Wolgast place

The Wolgaster place is a peninsula belonging to the island of Usedom between Peenestrom and Krumminer Wiek .

Geography and traffic

The Wolgaster districts Mahlzow and Wolgaster Fähre, the municipality Sauzin with the district Ziemitz and Krummin with the district Neeberg are located on the Wolgaster Ort . In the north lies the community Mölschow with the districts Zecherin and Bannemin, which is usually not part of the actual Wolgast town in the narrower sense. In the north and northeast, the peninsula is demarcated by wetlands from the Peenemünder - Zinnowitzer Niederung and the Gnitz .

At the Wolgast ferry, the island of Usedom is connected to the mainland via the Peene Bridge . One of the two important arteries of the island runs here with the federal road 111 . The Wolgaster Fähre – Ahlbeck Grenz railway is also located here, and connects to the Züssow railway via the Peene Bridge . There are boat docks in Ziemitz, Neeberg and Krummin.

The landscape of the Wolgast town is slightly hilly. The highest elevation is the 25.7 meter high Gazberg between Krummin and Bannemin Aufbau. The soils are mostly sandy. The southern part of the peninsula owned by the occurring here boulder clay of the most fertile agricultural areas of Usedom.

history

In the 12th century, the Wolgast town, like the entire northwest of the island of Usedom, belonged to the " terra Bukow ", the center of which was in Wolgast. From the middle of the 13th century, the peninsula came into the possession of the Krummin monastery . With the secularization of the monastery in 1563, the lands came into the possession of the griffin dukes and were administered by the Wolgast Office. During the Thirty Years' War , the number of farms in the Wolgast village fell by half, the number of cottages by a third. After the war, the Wolgast town and the rest of the island belonged to Swedish Pomerania . The greater part of the peninsula came into the possession of Colonel Christian Joachim von Radike and was then acquired by Carl Gustav Wrangel between 1663 and 1667 . After the island of Usedom had been under Prussian administration since 1713, the Wolgast town was administered by the Pudagla office.

literature

Dirk Schleinert : The history of the island of Usedom . Hinstorff Verlag , Rostock 2005, ISBN 3-356-01081-6 .

54.048303245278 13.810501098611Coordinates: 54 ° 3 ' N , 13 ° 49' E