Prince Island
The Prinzeninsel is a peninsula in the Großer Plöner See, southwest of the city of Plön in Schleswig-Holstein .
The Prince's Island, which became a peninsula in the 19th century through the artificial lowering of the water level , is around 2 kilometers long and only around 30 meters wide in places. At the southern end is the Lower Saxony farmhouse from the 17th century, which is now operated as an inn with goose and heather sheep breeding. The Prinzeninsel is predominantly forested and marshy in some areas of the shore. It is closed to motorized traffic.
On the former farm, the sons of the last German emperor Wilhelm II , who had acquired the island, learned basic agricultural skills while they lived in the prince's house on the mainland. The favorite place of the last German Empress, Auguste Viktoria, was on the southern tip of the Prince's Island .
The ships of the Großen-Plöner-See-Rundfahrt dock near the Lower Saxony farmhouse . The inscription nihil melius nihil homini libero dignius agricultura 1901 (“Nothing is better, nothing is more worthy to free people than agriculture”) is on the farmhouse.
The peninsula also has an open-air swimming pool known as the Prinzenbad because it was there that the sons of the Hohenzollern family learned to swim. It is characterized by a fine sandy beach on the west side, where the bottom of the lake slopes only slowly, so that a water depth of 1.20 meters is only reached at a distance of 30 meters from the shore. While a tent site and a small restaurant were operated here between 1947 and 1963 , bathers are mostly among themselves today. In the modern buildings that have replaced the earlier ones, the guard station of the German Life-Rescue Society in Plön is housed. Today the island is privately owned by Georg Friedrich Prince of Prussia .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 8 ′ 21 ″ N , 10 ° 24 ′ 34 ″ E
literature
- Ulrich Feldhahn / Stefan Schimmel: Plön Prince Island. A journey through history. Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-89870-948-4 .