Baltic Regions

The Baltic Sea is connected with the Atlantic only by the straits of Skagerrak and Kattegat. That’s why it’s considered to be the biggest brackish water sea (salinity from 0.1 to 1%) on the earth. The area of the sea is about 413,000 square kilometers and its deepest point is at the level of 459 meters. It started its origination more than 12,000 years ago when the last ice age had ended. Scientists think that it formed its coastal relief about 2,500 years ago and since then it has changed a little.

Because of such origination you can find here very diverse coastal forms. Especially richly divided is the so-called front Baltic Sea with the Danish islands as well as the southern (German) Baltic coast up to Oder estuary. The biggest islands are the Danish islands including Bornholm, Gotland and Öland (Sweden), Saarema and Hiiumaa (Estonia), Rügen, Fehmarn (Germany), Usedom (Germany, Poland) and Wollin (Poland).

All the way its rich history had been marked by a very rapid changing of cultures and even civilizations in the last 1,500 years. Even today numerous legacies in the form of significant cities as a centre of the culture and civilizations prove it. The process of uniting of Europe had also made a trace in its history and, actually, there is the beginning of Ostsee-Netz.de thanks to this unity.

First of all, we want to look at the Baltic region as a whole and uncover its common characteristics. The whole Baltic region is becoming in some years a significant European growing region. Its attractions, above all, as a tourist interest are an essential part of it and our main topic. We present, regardless of the state borders, the historically growing regions of the Baltic Sea and we begin with its southern half.

Beginning with the descriptions of tourist destinations, other places of interest and background information we want to introduce the Baltic coast as one of the best holiday destinations which is becoming more and more popular nowadays and offering you as wide service as possible.