Bansin

Bansin Municipality Heringsdorf
Coordinates: 53 ° 57 ′ 51 ″  N , 14 ° 8 ′ 3 ″  E
Height :	24 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	2503  (Dec. 31, 2003)
Incorporation :	January 1, 2005
Incorporated into:	Three emperor baths
Postal code :	17429
Area code :	038378
Location of Bansin in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
View from the beach

Bansin is a seaside spa and district of the municipality of Ostseebad Heringsdorf on the island of Usedom in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

Bansin is one of the three imperial baths along with Heringsdorf and Ahlbeck . Bansin is connected to these and to Swinoujscie , which has been a Polish seaside resort since 1945, via Europe's longest beach promenade, which is over twelve kilometers long .

The place is characterized by closed ensembles of resort architecture , which often house hotels and holiday apartments . On December 31, 2003, Bansin had 2503 inhabitants as an independent municipality.

geography

Bansin is located in the east of the island of Usedom and forms the western part of the Heringsdorf municipality. In the northeast is the Baltic Sea coast, in the east - between Bansin and the center of Heringsdorf - the Schloonsee , south of the Gothensee and in the south-west of the Kleiner and Großer Krebssee. In the west there is a heavily forested area in which the Mümmelkensee is located.

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  Schloonsee

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  Gothensee

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  Small crab lake

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  Big crab lake

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  Mümmelkensee

Bansin municipality with the residential areas around 1920

Districts

• Bansin

Housing areas and desertification

• Alt Sallenthin (living space)
• Bansin village (residential area)
• Fangel (living space)
• Langenberg (living space)
• New Sallenthin (living space)
• Sellin (living space)

history

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First settlement

A Bansin postcard from 1912 shows the beach and the Long Mountain (section of the cliff in the west of the village). Beach chairs were already part of the typical view of the Baltic Sea resort back then.

The area around Bansin has many archaeological evidence of early settlement with several Bronze Age barrows (1800 to 600 BC).

Place name

Bansin was first mentioned in documents in 1256 as “Banzin” (Klempin) and “Banzino” (PUB II No. 630). In the document, Duke Barnim I attests to the exchange of a village in the Grobe monastery in the Land of Usedom with one in the Land of Lassan. An earlier mention of the place comes from the year 1111 as "Banzyno" in the registers or annals of the monastery of Grobe / Pudagla. The year 1111 is so far not plausible, the register of the monastery was only created during the term of office of Abbot Heinrich IV (1394 to 1434), but is given according to the original in the Greifswald State Archives for the period from 1111 to 1440. With this and two further reviews based on Niemeyer's note, the year is probably correct, but the meaning remains unclear, as no text translations of the passage in question are known to date. The name Banzin at that time is of Wendish origin. The name is interpreted as from the tribe , also Hummel or Brummer are possible.

From the 19th century to 1990

At the beginning of the 19th century there were three places to live in what is now the municipality: Sallenthin (old town), Bansin (village) and Sellin. Until 1835 (according to PUM = Preuss. Urmes table sheet) the colony of Sallenthin (New) was added. At the end of the 19th century, the spa began and Bansin-Seebad was created. When the railway line from Heringsdorf to Wolgast ferry was built in 1911 , the expansion of Bansin increased considerably. In 1920 the above-mentioned living spaces were recorded as still independent places in the MTB 1920 (Preuss. Landesaufnahme).

The seaside resort of Bansin is one of the three imperial baths on the island of Usedom. It was founded in 1897 for the purpose of bathing. Many villas in the style of spa architecture , which were initially built by locals and later by immigrant entrepreneurs, bear witness to this . The reason for this construction boom was the awakening bathing culture in Germany , for which the wide and white sandy beach offered very good conditions. The Berlin corn surgeon Emil Wichmann, the Sallenthiner writer Ernst Necker, the teacher and the innkeeper of the village are among the founders of the seaside resort. They also built the first bathing establishments (separated into women's, family and men's baths). The first guests came mainly from neighboring Heringsdorf, but soon it became necessary to build their own hotels and guesthouses.

The new bathing resort was so well received that the emperor certified the communal independence and thus the separation from the village of Bansin as early as 1901. The new sovereignty was documented in 1903 with the construction of the municipal office and the warm bath. When Bansin was connected to the railway network on May 31, 1911 , the number of visitors increased fivefold. The town, also known as Berlin's Bathtub , could be reached in less than three hours from the capital. For this reason, Berliners have always been one of the most important clientele among bathers.

After the turbulent years of the First World War, the so-called Roaring Twenties and finally the Second World War, many villa owners have been in the spring of 1953 as part of the Action Rose expropriated and asked the building of the holiday service of Trade Unions (FDGB) available, which at the time of the GDR , the exercised predominant position in state-directed mass tourism .

The municipalities of Dorf Bansin, Sallenthin and Sellin were incorporated into the municipality of Seebad Bansin on July 1, 1950.

Bansin pier, view towards the beach promenade

During the GDR era there were four or five company holiday camps in the village , which were abandoned to decay after the fall of the Wall due to the closure of the porter companies.

After German reunification

After 1991, when the seaside resort was included in the urban development program, immense sums were invested in the modernization of the infrastructure. Pensions, restaurants and hotels came back into private hands and were largely renovated, so that the townscape of Bansin increasingly regained its traditionally sophisticated character. In 1997, the municipality was awarded the rating Baltic Sea Spa.

