The
Strelasund or
Strela Sound is a
sound or
lagoon of the
Baltic Sea which separates
Rügen from the
German mainland. It is crossed by a road and rail bridge called the
Rügendamm in
Stralsund. It runs northwest to southeast from a small shallow bay just north of Stralsund called the
Kubitzer Bodden through to another such bay, the
Greifswalder Bodden in the southeast. The sound is nowhere much more than 3 km wide, reaching its greatest width towards its southeast end. It is roughly 25 km long.