Puttgarden

Puttgarden City of Fehmarn Coordinates: 54 ° 29 ′ 46 ″  N , 11 ° 12 ′ 45 ″  E
Area :	9.51 km²
Incorporation :	April 1, 1937
Incorporated into:	Bannesdorf
Postal code :	23769
Area code :	04371
Location of Puttgarden in Fehmarn
In the port of Puttgarden

Border shop and ferry Prins Richard in Puttgarden harbor

Puttgarden is a place in the north of the island of Fehmarn and has been one of its districts since the city of Fehmarn was founded. Puttgarden was best known as the location of the Puttgarden ferry port on the Vogelfluglinie .

history

The name Puttgarden probably means "under the castle"; derived from the old Slavic pod for "under" and gard for "castle". With the Peter and Pauls Chapel, which was first mentioned in 1198, the Puttgarden district had the first church on the island of Fehmarn. The chapel was destroyed by Swedish troops in the Thirty Years' War in 1644 . The names Kapellenkuhl and Landwiese , on which the horses of the worshipers grazed, are reminiscent of the chapel.

The former municipality of Puttgarden was incorporated into the municipality of Bannesdorf on April 1, 1937 , and was incorporated into the city of Fehmarn on January 1, 2003.

traffic

In 1963, as part of the expansion of the Vogelfluglinie, Puttgarden received a connection to the railway line from Lübeck as well as a modern ferry station east of the town, from which ferries have been operating since then to Rødbyhavn on the Danish island of Lolland . From 2007 to 2013 Puttgarden was an ICE station. The cross-border trains have been running across the Great Belt since December 2019 . This means that regional trains run from Puttgarden to Lübeck only every hour.

Also in 1963 Puttgarden reached the B 207 , which merges into the A 1 motorway to the south .

Puttgarden is connected to the Baltic Sea Cycle Route , which runs around the Baltic Sea as a European EuroVelo route.

port

Here mainly the Scandlines ferries operate in close succession on the Vogelfluglinie over the Fehmarnbelt to Rødbyhavn.
In 2016, 5.2 million tons of goods were handled in the port of Puttgarden , 10.1% more than in 2015.

Tunneling

In 2008, a state treaty was signed between Germany and Denmark for the construction of the fixed link across the Fehmarnbelt, which will connect Puttgarden to Rødby on the Danish island of Lolland via the Fehmarnbelt . The connection is to be a 17.6 kilometer long submerged tunnel for rail and motor vehicle traffic, the construction of which has not yet started. While the Danes would start construction immediately because all legal matters have been clarified there, numerous objections are pending on the German side, so that the start of construction will take several years.

Buildings

The 115-meter-high Puttgarden telecommunications tower belonging to Deutsche Telekom AG is in Puttgarden .

Personalities

• Emil Scheel (1886–1968), District Court Judge
• Birger Schmidt (* 1964), educationalist, grew up in Puttgarden

Web links

Commons : Puttgarden  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Fehmarn  - travel guide

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portrait at puttgarden.net , accessed on February 21, 2016
2. ↑ (Richard) Trede: The St. Nikolai Church in Burg on Fehmarn: its history - its inventory - its houses and chapels - its servants . Parish Burg auf Fehmarn, Burg auf Fehmarn 1985, 4th new edition with additions by Pastor Voss, p. 5.
3. ↑ Historical municipality register Schleswig-Holstein 1867-1970 , p. 106
4. ↑ Baltic Sea Cycle Route - Baltic Sea Schleswig Holstein. Retrieved May 9, 2017 . 
5. ↑ translator2: EuroVelo 10 - EuroVelo. Retrieved May 9, 2017 . 
6. ^ Scandlines ferry Puttgarden - Rødby
7. ↑ Peter Kleinort: Ports: 2016 more goods and passengers in the north . In: Daily port report of April 21, 2017, pp. 1 + 2
8. ↑ Text of the State Treaty ( Memento of December 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)