Wolgast Horn Werft

Marina near Wolgast (Altstadt Wolgast)

Last edited 13.03.2024 at 11:28 by NV Charts Team

Latitude

54° 3’ 25.6” N

Longitude

13° 47’ 2.4” E

Description

WOLGAST: Bigger, more troubled commercial port on the Peenestrom.

 

NV Cruising Guide

Navigation

WOLGAST: The good buoyage and lighting of the Peene river allows the approach day and night. Approaching the moorings also poses no problems due to the general lighting.

Opening hours Peenebrücke Wolgast (if required):

20.03. - 08.10.: daily 05:45, 07:45, 12:45, 17:45, 20:45 Uhr
09.10. (until revoked): daily 05:45, 08:45, 12:45, 17:45 Uhr

Wolgast Traffic UKW channel 9, Tel.+49(0)3836/232 44 58 or 0175 57 736 10

Berths

The marina north of the bascule bridge on the castle island belongs to the Horn shipyard. The marina offers 70 berths at 1.2 - 2.8m water depth.

 

Surroundings

The shipyard offers full shipyard service. Otherwise, all utilities in the nearby town of Wolgast.

 

NV Land Guide

The visitor on the trail of the past will be disappointed by the "gateway to the spa island of Usedom" when he learns what the town once looked like. For almost 100 years, from 1531 to 1625, as the residence of the Pomeranian princes, it was a medieval commonwealth of a very special rank and name. A magnificent ducal castle rose up in the Peene River in front of the town, which belonged to the League of Hanseatic Towns and was a lively trading and shipping centre. Although it could not dare to be compared with the metropolises of Lübeck or Stralsund and, in contrast to these trading centres of the Hanseatic League, it had a more modest, narrow-angled development, it played an outstanding role as an economic centre for a wide hinterland. The buildings around the town hall, built in 1720, with its restored baroque facade, still give an idea of the old Wolgast. At the fountain created in 1936 on the town hall square, ten picture panels symbolise outstanding events in the town's history from eight centuries, including the granting of the Lübschen Rechts and the great town fire.

A large merchant fleet, half-timbered houses and packing houses around the harbour, and nestling houses of seafarers and merchants within the city walls once characterised the image in the 725-year-old city that one wishes was back.

That not much of all this remained is thanks to the Russian Tsar. On his orders, the town was burned down in 1713 during the Northern War. The castle's decline began as early as the Thirty Years' War. In 1675, the Brandenburgers laid siege to the residence and town occupied by the Swedes. The castle, which was finally robbed of its roof, was sold to the city by the Swedish government as building material. However, the city did not give the stones to the citizens, but sold the ruins to a merchant, who promptly had a granary built on the island, which is still called Castle Island. Even the wooden drawbridge that led across the "Kleine Peene" to the castle as late as 1850 no longer exists.

In recent times, the city has not focused on tourism, but on shipyards and industry. The remaining harbour districts with old houses and narrow alleys opposite the castle island were renovated. A noisy avalanche of traffic rolls over the Wolgaster bridge to the eastern baths right through the middle of the town, whose commercial harbour cannot, with the best will in the world, be described as a quiet mooring in idyllic surroundings. In any case, the suburban harbour Dreilindengrund offers better night's rest .

The museum worth seeing opposite the town hall is one of the points you could head for on a tour of the town.

In the vernacular, the house is also called the "coffee mill". The 17th century listed house was built by a merchant as a warehouse with a Dutch roof. The architectural style had impressed him on one of his business trips. Since then, the building, which is over 300 years old, has fulfilled a wide variety of functions and has served, among other things, as an "inn with lodging facilities". After an extensive renovation, which was completed in 1982, it now presents itself as it did in 1720, with a wide entrance hall and painted beamed ceiling. Fisherman's carpets, a chair from the 1600s and a kitchen from 1900 are among the items on display. Seafaring and shipbuilding are two of the themes of the museum exhibition, which also includes the so-called "commemorative plaques" that were still attached to the houses at the harbour at the beginning of this century. "Here in Wolgast, Professor Willy Stöwer, the great marine painter, was born in 1854," reads one of the plaques, for example. The name on another plaque in the museum has a special ring: "Here lived as a guest the painter of German Romanticism, Philip Otto Runge, born on 23.7.1777."

As the ninth of eleven children of the merchant Daniel Niklaus and Magdalena Dorothea Runge, Runge grew up in economically secure circumstances and developed artistic talent at an early age. He increasingly came into contact with well-known personalities of his time, met Caspar David Friedrich and had a lively correspondence with Goethe from 1806 until his death. At the age of only 33 he died of consumption. One day later, his wife Pauline Bassenge gave birth to his son Philip Otto.

