Kurenkahn

Cures Kahn ( Kahn Keitel ) is the name for a type of boat, which was used until the end of World War II on the Curonian and on the Vistula Lagoon in the former East Prussia as a fishing boat.

Name

The name refers to the tribe of the cures which had among other things, named for the Spit and the lagoon. The cures Kahn is an approximately 12 m long wooden boat, typical of his form are the raised bow and a abschwingende backwards sidelines. But special feature is the flat bottom of the boat, on the one hand driving on shallower sites in the lagoon on the other, the trouble transporting enabled with a draft of about 40 cm, for example, cattle, wood, hay, and other loads.

For the cures Kahn is also the term " Keitel Kahn " used. However, the difference in names, refers to the type of fishing used in each case, which could also vary for the same type of boat with the season. Cures barges used the spa (r ) ennetz, a triple wall rail network with a length of about 250 m, which was applied by two boats. Keitel boats fished with Keitel - a funnel-shaped trawl - which required larger and equipped with stronger power boats sailing under certain circumstances.

Today there are on the Curonian Lagoon in the Lithuanian part of a few cures barges as excursion boats for tourists.

Cures pennant

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Typical of the cures were barges since the second half of the 19th century, the "cures pennant ". They served only way to determine the wind direction, but as a badge of place of origin and the fisherman. As the latter were increasingly colored and decorated by carvings ( eagle, anchor, elk, heart, wheel wrench, ship) and " tell " in images all the stories about the family of the owner.

As birth of the cures pennant is the year 1844. Controlling the numerous fishing boats on the Lagoon and the observance of the fishing villages allocated fishing rights as hardly possible proved. The management of fisheries adopted out a decree that all the boats (not just the fishing boats ) had to lead a highly visible identification. The pennant at the mast had to be at least two feet long and a foot wide. Every place on the lagoon was assigned a specific color in a specific flag and each region. In addition, you could see the use of the boat on the color of the tail pennant.