Bakar Bay
Coordinates: 45 ° 17 ′ 30 ″ N , 14 ° 33 ′ 38 ″ E
The Bay of Bakar (Croatian: Bakarski zaljev ) is a bay on the northern Adriatic Sea in Croatia . It is located about 20 kilometers south of the city of Rijeka in the Kvarner Bay .
location
There are three towns on the coast of the bay: the town of Bakar (Italian: Buccari ) in the north, the smaller town of Bakarac in the south and the town of Kraljevica at the exit from the bay . Geologically the bay is located in the Flyschmulde of Wippach ( Vipava ) and Rijeka along the lineament extends Vipava Rijeka Bakar-Vinodol.
The Adriatic Coastal Road runs along the bay . The original road ran right through Bakar. She is currently crossing the slope. The A7 motorway is laid out over the hills above.
history
During the First World War the Austro-Hungarian Navy had one of its most important naval bases in the Bay of Bakar, in Porto Re (next to the one in Pola and the one in Cattaro ). Despite the easily controllable location of this large natural harbor, the Italians succeeded on February 10, 1918 in attacking Bakar with speedboats . This military coup was later nationalistically exaggerated in Italy as Beffa di Buccari by Gabriele D'Annunzio and set to music by Luigi Dallapiccola . However, no Italian successes were achieved in the action against Porto Re.
economy
Tuna in particular has been caught in the bay since the Middle Ages . In the village of Bakarac you can still see three restored, sloping wooden ladders that were set up on the bank and served as viewpoints for fishermen until the 1980s. Schools of tuna came into the bay in May and August / September. The water above the schools of tuna rippled in a characteristic shape. Once upon a time, Bakar's fishermen supplied not only nearby Rijeka, but also Trieste and even Venice. Because of overfishing , the effort is no longer worthwhile today.
After the Second World War , the systematic expansion of the port and industry led to a significant upswing in the port of Rijeka. Due to a lack of space directly in the port area, the port functions were divided into the surrounding area. In 1965, the Industrija nafte (INA) company built a refinery in the Bakar area .
In 1969 the ore port and in 1978 the coal port from Rijeka were relocated to Bakar Bay. The oil port came into the Omišalj Bay on the island of Krk (JANAF), from where a 7.2 km long and 20 inch thick pipeline leads to the Rijeka Oil Refinery. This is located 12 kilometers south of the city and covers an area of 3.5 square kilometers in the municipalities of Kostrena and Bakar and can be reached by ship, road and rail. The refinery has its own port, shipyards and offshore facilities for the supply and transport of goods, crude oil, petroleum products and petroleum derivatives. The following products are produced in the INA refinery: Liquefied petroleum gas, virgin naphtha, motor gasoline, kerosene, aviation turbine fuel, kerosene, diesel fuel, heating oil, fuel oil, bitumen , coke, liquid sulfur, base oils , automotive and industrial lubricants , lubricating greases and paraffin.
Until the end of the 1990s there was a coking plant in Bakar , which has since been closed. On the mountain slopes you can still see numerous dry stone terraces (Croatian: Bakarski prezidi) that are no longer in use, where in the past viticulture was carried out for the production of sparkling wine . The Bakarska Vodica sparkling wine still exists, but no longer comes from Bakar today.
Attractions
As a result of the industrial use of the bay, there was no tourism. As a result, the old Grad district in Bakar with its splendid old houses of traders and captains and the many narrow staircases leading down to the harbor has retained its medieval urban structure and is not transformed by the tourist buildings.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Regional Didactic Center for Geography and Economics in Graz: 3rd day of the excursion: From Krk to Istria ( Memento of the original from November 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 5.8 MB), accessed on July 27, 2010
- ↑ Stefan Andres: The death of an unloved. In: Critical Edition. 2/2004, ISSN 1617-1357 (PDF 110kB)
- ↑ See Regional Didactic Center for Geography and Economics in Graz
- ↑ INA: Rijeka oil refinery ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2016 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. , accessed July 27, 2010
