer Wotig" nature reserve and the adjacent area . In: Ornithological circular Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Volume 37, 1995, pp. 33-57. ( Digitized version , PDF : 3 MB)
  • State Office for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Geology Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Ed.) Biotope arch: NSG Wotig am Peenestrom . ( Digital version , PDF : 22 kB)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . Part 4, Vol. 2, Dietze, Anklam 1868, p. 827 ( Google Books )
  2. ^ Carl Heller : Chronicle of the City of Wolgast. Kunike, Greifswald 1829, p. 80 ( Google Books ).