Ahrenshoop

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 54 ° 23 '  N , 12 ° 25'  E
Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Western Pomerania-Ruegen
Office :	Darß / Fischland
Height :	2 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.29 km 2
Residents:	653 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	123 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	18347
Area code :	038220
License plate :	VR, GMN, NVP, RDG, RÜG
Community key :	13 0 73 002
Office administration address:	Chausseestraße 68a 18375 Born a. Darß
Website :	www.ostseebad-ahrenshoop.de
Mayor :	Benjamin Heinke (CDU)
Location of the municipality of Ahrenshoop in the Vorpommern-Rügen district

Border situation before Ahrenshoop and on the Loop 1835

The Ostseebad Ahrenshoop is a municipality in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany). It is part of the Darß / Fischland office based in Born a. Darß . It is located on the Fischland-Darß-Zingst peninsula chain at the transition from Fischland to Darß .

The historical border between Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania runs right through the municipality of Ahrenshoop . The place Ahrenshoop belonged to Western Pomerania, while today's districts of Althagen and Niehagen belonged to Mecklenburg.

geography

Ahrenshoop in 1813

Cliffs and beach at Ahrenshoop

The seaside resort of Ahrenshoop in the region Fischland on the German Baltic coast of Mecklenburg Bay is on the connection of the peninsula Darß to the mainland. Ahrenshoop is located on the Baltic Sea and Bodden coast ( Saaler Bodden ) and therefore has water on two sides. The next medium-sized centers are Barth (over the Meiningenbrücke ) and Ribnitz-Damgarten , the closest big city is Rostock . The seaside resort is divided into the three districts of Althagen, Niehagen and Ahrenshoop. The eponymous district of Ahrenshoop is located in Western Pomerania , the districts of Althagen and Niehagen are in Mecklenburg .

Ahrenshoop is connected to the Baltic Sea Cycle Route , which circles the entire Baltic Sea within the network of European EuroVelo routes.

history

1390 wanted the Pomeranian Duke Bogislaw VI. Ahrenshoop - known as Arneshop in 1311 - into a larger trading town in order to benefit from the increased volume of trade. The then Arneshop was located a little northeast of today's location on the former Loop inlet . It was an important trading place with up to 500 inhabitants. Bogislaw built a castle with a moat. The dukes were at odds with the Hanseatic cities of Rostock, Stralsund and Greifswald because of the Wulflam affair and were therefore looking for a port for their trade. In 1392 or 1393, 1000 men from Rostock, whose patricians saw their trading privileges impaired by a seaport on the Darß , destroyed the port of Ahrenshoop and "damned" the loop.

After the loop was closed, the customs booth was broken up there and a permanent customs post (border between Pomerania and Mecklenburg) was set up on the then southern edge of the town. The place where it is today was founded in 1760 by boatmen and fishermen and grew rapidly. The wreck of the Water Nymph , which sank in 1875 , was discovered in 1976.

At the end of the 19th century, painters settled here. As a result, the place developed into a seaside resort. In 1909 the Kunstkaten was built and since then many exhibitions have taken place. The artists' colony Ahrenshoop did not belong to the Mecklenburg Fischland, but as the westernmost Pomeranian place on the Fischland-Darß-Zingst peninsula to the Pomeranian Darß. It was not until 1950 that the Mecklenburg towns of Althagen and Niehagen became part of Ahrenshoop.

In the time of National Socialism , a number of luxurious summer houses were built in Althagen, which were bought by officers from Hermann Göring's environment and directors of IG Farben . In the GDR they were made available to doctors and scientists as holiday homes, as an incentive “so that they did not leave the country”. But also artists like the Rostock theater director Hanns Anselm Perten and politicians like the GDR CDU chairman Gerald Götting and directors of state-owned companies lived there. The settlement was popularly known as "Millions Hill".

Ahrenshoop was (without Althagen and Niehagen) until October 1, 1945 part of the Franzburg-Barth district and then belonged to the Rostock district until 1952 . Since July 25, 1952, the community belonged to the Ribnitz-Damgarten district in the Rostock district . Ahrenshoop has been part of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania since 1990.

politics

Community representation

The municipal council consists of the mayor and eight other members. Since the local elections on September 4, 2011, there have been three representatives of the CDU , two each from the SPD and the Ahrenshoop support group, and one representative each from the IG Gastgewerbe and the independent voters .

Coat of arms, flag, official seal

The municipality has no officially approved national emblem, neither a coat of arms nor a flag . The official seal is the small state seal with the coat of arms of the state of Mecklenburg. It shows a looking bull's head with a torn neck fur and crown and the inscription "Municipality of Ostseebad Ahrenshoop".

