Burgstaaken

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Boats in the port of Burgstaaken

Burgstaaken is a small town with a combined municipal and yacht harbor on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea island of Fehmarn . It is protected from the Baltic Sea by the Burger Binnensee . The harbor is connected to the castle on Fehmarn by the Staakensweg - an old cobblestone pavement .

Every two years the harbor festival is celebrated here on a weekend in summer.

history

Burgstaaken harbor around 1896
Grain silos
U 11 submarine in the Fehmarn submarine museum
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Burgstaaken was first mentioned in 1778 with a small boat harbor, from which a ferry has operated once a week to Rødby / Denmark since 1780 .

The port was first expanded between 1854 and 1875, when the fairway was dredged and a stone pier was provided at the exit of the inland lake. In addition, the harbor basin was dredged so that it was 93 m long, 25 m wide and 2.50 m deep. A further expansion from 1865 to 1871 cost 143,527 marks and brought the enlargement of the basin to 124 × 36 m, before the port was deepened to four and a half meters in 1897. From 1904 until the Fehmarnsund Bridge was completed in 1963, Burgstaaken was part of the Fehmarn Island Railway . A short connecting line to the port branched off from the stop, some of the tracks of which can still be seen today. From 1920 to 1952 line steamers drove to Lübeck and Kiel. Up until 1974, stone fishing was carried out in Burgstaaken with six ships and up to 40,000 tons of stones were landed annually.

After renovation work between 1912 and 1974 did not result in any changes to the layout of the port, the port was expanded in 1975 to make it usable for the " butter trips " to Rødby, which took place from Burgstaaken until 2001 and was used by up to 400,000 passengers per year were.

In 1919 a fish cooperative was founded, which only existed for a few years. Its current successor was founded in 1949. Today the port is of economic importance as the home port of several fishing cutters and for the transport of the grain grown on Fehmarn. Therefore you will find silos from several grain dealers in the harbor. Every year between 50,000 and 60,000 tons of grain from Fehmarn farmers are exported. Since 1997, some of the silos have been used for top-rope climbing paths that lead up to 30 meters in height.

The German U11 submarine , which was last used as a moving target for target practice, has been open to visitors since May 2005 . Right next to it there is a museum that deals with the German submarine fleet of the post-war period. Since October 2014, the Maritime Rescue Museum with the former rescue cruiser Arwed Emminghaus has been located right next to the U-Boot Museum .

The memorial to the First Schleswig-Holstein War (1848–1851) and the capture of the Danish Baron Frederik Edwin Rudolph Dirckinck-Holmfeld (1802–1896) by the coastal captain Baron August Ferdinand von Leesen has been in Burgstaaken since around 1874 . The original location on Burgtiefe (Strandburg) has meanwhile been considered too dangerous, as the monument had already had to withstand several storm surges there.

After the renovation of the east pier, the renovation of the west pier and the forecourt began in October 2014 and was completed in summer 2015. The measure of 2.3 million euros was subsidized by the state of Schleswig-Holstein with 974,000 euros. The next step is to upgrade the east side of the port with funds from the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund for 1.2 million euros.

A funding commitment is not expected before 2017.

  • Former railroad tracks in the harbor

  • Memorial to the First Schleswig-Holstein War

Sea position

Before Burgstaaken, the DGzRS station Großenbrode holds a position on the lake. From 1976 to 2011 the DGzRS rescue cruiser John T. Essberger and the daughter boat Elsa were in a fixed position at sea off Burgstaaken. In 2011, the rescue cruiser Bremen with its daughter boat Vegesack took over the service to secure the waters around Fehmarn. In the summer season, the Bremen in the Fehmarnsund before Burgstaaken is in readiness on the fixed sea position. In winter the ship is in the ex-naval port in the Großenbroder inland lake.

Web links

Commons : Burgstaaken  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Burgstaaken on Fehmarn. (PDF) Environmental Council Fehmarn, accessed on 23 August 2016 .
  2. ↑ Climbing: Alpine feeling on Fehmarn. faz.net, May 25, 2001, accessed August 28, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Karl-Wilhelm Klahn: Monument complex is being restored. fehmarn24.de, April 4, 2007, accessed on August 23, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Extension of the pier starts in mid-October. Fehmarn24.de, September 25, 2014, accessed on August 28, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Gerd-J. Schwennsen: Fehmarn - New impulses in the municipal port of Burgstaaken? Lübecker Nachrichten, December 8, 2015, accessed on August 28, 2016 .

Coordinates: 54 ° 25 '  N , 11 ° 11'  E