Dahme pier
The Dahme pier is a pier in the Dahme Baltic Sea spa .
history
Beginning in 1901, the emerging Baltic Sea has regularly from Travemünde from with steamboats started. The ships had to anchor in front of the beach and the Dahmer fishermen took over the further transport of passengers and luggage. In order to make the arduous disembarkation superfluous, the citizens of Dahmer Theodor Schöning and Bernhard Reshöft, together with the Kiel construction company Stocks & Kolbe, applied to the Royal Hydraulic Engineering Inspectorate in Plön on January 27, 1910 for the construction of a landing stage.
The first bridge was built from 12 to 14 meter long oak piles that were hauled in from local forests by horse and cart and anchored to the seabed with a steam ram . From 1912, three ships could moor at the 275 meter long pier at the same time. A building for ticket sales and baggage handling also belonged to the bridge. After the First World War , the seaside resort service was resumed and as early as 1919 daily trips to and from Travemünde were maintained in the summer months. In February 1922, most of the bridge was torn away by an ice drift , only the bridgehead and a section close to the bank remained. A recovery was initially out of the question due to the advancing inflation .
The second Dahmer pier was built in the 1930s . It was also destroyed by an ice drift in the winter of 1941/1942 and the remains were blown up.
When tourism again developed positively after the currency reform , the guests arriving by sea had to be disembarked again. This inconvenience led to a sharp decrease in the number of passengers and so liner shipping to Dahme was discontinued in 1953.
In the 1960s the third pier was built. Together with the house of the spa guest , it formed the center of beach life at that time. On the bridgehead was a guard station of the German Life Saving Society with a conspicuous Niveaball as a watchtower . The Heiligenhafen shipping company Willy Freter made regular fishing and butter trips from the pier . As protection from the storms , the guard station and the planking were dismantled in the winter months. Before this bridge was also destroyed by ice drift in the winter of 1979, the construction of a new pier had already started in September 1978.
The fourth and today's Dahmer pier was built about 400 meters further north. After the experience with the wooden bridges, it now stands on 28 steel piles and the girders are made of reinforced concrete . The construction costs of 1,230,000 German marks were subsidized by the economic policy. The 205 meter long and 3.5 meter wide bridge was inaugurated on June 21, 1979 by Mayor Werner Specht and opened to the public.
See also
literature
- Gerhard Eckert: In love with Dahme . Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-7672-0719-2 .
Web links
- Dahme pier. Ostsee.de, accessed on March 18, 2015 .
Coordinates: 54 ° 13 '33.8 " N , 11 ° 5' 22.3" E