Dranske

Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Western Pomerania-Ruegen
Office :	North Ruegen
Height :	2 m above sea level NHN
Area :	20.75 km 2
Residents:	1123 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	54 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	18556
Area code :	038391
License plate :	VR, GMN, NVP, RDG, RÜG
Community key :	13 0 73 019
Office administration address:	Ernst-Thälmann-Strasse 37 ; 18551 Sagard
Website :	gemeinde-dranske.de
Mayor :	Uwe Ahlers
Location of the municipality of Dranske in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen

Dranske is a municipality in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). It is administered by the North Rügen Office based in the municipality of Sagard .

Geography and localization

Dranske (2011)

The former fishing village of Dranske lies between the Wieker Bodden and the Baltic Sea . The municipality includes the southwestern part of the Wittow peninsula and its Bug headland . Dranske is the largest municipality on the Wittow peninsula.

The districts of Dranske, Banz, Bug, Dranske-Hof, Goos, Gramtitz, Kreptitz, Kuhle, Lancken, Nonnevitz and Starrvitz belong to the municipality of Dranske .

Today the southernmost part of the Bug belongs to the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park . You can visit this as part of a guided hike. There is currently no implementation concept for the northern part of the bug, which was formerly used by the military.

From Dranske a high bank path runs along the Baltic Sea coast to Cape Arkona . This path touches the Bakenberg recreation area with a sandy beach below the cliffs and the coastal forest.

history

Surname

The beginning of the development of the village is unknown, only the place name indicates a settlement in Slavic times. The name of the place Dranske is derived from the Slavic word Dransky, which means stick or from Wendish Doronecy or Dornik , interpreted as black thorn.

middle Ages

Dranske as well as the other localities of the municipality (Goos, Lancken, Kreptitz, Starrvitz, Gramtitz, Banz, Nonnevitz) are of Slavic origin. All these places were first mentioned in a document in 1314 on a tax list of the knight Braunschweig, the district Nonnevitz even as early as 1193 in a deed of donation from the Rügen prince Jaromar I to the Cistercian convent in Bergen . Anthonius de Buge is mentioned in the Pomeranian Document Book 1284 as a resident of the Bug peninsula. His family and other community residents engaged in agriculture, ranching, fishing, and piracy. The places were owned by the Rügen and Stralsund monasteries. Dranske was part of the Principality of Rügen until 1326 and then the Duchy of Pomerania .

1600-1900

After the Thirty Years' War , Rügen and thus also the area of Dranske became part of Swedish Pomerania in the course of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 . In 1683, the Ystad - Bug - Stralsund mail line opened , which gave the place a further boost in development. In 1683, for example, a post house was built on the southern tip of the Bug peninsula, which was inaugurated in 1684. The associated post office was usable for all sailing vessels of the time. This post house was usually the end of the line for the big mail sailors. Passengers, horses and carriages were unloaded at the post office. The former could either continue with smaller boats directly to Stralsund, using the fairway between Rügen and Hiddensee, in bad weather conditions or ice it went overland. In Dwarsdorf, the post house opposite situated on the mainland reprimanding place was a so-called Postbauer obliged at all times was ready to hold a boat. From Dwarsdorf it then went via Trent , Gingst , Unrow, Landow, Dussvitz, Rambin to Altefähr . Here a ferry crossed over to Stralsund. Those who decided to take the overland route took a carriage from the Bug via the Schaabe, Glowe , Sagard , Schmale Heide and Bergen to Altefähr.

With the opening of the Bug Post Office, the postal sailors Posthornet and Postryttaren operated on the line. The voyage started at the bow on Monday and ended in Ystad on Tuesday around 10 a.m. The mail went back on Thursdays to land at the bow on Fridays. In bad weather, the crossing sometimes took longer. The most famous post yacht that ran on the line from 1692 to 1702 was the Hiorten . Sailing yachts were used until 1861, although steamships boarded in 1822. The regular service was operated until 1897, on April 29th of that year the steamer Oscar tapped the flag for the last time at the Posthaus Bug. From then on the ships operated between Germany and Sweden on the royal line Sassnitz - Malmö (from 1909 Trelleborg ).

During the Great Northern War , a Danish-Swedish naval battle took place off the coast in 1712 , during which a Swedish supply fleet was destroyed. In 1815 the place came as part of New Western Pomerania to the Prussian province of Pomerania . The population lived from agriculture and from fishing leases, sea rescue and ship salvage. Also during the Franco-Prussian War there was a battle in Libben directly in front of Dranske, which the teacher noted in Dranske's school chronicle in 1870/71.

From 1818 to September 4, 2011 Dranske belonged to the district of Rügen , from 1952 to 1955 to the district of Bergen .

