Old warp

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 44 '  N , 14 ° 16'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Vorpommern-Greifswald
Office :	At the Szczecin Lagoon
Height :	5 m above sea level NHN
Area :	32.54 km 2
Residents:	452 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	14 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	17375
Area code :	039773
License plate :	VG, ANK, GW, PW, SBG, UEM, WLG
Community key :	13 0 75 003
Office administration address:	Stettiner Strasse 1 17367 Eggesin
Website :	amt-am-stettiner-haff.de
Mayoress :	Inge Bocklage
Location of the municipality Altwarp in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald

Altwarp is a municipality in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany), which is administered by the Am Stettiner Haff office based in Eggesin .

geography

Altwarp is located in the far east of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , on the maritime border with the Republic of Poland , making it Germany's most northeastern mainland point. The area around Altwarp forms a peninsula on the south bank of the Stettiner Haffes , at the narrow entrance to the Neuwarper See . 800 meters southwest of Altwarp is the approximately 0.35 hectare large water body "Großes Moor". The only neighboring community of Altwarp is Vogelsang-Warsin in the southwest. There is a sandy beach near the town center.

The landscape on the lagoon is wooded. In addition to tourism, fishing and the port determine what is happening in the village.

The settlement Altwarp belongs to the municipality.

Aerial photo (looking towards Poland)

history

Altwarp was first mentioned in a document in 1136. The word warp means anchorage. In 1848 there were five merchant ships at Altwarp.

From 1938 to 1945 the community was a military training area with a sea-to-air firing range, units of the Africa Corps were briefly located here . The entire village had to be evacuated and the inhabitants were relocated to Neuwarp (now Nowe Warpno ). Only a few employees of the Wehrmacht stayed in Altwarp. In addition to three barracks for troops, there was a prisoner-of-war camp in Altwarp as a sub - camp of the IID main camp in Stargard in Pomerania for French, Belgian and Soviet, and later also Italian, prisoners of war. In 1944 units of the Vlasow Army were trained in Altwarp. After a short period of use by the Red Army in May / June 1945, the camps were used as quarantine camps for refugees from 1946 to 1947, mainly from the Czech districts of Aussig and Reichenberg in the Sudetenland.

After the Second World War , the residents returned.

On July 1, 1950, Altwarp was incorporated into Vogelsang. On January 1, 1951, it was spun off from the Vogelsang community again.

From 1952 Altwarp was again a military location. Parts of an NVA tank division were stationed here until 1961 , followed by an anti-aircraft missile division and air defense units. After the German reunification , the location was closed in 1991.

politics

Coat of arms, flag, official seal

The municipality has no officially approved national emblem, neither a coat of arms nor a flag . The official seal is the small state seal with the coat of arms of the region of Western Pomerania . It shows an upright griffin with a raised tail and the inscription "GEMEINDE ALTWARP * LANDKREIS VORPOMMERN-GREIFSWALD".

Attractions

Altwarp Soviet Cemetery of Honor

See also : List of architectural monuments in Altwarp

• Separate belfry : church rebuilt in 1749 after a lightning strike without a tower
• Juniper Valley : unusual accumulation of juniper bushes in a pine forest
• Nature reserve Altwarper Binnendünen, Neuwarper See and Riether Werder , including inland dunes with a good view of the Neuwarper See and the island of Riether Werder
• Soviet cemetery of honor in the forest near Altwarp, where 200 perished prisoners of war restin 79 communalgraves
• Ferry port to Neuwarp (Poland)

Transport links

Former border station

Altwarp is around 15 kilometers from Ueckermünde , where there is also a rail connection .

In 1991 duty-free traffic to Poland was introduced. In 1996 there was a brisk “ butter ship traffic ” from Altwarp to Nowe Warpno. In 1996 the shipping company Adler-Schiff took over the traffic, a newly built ferry pier expanded the offer.

In 1999, with the construction of a new ferry port, a ferry option for vehicles from Altwarp to Nowe Warpno was created. The newly completed ferry port with border station was no longer in operation. In 2004 Poland joined the EU and duty-free traffic ended. This halved the number of ferries and ships were withdrawn. With the accession to the Schengen Agreement in 2007, border controls ended. Passenger traffic continued to decline. Therefore, shipping was temporarily abandoned from 2011 and resumed in 2012 by a new provider with the old fishing trawler Lütt Matten .

Personalities

• Johannes Sontag (1884–1941), German naval doctor
• Auguste Gehre (1898–1972), German-American Righteous Among the Nations
• Birgit Schwebs (* 1962), German politician (Die Linke), member of the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1998–2011

literature

• Günter Manthei: Altwarp - excursion to the easternmost port of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . In: Die Pommersche Zeitung , Volume 66, Episode 16 of April 23, 2016, p. 2, Fig.

Web links

Commons : Altwarp  - collection of images

• Altwarp in the office at the Stettiner Haff

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistisches Amt MV - population status of the districts, offices and municipalities 2019 (XLS file) (official population figures in the update of the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ^ E. Wendt & Co. (Ed.): Overview of the Prussian Merchant Navy . Stettin January 1848, p. 1 ( online [accessed May 21, 2015]).
3. ↑ Main Statute, Section 1, Paragraph 2 (PDF).
4. ↑ Lütt-Matten Altwarp: 2015 timetable from Altwarp harbor ( Memento of the original dated February 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ https://www.luett-matten-altwarp.de/fahrplan-sonderfahrten-angebote/