Germany
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Landkreis Vorpommern-Rügen

Wiek

Wiek is a municipality in the district, in , Germany. The body of the well-known American Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest III, killed while on an air raid on in 1943, was buried at Wiek by the German authorities.
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  • Type: Village with 1,090 residents
  • Description: municipality of Germany
  • Also known as: “13073101” and “Wiek, Rügen”

Places of Interest

Highlights include St. Georg and Pfarrkirche Altenkirchen.

Church
Photo: Chron-Paul, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a church.

Church
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is a church, which is situated 3½ km northeast of Wiek.

Nature reserve
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is a nature reserve, which is situated 4½ km northwest of Wiek.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Altenkirchen and Breege-Juliusruh.

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is a municipality in the north of the island of on the Baltic Sea coast of Germany. It is in the district, in the federal state of .

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Breege is a village and municipality on the island of , generally known as Seebad . The municipality consists of the villages Breege, Juliusruh, Kammin, Lobkevitz and Schmantevitz.

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a municipality in the district, in , . village includes a sailing school, a ceramic workshop, and a museum. is situated 4 km west of Wiek.

Wiek

Latitude
54.6214° or 54° 37′ 17″ north
Longitude
13.29° or 13° 17′ 24″ east
Population
1,090
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
Open location code
9F6MJ7CQ+HX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 50907153
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
6548440
Wiki­data ID
Q673783
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Wiek” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Wiek”
  • Aragonese: “Wiek”
  • Arpitan: “Wiek”
  • Asturian: “Wiek”
  • Basque: “Wiek”
  • Bavarian: “Wiek”
  • Breton: “Wiek”
  • Catalan: “Wiek”
  • Cebuano: “Wiek”
  • Chechen: “Вик”
  • Chinese: “维克 (梅前州)”
  • Chinese: “维克”
  • Corsican: “Wiek”
  • Croatian: “Wiek”
  • Czech: “Wiek”
  • Danish: “Wiek”
  • Dutch: “Wiek”
  • Esperanto: “Wiek”
  • Estonian: “Wiek”
  • Finnish: “Wiek”
  • French: “Wiek”
  • Friulian: “Wiek”
  • Galician: “Wiek”
  • German: “Gemeinde Wiek”
  • German: “Wieck”
  • German: “Wiek (Rügen)”
  • German: “Wiek”
  • Hungarian: “Wiek”
  • Icelandic: “Wiek”
  • Ido: “Wiek”
  • Indonesian: “Wiek”
  • Interlingua: “Wiek”
  • Interlingue: “Wiek”
  • Irish: “Wiek”
  • Italian: “Wiek”
  • Japanese: “ヴィーク”
  • Kongo: “Wiek”
  • Kurdish: “Wiek, Rügen”
  • Kurdish: “Wiek”
  • Ladin: “Wiek”
  • Ligurian: “Wiek”
  • Limburgan: “Wiek”
  • Low German: “Wiek”
  • Luxembourgish: “Wiek”
  • Macedonian: “Вик”
  • Malagasy: “Wiek”
  • Malay: “Wiek, Rügen”
  • Malay: “Wiek”
  • Minangkabau: “Wiek”
  • Narom: “Wiek”
  • Neapolitan: “Wiek”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wiek”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wiek”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Wiek”
  • Persian: “ویک”
  • Picard: “Wiek”
  • Piemontese: “Wiek”
  • Polish: “Wiek”
  • Portuguese: “Wiek”
  • Romanian: “Wiek”
  • Romansh: “Wiek”
  • Russian: “Вик”
  • Sardinian: “Wiek”
  • Scots: “Wiek”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Wiek”
  • Serbian: “Vik”
  • Serbian: “Вик”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Wiek”
  • Sicilian: “Wiek”
  • Slovak: “Wiek”
  • Slovenian: “Wiek”
  • Spanish: “Wiek”
  • Swahili: “Wiek”
  • Swedish: “Wiek, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern”
  • Swedish: “Wiek”
  • Swiss German: “Wiek”
  • Tatar: “Вик”
  • Turkish: “Wiek”
  • Ukrainian: “Вік”
  • Uzbek: “Wiek”
  • Uzbek: “Wиек”
  • Venetian: “Wiek”
  • Veps: “Vik”
  • Vietnamese: “Wiek, Vorpommern-Rügen”
  • Vietnamese: “Wiek”
  • Vlaams: “Wiek”
  • Volapük: “Wiek”
  • Walloon: “Wiek”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wiek, Rügen”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Wiek”
  • Welsh: “Wiek”
  • Wolof: “Wiek”
  • Zulu: “Wiek”

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