Warthe (Rankwitz)
Warthe is a district of the Rankwitz community at the northern end of the Lieper Winkel on the island of Usedom .
history
Warthe is said to have been mentioned for the first time in 1317. This document (PUB V / 2 No. 3132) with the general confirmation by Duke Wartislaw IV for the Pudagla Monastery is considered forged, like so many other documents from this monastery. Another mention is from 1329 (Bayersdorf, 1881, p. 37), but the content is currently unknown. In 1618, Warthe was then mentioned on the Lubin map.
Rankwitz with Warthe and the other places in Lieper Winkel still belonged to the Premonstratensians in Pudagla , who lived in the Grobe monastery near Usedom (city) until 1309 , as the property map from 1530 says.
A local story tells that in 1675 Prussian soldiers built a lookout tower there to catch smugglers of tobacco from Swedish Pomerania from the direction of Lassan. After that the place should have the name. However, since mentions have already been made beforehand, this is to be regarded as a legend, whereby the factual fact may well be true.
After that there is very little historical evidence. Warthe shares the history of the Lieper Winkel under the Pomeranian dukes, the Swedes after the Thirty Years War and the Prussians after 1720.
In 1666 an inventory of the heads of households in the region counted three farmers and two kötter . When the country was taken up by the Swedes in 1693, the community had grown so large that it was head of a mayor . In addition, 13 heads of household were registered (4 full farmers, 2 half farmers, 5 kötter, 1 swineherd and 1 resident).
In 1835, Warthe was shown as an anger village with the function of a farming and fishing settlement. A small port on the backwaters was called "Fischer Platz". In front of it was the "Sandbank Warther Haken". To the west is the "Kusen Berg" and to the north is the "Haken Berg".
In 1880 a place to live was created on the Achterwasser and the port there, called the Warthe Extension and from 1925 Neu Warthe. In the MTB of 1880, the Erratic Block east of Warthe was also drawn for the first time in the “Stein Bruch”. It is also called "Teufelsstein Warthe" and is said to be the largest erratic block (boulder) in Usedom. It is registered as a geotope with no. 2_027. It is 4.6 m long, 3.4 m wide and 1.2 m high.
The only main road that runs through the Lieper Winkel and partly designed as an avenue, which was built between 1896 and 1898, ends in Warthe.
In 1903 the Warthe volunteer fire brigade was founded.
In 1925 Neu Warthe, the port of Warthe, was officially named in the register of places. There was also the only windmill in the area.
The place was excluded from tourism well into the 20th century; this was essentially still the case in GDR times, only to the northwest of the village a bungalow settlement was built on the Achterwasser. After 1990 the houses in the historic core were renovated, facades were painted brightly, the place was mentioned in travel guides and more and more holiday apartments were built or offered. There are two restaurants. The facilities are tailored to hikers, cyclists, anglers and sailors looking for peace and quiet, and there is a good balance between the number of guests and the infrastructure.
Worth seeing
- Town center with colored half-timbered houses, cane roofs and well-tended flower gardens.
- Small swimming areas on the backwater.
- Blue house : oldest, originally preserved half-timbered building with thatched roof (regionally correct - "cane roof"). There is also a half-timbered barn with old clay infills.
- Teufelsstein Warthe - erratic block, the largest block of its kind in Usedom.
- Hiking and cycling path south along the Peene River to Quilitz or east along the Achterwasser to Grüssow and Reestow .
- Fisherman's beach on the Achterwasser (district of Warthe expansion): Here, on a gnarled pasture as a tourist attraction, an arrangement with fish traps, a wooden vat and a fishing boat is set up, which is intended to reconstruct a backdrop for the fairy tale Von dem Fischer un syner Fru . Philipp Otto Runge , who wrote it down for the Brothers Grimm , comes from Wolgast and has set the plot in the local area; however, nothing speaks for exactly this point.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Manfred Niemeyer: Ostvorpommern I . Collection of sources and literature on place names. Vol. 1: Usedom. (= Greifswald contributions to toponymy. Vol. 1), Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald, Institute for Slavic Studies, Greifswald 2001, ISBN 3-86006-149-6 . P. 65
Coordinates: 53 ° 59 ' N , 13 ° 55' E