Binz pier

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The pier in Binz, aerial photo (2011)
Former bridge house on the pier, postcard around 1900

The Binz pier is a pier in Binz on the island of Rügen . With a length of 370 meters, it is the second longest pier in Rügen after the Sellin pier .

history

The first pier was built in Binz in 1902 as a 560 meter long wooden structure. The reason for the construction was the endeavor of the community to spare the visitors, who at that time mainly arrived by ship, the tedious transferring and loading of luggage onto smaller boats. With the inauguration of the pier on July 22, 1902, larger ships could now also dock immediately. The building received electrical lighting, for which the electricity was generated with the help of a steam engine near the Binzer Kurhaus. There was also a restaurant on the bridgehead. Just a few years later the building was destroyed in a storm flood on the night of December 30th to 31st, 1904 . In 1906 a new building was built on the same site, which in 1910 was named "Prinz-Heinrich-Brücke".

On July 28, 1912, under the weight of the numerous visitors, a balcony broke while mooring a steamer and pulled 50 people into the water, 17 people were killed. As a consequence of this accident, the German Life Saving Society (DLRG) was founded on October 19, 1913 .

With the opening of the Rügen dam in 1936/37 and the expansion of the road network on the island, the piers lost their importance and were now used almost exclusively as a tourist attraction. Insufficient value retention and weathering led to the collapse of the building in 1942, which was not rebuilt in the post-war period. It was only after the political change that it was decided to build a new pier in Binz. The new 370 meter long pier was inaugurated on May 21, 1994. It is 3 meters wide and has a water depth of around 4 meters at the bridgehead. Today it serves as a landing stage for excursion boats. Every year the bridge festival with fireworks takes place here.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Memorial plaque on the bridge
  2. ^ Collapse of the Binz pier on July 28, 1912. In: Wolf Karge, Reno Stutz: Illustrated history of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Hinstorff-Verlag, Rostock 2008, ISBN 978-3-356-01284-2 , p. 286
  3. ↑ Information board at the Binz pier

Web links

Commons : Seebrücke Binz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files


Coordinates: 54 ° 24 ′ 11.5 "  N , 13 ° 37 ′ 2.3"  E