Vitte (Hiddensee Island)
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Vitte
Municipality of Hiddensee Island
Coordinates: 54 ° 34 ′ 8 ″ N , 13 ° 6 ′ 27 ″ E
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| Area : | 2 km² | |
| Incorporation : | 1938 | |
| Postal code : | 18565 | |
| Area code : | 038300 | |
Location of Vitte in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania |
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_2.JPG) Vitte district from the plane
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Vitte is one of four districts of the municipality of Insel Hiddensee .
Vitte, with around 500 inhabitants and the other residential areas on the island, forms the municipality of Seebad Hiddensee (Hiddensee had around 1000 inhabitants in total in 2017). The municipal administration is located in Vitte, so Vitte is the unofficial capital of the island.
history
The name of the largest district on the island of Hiddensee comes from Vitten , which in the Middle Ages referred to herring fishing and fish trading places.
From the beginning of the 20th century, the small, natural island became a popular summer residence, and later also a place of residence, for artists, writers and scientists from Germany. The inhabitants decided very early on not to allow individual motor vehicle traffic on the entire island.
The gradual development of tourism, as tourism was called at the beginning of the 20th century, led to the construction of new housing estates with separate apartments for holiday guests and the expansion of the port facilities, especially in the towns of Kloster and Vitte. Traditional economies such as fishing or farming for personal use gradually declined. Tourism became an important branch of the economy, albeit essentially limited to the summer months. The residents worked in the new hotels, in service or rented rooms to vacationers.
After the founding of the GDR and the FDGB , the trade union federation acted as the main lessor of holiday accommodation on Hiddensee. Either the FDGB had soon built its own building - in Vitte, for example, the currently vacant FDGB rest home Zur Ostsee or the existing inns and private room renters were contractually obliged to only book through the union during the main season.
After the reunification , tourism on the entire island fell significantly, and many younger Hiddenseers also left their island; however, the residents could now rent to private individuals all year round. The restaurants and hotels, on the other hand, had to invest extensively in order to achieve a minimum standard for tourists. In addition to technical renovations, most of the buildings were also structurally renovated. - In the 21st century, the vacation economy reached a new boom.
The west side of the district of Vitte has a long beach with fine sea sand.
Special buildings and museums
Artist houses
- On the northern edge of the former fishing village is a small settlement with several one-story buildings that were built by artists, especially painters and photographers. The houses got their names after the owners like the Henni-Lehmann-Haus , the Asta-Nielsen-Haus or after the eye-catching exterior design like the blue barn . The female residents formed the Hiddensoer Künstlerinnenbund . The cohesion proved to be particularly important in the time of National Socialism , when Jews, dissenters and foreigners were persecuted.
- A group of buildings at the corner of Norderende and Wallweg indicates with a memorial plaque made of granite that Gerhart Hauptmann had taken his summer residence here several times between 1896 and 1899; it is not used as a branch of the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Haus in Kloster, but is empty and crumbling (as of June 2019).
More noteworthy
- National Park House, Norderende 2; on the border with monastery
- Homunculus figure collection in a simple, newly built house made of larch wood, is a collection of marionettes as well as other play models and figures that were or are used in the various pieces on the lake stage.
- Medical center in the street Süderende (which also functions as a prescription collection point ), an expanded brick building from the beginning of the 20th century
- Municipal port of Vitte with an attached sailing port
- Hexenhaus , a fisherman's hut built in 1755 (Süderende 105), a listed building ; Summer residence of Adolf Reichwein , educator and politician of the Weimar Republic, still owned by the family
- Island information
- Port center
- Town hall Vitte / municipal administration, Norderende 162
- Body of an old windmill
- Tent cinema, in which film screenings Hiddensee often take place in the focus of GDR television
- Hiddensee lake stage in Vitte, Wallweg 2; founded in 1997
- Villa Karusel , museum on the life and work of actress Asta Nielsen and architect Max Taut
- Blue beach house Vitte , Norderende 38
- a DGzRS marine rescue station with the rescue cruiser Nausikaa at the harbor (Bodden side)
House brands and stumbling blocks
Many house numbers or roof ridges also have the house brands of their owners.
The action artist Gunter Demnig laid six stumbling blocks in Vitte in the 2000s . These are reminiscent of the painter Julie Wolfthorn , deported in 1942 and murdered in the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1944 , the painter Henni Lehmann , who escaped persecution through suicide in 1937, the painter Susanne Ritscher , who was consistently able to hide successfully, and the painter Clara Arnheim, who was deported and murdered in Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942, to the painter Käthe Löwenthal and to the politician Adolf Reichwein , member of the Kreisau Circle resistance group ; was executed in Berlin-Plötzensee in 1944 after arrest and a show trial . Everyone lived and worked in Vitte during the Nazi era .
Established businesses
Guest houses and pensions
- As of summer 2019; Alphabetical -
- Gasthaus Buhne XI
- Fischerklause
- Godewind Hotel and Restaurant
- Hafenkater , Schilling's fish trade,
- Aunt Hedwig
- Heiderose, an inn south of Vitte; an FDGB home in GDR times
- Hiddenseeklause
- Gasthaus Inselreif
- Cafe Norderende
- Gasthaus & Pension Zum Hiddenseer .
Service provider, gallery owner, specialty
- The Hiddensee manufactory , with a branch in Kloster and one in Vitte, produces its own ice cream.
- The canning store :
under this name, an institution has been established that supports the Kutterfisch project , which was founded in the 2010s, with the sale of products and makes it public. - A large grocery supplier and a few bakeries cater to the locals and holidaymakers.
- Some celebrities living here, such as the architect and painter Reinhard Muschik, show and sell their own works in their studio (as of summer 2019).
- Products made from or with sea buckthorn berries are available in many places.
- Beach chair rental company
- Private bike rentals
- For the entire island is only available in Vitte the opportunity at the Sparkasse Vorpommern with cash supply.
Web links
- Official website of the municipality for the district of Vitte
- In the footsteps of artists through Vitte , a literary walk.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the island of Hiddensee 2012 to 2017. Accessed on June 15, 2019 .
- ^ Holidays on the GDR Baltic Sea island of Hiddensee; on www.spiegel.de. Retrieved June 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Homepage of the National Park House Vorpommersche Boddenlandschaft in Vitte , accessed on June 20, 2019.
- ↑ Homepage Homunculus Figurensammlung , accessed on June 20, 2019.
- ↑ The 10 best inns in Vitte next to the Godewind on www.tripadvisor.de; accessed on June 20, 2019.
- ↑ Homepage Hiddenseer Kutterfisch , accessed on June 17, 2019.
- ↑ Reinhard Muschik Atelier in Das Örtliche; accessed on June 20, 2019.