Świnoujście waterworks

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Świnoujście "Granica" waterworks

The Świnoujście “Granica” waterworks ( Polish stacja uzdatniania wody “Granica” w Świnoujściu ) supplies water to the city of Świnoujście (Świnoujście) in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship . The water tanks are located on the 53 m high Kalkberg . Nine deep wells are currently being used to obtain water. In a two-shift system, eleven employees ensure the supply of the city of Świnoujście via a pipeline network that is now 30 km long.

history

The waterworks, which was located near the eastern bank of Lake Wolgast when it was built in the area of ​​the municipality of Korswandt in the Usedom-Wollin district of the Pomeranian province , was commissioned in 1910 with five deep wells . The pipeline network in the city of Swinoujscie was 26 kilometers long at that time. After the occupation of the district by Soviet troops at the end of the Second World War , the city of Swinoujscie was handed over to the Polish administration by the USSR on October 6, 1945 in accordance with the Schwerin Border Treaty of September 21, 1945, but without the waterworks, which are part of the municipality Korswandt was in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany and in the GDR from October 7, 1949. In the Görlitz Agreement of July 6, 1950, demarcation was recognized as the state border between the GDR and Poland.

In September 1950, a border marking commission began its work, which, after difficult negotiations, completed its work in the same year. In their "Report on the completed signing of the act concerning the marking of the state border between GERMANY and POLAND", the Polish side requested in point 1 the fundamental deviation of the border course in a "pointed nose" west of Swinoujscie in the size of 150 ha. In the handover protocol of June 11, 1951, the Gau official Felix Kazmierczak for the People's Republic of Poland, the People's Policeman Horst Weirandt for the GDR and the representative of the Soviet Control Commission Gennadi Filippow agreed on the course of the border at the waterworks, which together with a predominantly wooded area of 75 hectares (also called “sack” (pl. Worek ) in Poland) was transferred from the GDR to Poland. As compensation, the GDR received from Poland an area of ​​the same size on the Oder in the Staffelde area.

literature

  • Bernd Aischmann: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, excluding the city of Stettin. A historical perspective . 2nd Edition. Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 2009, ISBN 978-3-935749-89-3 .
  • Jörg-Detlef Kühne : On possibilities of changing the Oder-Neisse line after 1945 , Nomos, 2007, 2nd, updated edition, ISBN 3-8329-3124-4 .
  • Dieter Blumenwitz : Oder-Neisse Line . In: Werner Weidenfeld, Karl-Rudolf Korte (ed.): Handbook on German Unity 1949–1989–1999 , series of bpb publications, Volume 363, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1999, ISBN 3-593-36240-6 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk Schleinert : Volksbund Forum Between Usedom and Uznam. The history of the German-Polish border 1945–1951 , selected contributions from the conference Between Usedom and Uznam - History, Present and Perspectives of a Border from October 14th to 16th, 2011 in the Golm Youth Exchange and Education Center in Kamminke / Usedom Island, p. 27
  2. ↑ [1]

Coordinates: 53 ° 54 ′ 49.1 ″  N , 14 ° 11 ′ 13.9 ″  E