page_title: Dornbusch (Hiddensee)
section_title: Topography
hierarchical_section_title: Dornbusch (Hiddensee) / Geography / Topography
caption_attribution_description: English: Landscape of northern Hiddensee. Deutsch: Landschaft Nord-Hiddensees.
context_page_description: The Dornbusch is a region of low rolling hills in the northern part of the German Baltic Sea island of Hiddensee. It consists mainly of ice age depositions, that were left behind after the glacier thawed. It is one of three island cores of the Hiddensee responsible for the emergence of the lowland.
  The Dornbusch measures about 2.45 kilometres from north to south and about 2.85 kilometres from east to west. Its highest point, at 72 metres above sea level, is the Schluckswiekberg, on which the Dornbusch Lighthouse, the symbol of Hiddensee, stands.
  With much of its cliffed coast still active it represents an important landscape in the West Pomeranian Lagoon Area National Park and is part of protection zone II. Numerous footpaths run through its varied countryside.
context_section_description: On the outer coast of Dornbusch are the following promontories and shore features:
  From southwest to northeast: Vorlege, Hucke, Tiddenufer, Rennbaumhuk, Klausnerbrüche, Klausnerhuk, Swantevitschlucht, Tietenufer, Signalmasthuk/Flederberghuk, Toter Kerl, Dornbusch (in its true sense), Enddorn.
  The term Huk or Hucke refers to large cliffed headlands on the Baltic coast. The name "Dornbusch" is derived from several large thorn bushes that once stood at the top of the cliff and which acted as landmarks for sailors. Later the term was applied to the entire uplands. The Enddorn, formerly also called Endur Endendorn or Entendorn was therefore the (northeast) end of the Dornbusch and still is today.
  Hills and hillocks (from west to east in each case):
  Lower slopes of the Dornbusch: Ecklingsberg, Rübenberg, Rabenberg
  Uplands (Hochland): Schulterberg, Hexenberg, Aschkoben, Lehmberg, Bakenberg, Schluckswiekberg
  on the cliff edge: Hübnerberg, Patzenhöhe, Sandberg, Tannenberg, Flederberg/Fliederberg/Sirenenberg, Swantiberg
  Valleys (also from west to east):
  Hexengrund, Nussschlucht/Walhalla, Tannengrund and Honiggrund All four were formed during the thawing of the ice sheet at the end of the last ice age as periglacial dry valleys.
  Several hollows, in which rain and meltwaters collected, are scattered around the uplands. These are the Riedsal east of  Kloster and the little bogs of Ellesegen, Alten-Diek, Neuer Teich, Großer Grüm-Kierl and Kleiner Grüm-Kierl.
caption: View from the lighthouse towards Swantiberg to the northeast – August 2006
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