Bug is the name both of the westernmost tongue of land (Landzunge) on the peninsula of Wittow on the German island of Rügen, as well as the name of the former village there. Bug begins south of the village of Dranske and belongs territorially to that municipality.
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Origin of the name
One theory suggests the name Bug goes back to a landowner, Baronet Antonius de Buge, first mentioned in 1284. Another suggests that the word Bug is derived from the German word Biegung = "bend". It is also possible that it may have come from a Slavic word bug = beech.
Geography
The peninsula of Bug runs in a southwesterly direction from the village of Dranske for a distance of 8km and has an area of 500ha. 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 the Baltic Sea with the northern part of the island of Hiddensee. To the southwest is the lagoon of Vitter Bodden. A large inlet separates the peninsula from the main body of Rügen itself, comprising the lagoon of Wieker Bodden in the northeast, and the Buger Bodden and the channel of the Rassower Strom in the southeast.
Its southernmost point is the Buger Haken ("Hook of Bug"). Other spits on the bodden side, from north to south, are the Blevser Haken, Eckort, Fischer Haken and Neubessin (not to be confused with the nearby Neubessin on the island of Hiddensee).
Geology
The Bug is the largest spit on the island of Rügen, and is still growing. The windwatts of Altbessin and Neubessin in front of the island of Hiddensee to the west are growing towards Bug. Only a regularly dredged shipping channel separates Bug from the island of Hiddensee.
Flora and fauna
The southern part of the Bug belongs to the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park. 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 a forest. 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.
History
1540 – Christoph von der Lancken establishes large fish traps for catching fish.
1615 – the Bug is totally flooded by a storm surge.
1658 – construction of a post station as an intermediate station on the Stralsund to Ystad route
1683 – the post line from Stralsund via Bug to Ystad is opened. The Swedish postal ship, Hiorten, plied this route from 1692 to 1702.
1700 – the Bug is now treeless as a result of clearing and mostly consists of sandy steppe and pastureland.
Between 1806 and 1810 – closure of the post route
1822 – the Bug–Ystad route is opened again, this time with steamships.
1835-1930 - the Bug grew annually by six metres a year thanks to sand deposition.
1865 – construction of a telegraph station at the postal harbour of Bug
1872 - the Bug is cut off from Wittow by the floods of 12/13 November 1872.
1887/1888 – reforestation of Bug
1895 – construction of a forester's lodge, start of pilot operations
1914-1945 - used as a military air base
1916 – extension for the seaplane base
1931–1937 – clearing of the Bug: demolition of the customs station, eviction notices served on the inhabitants, in Dranske almost all buildings were knocked down
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