Official website (https://www.wiek-ruegen.de/)
In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, Wiek is referenced by 119 other articles, and connects out to Western Pomerania-Rügen District, Germany and geographic coordinate system.
The entry is geolocated on the map.
Vinony files it under Municipalities in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Towns and villages on Rügen and Wittow.
Its subject is documented across 32 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Country
- Germany
- State
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- District
- Vorpommern-Rügen
- Municipal assoc
- Nord-Rügen
- Mayor
- Petra Harder ( CDU )
- Total
- 25.53 km (9.86 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 2 m (6.6 ft)
- Density
- 37.6/km (97.5/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Dialling codes
- 038391
- Vehicle registration
- RÜG
- Website
- www.wiek-ruegen.de
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Startseite - Gemeinde Wiek – staatlich anerkannter Erholungsort
wiek-ruegen.de →Link to the official site · 7,305 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Nord-Rügen
- Population
- 1005
- Area
- 25.44
- Elevation
- 2
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Official website
- www.wiek-ruegen.de
- Image
- St. Georg (Wiek) - front 3.jpg
- Dialing code
- 038391
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- twinned administrative body
- Łobez
- Commons category
- Wiek
- postal code
- 18556
- P8168
- George Enesco
- hashtag
- Wiek
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Encyclopedic overview
Wiek ( German pronunciation: [viːk] ) is a municipality in the Vorpommern-Rügen district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
The body of the well-known American Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest III, killed while on an air raid on Kiel in 1943, was buried at Wiek by the German authorities. It laid there until 1947 when the body was repatriated to the United States.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wiek” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.