Dänholm (literally ''Danes' Isle'') is a small island on the
German
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coast of the
Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the North and Central European Plain.
The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from ...
. It is situated in the
Strelasund just east of
Stralsund. Both bridges linking
Rügen with the mainland,
Rügendamm
Strelasund Crossing is the two links to the German island of Rügen (''Rugia'') over the Strelasund to the West Pomeranian mainland near Stralsund: the Rügen Bridge or Rugia Bridge (german: links=no, Rügenbrücke) and the Rugia Causeway (ge ...
and
Rügenbrücke, run across it. The island was the scene of an incident between the
Swedish and
French
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armies in 1807, when it belonged to
Swedish Pomerania.
Sources
This article is fully or partially based on material from
Nordisk familjebok, 1904–1926.
External links
Dänholm episode in the Napoleonic wars
German islands in the Baltic
Islands of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
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