Danish Wiek
The Dänische Wiek is a bay in the south of the Greifswalder Bodden (a lagoon in the southern Baltic Sea ) at the mouth of the Ryck River not far from the city of Greifswald .
It is about 2½ kilometers wide, 3 kilometers long and its coastline has a length of about 4½ kilometers. It is constructed almost like a parallelogram and has an area of approximately 7.5 km², according to other reports 8.1 km². Their share in the total area of the Greifswald Bodden is only 1.6%. Their depths are between 0.9 and 4.6 meters, with an average depth of 3.87 m. The Greifswald districts Wieck , Eldena and Ladebow are located on the southwest bank of the bay, where the Ryck also flows; in the east, the municipal areas of Loissin and Kemnitz border the bay. The bay is very shallow in most places (less than four meters), only the fairways to the port of Ladebow (6.9 m) and the Ryck (4 m) are deeper . The seaport of the city of Greifswald - Ladebow, located on the west bank of the Danish Wiek - once known as the "oil port" supplier of fuel for aid ships of the GDR People's Navy, is a maritime economic factor of Greifswald. The fairway leading to the ports of Ladebow and Wieck begins at the "Greifswald" light buoy on Salzboddengrund in the Greifswalder Bodden and is marked by buoys and beacons .
In the southeast the Ziese flows into the Wiek. In the north-western part, the shallow Wampener Reef juts far into the bay. The southeast part of the bay is closed to motorboat traffic. The beach baths Eldena on the south, Ludwigsburg on the east and the beach of Wampen (sand bank) on the west coast of the Wieck are frequented by both locals and tourists.
The name of the bay is likely to come from the monks of the Eldena monastery . The founder of the monastery, Prince Jaromar I von Rügen, settled the Danish Cistercian monks who founded the Hilda monastery in Eldena in 1199.
literature
- Bruno Benthien (Ed.): Greifswald and its surroundings (= values of the German homeland . Volume 14). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1968.
- Harald Krause: Wiek and Wikinger - origin and development of shipping and maritime terms used by seafarers in the extended Baltic Sea area . In: Bull and Griffin . Sheets on the cultural and regional history in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Year 19, Schwerin 2009, pp. 10-21. Table: The German Wieken.
- Lutz Mohr : Between Danish and Gristower Wiek. The Greifswald suburb of Wieck, the Great Stubber and the Greifswalder Bodden in the past and present . Neue Greifswald Museum Hefte , No. 4, Greifswald: Museum der Stadt 1978
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Bruno Benthien, Ed. 1968, p. 33
- ↑ See map 1511 / INT 1343 “Greifswalder Bodden”, scale 1: 50,000, ed. from the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH), Hamburg / Rostock 2016.
Coordinates: 54 ° 6 ′ 2 ″ N , 13 ° 28 ′ 14 ″ E