Damerow (Usedom)

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Damerow is the name of a former Vorwerk from Koserow on Usedom . It was located between Zempin and Koserow on an approximately 300 m wide isthmus between the Baltic Sea and the Achterwasser .

Memorial stone for the Vorwerk Damerow, which was destroyed by storm surges in 1872 and 1874.

The land belonged to the Pudagla Monastery since the Middle Ages and, after the secularization of the monasteries in Pomerania, to the sovereign office of Pudagla . In the middle of the 19th century the place consisted of five houses and had 35 inhabitants.

Since 1736, the island has been proven to have been torn in two by storm floods five times at this breakthrough point . A breakthrough made in 1736, which expanded more and more, could not be closed again until 1739. Just two years later, at the beginning of March, a severe storm made a breakthrough about 340 meters wide. This could be closed by the summer of the same year. In 1780 the beach dunes, which had been repaired in the previous year, withstood a storm flood before another breakthrough occurred in 1785. The dunes that were then renewed were largely removed by a storm from the northeast on January 31, 1791. In November 1792, the isthmus was breached over a width of more than two kilometers, and all of the rye seeds in the Vorwerk were destroyed. Thereafter, stone packing works were supposed to improve the protection of the coast, which were laid out until 1794. However, they proved to be even less resilient and were torn away by the Baltic Sea in 1799. In 1818 the beach ridges that were mostly destroyed had to be rebuilt. The Pudagla forester had a more resistant dune wall built with fences, sand piles and planting with beach grass, which proved itself against floods for several decades.

In November 1872 Damerow was destroyed by a storm flood with water levels 3 meters above normal. After another storm flood in February 1874 destroyed the remains of the building and left a layer of sand up to 60 cm thick, Damerow was abandoned. The land was then ceded to the state. During the New Year's Eve floods in 1904 and 1913, dams broke again. Only one building of the former Damerow Vorwerk remained: the forestry department. In 1928, the Zinnowitz forestry department was relocated to Damerow and a number of new buildings were built, although the name of the "Damerow forestry department" was retained. The forester becomes a popular destination for walkers.

In the 1930s, the painter Otto Niemeyer-Holstein settled on the isthmus and called the place "Lüttenort". The painter's former studio and home can be viewed today. The location of the forester's house at the narrow point between the backwater and the Baltic Sea coast brought the area around the forester's house into the focus of the forestry holiday service in the 1960s. The development of mass tourism led to the "Forstferienobjekt Forsthaus Damerow" being built. When it opened in 1974, the forester's house had twelve guest rooms and a restaurant.

With German reunification, the property remained in the ownership of the forest, which was no longer responsible for the vacation of its employees. In 1991 a new owner was found. After initial renovations and an extension inaugurated in 1998, the forester's house now has 68 rooms as a hotel. In keeping with its long tradition, the Forsthaus Damerow is one of the first partners for the meanwhile nationwide campaign “Climate Forest”. Since October 2009, a total of 3.18 hectares have been planted with oaks and pines in the immediate vicinity of the hotel.

swell

  • Paul Bierhals: Storm surge on the Baltic Sea. In: Our home. No. 14, December 31, 1924 - Supplement to the Kösliner Zeitung
  • Hermann Sauck: The sinking of Damerow by the great storm surge of 1872 . In: Unser Pommerland , issue 4/1928, p. 181.
  • Chronicle of the Hotel Forsthaus Damerow: "From forester's house to holiday hotel"

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen. First volume, W. Dietze, Anklam 1865, pp. 469–470 ( Google books )
  2. ^ Gösta Hoffmann, Reinhard Lampe: The island of Usedom - Spätpleistozäne and Holocene landscape development, in: Reinhard Lampe, Sebastian Lorenz (Ed.): Ice Age Landscapes in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Geozon Science Media, 2010. ISBN 3941971050 . P. 99.

Coordinates: 54 ° 3 '52.4 "  N , 13 ° 58' 32"  E