Martinshafen

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Martinshafen with chalk railway after 1912

Martinshafen is a part of the municipality Sagard in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen . It is a harbor and a place to live.

Geography and traffic

Martinshafen is located on the Great Jasmunder Bodden and three kilometers west of Sagard. It can be reached via a local road from Bundesstraße 96 via the village of Vorwerk. From the 1890s to the 1940s there was a narrow-gauge railway from Gummanz and von Wittenfelde to Martinshafen, which was only intended for the transport of the mined chalk . It was a light railroad in meter gauge . The former chalk railway line is now mainly used as a cycling and hiking trail .

history

The port of Martinshafen
Cemetery of the Nameless

In 1896 the large industrialist Martin Quistorp from Szczecin acquired the chalk quarries in and around Quoltitz . After his father Johannes Quistorp (1822–1899), he was the managing director of the Wolgaster , Lebbiner and Stettiner Portland cement factories from 1890 onwards . The Lebbiner cement factory was the second oldest in Germany and the largest in Europe. Since the Lebbin chalk quarries no longer supplied enough raw materials, Quistorp first bought the raw chalk from the Rügen chalk works. From there the chalk was transported from Rügen to the Quistorp factories, first by barges and later by cargo ships.

To load the raw chalk from the Quoltitzer Revier, the place and port on the Great Jasmunder Bodden was laid out in 1896 and was given the name of the founder "Martinshafen". The transport from the quarries was carried out with field railways, the substructure of which was then expanded into a solid chalk track. The trains consisted of small diesel locomotives and tipping trucks .

Quistorp had his own shipping company; his cargo ships carried a brisk traffic between the chalk shipments and the cement factories.

After 1945, the transport was increasingly shifted to trucks to the stations of the Rügen Kleinbahn or the Reichsbahn . The chalk harbor in Martinshafen was closed, later it became a fishing and sport boat harbor.

In May 1945 a convoy with several refugee ships was stuck in Martinshafen. An epidemic broke out. 29 refugees and three marines are buried in the nameless cemetery south of the port. The facility is a listed building.

At present there is a well-developed marina there . The transport technology of the chalk railway can be seen partly in the chalk museum Gummanz and in the oldtimer museum Rügen in the seaside resort Prora .

literature

  • Heinz Lehmann, Renate Meyer: Rügen A – Z (Arkona - Zudar). Wähmann-Verlag, Schwerin 1976.
  • Albert Laack: The industrial and social significance of Johannes and Martin Quistorp. In: The island of Wollin and the estuary area. Frankfurt 2010.

Web links

Commons : Martinshafen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Wilhelm, Dirk Thomas: Kreidebahn Neddesitz. In: Railways in Pomerania. 2003, accessed December 23, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Erik Rauner, Jens Merte: Pommerscher Industrieverein auf Aktien, Stettin, Werkbahn Martinshafen, 18551 Sagard-Martinshafen. In: Bahn-Express. Magazine for rail enthusiasts. March 19, 2007, accessed December 23, 2014 .

Coordinates: 54 ° 32 '  N , 13 ° 31'  E