Artist colony

Marianne von Werefkin: The steep coast of Ahrenshoop , 1911

Arnold Lyongrün: Farmer's cottage near Ahrenshoop, oil painting 1922

→ See also Ahrenshoop Art Museum

At the end of the 19th century, the painters Paul Müller-Kaempff , Fritz Grebe , Thuro Balzer , Friedrich Wachenhusen , Oskar Frenzel and Theobald Schorn founded an artists' colony and painting school in Ahrenshoop. Louis Douzette , Elisabeth von Eicken , Hugo Jaeckel , Hugo Richter-Lefensdorf , Anna Gerresheim , Carl Rathjen , Doris am Ende , César Klein , Martin Körte , Theobald Schorn, Heinrich Schlotermann and Arnold Lyongrün also belonged to the colony .

In 1911 Marianne von Werefkin and Alexej Jawlensky , who belonged to the Neue Künstlervereinigung München , spent their holidays on the Baltic Sea. They lived in nearby Prerow in the former "Villa Seestern" in Waldstrasse and there is evidence that they visited Ahrenshoop. At the same time, the Brücke painter Erich Heckel was only a short distance away with the dancer Sidi Riha in the “Landhaus Dorneneck” on Grünen Strasse. It is not known whether he came to Ahrenshoop. Werefkin's stay, on the other hand, is secured by her painting The steep coast of Ahrenshoop with the ladies' pool.

The painter Hans Brass lived here from 1923 to 1948 . Together with Martha Wegscheider, he founded the “Bunte Stube” and acted from 1927 to 1930 as head of office and in 1944 as mayor.

From 1948 to 1953 the Rostock painter Rudolf Schmidt-Dethloff (1900–1971) had his studio in Ahrenshoop and also gave painting lessons there.

In the district of Niehagen, at Boddenweg 1, the sculptor Gerhard Marcks lived and worked in the 1930s. In the 1960s, Edmund Kesting spent the summers in Ahrenshoop and worked.

The writer Käthe Miethe , who became one of the most famous authors of literature about Darß and Fischland, lived in the district of Althagen . The Ahrenshooper Library was named after her in 2007. The graphic artist Fritz Koch-Gotha and his wife, the expressionist painter Dora Koch-Stetter and her next generation, the ceramists Barbara and Arnold Klünder, also lived in Althagen since 1944 .

The painter and sculptor Rudolf Brückner-Fuhlrott lived and worked in Ahrenshoop from 1972 until his death in 1984, while the Dresden painter Hans Kinder spent the summer months in his small studio on Grenzweg from 1957 to 1985.

In 2017 the anniversary "125 years of the Ahrenshoop artists' colony" was celebrated.

Attractions

Art katen

Schifferkirche Ahrenshoop

Toning down the barrel in July

→ See also the list of architectural monuments in Ahrenshoop

• The Ahrenshoop Art Museum opened on August 30, 2013 .
• The Künstlerhaus Lukas is one of the oldest artist houses in Germany and is available as a place for cultural exchange to artists as a grantee house.
• Tube-roofed half-timbered courtyards in Hauptstrasse, Am Strom and Bernhard-Seitz-Weg (so-called thorn house)
• The Kunstkaten is an art gallery built in the typical regional style with a thatched roof . It was built in 1909 as an exhibition pavilion for local artists based on plans by the two painters Paul Müller-Kaempff and Theobald Schorn.
• The Bunte Stube is a traditional sales point for sophisticated holiday souvenirs. It was built in 1929 by Walter Butzek in the Bauhaus style.
• The old customs house at Dorfstrasse 6b, where Albert Einstein stayed, which is now rented out as a holiday home
• The Schifferkirche from 1951 with its idiosyncratic design with a barrel vault made of wood was built by Hardt-Waltherr Hämer . The decor was planned by the sculptor Doris Oberländer .
• Artist gravestones in the cemetery.
• The Hohe Ufer has a cliff edge dune up to 18 meters high , which is formed from sands from the Ice Age. The strong surf of the Baltic Sea has led to the formation of the cliff. Due to the constant erosion of the old island core of Fischland, it breaks down again and again, especially after autumn storms. The coastline is slowly shifting to the east. Sand martins have taken up residence in the high escarpment and dug nesting holes. From the cliff you can see the Danish island of Falster in good visibility .
• The Ahrenshooper Holz is a forest area on the northeastern outskirts of Ahrenshoop with old trees of beech and oak as well as considerable holly populations . The forest has been a nature reserve since 1958 .
• A 100 meter high Deutsche Telekom transmitter mast is located at 54 ° 23 '0 "north latitude and 12 ° 25' 48" east longitude, from which program 103.3 - your local radio was broadcast on 103.3 MHz until November 30, 2014 . Since the September 15, 2015 sends Radio Paradiso with a transmitter power of 600 watts ERP on that frequency.

