Gotland fishing spots

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Old fishing place Helgumannen on the island of Fårö
Old fishing place Agbod
Grynge fiskeläge
Hammars fiskeläge

The Gotland fishing stations ( Swedish Gotländska fiskelägen ) are typical facilities for the island of Gotland . These are seasonally inhabited villages, comparable to the Norwegian Rorbu . Similar seasonal accommodation for fishermen was also available on Öland ( Bruddesta and Grytehamn ) and in the coastal regions of the mainland, but these have hardly survived. Today there are around 150 fishing spots of various sizes on Gotland, which in the past were primarily used by the farmers living on the coast. Eleven of the fishing sites are listed as “ Reich interests ”.

Overview

Fishing on Gotland and Fårö (but also in other parts of Scandinavia ) was an additional trade that was turned into for a few months. At times when the fish population was particularly high, larger fishing stations were created to which one drove from the ports or the communities in the interior of the island. They fished for their own use and the catch was salted. The fishing spots were only inhabited during the fishing season and were empty the rest of the time. When agriculture became mechanized in the 19th century, the number of farmers involved in fishing decreased. The coastal inhabitants took over the fish supply of the island and many farmers became professional fishermen. When the conditions for this type of fishing worsened, the salmon fishery shifted and the boats and fishing places were adapted to the new requirements. In the 1950s the trawler fishery developed and most of the jobs were given up. The fish trade was reorganized and permanent huts built for weighing and salting the fish. Those on the coast of Norrland or Gävle are called Gävlebohamnar . There are also fiskeläge in the Fylke Finnmark in Norway .

Repvåg

The fishing places

There are fishing spots with stone huts and those with well-preserved rows of beach stalls. Large fishing stations have up to four dozen stalls, usually lined up close together. Behind it there are drying areas for the nets - the Netzgarten (Swedish: Gistgardi ). The booths were mostly tool sheds, consisting of a single room with a hatch or small window, and sometimes there was an open fireplace and bunk beds. The oldest tool sheds consisted of a roof-only house that stood directly on more or less long posts on the floor or over a hollow. Some of the booths were made of dry stone walls and sealed with earth or clay. The roofs consisted of boards called "Falar". Sandstone slabs were common as roofing on the south and south-east coast. The landing sites are called Länningar. They are well preserved in Tomtbod in Burs. In most places, recreational fishing is predominant today, the stalls have been converted into holiday huts.

  • Gotland fishing spots

  • Gotland fishing spot

  • Fisherman's houses, net garden and beacon in the Kovik Fisheries Museum

  • Gotland fishing boat

  • Fisherman's houses and stone slipway in the Kovik Fisheries Museum

  • Gotland fishing spots

  • Gotland fishing spots

  • Gnisvard

  • Agbod

The eleven classified as "independent Reich interests" are:

  • Agbod, parish of Gothem
  • Gnisvärd , Tofta parish
  • Grynge , parish of Gammelgarn
  • Häftingsstadar, Hangvar parish
  • Hammars, Norrlanda parish
  • Holm (Holmhällar), parish of Vamlingbo
  • Hus, parish of Rone
  • Kovik , parish of Sanda, with a fishing museum, stone boat slips (called Länninge) and net gardens
  • Sigsarvestrand, Hangvar parish
  • Valbybodar, Fröjel parish
  • Vitvär near Ljugarn, Parish Ardre

The other fiskelägen that should be emphasized today include:

The boats

The boat, the Gotland "Snipa", was pointed at the bow and stern. It was flat and easy to land. Strands of stone, so-called länninge (a kind of early slip device) were laid out in the water as landing places for the boats. On the west coast the boats had higher stems. They were harder to row and sail, but safer in a storm. The sails were made of coarse wool, linen or hides. Common boat types were the one, two and three-man. Large three-men were up to eleven meters long and had three masts and six or seven sails. Entering the fishing spots could be problematic in the dark. To guide the fishermen, fire was maintained in an iron basket at the top of a long rotating light rod. In Grynge and Vitvär, an open fire was burned on a stone.

See also

literature

  • Marita Jonsson, Sven-Olof Lindquist: Gotland cultural guide . 1993, ISBN 91-88036-09-X , pp. 33-35.

Web links

Commons : Gotland fishing sites  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lansstyrelsen Gotlands län: Riksintressen ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Byggnadsantikvarie i Länsstyrelsen i Gotlands län
  3. ^ Riksintressen Gotland. (PDF; 75 kB) In: Riksantikvarieämbetet . Retrieved February 16, 2012 (Swedish).