Spandowerhagener Wiek
| Spandowerhagener Wiek | ||
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 View over the Spandowerhagener Wiek |
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| Waters | Peenestrom | |
| Land mass | North German Plain | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 9 '0 " N , 13 ° 43' 15" E | |
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| width | approx. 3.2 km | |
| depth | approx. 1.5 km | |
| Greatest water depth | 4.9 m | |
| Medium water depth | 2.45 m | |
The Spandowerhagener Wiek is the western bay of the Peene River between the northern end of Usedom , the (half) island of Struck and the Western Pomeranian mainland. The waters of the almost semicircular looking Wiek and the Peene stream merge here with the Greifswalder Bodden . The fishing villages of Spandowerhagen and Freest are located on the southwest coast of the Wiek. To the west of the Wiek - near the Struck peninsula - there was the small town of Freesendorf, which was given up in the 1970s as part of the construction of the KKW Nord energy complex in the Lubminer Heide . Only the now silted up Freesendorfer See with its Bülten on the Struck peninsula, which is connected by watercourses to both the Greifswalder Bodden and the Spandowerhagener Wiek, reminds of the disappeared place .
The bay is around 3.2 kilometers long and 1.5 kilometers wide. The surface of the Wiek corresponds to about a third of that of the Danish Wiek of 8.1 km², i.e. 5 km² or 500 ha. The water depth is between 0.5 and 4.9 m, i.e. an average of 2.45 m. The so-called “Knaakrücke” - a shoal between 0.1 and 0.5 m - forms the invisible northern border between the Spandowerhagener Wiek and the Greifswalder Bodden. The eponymous place Spandowerhagen is a district of Kröslin . The district of Freest is also located on the south bank of the bay and has its important fishing port here. The former cooling water channel of the Lubmin nuclear power plant flows into the west side of the bay . The bay is mostly shallow (less than two meters), only on the cooling water channel and at Freest are deeper channels with more than four meters of water depth. The northern part of the bay, together with the island of Ruden and the west coast of the island of Usedom, forms the " Peenemünder Haken, Struck and Ruden nature reserve " and is partially closed.
The settlement of the western Slavic coastal area between Dänischer- and Spandowerhagener Wiek mostly took place in the course of the feudal German eastward expansion or colonization in the 13th century, whereby the no longer existing Freesendorf u. a. refers to Frisians as colonists and settlers. Spandowerhagen, however, is a more recent establishment. The Spandowerhagener Wiek has recently attracted the interest of Viking research, especially the Jomswikings . New research assumes that the Wiek and its adjoining mainland, due to the Peene River as the medieval main waterway of the Oder , were the facility and port of the Danish Jomsburg , which, according to the Nordic sources, was built by the Jomswikings operating here in the second half of the 10th century .
literature
- Greifswald and its surroundings (= values of the German homeland . Volume 14). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1968.
- Harald Krause: Wiek and Wikinger - origin and development of shipping and maritime terms used by seafarers in the extended Baltic Sea area. In: Bull and Griffin . Sheets on cultural and regional history in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , year 19, Schwerin 2009, pp. 10–21.
- Lutz Mohr : Between Ryck and Ruden. The socialist construction of our homeland using the example of the “Bruno Leuschner” nuclear power plant ... the “Friedrich Loeffler Institute” Riems island - Bodden islands as reflected in history. (= New Greifswald Museum Issues No. 3) Museum of the City of Greifswald 1978.
- Lutz Mohr, Harald Krause: The Jomsburg in Pomerania. History and technology of a lost Viking sea festival. 2nd ext. Ed., Wessels Puppet Media, Essen 2002.
Individual evidence
- ^ Nautical chart "Greifswalder Bodden" 1511 / INT 1343, scale 1: 50000, ed. from the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency Hamburg / Rostock 2010