Editing Stralsund (section)

===Landscape===
[[File:Stralsund, Germany, Rügenbrücke, Pylon und alte Klappbrücke (2006-09-12).JPG|thumb|180px|[[Strelasund Crossing|Rügen Bridge]], Germany's largest bridge, connects Stralsund with [[Rügen]] Island]]

The city lies on the sound of [[Strelasund]], a [[strait]] of the [[Baltic Sea]]. Its geographic proximity to the island of [[Rügen]], whose only fixed link to the mainland, the [[Strelasund Crossing]], runs between Stralsund and the village of [[Altefähr]], has given Stralsund the sobriquet "Gateway to the Island of Rügen" (''Tor zur Insel Rügen''). Stralsund is located close to the [[Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park]].

Stralsund's city borough includes municipal forest and three municipal ponds (the ''Knieperteich, Frankenteich'' and ''Moorteich''. The three ponds and the Strelasund lend the Old Town, the original settlement site and historic centre of the city, a protected island ambience. The highest point of the city is the ''Galgenberg'' ("Gallows Hill") on its western approaches.