Gustavia, Rügen
Gustavia was the name of a port project at the beginning of the 19th century in Swedish Pomerania on the island of Rügen. By investing a fixed Swedish naval base on Rügen a strategic advantage for the military and trade should be created. A port on the Moenchgut would have threatened the trade of Prussia over the Oder River mouths ( Peenestrom, Swine, Dievenow ) and the Persante and would have been difficult to conquer. This required each spring and elaborate Auseisen the Swedish merchant ships could have started much earlier.
History
In the summer of 1806, the Swedish officers Boye and Gripenberg conducted field surveys on the Moenchgut in small Zicker. Their mission was to determine whether the Zicker lake is suitable for a port. In its report of August 1806, which also contained a designed by Lieutenant Colonel Baron Sparre plan a port city, they called the Zicker lake as an ideal harbor for 300 to 400 ships. On September 11, 1806, King Gustav IV Adolf ordered the construction of a harbor. At the same time plans for a commercial city should be created. Model was probably founded in 1679 Swedish port city of Karlskrona. For the Harbours more than 30 objects were planned. In the military field next to a yard and a dock and a nautical school was provided. In the civilian part should next apartment buildings, a boardwalk, a children's home, a school for crafts and agriculture and a theater arise.
Already in the same month was started west of Great Zicker with the first works under the direction of Lieutenant Colonel Ljungberg. The work was interrupted in the winter and continued beginning in 1807. When the French occupied in October 1807 Rügen, the project came to a standstill. The French destroyed 1811, the previously constructed surface facilities. The left behind by the Swedish building materials were transported. The French Governor-General Thouvenot invited to the planning documents. When the French withdrew in 1813, they took with them probably. The successor Gustav IV Adolf, King Charles XIII. gave up the goal of a city's founding.
Also known as Swedish Pomerania in 1815 went to the Congress of Vienna to Prussia, the harbor project was not continued. The sheltered position of Zicker lake made him a port of refuge and preferred winter mooring. About this status but he did not come out.
1995 were discovered off the Zickersches Hövt peninsula aerial survey by two objects. In underwater archaeological investigations were identified as wood and stone structures (stone boxes ). These were built of pine wood planks of 7.2 meters in length. Filled with boulders, the distance between the two boxes is 6.4 meters. By dendrochronological studies the end of the Swedish period were the wood to the beginning of the 19th century, are dated. The stone boxes lying in 3 feet of water are the remains of a pier, built after withdrawal of the French in 1813 to land the Swedish troops better.
Trivia
In addition to the planned on Rügen Gustavia, that should get his name in honor of the Swedish king Gustav IV Adolf, bears the capital of the Caribbean island of Saint -Barthélemy - the 1785-1877 one of the four Swedish colonies was - in honor of the then reigning Swedish king Gustav III. to this day the name Gustavia.