Sobieszewo Island

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As an island New single ceremony was referred to the Gulf of Gdansk in today's Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland, 1945. Today's Polish name is Wyspa Sobieszewska, which means island in the translation Sobieszowo. Wyspa Sobieszewska is also the name of the easternmost city Gdańsk district.

The island lies about 15 km east of the city center Gdańsk (Danzig) away. On the island of 3443 people.

Its present name was given to the Polish territory after the provincial capital Sobieszewska ( Bohnsack ), a former fishing village in the west of the island. Other settlements are Sobieszewko ( Sobieszowo Pfarrsdorf ) Sobieszewska Pastwa ( Bohnsackerweide ) Przegalina ( insert), Wieniec ( Kronenhof ), Gorki Wschodnie ( East - Neufähr ) Komary ( Schnakenburg ) Świbno ( Schiewenhorst ) and Orle ( Wordel ). All places are since December 1, 1973 administratively to the city of Gdansk.

Geography

Size and location

The 35.79 km ² large island is bounded on the north by the Baltic Sea, on all other pages of arms of the Vistula Delta. The island was built between the years 1840 after a flood, which led to the dunes breakthrough on the southwestern shore and 1895, after the Vistula was made possible by an artificial puncture their current direct outflow into the Baltic Sea.

Traffic

About the island into east-west direction the province road 501 in the west of the island a pontoon bridge over the now Martwa Wisła ( Dead Vistula ) operations listed Bayou, on the east there is a ferry from Świbno ( Schiewenhorst ) to Mikoszewo ( Nickelswalde ) on the main arm of the Vistula River, in the south, you can cross at Przegalina ( insert) of a bascule bridge built in 2012, the current lock Vistula / dead Vistula

By 1974, a narrow gauge line of the former West Prussian light railway ( Kolej Żuławska Dojazdowa ) crossed the Spit. The connection to the east of the Vistula River to the still existing residual power train happened to 1956 via Trajektbetrieb on a steam ferry between Świbno ( Schiewenhorst ) and Mikoszewo ( Nickelswalde ). In the years 1956-1974 there was a separate island traffic, which was set in 1974. The railway facilities have been removed.