The reflection of the naïve in the artwork of Romanticism is always talked about in connection with Runge. He is regarded as the founder of German Romantic art, and in 1806 he created what is probably the most famous painting of children in the history of German art, the "Hülsenbeck Children".The pronounced unity of content and form is the unique feature of the artistic representation. He broke away from the idealized landscapes like Caspar David Friedrich painted them and preferred pictures of the people of his circle of life, the family, the fishermen and farmers of his homeland and of children with whose eyes he wanted to see. His words are well known: "...if only people looked at the world like children, art would be a kind language. Therefore, let him who understands it speak it...". The birthplace of the famous son of the city is located at Kronwiek 2.

On 99 oak piles driven into the ground stands the large granary at the harbour. It dates back to the heyday of the grain trade in the early 1800's. The sun-dried Wolgast wheat was brought directly from this granary to America on large sailing ships. Today, with a length of 80 m and a width of 18 m, it is one of the last large half-timbered buildings in Northern Germany. Its six floors can hold 5,000 tons of wheat. Grain is still stored here, even though the roof superstructures are no longer used to hoist the sacks of grain.

The sailing ships from Wolgast transported not only grain, but agricultural goods of all kinds. Fish, tran, coffee, wine and spices were taken on board on the East India voyages and unloaded or loaded in Wolgast. Up to 70 ships wintered in the conveniently located port in the period around 1810, where in spring it was possible to sail up to four weeks ahead of the ships that had anchored in Szczecin.

Thus the port became the cradle of the town's prosperity. In the heyday of shipping, there were 90 brigantines, schooners, galleasses, barques and full-rigged ships owned by the shipowners of Wolgast.

As everywhere, the advent of steam navigation brought decline to the sailors of Wolgast. The last large merchant ship under sail, the brig "Gustav"", ran onto the cliffs off the Norwegian archipelago in 1899. The captain, who was already 77 years old, was the only one to die a sailor's death. Before him, it had happened to many seamen from Wolgast, with some captains jumping overboard in despair over the loss of the ship.

The shipyards and merchants adjusted to the new times, and the economic downturn did not materialize. Incidentally, it was Philip Otto Runge's father who created a new, lucrative line of business in the town on the Peene River with the first tobacco factory in Wolgast. In 1820, smoking, snuff and chewing tobacco were already being produced in four tobacco factories.

The difference between rich and poor in Wolgast became ever more glaring. The merchants took advantage of the plight of the sailors who could no longer find wages because of the small crew on the steamships. The discontent grew more and more. In 1800, fishermen and workers gathered in the town hall square demanded (unsuccessfully) cheap bread for the poor. The Berlin March riots of 1848 gave the impulse for the workers of Wolgast to revolt again. The uprising was nipped in the bud, but the first solidarity communities were formed, forerunners of the later strong Wolgast trade unions and social democracy. The town was nicknamed "The Red Wolgast" in the early 20th century.

One of the few preserved landmarks is the St. Gertrud Chapel in the cemetery west of town. The late Gothic Baroque stone building with a star vault inside is supported by a single central pillar. When Duke Bogislaw X was in danger of his life on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1496, he vowed to build a chapel after his return home if he was saved. He made good on his promise after returning unharmed to his residence in Szczecin.

Two times the 14th-century Wolgast parish church of St. Peter's burned, in 1728 and 1920, destroying its Baroque furnishings and spire; thus the unusual new tent-shaped spire. A death or devil's dance painting and sarcophagi of the Pomeranian dukes in the ducal crypt date back to the 17th century. From the 56m-high church tower with its blunt roof, there is an excellent panoramic view - on a clear day even as far as Rügen.

Nearly a kilometre northwest of the harbour is Wolgast Tannenkamp Zoo, a local recreation area in the shipyard and industrial town of Wolgast. Between Peenestrom Ufer and Tierpark Tannenkamp, a circular hiking trail 4km long leads through the nearby forest.

The ravine north of Tannenkamp was named after the Swedish King Gustav Adolf, who fell in the 30 Years' War, because Wallenstein's dead enemy was brought back to Sweden from here. The Drei-Linden-Grund near Gustav-Adolf-Schlucht is named after the three lime trees that were planted here in memory of the Swedish ruler. After Wallenstein's troops had sacked Wolgast in 1627 and the Danes had conquered the town in 1628, the population placed their hopes in the Swedish king, who occupied Wolgast in 1630, immediately after his landing at Peenemünde. But the Swedes also squandered their sympathies by collecting high taxes.

Marina Information

Max Depth 2.8 m

Contact

Phone +49 3836 2367 0
Website http://www.hornwerft.de
VHF Channel 15

Surroundings

Electricity

Water

Toilet

Shower

Restaurant

Imbiss

Crane

Boatyard

Ramp

Travellift

Garbage

Comments

Ruff, RUFFINA
2020: Brücke Wolgast morgens 8.45 Uhr
15.07.2020 10:38

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