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Bug (German pronunciation:[buːk]ⓘ) is the name both of the westernmost tongue of land (Landzunge) on thepeninsula ofWittow on the German island ofRügen, as well as the name of the former village there. Bug begins south of the village ofDranske and belongs territorially to that municipality.
One theory suggests the nameBug goes back to a landowner, Baronet Antonius de Buge, first mentioned in 1284.[1] Another suggests that the word Bug is derived from the German wordBiegung = "bend". It is also possible that it may have come from aSlavic wordbug =beech.
The peninsula of Bug runs in a southwesterly direction from the village of Dranske for a distance of 8 km and has an area of 500 ha. It is only 55 metres wide at its narrowest point in the northeast; in the southwest its maximum width measures about 1,500 metres. To the west of the Bug is theBaltic Sea with the northern part of the island ofHiddensee.[1] To the southwest is the lagoon ofVitter Bodden. A large inlet separates the peninsula from the main body of Rügen itself, comprising the lagoon ofWieker Bodden in the northeast, and theBuger Bodden and the channel of theRassower Strom in the southeast.
Its southernmost point is theBuger Haken ("Hook of Bug"). Otherspits on thebodden side, from north to south, are theBlevser Haken,Eckort, Fischer Haken andNeubessin (not to be confused with the nearbyNeubessin on the island of Hiddensee).
The Bug is the largestspit on the island of Rügen, and is still growing. Thewindwatts ofAltbessin andNeubessin in front of the island of Hiddensee to the west are growing towards Bug. Only a regularly dredgedshipping channel separates Bug from the island of Hiddensee.
The southern part of the Bug belongs to theWestern Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park.[1] The Bug was a military out-of-bounds zone for many years. That enabled nature to develop relatively undisturbed.
The Bug has woods, dunes and species-rich wet areas. The woods are mostly laid out as aforest. As in the northeast of the neighbouring island of Hiddensee the formation of new land in the south of Bug provides a habitat for numerous invertebrates, like worms and mussels. This rich source of food draws rare native bird species as well as many migrating birds.
54°34′55″N13°12′5″E / 54.58194°N 13.20139°E /54.58194; 13.20139
