Whitby

Whitby (Danish: White City ) is a small town in the Borough of Scarborough the English county of North Yorkshire. It is located at the mouth of the Esks in the North Sea in the northeast of the county and is a significant historical coastal town. According to the census of 2001 had total of 13,594 inhabitants Whitby.

Seafaring

Port

The Port of Whitby is especially a larger fishing fleet. In addition it provides a protected port of call for ships between the English North-East and the southern North Sea in one of the many North Sea storms. Originally managed by the monks of the monastery there is already authenticated complaints about the condition of the former docks of oak from the year 1541st In the following centuries was followed by numerous expansion programs, but always only led to satisfactory results and often failed due to lack of money. The Parliament in London enacted various laws that shipowners undertook the expansion of the port to participate, but also with more changeable success. The current design dates mainly from 1905 when J. Watt Sandeman & Son built new 160 meter long quay, river Esk ausbaggerten and a fish terminal built. The fish terminal in 1957 replaced by a new building.

James Cook

The city was an important training ground for Britain's sailors, James Cook. The ships of his many voyages were built here and also in a major South Seas trip of 1768 began here. The ships Whitby Cats or Whitby colliers, robust coal carrier that were built here by the Norwegian role models, Cook took advantage of all its South Sea. The House of the Walker family, where Cook made ​​his teaching, now houses the "Captain Cook Memorial Museum ". His statue overlooks the city's harbor.

Bram Stoker

As Bram Stoker in 1890 resided in Whitby, served the small town as inspiration and setting for his masterpiece Dracula, which was published in 1897: In his trip to England Count Dracula landed with his ship in Whitby. The city therefore has a Dracula museum. The following description of Stoker has still valid today, as there were no major changes to more:

"This is a lovely place. The little river, the Esk, runs through a deep valley, Which broadens out as it comes near the harbor. A great viaduct runs across, with high piers, through with the view Seems, somehow, farther away than it really is. The valley is beautiful green, and it is so steep did When You Are on the high land on Either side you look right across it, Unless You are near enough to see down. The houses of the old town - the side away from us - are all red- roofed, and SEEM piled up one over the other anyhow [ ... ] Right over the town is the ruin of Whitby Abbey, Which was sacked by the Danes, [ ... ] It is a most noble ruin, of immense size, and full of beautiful and romantic bits; there is a legend did a white lady is seen in one of the windows. Between it and the town there is another church, the parish one, round Which is a big graveyard, all full of tombstones. This is, to my mind, the nicest spot in Whitby, for it lies right over the town, and Has full view over the harbor and over the bay, to where the headland called Kettleness stretches out into the sea. "

Tourism

Today the town is a typical English Lake Resort with characterful old buildings, museums and the ruins of the abbey, the Bram Stoker already have so impressed. If you want the port to St. Mary's Church and Whitby Abbey, one must first climb 199 steps. This was formerly particularly for the pallbearers an ordeal, so now and platforms have been built for a rest.

Twice a year the Whitby Gothic Weekend takes place, originally a celebration for members of the gothic culture.

Once a year (August) there is a folk festival.

Twinning

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