Bay of Pomerania
The Bay of Pomerania (Polish: Zatoka Pomorska, Kashubian: Pomorsko Hôwinga, in the GDR: Or Bay ) is a bay in the southwestern Baltic Sea on the coasts of Germany and Poland.
Location
In the south it is separated by the islands of Usedom and Wolin from the Szczecin Lagoon and the mouth of the Oder. The connection to the lagoon establish the three waterways Dziwna (German Dievenow ) Świna (Eng. Swine ) and Peene. In the West Pomeranian Bay is bounded by the island of Rügen.
The maximum depth is 20 meters and the salt content is about 8 per thousand. The Pomeranian Bay is crossed by an artificially deepened waterway that also allows larger ships to call at the ports of Szczecin and Swinoujscie.
Main ports on the bay include:
- Świnoujście ( Swinoujscie ) and
- Dziwnow (mountain Dievenow )
State border
Since the definition of the Oder- Neisse line as the border between Germany (or DDR) and Poland runs through the Pomeranian Bay, the German -Polish border.
After incidents of Navy ships between 1986 and 1988 (see People's Navy ) Görlitz Treaty of 1950 has been extended by an agreement on the delimitation of sea areas was signed in the Oder Bay on 22 May 1989 between the German Democratic Republic and the People's Republic of Poland. This was confirmed by the German - Polish Border Treaty in 1990.
1995 summed up the Polish Council of Ministers a decision allowing the access to the lake ( northern approach ) was to be considered to the two ports as Polish territory. In the light of international law valid contract of 1990, these related to a unilateral Strittigstellung without international law relevant basis.
Nevertheless, it was the end of August 2006, slight distortions in the relationship between the two countries, as Poland's Minister of Maritime Economy, Rafał Wiechecki, in the emphatic form of a diplomatic note against alleged border violations by warships of the German Navy intervened in a naval exercise in the Bay of Pomerania.
Nature reserve
On the German side of the bay by order of the Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of 15 September 2005 (Federal Law Gazette I p 2778 ) was declared with effect from 24 September 2005, a 200 938 hectare area a nature reserve in the Pomeranian Bay.
Seaside resorts
Are located on the Bay of Pomerania to the German side, among other things Dreikaiserbäder Usedom ( Ahlbeck, Bansin and Heringsdorf ), and on the Polish side of the seaside resorts Świnoujście and Międzyzdroje.
Others
The intercity line from Ostseebad Binz about Berlin and Erfurt to Dusseldorf bears the name " Pomeranian Bay ".