Modern times

From 1916 to 1991 Dranske's development was determined by the military. The Bug peninsula south of Dranske was used militarily for about 75 years. From 1916 to 1918 it was a naval aviation station of the Imperial Navy. Between 1920 and 1930 the Bug was used as a rest home for the German Association of Economic and Officials. After 1930 to 1945 a sea air base was built for the German Air Force and therefore from 1936 the old fishing village of Dranske was demolished except for the old school house from 1870 and the garden city of Dranske , a military settlement with a wide variety of experimental buildings , was built by 1939 . The Bug Air Base was used purely for training purposes for pilots, radio operators, bombers and reconnaissance aircraft. At the end of 1944, until the end of the war, Sea Emergency Group 81 was stationed here under Captain Karl Born , which played a major role in the evacuation of the German population.

After the end of the war in 1945, the Bug was again briefly used for civilian purposes, as a campsite and youth hostel or as pasture for boarding cattle. In 1963 the People's Navy of the GDR began building a speedboat base (the 6th flotilla), which was operated until 1990. At the same time, the town of Dranske expanded with 15 prefabricated buildings (1,000 apartments) and secondary facilities such as a department store, service building, two children's facilities and two schools. When the naval base was closed in 1991, it was closed and in 1993 it was advertised internationally for sale. In 2001 the Oetken company from Oldenburg was awarded the contract and immediately began to demolish most of the buildings on the bow. The project to create a marina for 400 sailing boats and 2,000 guest beds has been suspended since May 2002 because there are no investors.

Dranske experienced a heavy loss of population after the naval base was closed. In 1990 around 4,000 people lived in the village. With the demolition of nine apartment blocks, the grammar school, the Anne Frank and Jenny Marx children's facilities , the department store, the boiler room and the service building, Dranske almost regained its original structure. The former secondary school was auctioned and fell into disrepair. In 2007 the primary school, which opened in 1939, was closed forever, so Dranske no longer has a school. The primary school students go to Wiek, the junior high school students to Altenkirchen and the high school students to Bergen. The former NVA house was operated as the Hotel Boddenblick until 1996 and closed in autumn that year. After ten years of vacancy and decay, it was resold in 2006 and converted into an apart-hotel from 2010 to 2011. The jetty in Wieker Bodden, demolished in 2009, was rebuilt. Since May 2010 ships have been running regularly on the Wiek – Dranske – Hiddensee route and back again in the summer season.

Districts

The von der Lancken family estate was located in Lancken from around 1608 to 1878 . The estate was relocated after 1945. The unrenovated baroque manor house dates from around 1720 and has been empty since 1963. The baroque, three-hectare park Dranske-Lancken was laid out between 1720 and 1730.

politics

coat of arms

The coat of arms was approved by the Ministry of the Interior on July 4, 2011 and registered under the number 336 of the coat of arms of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Blazon : “Divided by a wave cut; above, in silver, a sloping branch of blackthorn with six green leaves and four blue berries; below in blue a silver sailing ship with two masts and five sails. "

The name of the community Dranske is derived from the Slavic word Dransky, which means "stick". This name is represented in the coat of arms by a branch of blackthorn. A maritime connection with the Swedish town of Ystad that has existed since 1684 is symbolized by the depiction of the two-masted sailing ship “Posthornett” in the coat of arms. Both symbols are separated from each other by a blue wave cut, which indicates the location of the municipality of Dranske by the sea.

The coat of arms was designed by the Rügen graduate designer Jürgen Frenkel.

flag

The municipality has been flying a flag approved by the Ministry of the Interior since July 4, 2011.

Flag description: “The flag of the municipality of Dranske is evenly striped lengthways in white and blue and divided by a wavy line. In the middle of the white stripe is a sloping branch of blackthorn with six green leaves and four blue berries; in the middle of the blue stripe is a white sailing ship with two masts and five sails. The height of the flag cloth is related to the length as 3: 5. "

The flag was designed by the Rügen graduate designer Jürgen Frenkel.

Attractions

Marine history and local history museum Dranske / Bug , in which the visitor can learn a lot about the history of this community and the Bug peninsula.

In the district of Kuhle, at the northern tip of the Wieker Bodden, is the oldest restaurant in Rügen, the "Schifferkrug", whose existence has been proven since 1455.

The Dranske-Lancken park, which was created as a baroque manor park between 1720 and 1730 , and the equally old, baroque, two-story, unrenovated manor house " Gutshaus Lancken ", which has been vacant since 1963, are located in the Lancken district . The estate belonged to the von der Lancken families (1608–1878).

Events

From March to October, guided hikes in the Südbug National Park are organized by the Dranske Tourist Office
On Holy Saturday there is an Easter bonfire in the village and on the beach at Rainbow Camp Nonnevitz.
On the last weekend in July, the three-day Bodden Party is held, where the Windland Cup is surfed.
The "Marinehistorisches- und Heimatmuseum Dranske / Bug" is open from April to October.