Events

• The barrel cutting of the barrel union Ahrenshoop, Alt- und Niehagen e. V.
• Ahrenshooper Jazzfest, since 1999 every fourth weekend in June
• Long Night of Art, annually on the third Saturday in August
• Ahrenshooper Film Nights, since 2003 annually in August, from 2013 in September

photos

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  Steep coast near Ahrenshoop with sand martin colony

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  West beach of the Darß near Ahrenshoop

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  Beach chairs on the west beach

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  Dike on the west beach

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  Former Kurhaus . Demolished in 2008

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  Successor to the Kurhaus (2010)

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  Zeesboot "Sannert" in the port of Althagen

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  Ahrenshoop spa administration

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  A typical thatched house in Niehagen

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  Old customs house Ahrenshoop, Dorfstrasse 6b

Personalities

• Erne Wehnert (1900–1985), headmistress and teacher of the schools in Althagen and Ahrenshoop, the Erne-Wehnert-Weg in the district of Niehagen was named after her
• Frida (née Liège, 1910–1989) and Wilhelm Löber (1903–1981) created Fischland ceramics in Ahrenshoop
• Friedrich Schulz (1925–2014), publicist, journalist and writer, wrote the Ahrenshoop artist lexicon , honorary citizen of the community of Ahrenshoop
• Alexander Jannasch (* 1947), German lawyer, former judge D. at the Federal Administrative Court, born in Ahrenshoop
• Kristian Wegscheider (* 1954), organ builder, born in Ahrenshoop

literature

• Johann Joachim Bernitt : Ahrenshoop and Schwaan: A Century of North German Artist Colonies. Fischerhude 1992, ISBN 3-88132-201-9 .
• Ruth Negendanck : Ahrenshoop artists' colony: a landscape for artists Fischerhude 2001, ISBN 3-88132-294-9 .
• Ingrid Schreyer: Paul Müller-Kaempff and the Ahrenshoop artists' colony. Ahrenshooper Art, 2006.
• Friedrich Schulz : Ahrenshoop between the sea and the bay. Ahrenshoop 1990.
• Friedrich Schulz: Ahrenshoop. The story of a village between Fischland and Darss. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 1992, ISBN 3-88132-290-6 .
• Friedrich Schulz: Ahrenshoop. Artist Lexicon. Fischerhude 2001, ISBN 3-88132-292-2 .
• Friedrich Schulz: Ahrenshoop. Artist colony on the Baltic Sea. Fischerhude 2005, ISBN 3-88132-260-4 .
• Friedrich Schulz: “In Ahrenshoop, goodbye!” - The “bath of cultural workers” from 1946 to 1990. Kückenshagen 2006, ISBN 3-938398-32-9 .
• Kurverwaltung Ahrenshoop (ed.): Ostseebad Ahrenshoop, artist - houses - colony . (PDF 3.7 MB).

Web links

Commons : Ahrenshoop  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikivoyage: Ahrenshoop  - travel guide

• Ahrenshoop website
• North German artist colonies - association of the places Ahrenshoop, Hiddensee and Schwaan

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistisches Amt MV - population status of the districts, offices and municipalities 2019 (XLS file) (official population figures in the update of the 2011 census) ( help ).
2. ↑ Tourismusverband Mecklenburg-Vorpommern e. V .: Baltic Sea Cycle Route . In: Tourismusverband Mecklenburg-Vorpommern e. V. ( auf-nach-mv.de [accessed on May 11, 2017]).
3. ↑ translator2: EuroVelo 10 - EuroVelo. Retrieved May 11, 2017 . 
4. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Barthold : History of Rügen and Pomerania: From the death of Barnim I (1278) to the appearance of the Hohenzollern in the Mark Brandenburg (1411) , Volume 3. Friedrich Perthes, Hamburg 1842, p. 539 ( Google Books ).
5. ^ Die Zeit: According to Ribnitz, as soon as the ice wears , November 17, 1989
6. ↑ ^{a b} NWZ: In the footsteps of a pioneer , April 1, 2017
7. ↑ Der Spiegel: Wohnen wie Honecker , July 21, 1975
8. ↑ Kyra T. Inachin: The history of Pomerania . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2008 ( digitized version ).
9. ↑ Main Statute, Section 1, Paragraph 3 (PDF).
10. ↑ Gerhard M. Schneidereit: Dunkler Wald und Weites Meer - One Hundred Years of Painting on the Darß , 2010
11. ↑ 100 years of painting on the Darß. In: Ostseezeitung , August 2, 2010
12. ^ Friedrich Schulz: Ahrenshoop artist lexicon . Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001, ISBN 978-3-88132292-8 , pp. 5-6
13. ↑ Bernd Fäthke, Werefkin and Jawlensky with son Andreas in the “Murnauer Zeit”, in exhib. Cat .: 1908–2008, 100 years ago, Kandinsky, Münter, Jawlensky, Werefkin in Murnau, Murnau 2008, pp. 60 f.
14. ↑ Bernd Fäthke, Jawlensky and his companions in a new light, Munich 2004, p. 152 f.
15. ↑ Bernd Fäthke, Marianne Werefkin, Munich 2001, p. 170 f.
16. ↑ Ahrenshooper artist lexicon
17. ↑ Guenter Roese (ed.): Edmund Kesting, in the light of the north: pictures of the sea and coastal land. MCM-Art-Verlag, Berlin 2003.