Wissower clinics

Wissower Klinken in April 2004

Wissower Klinken after the demolition, August 2005

Chalk cliffs of the stump chamber in the painting CD Friedrich 1818

The Wissower Klinken was a chalk formation in the Jasmund National Park on the island of Rügen and for a long time one of the most attractive tourist spots on the island.

On February 24, 2005, the two main battlements, up to 20 meters high, slid into the sea. Around 50,000 cubic meters of chalk were torn into the Baltic Sea , leaving little of the original formation. In addition to the sea surf, which constantly shapes the coastline, the cause was the pressure of ice-age deposits from the interior. Frozen rainwater then blasted off the rock after the onset of thaw . The demolition had already been expected after six cracks had been discovered a year earlier. One of these cracks had widened some time before and around 1000 cubic meters of chalk fell into the sea a week before the big demolition. On the evening of July 27, 2010 there was another violent chalk demolition, in which around 150 tons of earth fell onto the beach.

The best way to reach the place for hikers is to take the high bank path through the beech forests of Jasmund (about 2 km from the eastern outskirts of Sassnitz ).

It was often wrongly assumed that the Wissower Klinken was the model for the painting Chalk Cliffs on Rügen by Caspar David Friedrich - these did not exist at the time the painting was created, but were created later due to erosion .

The name Klinken comes from the Slavic klinŭ for 'angle' or 'wedge' and refers to the appearance of the structures.

Wissower Klinken around 1900
Wissower Klinken around 1900
Renewed bank breaks on both sides of the Wissower Klinken in 2008
Wissower Klinken 2011

Individual evidence

^ Ostsee-Zeitung , edition of February 25, 2005, local page for Jasmund and Sassnitz
↑ Chalk demolition on Rügen: So far no missing persons. Ostsee-Zeitung , archived from the original on February 11, 2013 ; Retrieved July 29, 2012 .
^ Paul Kühnel: The Slavic place names in Meklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 46, 1881, ISSN 0259-7772 , pp. 3-168, here p. 70, online .

Web links

Commons : Wissower Klinken - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Uta Baier: In the end all that remains is art The Wissower Klinken and Caspar David Friedrich ( article in the world of February 26, 2005 )

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[1] Ostsee-Zeitung , edition of February 25, 2005, local page for Jasmund and Sassnitz

[2] Chalk demolition on Rügen: So far no missing persons. Ostsee-Zeitung , archived from the original on February 11, 2013 ; Retrieved July 29, 2012 .

[3] Paul Kühnel: The Slavic place names in Meklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 46, 1881, ISSN 0259-7772 , pp. 3-168, here p. 70, online .