Gardno (Wolin)
| Gardno ( Jordan Lake ) | ||
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| Geographical location | Poland , West Pomeranian Voivodeship | |
| Places on the shore | Grodno | |
| Location close to the shore | Międzyzdroje (Miedzyzdroje) | |
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| Coordinates | 53 ° 57 '50 " N , 14 ° 31' 36" E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 16.9 m npm | |
| surface | 2.5 ha | |
| length | 474 m | |
| width | 120 m | |
| volume | 64,400 m³ | |
| Maximum depth | 7.3 m | |
| Middle deep | 2.6 m | |
The Gardno (German Jordansee ) is a lake on the island of Wolin in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship . In popular traditions the lake was also referred to as “Gerdasee”, “Jördasee” or “Jörmssee”.
geography
The north shore of the lake is about 300 meters from the Baltic coast, from where it can be reached via a cut in the steep coast . The lake is located six kilometers northeast of Międzyzdroje ( Miedzyzdroje ) and just under three kilometers west of Wisełka ( Neuendorf on the island of Wollin ) in the Wolin National Park . Droga wojewódzka 102 runs south of the lake . The catchment area of the lake in the Wolin terminal moraine has an area of 265 hectares. There is an island in the southern part of the Gardno.
history
The oldest piece of news from the lake is the naming of a border town called “lacum Gardino” in a document from Duke Bogislaw I of Pomerania from 1186. Because the word “gard ” means “castle” in Polish , a Slavic rampart was assumed here. However, no such systems were found in the vicinity of the lake. The name "Quebb or Jordan Lake" was used for the first time on the map of the Swedish land survey of Western Pomerania from 1692.
Tradition has it that the Jordan Lake is associated with the Pomeranian pirate Stina , the leader of a group of Wollin buccaneers and companion of Klaus Störtebeker , who had her hiding place here. After her capture around 1401, she was drowned by local captors and her companions in Lake Jordan.
In the 1820s, the chief president Johann August Sack had a herring packing plant built north of the Jordan lake, where the herring catches delivered by the fishermen were processed and sent as salt herring via Świnoujście . Later, a cement factory was put into operation nearby , drawing its water from the Jordan Lake via a pipeline. Cement production was stopped in 1877. The former factory owner's villa was used as a forester's house.
Lake Jordan, located in the middle of a forest area, was the subject of numerous legends and was a magnet for romantics in the 19th century. Around the middle of the century it was made accessible to day trippers and tourists by creating paths. Theodor Fontane , who knew the original state of the lake from his childhood, complained about the changes after a visit in 1863: “The most beautiful lake in northern Germany was perhaps the Jordansee. ... Good will and little taste have destroyed this precious piece of nature. "
After the Second World War and the transition of the island Wolin to Poland, Lake Jordan was given the name Gardno . It has been in the Wolin National Park since 1960 .
literature
- August Zöllner : The Jordan lake on Wollin in history, legend and poetry. Międzyzdroje newspaper, Międzyzdroje 1935.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Mariusz Samołyk: Characterystyka nadmorskiej zlewni rzeczno-jeziornej Lewińskiej Strugi (wyspa Wolin) ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2 MB). In: Geologia i geomorfologia . Volume, 2013, pp. 167–178 (Polish).
- ↑ August Zöllner: The Jordansee on Wollin in history, legend and poetry. Misdroyer Zeitung, Misdroy 1935, p. 9.
- ^ Robert Kolander, Jacek Tylkowski: Hydrochemical seasons in the Lake Gardno on Wolin Island (north-western Poland). In: Limnological Review. 8 vol., Issue 1–2, pp. 27–34 ( Online ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , PDF : 1.8 MB)
- ^ Pomeranian document book . I, No. 102
- ↑ Lutz Mohr : Just a legendary figure? Stina - the Pomeranian pirate . In: Heimathefte für Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , Vol. 18, Issue 1, Schwerin 2008, pp. 28–29.
- ^ Lutz Mohr: Störtebeker, Stina and journeymen. Privateer of the Baltic Sea around 1400 in the Pomeranian Sagengut . In: The Pommersche Zeitung. Vol. 58, episode 10 of March 8, 2008, p. 16.
- ^ Theodor Fontane: Walks through the Mark Brandenburg. Part 2: The Oderland. Berlin 1863.
