Zingst

Marina near Zingst

Last edited 19.01.2023 at 13:58 by Martin, Chrisma

Latitude

54° 25’ 54.1” N

Longitude

12° 41’ 31” E

Description

Small lively harbor and boat bridge for water hikers on the north bank of the Zingster stream.

Refused facility ! The still intact boxes are firmly assigned. This is no longer a water hiking rest area! Only still an old large sign points to the plant created once with promotion funds. How can such a thing be .

NV Cruising Guide

Navigation

The approach is recommended to those unfamiliar with the area only during the day. The well buoyed fairway is not fired. Oncoming or overtaking passenger ships must be expected.

Beware the current!

Opening hours Meiningen swing and bascule bridge (only during the day at fixed times):

03.04. - 17.09.: tägl. 07:45 - 09:45 - 17:45 - 20:00 Uhr

18.09. - 29.10.: tägl. 09:45 -17:45 Uhr

Bridge watch: UKW Kanal 9 / Tel. 038231-3505

Berths

Guests will find about 40 berths on 2.5m water depth at the water hiking rest area.

The quay serves passenger and inland vessels. Recreational boaters may use this part only if commercial shipping is not impeded (2.4 - 3.2m water depth). The harbor basin belongs to the Zeesbooten.

Further berths are located at the SSV Zingst as well as in the sport boat harbor Kloss (crane)

Surroundings

The supply situation in the place is good. There are versatile shopping facilities, numerous restaurants and hotels.

NV Land Guide

It is June 24, 1892, and Captain Jürgen Heinrich Meyer of Zingst has been worried since leaving Liverpool. His schooner Catharine is heavily loaded and the barometer does not bode well. The bad premonition comes true. The North Sea storm comes suddenly and with such force that it is no longer possible to think of recovering the sails that are still standing. Without a gaff topsail and with the small storm jib, his ship already exceeds hull speed in the first gusts. Captain Meyer tries to run away from the storm, but the mainmast cannot withstand the load, falls crashing to the deck, taking everything with it, and kills one of his sailors. The ship takes on water, the crew tries to save themselves in the boats, which threaten to break on the schooner in the storm. The captain hesitates, but then sees that the Catharine cannot be saved from sinking. The lifeboat is already moving away from the ship's side and Meyer jumps into the water. The heavy clothes immediately pull him down, he can no longer reach the boat, in which the helmsman, two sailors and the cook's boy are sitting and pullen with all their might to the place where they just saw the skipper. Only the four crew members survive after they reach the Jutland coast near Husby half rowing and half drifting.

Most of the maritime accidents of Zingst sailors and Darss ships listed in the chronicles read more soberly, leaving nothing of the dramatic moments on the ill-fated ships. Mostly it is only recorded who died and who survived. In 1794 alone, 14 lives were lost, with most of the sailors drowning in the storm. In addition, statistics show that over 40 percent (!) of the ships built in Zingst were lost in maritime accidents.

More than the misfortunes, Zingst remembers the acts of rescue, for example, that of the daring sailor Heinrich Schütt, who saved the lives of all seven crew members of the American schooner Mary E. Amsden. In a storm in the North Atlantic on March 26, 1895, he had himself tied to a raft, drifted to the shipwrecked vessel on a line, and dragged and carried the completely exhausted Americans onto the floating beams at the risk of their lives. He spent himself thereby so much that it did not go to him afterwards better than the rescued ones.

The Zingster home house in the Barther road 19 (scarcely 1km west of the port) gives an insight into the large nautical past of the Baltic bath and the living culture in the captain houses.

