page_title: Peenemünde
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Peenemünde / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Image was taken with Canon Digital IXUS 950IS and may be digitally altered or cropped using iPhoto &#160;English: Railway station of the Usedomer Bäderbahn in Peenemünde, Germany. &#160;Français: Gare de la Usedomer Bäderbahn à Peenemünde, Allemagne &#160;Deutsch: Bahnhof der Usedomer Bäderbahn (Strecke Zinnowitz &lt;-&gt; Peenemünde) in Peenemünde.
context_page_description: Peenemünde is a municipality on the Baltic Sea island of Usedom in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is part of the Amt 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.
context_section_description: 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.
  Peenemünde harbour can be reached by ferry boat across the Peene from Kröslin, liners also run along the Baltic coast to Rügen Island. The local railway station is the northern terminus of the Usedomer Bäderbahn line to Zinnowitz. Air service for the village is available at the Peenemünde Airfield.
caption: Peenemünde railway station for service to Zinnowitz
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