Dänholm (Kröslin)

Dänholm
Waters	Baltic Sea
Geographical location	54 ° 8 '13 "  N , 13 ° 44' 59"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 8 '13 "  N , 13 ° 44' 59"  E
surface	8.2 ha
Residents	uninhabited

The Dänholm near Kröslin is an island in the northern Peene River . It belongs to the municipality of Kröslin and is located about 1.5 kilometers east of the Freest district. The island covers about 8.2 hectares.

history

The tributary of the Peenestrom, west of the Dänholm, formed a natural harbor, which was mainly used as an emergency and winter port for the customs and pilot station Grünschwade both during the time of the Pomeranian dukes and during and after the Swedish era . The Pomeranian historian Gustav Kratz therefore denied that the sea ​​battle at Dänholm took place in 1429 on the island of Dänholm in Strelasund . The Pomeranian chronicler Thomas Kantzow located the battle in the Peene estuary as early as the 16th century .

At the beginning of the 18th century, the Swedes built a wooden ship lock between the mainland and the island, which could be opened in the middle if necessary.

During the GDR era, the flow in the tributary of the Peenestrom was interrupted by the flushing of sand from the Peenemünder Hafen, so that it silted up and the Dänholm eventually became a peninsula . In 2002 the side arm was dredged and the island position was restored.

literature

• Joachim Krüger : The customs, emergency and pilot port Grünschwade - a Swedish-Prussian problem area on the Peene river . In: Ivo Asmus, Heiko Droste, Jens E. Olesen (eds.): Common acquaintances. Sweden and Germany in the early modern period. Dedicated to Helmut Backhaus on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Lit-Verlag, Berlin-Hamburg-Münster 2003, ISBN 978-3-8258-7150-5 , p. 307 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gustav Kratz: The cities of the province of Pomerania - outline of their history, mostly according to documents, page 465.Bath , Berlin 1865.