# Fischland

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Narrowest point on Fischland, near Wustrow

**Fischland** (German pronunciation: [\[ˈfɪʃlant\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Standard_German), literally "fish land") is an [isthmus](/source/Isthmus) on the southern [Baltic Sea](/source/Baltic_Sea) coast on the [Bay of Mecklenburg](/source/Bay_of_Mecklenburg) in northeastern Germany. It is part of the peninsula of [Fischland-Darß-Zingst](/source/Fischland-Dar%C3%9F-Zingst). Fischland was an island until the 14th century and was bounded by the navigable estuarine branches of the [River Recknitz](/source/River_Recknitz): the [Permin](/source/Permin) in the south and the [Loop](/source/Loop_(inlet)) in the north. In more recent times its southern boundary has usually been considered to be the Recknitz Meadowland (*Recknitzer Stadtwiesen*) and the [Rostock Heath](/source/Rostock_Heath) (*Rostocker Heide*). To the west and east its boundaries are more obvious: on the one side is its active [cliffed coast](/source/Cliffed_coast) on the Baltic, and on the other the coastline alongside the [Saaler Bodden](/source/Saaler_Bodden), only a few centimetres above sea level. Fischland is about 5 km long, between 500 metres and 2 km wide and runs from southwest to northeast.

Location of the peninsula of Fischland

Beacon on Fischland

Steep coast near Ahrenshoop with a [sand martin](/source/Sand_martin) colony

The [Pleistocene](/source/Pleistocene) island core, which is subjected to marked changes as a result of water and wind action, consists of glacial sands (*Geschiebesanden*) and [till](/source/Till) and forms part of a [graded shoreline](/source/Graded_shoreline). Not until the end of the 14th century were the two existing channels between the Baltic Sea and the lagoon or *[bodden](/source/Bodden)* filled in by the [Hanseatic League](/source/Hanseatic_League) in order to make access to the sea more difficult for their rival, Ribnitz. As a result, Fischland and Darß became a peninsula.

Today storms carry away an average of half a metre of coast per year from Fischland, depositing it again further north at [Darßer Ort](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dar%C3%9Fer_Ort&action=edit&redlink=1). Without major [coastal defence](/source/Coastal_management) measures the narrow isthmus would probably have long since been destroyed.

Near the steep coastline of [Althagen](/source/Althagen)/[Niehagen](/source/Niehagen) lies the eminence of [Bakelberg](/source/Bakelberg). At 17.9 metres above [sea level (NN)](/source/Normalnull) it is the highest elevation on Fischland.

There is a total of just four settlements on Fischland, which have largely merged with one another today: the [Ahrenshoop](/source/Ahrenshoop) villages of Althagen and Niehagen as the municipality of [Wustrow](/source/Wustrow_(Fischland)) with the village of Barnstorf. The village of Ahrenshoop, well known as a residence and holiday resort for artists, on West Pomeranian soil is not on Fischland, however, but on the [Vordarß](/source/Dar%C3%9F). To the north Fischland is bounded by the present-day boundary trail (*Grenzweg*) in the municipality of Ahrenshoop. This used to be the site of the [Loop](/source/Loop_(inlet)), an inlet that marked the border between [Mecklenburg](/source/Mecklenburg) and [Pomerania](/source/Pomerania); until recent times it continued to form the border between the Mecklenburg and Pomeranian State Churches.

## Sources

**Maps**

- Fischland, Darß, Zingst (double map), 1 : 30 000, grünes herz, Ilmenau/Ostseebad Wustrow. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-3-929993-33-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-929993-33-2)

**Guides and picture books**

- Roland Buchwald: *Fischland, Darß und Zingst. Landschafts- und Reiseführer für Wanderer, Wassersportler, Rad- und Autofahrer*. grünes herz, Ilmenau/Ostseebad Wustrow. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [3-929993-52-X](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-929993-52-X)

- Frank Thamm: *Darß, Fischland und Zingst*. Ellert und Richter, Hamburg. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [3-89234-815-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-89234-815-4)

- Horst Prignitz, Thomas Grundner: *Fischland, Darß, Zingst*. Carl Hinstorff, Rostock. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [3-356-01056-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/3-356-01056-5)

## External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Fischland](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fischland).

- [http://fischland-darss-zingst.de](http://fischland-darss-zingst.de)

[54°19′57″N 12°22′44″E / 54.33250°N 12.37889°E / 54.33250; 12.37889](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Fischland&params=54_19_57_N_12_22_44_E_type:isle_region:DE-MV)

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