Here the visitor experiences among other things that at the beginning the "farmer shipping" stood. Grain and fish were sailed to Denmark during the Middle Ages in open barges with a maximum carrying capacity of six tons. Farmers brought their wisdom to seafaring - including the early realization that trade is as much the "mother of the world" as fertile soil. The so-called clipper shipping of the Darss people, however, did not please the Hanseatic League, which reacted to the competition with force and blocked its connections to the Baltic Sea. It destroyed the harbor on the Darss Canal and sank boats in the Permin Passage near Wustrow. There were a number of Baltic Sea connections at that time, such as the Prerow Stream with several accesses to the sea and the Hundsbeck, an opening on the Vorderdarß. Near Zingst, the Alte Straminke, a small sea inlet, also connected the Zingst Stream with the Baltic Sea until the diking in 1874. Of these and many other openings, only the tide gates between the wharves and the opening at Ostzingst near Barhöft remain - a pity, will say the pleasure boater who today depends on the rare openings of the Meiningen Bridge. The island character of Zingst was lost after the great storm surge of 1872, when the Prerow Stream was closed.

For a long time, the Zingsters had the reputation of "farmers going to sea." But soon Zingst was home to more captains than anywhere else on the Saaler and Bodstedter Bodden. There are said to have been more than 80 in 1880, a time of pronounced prosperity and wealth in Zingst. The emergence of steam navigation hit the population of Zingst as hard as it did the people of Wieck and also brought a wave of emigration to the village. Today, only a few captain's and sailor's houses still bear witness to the past. Examples can be seen in Strandstraße, Prerowerstraße and Lindenstraße. The Zingst church is towerless (the bell tower is in the cemetery)because the sailors did not want to confuse it with the Barth church, which was an important landmark.

Tourism has become  main source of income for the Baltic seaside resort, which has about 3500 inhabitants. On the embankment between dune grove and place promenade in the summer thousands of guests. Who wants to be present from the port, must cross the whole place in the direction of the north, thus only times well a kilometer put back.

Zingst offers all conceivable mechanisms of a seaside resort, among them a summer cinema, a so-called warm bath, an open-air stage and various beer gardens. An attraction is the diving gondola at the pier, which takes visitors dry-footed to 4m water depth and one meter above the seabed, where life at the bottom can be observed.

The paths on and along the embankments are excellent walking routes. The wooded Freesenbruch with the adjacent Prerower Strom to the west of Zingst and the Osterwald to the east are ideal for excursions, as is the four-kilometer route along the old dike to Müggenburg, which begins directly at the harbor. The three islands south of Zingst, Kleine Kirr, Große Kirr and Oie are under nature protection.

Marina Information

Max Depth 2.5 m

Contact

Phone +49 151 53815070
Email Please enable Javascript to read
Website https://www.zingst.de/hafen

Surroundings

Electricity

Water

Toilet

Shower

Restaurant

Imbiss

Crane

Grocery

Ramp

Public Transport

Bikerental

Garbage

Comments

NV Charts Team
Wir haben beim Hafenmeister, der sich für die Umstände entschuldigt, nachgefragt, hier die Antwort: "Der Wasserwanderrastplatz bietet normalerweise 42 Liegeplätze für Sport- und Segelboote bis 15 Meter Länge und 4,5 Meter breite. Die Wassertiefe beträgt 2 Metern. Leider können wir dieses Jahr wegen Rekonstruktionsarbeiten nur 22 Plätze vergeben. Die Sanitäranlagen stehen kostenfrei zur Verfügung. Wir bedauern sehr, dass wir den Seglern und Bootsbesitzern im Moment nicht den Komfort bieten können, den sie sich und auch wir uns wünschen. Wir bitten Sie um etwas Geduld. Geplant ist im kommenden Winter bis ins Frühjahr 2024 eine komplette Neugestaltung des Wasserwanderrastplatzes und der Steganlage. Der Hafenmeister wird über den Stand der Baumaßnahmen auf der zingst.de über den Baufortschritt informieren".
22.06.2022 08:02
Martin, Chrisma
"Verwahrloste Anlage! Die noch intakten Boxen sind fest vergeben. Das ist kein Wasserwanderrastplatz mehr! Nur noch ein altes großes Schild weist auf die einst mit Fördergeldern erstellte Anlage hin. Wie kann so etwas sein". Wasserwanderrastplätze sind hier missbraucht!
18.06.2022 19:33
Honsa Ehmke, RumSeglerZschornegosda
Super Landschaft
23.09.2021 15:43
Friedrich Voß , TEMPTATION
Einfach schön hier
05.01.2021 18:35

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