Reinberg

Reinberg is a village and in the municipality of Sundhagen and lies between Stralsund and Greifswald on the B 105 federal road in northeastern Germany. To the north the former municipality of Reinberg borders on the Strelasund From the village of Stahlbrode that used to belong to it, there is a car ferry to the island of Rügen (Zudar peninsula).HistoryIn 1220 construction began on the church and in 1325 Reinberg was mentioned for the first time in the records.On the dissolution of the Principality of Rügen in 1325, the village transferred to the Duchy of Pomerania.From the end of the Thirty Years' War to the year 1815 the region belonged to Swedish Pomerania and thereafter to the Prussian Province of Pomerania.Until 1952 Reinberg was part of the district of Grimmen within the Bezirk of Rostock to 1994. Since 1990 it has also bee part of the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.On 7 June 2009 the hitherto independent parish of Reinsberg merged with those of Behnkendorf, Brandshagen, Horst, Kirchdorf, Miltzow and Wilmshagen to form the new municipality of Sundhagen. The parish consists of the villages of Oberhinrichshagen, Falkenhagen, Dömitzow and Stahlbrode.