Hiorten
 Reconstruction of the Hiorten in the port of Simrishamn
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The Swedish mail sailor Hiorten (Hirsch) operated between the German Baltic city of Stralsund and the southern Swedish port city of Ystad from 1692 to 1702 . An intermediate stop was made on the Bug headland .
It was a two- masted topsail schooner with three Swedish blue and yellow sapwood flags (on the topsail , on the schooner sail and on the stern ).
This route was opened on July 20, 1683 as a postal line and connected what was then Swedish Pomerania with the motherland of Sweden . Before that, mail ships operated irregularly between Ystad and Stralsund from around 1664.
The annual Hiorten regatta on the occasion of the Hanse Sail and the Baltic Sail between Rostock and Karlskrona is a reminder of this route and this ship .
In 1998, Deutsche Post AG issued a stamp (worth 1.10 DM) with the Hiorten and its route as a motif based on a design by Hilmar Zill from Rostock on the day of the postage stamp .
The naval museum in Karlskrona and the shipbuilding and shipping museum in Rostock made a replica of the "Postjakten Hiorten ". May 2nd, 1999 was the day of her maiden voyage . The Hiorten had no historical relationship to Rostock , because Stralsund was part of what was then Swedish Pomerania, and Rostock was in Mecklenburg .
From 1824, the Stralsund – Ystad line was used by steamers and, on the Prussian side, temporarily called Wiek near Greifswald . From 1865 the ships sailed from Stralsund to Malmö . The traffic was stopped in the autumn of 1896 in favor of the Sassnitz – Trelleborg line (opening May 1, 1897).
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Footnotes
- ^ Adrian Bueckling : The Swedes in Western Pomerania north of the Peene . nordlicht Verlag, Karlshagen 2005, 2nd supplemented edition, p. 36