On January 1, 2005, the three seaside resorts Ahlbeck , Heringsdorf and Bansin, which were previously independent municipalities, were merged to form the municipality of Dreikaiserbäder. On January 1, 2006, it was renamed Heringsdorf .

politics

coat of arms

Blazon : "In blue in silver waves, a green mountain on which a golden falcon stands ready to fly." The coat of arms was designed by the renowned heraldist Prof. Otto Hupp and redrawn in 1997 by Andreas Meenke from Neubrandenburg . It was approved on February 10, 1936 by decree of the Upper President of the Province of Pomerania and registered under the number 126 of the coat of arms of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Reasons for the coat of arms: The coat of arms with the mountain in the waves is intended to refer to the landmark Bansin, the nearby Langenberg (54 m), and with the falcon to the falcon nests there. The color blue and the metal silver indicate that the former municipality belonged to the former province of Pomerania.

flag

The former municipality did not have an officially approved flag .

Attractions

Villas in resort architecture

Resort architecture in place

There are many well-restored bathing villas on Bergstrasse ( Villa Sommerfreude , number 21). Due to the elevated location and the staggered construction, the houses in the second and third row also enjoy a view of the Baltic Sea.

Hotels or holiday apartments have moved back into the carefully renovated - mostly white - villas in the style of spa architecture from the 19th and early 20th centuries along the beach promenade and Bergstrasse with their generous furnishings. The bath villas form ensembles of historical holiday architecture that are unique worldwide.

Pier

In contrast to its counterparts in Ahlbeck and Heringsdorf, the pier in Bansin is a pier without land or bridge buildings. Exposed to the sea at a length of 285 meters over the approx. 50 meters wide sandy beach, it is popular with tourists as a promenade.

Originally, a pier was built in the early days, but this had to be removed after the Second World War due to the weather. A new pier was only built after the fall of the Wall. Stop there and a. the Adler ships , which connect the seaside resorts on Usedom.

Forest Church

The Bansin Church is on the western outskirts in the Bansin Forest. It was opened on February 12, 1939. The parish of Bansin was formed as early as 1927, comprising Seebad Bansin and the village of Bansin. Before that, the two villages belonged to the parish of Benz .

More Attractions

• The Villa Irmgard (formerly called Maxim Gorki Museum) is a local museum and memorial for the Russian writer Maxim Gorki .

• The Hans-Werner-Richter-Haus is a memorial for the Usedom writer Hans Werner Richter . Parts of Carola Stern's estate are also located there .

• The cafe Asgard from 1898 is the oldest café on the island of Usedom. It is located in a wooden house and is furnished with the typical interior furnishings from around 1900.

• A small zoo with around 150 small animals (including common marmosets , caimans , snakes, silver turtles, parrots, etc.) is accessible to visitors in the Bansin Tropical Zoo .

• The Langenberg residential area was first officially mentioned as a separate location in 1871. It was a restaurant on the "Lange Berg" (54 m high) around 1920 and later a forest farm. Today it is also a popular destination, especially because of the viewpoints on the ascent and the summit plateau.

traffic

Bansin Seebad station - this is where the DB Regio Nordost trains stop

From Bansin connecting roads lead via Heringsdorf and Ahlbeck to Swinemünde , via Ückeritz on the federal road 111 to Wolgast and via Mellenthin and the federal road 110 to Usedom-Stadt and Anklam .

The connection to the Ducherow – Heringsdorf – Wolgaster ferry line took place at the beginning of the 20th century. The route connected Bansin directly to the mainland via a bridge near Karnin , which was destroyed in World War II. Since 2000, the Seebad Bansin station has been accessible again by rail from the mainland via the new Wolgast Pier.

The Baltic Sea Cycle Route connects Bansin with other Baltic seaside resorts and large cities around the Baltic Sea.

Bansin can be reached by air via Heringsdorf Airport in the southeast of the island.

power supply

The 110 kV Anklam – Bansin line is a power line over the Peene, which is remarkable for the unusual construction of its masts with cable bracing.

Personalities

• Hans Werner Richter (1908–1993), writer and founder of the "Group 47"
• Rolf Werner (1916–1989), artist; His former studio is located at Seestrasse 60 in Bansin and can be visited as a memorial studio

literature

• Egon Richter: Bansin. The story of a world bath. Konrad Reich Verlag, Rostock 1990, ISBN 3-86167-016-X .
• Municipality of Seebad Bansin (editor): Seebad Bansin 100 years 1897–1997. Neuendorf Verlag, Neubrandenburg 1997, ISBN 3-931897-05-2 .
• Egon Richter: Seebad Bansin - The development of a bathing resort. Rhino Verlag , 2008, p. 96, ISBN 978-3-939399-10-0 .

Web links

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

Wikivoyage: Bansin  - travel guide

• Literature about Bansin in the state bibliography MV
• Baltic spa Bansin
• Official website of the municipality of Ostseebad Heringsdorf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Usedom's Europapromenade: island opens cross-border, climate-neutral longest beach promenade in Europe  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ ^{a b} Manfred Niemeyer: Ostvorpommern I . Collection of sources and literature on place names. Vol. 1: Usedom. (= Greifswald contributions to toponymy. Vol. 1), Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, Institute for Slavic Studies, Greifswald 2001, ISBN 3-86006-149-6 . P. 7
3. ^ First names from Egon Richter: Bansin. The story of a world bath. Rostock, 1990.
4. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
5. ↑ Facebook entry
6. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2005
7. ↑ Hans-Heinz Schütt: On shield and flag production office TINUS, Schwerin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814380-0-0 , p. 430.
8. ↑ Seebad Bansin 100 Years, 1897–1997, Neubrandenburg 1997, page 50
9. ^ Museum Villa Irmgard (Maxim Gorki Museum)
10. ^ Hans-Werner-Richter House ( Memento from December 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ Günter Kohler and Friedhold Birnstiel: Historic Inns in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , be.bra publisher, 2009, ISBN 3-861-24625-2
12. ↑ Baltic Sea Cycle Route - close to the sea. In: auf-nach-mv.de. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Tourist Association V., accessed on May 15, 2017 .