Plateau (sea part)

Plateau
Connects waters	Libben
with water	Vitter Bodden
Separates land mass	to reprimand
of land mass	Hiddensee
	Data
Geographical location	54 ° 33 '42 " N , 13 ° 9' 24" E Coordinates: 54 ° 33 '42 " N , 13 ° 9' 24" E

Plathe is the name of a part of the Baltic Sea between the islands of Rügen and Hiddensee off the coast of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It connects the Bay Libben in the north with the Vitter Bodden in the south.

The approximately 0.5 km² large part of the sea is located west of the Rügen peninsula Bug and east of the Hahnentiefschaar tidal flats . To the northwest of the plateau lies the Bessin peninsula belonging to the island of Hiddensee .

The name "Plathe" is derived from the Low German name for an island or a sandbank that occasionally falls dry. Originally the plateau was also a sandbank that hindered the ships' travel between the Vitter Bodden and the Baltic Sea. According to a decree of the Prussian government from 1817, the greatest water depth in the area of the sandbank was marked by a white buoy, on both sides of which the ships were to sail. In a report from 1837 it is pointed out that the shoal plathe has now been dredged to a depth of 10 feet .

Even if the plateau lost its character as a sandbank as a result of the dredging in the 19th century, the name for the sea part was retained and is shown in some directories and maps. On other maps, however, an island on the neighboring Hahnentiefschaar erroneously bears the name Plathe , which, according to the Standing Committee on Geographical Names, is probably due to a transcription error.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b State Office for Geoinformation and Land Surveying Lower Saxony: Geographical Names in German Coastal Waters, Supplement to Sheet 4 , East Mecklenburg and West Pomerania Coast, Mecklenburg Bay to Pomeranian Bay, Rügen, 2nd edition 2017, page 10. Editor: Standing Committee for Geographical Names , State Survey Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 2005 (PDF, 1.39 MB). Retrieved July 1, 2019.
↑ Johann Jacob Grümbke , New and precise geographical-statistical-historical representations of the island and the Principality of Rügen: for an approximate and thorough knowledge of this country , Reimer, Berlin 1819, Volume 2, p. 131.
^ Sundine, entertainment sheet for New Western Pomerania and Rügen , Volume 11 (1837), p. 331.
^ Topographic map in the geoportal of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, accessed on August 20, 2019.
↑ Nautical Chart No. 1621 Northern Rügen Bodden , scale 1: 30,000, year 2016, Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency .
↑ chart 2:32 Vitter Bodden , scale 1: 20,000 maps Werft GmbH, Flensburg, ISBN 978-3-944082-94-3 .

[stagn-1] State Office for Geoinformation and Land Surveying Lower Saxony: Geographical Names in German Coastal Waters, Supplement to Sheet 4 , East Mecklenburg and West Pomerania Coast, Mecklenburg Bay to Pomeranian Bay, Rügen, 2nd edition 2017, page 10. Editor: Standing Committee for Geographical Names , State Survey Office Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 2005 (PDF, 1.39 MB). Retrieved July 1, 2019.

[2] Johann Jacob Grümbke , New and precise geographical-statistical-historical representations of the island and the Principality of Rügen: for an approximate and thorough knowledge of this country , Reimer, Berlin 1819, Volume 2, p. 131.

[3] Sundine, entertainment sheet for New Western Pomerania and Rügen , Volume 11 (1837), p. 331.

[4] Topographic map in the geoportal of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, accessed on August 20, 2019.

[5] Nautical Chart No. 1621 Northern Rügen Bodden , scale 1: 30,000, year 2016, Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency .

[6] rt 2:32 Vitter Bodden , scale 1: 20,000 maps Werft GmbH, Flensburg, ISBN 978-3-944082-94-3 .