Pruchten

Pruchten is a municipality in the western part of the Vorpommern-Rügen district. Until January 1, 2005, the municipality was part of the Barth-Land office and has since been part of the Barth office.

The locality of Pruchten – consisting of the districts of Pruchten and Bresewitz – is located about 2–4 kilometers north of Barth in the northernmost tip of the Barth office. The municipality lies between the Barther Strom and the Barther Bodden to the east and the Bodstedter Bodden to the west at the transition from the mainland to the Zingst peninsula. Part of the municipality's area belongs to the Vorpommersche Boddenlandschaft National Park. The country road 21 from Barth to Zingst runs through Pruchten and Bresewitz. In the northern part, the Meiningen Bridge crosses the Meiningen Stream to the Zingst peninsula. Until World War II, the Darßbahn also ran through the town to Zingst and Prerow. This was dismantled after World War II. The tracks to the district of Bresewitz were relaid in the 1960s and were used as a marshalling yard for the National People's Army until 1990.

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