Altefähr

Altefaehr is a municipality in the district of Vorpommern - Rügen on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern ( Germany ). The community is managed by the Office West Rügen based in the community Samtens.

• 3.1 Coat of Arms
• 3.2 flag

Geography and transport

The community Altefaehr is located on the opposite bank of Stralsund Strelasund, which separates the island of Rügen from the mainland Vorpommern.

The Federal Highway 96 and the railroad Stralsund - Sassnitz run by the municipality.

Districts

The municipality includes the districts Altefaehr Altefaehr, Barnkevitz, Grahlerfähre, Grahlhof, United Bandelvitz, Gustrowerhöfen, Jarkvitz, Small Bandelvitz, Crane Village, Poppelvitz, Scharpitz and Schlavitz.

History

Altefaehr has probably served as a ferry port since the year 1200. The first mention of the place is to be found in the municipal archives of Stralsund in 1240; here the place is mentioned as " in the ol ' ferry'. The ferry service linking Rügen with the mainland, reaching particularly from the late 19th century high frequencies. Predominantly agricultural products were brought on the ferry to Stralsund. Further expansion took place with the launch of the railway ferry traffic. From 1909 the railway ferry was part of the fast train between Berlin and Stockholm, which included the ferry the king line ( Sassnitz -Trelleborg ). After the completion of Rügen dam in 1936 the railway - ferry service was discontinued. 2007, the new high bridge of the Strelasundquerung was inaugurated.

The place was until 1325 part of the Principality of Rügen and then the Duchy of Pomerania.

With the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 became Rügen and thus also the place Samtens under Swedish rule after the place previously belonged to the Duchy of Pomerania. In 1815, the community came to the island of Rügen and Vorpommern to the Prussian province of Pomerania. The place had the Thirty Years War and after extensive fortifications to protect Stralsund, particularly the western entrance to the Stralsund.

According Niekammerschem goods address of 1939 included 300 acres of land at that time the city of Stralsund.

Altefaehr is a popular leisure area of Stralsund. Since 1996, combines the passenger ferry " Altefaehr " the place with Stralsund ( May 1 to September 30 ).

In the years after the political turn in Altefaehr was a beach promenade. The tourist offer includes moreover inns, a hotel, a campsite and a water walking base with boat moorings. Since 2000, the center is being renovated with funds from the urban development.

Since 1818 Altefaehr belonged to the circle or district Rügen. Only in the years 1952 to 1955 it was the county Putbus belonging. The village belonged until 1990 he again Rügen county in the district of Rostock and then to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The 1990 re- designated as the Rügen was 2011 in the district of Vorpommern - Rügen.

Policy

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved on 27 May 2003 by the Home Office and registered under the number 278 in the coat of arms role in the country.

Blazon: ". Azure, elevated, fünflätziger golden collar tournament, including a silver boat with two inclined rowing "

In the emblem is made ​​in a rowing boat, both the figurative reference to the names of municipalities, as well as the centuries -operated with such boats ferry service are symbolized. The tournament collar symbolizes the Rügendamm. The construction work for the 2540 -meter-long causeway for railways and automobiles had begun in 1933. Only with the opening of Rügen dam in October 1936 for the railway and Pentecost 1937 to traffic lost the ferry increasingly important. Altefaehr was seaside resort and leisure area for the Hanseatic city of Stralsund. With the tincture of the emblem in blue refer to the Stralsund.

The coat of arms was designed by heraldist Bernhard Nowak of the Heraldry Society "Black Lion" Leipzig in 1988.

Flag

The flag of the municipality Altefaehr is striped across the longitudinal axis of the flag cloth of white, blue, white, blue and white. The white stripes at the leech and the Flugsaum take a tenth part, the blue stripe one fifth each, the white center stripe four-tenths the length of the bunting a. In the center of the white center stripe the municipal coat of arms that occupies half the height of the flag cloth is. The height of the flag cloth is related to the length as 3:5.

Attractions

→ See also: List of monuments in Altefaehr

• Gothic village church of St. Nikolai: hall church of brick, fed, rectangular, flat roofed choir from the 15th century, nave with a later barrel vault in 1737, the west tower of brick with half-timbered upper floor of 1692 and an octagonal spire. The altar dates from 1746 and comes from the workshop of Michel Müller.
• Beach promenade
• Small farm house with mature garden in Poppelvitz, that was from the 16th to the 20th century in the possession of Stralsund's Church.

Port; Looking towards the city center

Port; Looking towards Stralsund

Reetdachhäuser

The new Rügen bridge ends on the coast at Altefaehr