Vitt
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Vitt is a fishing village on the Western Pomerania island of Rügen in the district of Western Pomerania-Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The village belongs to the municipality of Putgarten .
location
Vitt is located on the Wittow peninsula near Cape Arkona . Due to its location in a ravine on the steep coast , called Liete , Vitt is not visible from a distance on the land side. Only from the edge of the gorge can one see the thatched roofs of the village with crooked hips .
history
The origin of the name Vitt is not clear. Probable is a derivation from the word Vitte (n) / Witte in the sense of landing, trading and stacking place. In fact, at the beginning, Vitt was only a temporarily inhabited fishing and trading settlement, where the caught fish - especially herring - was processed and loaded.
In the absence of a charter, the exact age of the village is not known. According to the reports of the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus , the village is said to have belonged to the Slavic Jaromarsburg at Cape Arkona as a fishing and trading port as early as the 10th century .
The first documentary mention took place on May 25, 1290, when the Rügen prince Witzlaw II granted the city of Stralsund the right to catch herring on Wittow and the trade monopoly on the island of Rügen.
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The importance of Vitt - still called the Große Vitte in the 17th century - until the beginning of the modern era is clear from its location on important trade routes. In the work "Wendisch-Rügianischer Landgebrauch" created by Matthäus von Normann in the first half of the 16th century, the three "common land routes" that were important on Rügen in the Middle Ages are documented, two of which began at the Große Vitte on Wittow. Also Eilhard Lubin , this "main streets" of the island of Rügen in his map of 1609 represented exactly. In addition to the Great Vitte at Cape Arkona, this map also shows the Gronower Vitte at Schwarbe (today Müllerrinne ), a Vitte south of Sassnitz and Vitte on Hiddensee. Other smaller Vitten near Dranske, Nonnevitz and Russevase became desolate in the 16th century .
Above the village stands the small Vitter Chapel , construction of which began in 1806 and was only completed after the Napoleonic Wars in 1816. It was built because more and more visitors came to the riverside sermons of Altenkirchen pastor Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten and some of the visitors could not find a place in the fishermen's huts in bad weather.
tourism
The listed village is very well preserved and enjoys a steady stream of visitors.
Vitt is best reached by bike or with the Arkona train from Putgarten. You also have to park private cars there, as driving on the Cape is only permitted with a special permit.
Vitter Chapel from 1816
Port of Vitt
"Café by the sea"
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literature
- Norbert Buske : The church in Altenkirchen and the chapel in Vitt . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-374-00524-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Frommhold (edit.): The Rügische Landrecht of Matthaeus Normann after the shorter manuscripts. In: Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology (Ed.): Sources for Pomeranian History Volume III. Publishing house of Leon Saunier's Buchhandlung, Stettin 1896, p. 7 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Norbert Buske: The church in Altenkirchen and the chapel in Vitt . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-374-00524-1 , p. 52.
- ^ Burkhard Kunkel: Reception - Renovation. Reformation design of medieval furnishings in Pomeranian churches between aesthetics and catechesis . In: Gerhard Eimer, Ernst Gierlich, Matthias Müller (eds.): Ecclesiae ornatae . Bonn 2009, p. 269–290, here p. 271 .
Remarks
Coordinates: 54 ° 40 ′ N , 13 ° 26 ′ E