Pramort
Pramort was a settlement on the eastern tip of the Zingst peninsula in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on the eastern edge of the Sundic Meadows . The place was inhabited until at least the 1960s. Today the former place is part of the Vorpommersche Boddenlandschaft National Park and an important observation point for cranes .
history
The name Pramort probably comes from the Prahmen with which cattle were transported to the island of Großer Werder . The place was founded in the "Swedish Era" between 1648 and 1815, when Pomerania was in Swedish hands .
In 1937 the Wehrmacht set up a firing range in Sundische Wiese and Pramort. The population was relocated. The residents returned after 1945, but the GDR's National People's Army set up a new military training area in 1956. However, part of the population remained in the village until at least the 1960s.
In 1990 Pramort was included in the Vorpommersche Boddenlandschaft National Park. The military installations were removed. While most of the eastern tip of the Zingst peninsula is a total reserve, the road to Pramort remained accessible to visitors. After 2000, most of the road east of the access to the area was closed and has been renatured since then. Instead, an asphalt path leads on the dike to Pramort, which is only open to cyclists. There is a farm road next to it.
To the north of Pramort is the Hohe Düne . This dune is the largest unforested dune field on the German Baltic Sea coast. Its highest point is eleven meters high. In Pramort and on the Hohe Düne there are observation platforms with a view of the dune landscape, the Baltic Sea , the east-lying tidal flats and the lagoon landscape . The Windwatt east of Pramort connects, currently permanently silted up, the Zingst peninsula with the former island of Großer Werder .
Flora and fauna
The area around Pramort is part of the Vorpommersche Boddenlandschaft National Park . The vegetation has larger swamp areas but also heather areas. South of the road to Zingst , the wet meadows and marshland slowly merge into the drained pastures of the Sundic Meadows. To the north of the driveway, on the former firing range, there was a broom heather with bushes and even individual, wind-ruffled trees that stretch as far as the high dune. Grasses and heather usually only grow sparsely on the Hohe Düne. Beach grass secures the shore on the Baltic Sea side . The area is the habitat of a large number of small animals and more than 30 species of wading birds .
Above all, cranes use the windwatt as a stopover on their migrations or as a breeding ground. The migration of thousands of cranes can be clearly observed from the Pramort. In autumn, the entire area is closed to general visitor traffic from afternoon to morning in order to avoid disturbing the resting cranes. A limited number of visitors are allowed through between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. every day.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Behavior in the national park . Website of the National Park Office for Western Pomerania. Retrieved September 1, 2013
- ↑ Kranichrast ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the Ostseeheilbad Zingst on the topic of crane rest. Retrieved September 1, 2013
Coordinates: 54 ° 25 ′ 47 " N , 12 ° 55 ′ 26.6" E