Fehmarnbelt
| Fehmarnbelt | ||
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| Connects waters | Kiel Bay | |
| with water | Mecklenburg Bay | |
| Separates land mass | Fehmarn | |
| of land mass | Lolland | |
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| Geographical location | 54 ° 35 ′ N , 11 ° 19 ′ E | |
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| length | 25 km | |
| Smallest width | 18.6 km | |
| Greatest depth | 30 m | |
| Coastal towns | Puttgarden , Rødby | |
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The Fehmarnbelt (Danish Femern Bælt , formerly Femer Bælt ) is an approximately 19 km wide waterway between the south coast of Lolland and Fehmarn in the western Baltic Sea . As a sea route, it connects the Great Belt and the Kiel Bay as the Kiel-Baltic Sea route with the waters of the Mecklenburg Bay and the eastern Baltic Sea (see also Kadetrinne ). In June 2007 the German and Danish governments decided on a joint construction project to cross the Fehmarnbelt. On February 1, 2011, the Danish parliament voted in favor of building the Fehmarnbelt tunnel . Part of the Fehmarnbelt, which lies in the German exclusive economic zone, is designated as a nature reserve of 280 square kilometers .
Data
In the middle between the two islands there is a 9 km wide strip with water depths between 20 and 30 meters. The currents in the Fehmarnbelt are primarily drift currents that are caused by the wind and are dependent on the wind prevailing over the Baltic Sea. The influence of the tidal currents is small (at most 0.2 to 0.3 nautical miles per hour).
The number of ship passages in the Fehmarnbelt was 38,167 in 2014.
Crossing
The Puttgarden - Rødbyhavn bird airline crosses the Fehmarnbelt by ship .
On June 29, 2007, after years of discussion, the governments of Denmark and Germany agreed on the construction of a fixed link across the Fehmarnbelt . The start of construction on the approximately 19 kilometer long connection ( bridge or tunnel ) between Puttgarden on the Baltic Sea island of Fehmarn and Rødby on the Danish island of Lolland should initially be in 2012. The 7.4 billion euro building, most of which Denmark will assume, should be completed by 2021. On September 3, 2008, the then transport ministers of Germany and Denmark, Wolfgang Tiefensee and Carina Christensen , signed the contract in Copenhagen for the construction of a fixed Fehmarnbelt link. After a recalculation of the costs in 2010, the tunnel solution is again increasingly discussed.
In 2005 Christof Wandratsch swam through the Fehmarnbelt in a time of 5 hours 11 minutes. He held the world record for the solo crossing of the Fehmarnbelt. On August 29, 2012, Bruno Baumgartner from Switzerland broke the previous record with a time of 4 hours and 53 minutes.
Ship accidents in the Fehmarnbelt
On July 26, 1932, the sailing training ship Niobe capsized due to an unforeseeable thunderstorm gust. It sank in a few minutes.
On October 28, 2007, the Turkish freighter Omer N, registered in Slovakia, overturned 15 nautical miles west of the Danish city of Gedser for reasons that are not yet clear . Three crew members were rescued, four were only recovered dead. Four other people were missing.
On the night of 8 to 9 October 2010, came ropax -Fähre Lisco Gloria with 236 people on board around 6 nautical miles north of Fehmarn on fire. 28 people were injured in the fire, 23 of whom were hospitalized.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Less traffic in Kadetrinne. In: Daily port report . July 29, 2015, p. 2.
- ↑ Danes question Fehmarnbelt Bridge. (No longer available online.) Financial Times Deutschland, October 18, 2010, archived from the original on October 20, 2010 ; Retrieved October 18, 2010 .
- ^ Radio Schleswig-Holstein (RSH) from August 29, 2012.
Web links
- Fehmarnbelt portal of the Fehmarnbelt Committee
- Cooperation across the Fehmarnbelt
- Fehmarnbelt Bridge (background information) ( Memento from May 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- Fehmarnbelt Bridge contract signed
- Background information from the Schleswig-Holstein state government about the Fehmarnbelt link (PDF, 547 kB, 11 pages)