Priwall Peninsula
The Priwall is about three kilometers long peninsula on the Trave estuary to the east of Schleswig-Holstein. He was elected in 1226 as the hamlet of Travemünde Lübeck.
The Priwall is very busy, especially in summer, because is located on the peninsula a wide sandy beach to swim in the Bay of Lübeck.
Location
The peninsula is bounded on the north by the Baltic Sea, to the west of the Trave River, in the south of the Pötenitzer Wiek, a haffartigen extension in the Travelodge. The eastern end of the peninsula forms the border of Mecklenburg -Vorpommern. This limit goes back to the realm of freedom of Lübeck letter from the year 1226. By 1990 was the inner German border, so that the Priwall many years could not be reached on the 35 km long overland by Dassow around the Dassow Lake on the B105 after Selmsdorf and Schlutup. From Travemünde from the Priwall two ferry is easy to reach, one of which is wrong only in the summer and reserved for pedestrians. At the Pötenitzer Wiek is a nature reserve. On the Mecklenburg side, in Höftland of Pötenitz, the nature reserve close to coastal landscape between Priwall and Barendorf with Harkenbäkniederung.
History
Kingdom of freedom letter
In 1226 the Priwall was part of the Lübeck city area ( Lübeck Reichsfreiheit letter ). In the same century, a stone dam between the Priwall and the mainland to Mecklenburg, suggesting that the Priwall until then was an island was formed.
Tourism
1847 a bathing establishment was set up on the Priwall. From 1880, the Priwall received basic accommodation for needy families who built the club for holiday camps. A racecourse was built in 1882 and used until 1934. She shrank in 1940 the construction of a submarine harbor, the present-day " Passathafen ", which is now used as a sail boat harbor.
Landed in the early 20th century and started Zeppelins on the Priwall. The Caspar -Werke built from 1914 seaplanes and tested them. On the Priwall there was since 1926 an airfield Lufthansa for passenger traffic to domestic destinations and to Scandinavia, which was also used by seaplanes.
Period of National Socialism
The Reich Air Force claimed the land for themselves in 1935. There were regular services in the Baltic Sea countries. A narrow path of the old airport runway with concrete slabs runs on the Priwall at the end of the flyer path.
From 1939 to 1945, the Priwall for civilians was blocked. In neighboring Pötenitz are still the overgrown ruins of coastal forest of Aircraft Production Office Pötenitz and the associated Anlegermole in Pötenitzer Wiek to see.
In the 1930s, a hospital was built on the Priwall, which was initially used by the military. Later used as a hospital during the Second World War Priwall Hospital came with 124 beds in municipal ownership and has been adopted in recent years of the operation of the private Sana clinics. 2004, the clinic was closed and stood empty as of September 2005. To replace a practice clinic with bed house in Travemünde was created. Two of the buildings are used as a magazine for holdings, the city library Lübeck.
During the Nazi era were on the Priwall three camps for forced laborers in the flight test site of the Air Force ( Erprobungsstelle lake). In Stock I 150 foreign forced laborers were housed in Camp II and Camp III 80 250 forced laborers.
East German border area
By 1990, included a small portion of the Priwalls the GDR and was the most north-western part of the East German border. The watchtower of the East German border guards on the beach Priwall offered the border guards unobstructed views of the located in the Federal Republic nudist beach.
At the Mecklenburg highway between Travemünde- Priwall and Pötenitz remembers a boulder with the inscription " Never again divided " and the coat of arms of Travemünde and Mecklenburg on February 3, 1990, at which the former East German border was first opened in the beach area for pedestrians. The boulder on the road is already on the Mecklenburg area. Here was the line of demarcation in 1945, as a consequence the inner-German border between the Federal Republic of Germany and German Democratic Republic. After reunification, here is the boundary between the states of Mecklenburg -Vorpommern and Schleswig -Holstein.
21st Century
Between 2002 and 2007, the sand sculpture exhibition, Sand World was held on the Priwall.
Today, the Priwall is the site of a sailor school, the state vocational schools for opticians, shoe technology / orthopedic shoe technology and glazing, a large residence for senior citizens and numerous Cottages and large sport boat and yacht ports, ensuring in particular, during the Travemünde Week international flair.
The Priwall will now be redesigned again. End of 2007, a seven -acre patch of Priwalls was sold to the Waterfront -AG. This intends to build houses and hotels along the water line. Counter the building project, the " citizens' initiative cautious Priwall Development eV " turns you put 2010 in front of an alternative approach with limited development.
Attractions
A narrow path of the old airport runway with concrete slabs runs on the Priwall at the end of the flyer path.
The museum Baltic Station Priwall Priwall on port shows in several aquarium in the sea fauna of the jellyfish to the soil. Even the toxic Petermännchen there is to see. On the basis of housings of the mussel is shown that mussels are larger in the saline North Sea mussels in the Baltic Sea.
At the Travelodge you can also visit the four-masted barque Passat among others. This ship was a Flying P -Liner of the Hamburg shipping company F. Laeisz, with the Priwall named 1920, a similar boat to the peninsula. The Priwall 1941 interned in Valparaiso, then donated to the Chilean government, which used them as a training ship Lautaro; In 1945 the ship lost after a cargo fire ( guano ).
The Passat is the Passat Harbour, the former U-boat harbor. This accommodates 500 sailboats that need to be hauled ashore in winter.
The trail starts at the Priwall Priwall - car ferry, surrounded the nature reserve and bird sanctuary Southern Priwall along the banks of the Trave and the Pötenitzer Wiek. About the Fliegerweg the trail goes back to Mecklenburg Country road and the Priwall - car ferry.
Sons and daughters
- Lili Fischer ( b. 1947 ), artist
- Peter Nogly (* 1947), German national football team