Mövenstein (Travemünde)
The Mövenstein (partly, as with Thomas Mann , also spelled Möwenstein ) is a boulder made of hammer granite in the Lübeck district of Travemünde and protected as a natural monument . The stone is located in Lübeck Bay at the northern end of the former seaside resort Mövenstein at the transition from the beach promenade to the Brodtener Ufer . About two fifths of it protrudes from the Baltic Sea . Its weight is estimated at around 80 tons.
history
It takes its name from a legendary figure , the giant Möves - or Möwes - who threw stones into the sea off Travemünde. In 1925, the seaside resort was built in Travemünde by the Lübeck city architect Friedrich Wilhelm Virck . At that time, the boulder was used by visitors to the seaside resort. Since the mid-1950s it has been part of a dam in front of the green beach of the former bathing establishment, where it is north of the yacht club's boat ramp.
The bathing establishment was given up and its 15,000 square meter area became the property of the Lübeck Yacht Club in 1994 . He renovated the building, which has been a listed building since 1991, with the support of the Possehl Foundation and uses the area as a "Mövenstein catamaran and dinghy station".
On December 18, 1980, the Mövenstein was added to the Lübeck natural monuments directory.
The boulder sagged over the decades. It is estimated that it could have sunk in the Baltic Sea in thirty years. The initiative "Rettet den Mövenstein" of the Heimatverein Travemünde tries to save the foundling from destruction. It should either have a permanent foundation or be salvaged from the Baltic Sea and set up at another location.
The Mövenstein name in Travemünde includes a public car park with 60 parking spaces at the northern end of Kaiserallee and a commercial sailing school on the premises of the Lübeck Yacht Club.
The Mövenstein in literature
The Lübeck-born writer Thomas Mann set a literary monument to Mövenstein in his 1901 novel Buddenbrooks . The 18-year-old consul daughter Tony Buddenbrook from Lübeck, who does not want to marry the businessman Bendix Grünlich, who was chosen by her parents as husband, is sent to Travemünde to relax, where she meets his son Morten in the house of pilot commander Schwarzkopf, who is studying medicine in Göttingen. They become friends, young Schwarzkopf accompanies them on walks, and they fall in love. When Schwarzkopf's return to Göttingen is imminent, they camped “in the afternoon in a distant area: where the yellow clay walls began and where the waves at the 'Möwenstein' threw up their spray ”. They promise marriage; Tony Buddenbrook will nevertheless marry Bendix Grünlich. Thomas Mann received the Nobel Prize in Literature for the novel in 1929 .
The Mövenstein was also one of the locations where the film adaptation of the novel Buddenbrooks (1959) by Alfred Weidenmann was shot .
The Lübeck-born poet Emanuel Geibel immortalized the Mövenstein in his poem Nixen vom Mövenstein .
literature
- Lübeck Yacht Club (ed.): The Lübeck Yacht Club and 100 eventful years , Lübeck 1998
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mövenstein rescue more expensive than expected. In: Lübecker Nachrichten. February 11, 2014, accessed October 23, 2016 .
- ↑ Lutz Mackensen : Hanseatische Sagen 1928, quoted from say.at
- ↑ Welcome to the Mövenstein ( Memento from September 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on the Lübeck Yacht Club website
- ↑ Mövenstein with a new use . In: Lübecker Stadtzeitung from May 12, 1998
- ↑ Spectacular rescue operation: Heimatverein wants to get 40-tonne »Mövenstein« from the Baltic Sea. In: Travemünde aktuell from March 30, 2011
- ↑ Seagull Rescue
- ↑ Parking spaces in Travemünde
- ↑ www.segelschule.in
- ↑ Quoted from scritube.com Third part, ninth chapter ( Memento from September 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Location of the "Buddenbrooks", Möwenstein, Travemünde on vimu.info
Coordinates: 53 ° 58 ′ 29.5 ″ N , 10 ° 53 ′ 2.5 ″ E