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Peenemünde
Sign in to savePeenemünde (, ) is a municipality on the Baltic Sea island of Usedom in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in north-eastern Germany. It is part of the Amt (collective municipality) of Usedom-Nord. The community is known for the Peenemünde Army Research Center, where the world's first functional large-scale liquid-propellant rocket, the V-2, was developed.
Peenemünde is a small municipality located on a Baltic Sea island in northeastern Germany. It is historically significant as the site where the V-2 rocket, the world's first functional large-scale liquid-propellant rocket, was developed during the 20th century.
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- DEU Peenemünde COA.svg
- German location.image_photo
- Peenemuende, Hafen, U461.JPG
- German location.image_caption
- Seaport
- German location.image_plan
- Peenemünde_in_SVO.svg
- German location.state
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- German location.district
- Vorpommern-Greifswald
- German location.Amt
- Usedom-Nord
- German location.elevation
- 3.0
- German location.area
- 25.74
- German location.postal_code
- 17449
- German location.area_code
- 038371
- German location.licence
- VG
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 13 0 75 106
- German location.mayor
- Rainer Barthelmes
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- Official name
- Peenemünde
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Usedom-Nord
- Population
- 370
- Area
- 25.74
- Elevation
- 3
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Official website
- www.amtusedomnord.de
- Image
- Peenemuende, Hafen, U461.JPG
- Dialing code
- 038371
- Licence plate code
- OVP
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- postal code
- 17449
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- Peenemünde
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- World War II
- Post-war period
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Peenemünde (, ) is a municipality on the Baltic Sea island of Usedom in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in north-eastern Germany. It is part of the Amt (collective municipality) of Usedom-Nord. The community is known for the Peenemünde Army Research Center, where the world's first functional large-scale liquid-propellant rocket, the V-2, was developed.
==Geography== thumb|left|Peenemünde railway station for service to Zinnowitz The village with its seaport is located on the westernmost extremity of a long sand-spit, where the Peene empties into the Baltic Sea, in the northwestern part of Usedom Island. To the southeast it borders on the sea resort of Karlshagen.
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