DEUTSCHLAND	GERMANY
Bundesland: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
Landkreis: Vorpommern-Rügen

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Wustrow is situated on the Fischland penninsula between the Baltic Sea and the lagoon Saaler Bodden, immediately north of the narrowest part of the penninsula at the Permin bay. The municipality has a population of about 1,100 (2018).

The oldest settlements in this place seem to have been founded in the times of the Migration Period (about 4th to 6th century), when Slavic people settled on Fischland, which at that time was still an island. The oldest document mentioning Wustrow dates from 1235. The Permin waterway on the southernd end of Fischland was filled in in 1395 in order to make it more difficult for the people of Ribnitz on the mainland to reach the Baltic Sea; around 1400 the waterway 'Loop' between Fischland and the former island of Darß was closed around 1400. In 1528 Wustrow came in possession of the Ribnitz nunnery and later passed to the Dukes of Mecklenburg. Fishing and maritime transport were a central part of the village's economy throughout its history. The Mecklenburg Grandducal Maritime School was founded in Wustrow in 1846 and operated until 1992.

[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wustrow_(Fischland)]