Schleswiger Yachthafen

Marina near Schleswig (Lollfuß)

Last edited 13.03.2024 at 08:12 by NV Charts Team

Latitude

54° 30’ 43.6” N

Longitude

9° 33’ 21.6” E

Description

Club-owned marinas of the Schlei Sailing Club SSC and SC Ahoy.

NV Cruising Guide

Navigation

The side fairway branches off from buoy (approx. 325°) H 7 /Luisenbad 1. From buoys L 2 and L 3 one runs towards the head of the second jetty. Deep going yachts should use the echo sounder, or better enter the city harbour.

Berths

The sailing clubs provide free moorings (water depth approx. 1.8 - 2.5m).

Surroundings

There are all the utilities in the town centre which is about 400m away.

NV Land Guide

The emergence of the town of Schleswig is closely linked to the decline of Haithabu (see also Haddeby), for after the destruction of the Viking trading centre, the move to the northern bank of the Schlei took place in the 11th century. According to legend, the founding of the town was less sober. Afterwards, a wooden boat filled with riches was driven onto the beach of Schleswig. Among the gold, silver, jewels and weapons lay an infant. The inhabitants of the north shore regarded the "flotsam and jetsam" as a sign from the gods and made the little squaller their king.

In the new settlement, the merchant tradition of the old settlement at Haddebyer Noor was at first successfully continued, but more and more Lübeck outstripped the trading city as the most important transhipment point on the Baltic Sea. The clergy made a decisive contribution to the first flourishing of the town with the building of the cathedral. Schleswig became not only a ducal seat, but also a bishop's seat. The oldest written records mention the cathedral as early as 1134, but its declining importance as a trading town was followed by its decline as a bishop's and ducal seat. The upswing came around 1550 with the dukes of Gottorf and the building of the magnificent Gottorf Castle. The dukes were in turn followed by other nobles who built no less magnificent town palaces.

It was not until 1711 that the castle and town settlements were united to form the town of Schleswig, which became the starting point for national development in the 19th century. It was here that the Schleswig-Holstein song and the blue-white-red flag were created. The merger with Holstein made the city the capital over a united Schleswig-Holstein in 1870. Today, with the highest state courts, the state museum, the state archives and the district administration, the city is still a major centre of authority, but government business has been moved to Kiel.

One of the outstanding exhibits at Gottorf Palace is probably the oldest surviving seagoing tall ship in northern Europe, the Nydam ship from the fourth century. The Viking ship of about 23 metres length was excavated near Egernsund (see also Egernsund). Although it was built of oak planks for a crew of 45, the rowing ship weighed only about three tons. Bronze Age jewellery, Stone Age pottery, bog bodies from around the time of Christ's birth and much more can also be seen in the Pre- and Early History Museum at Gottorf Castle.

The State Museum in the castle is also well known far beyond the borders of Schleswig-Holstein. It offers visitors a comprehensive collection of the art and cultural history of the northernmost federal state from the 12th century to the present day. Weapons, household appliances, furniture and works of art from past centuries are among the numerous exhibits. The castle itself was already a princely seat in Renaissance and Baroque times, and was regarded as a political, intellectual and cultural centre. Surrounded by a castle lake that has been preserved to this day, it initially served as a fortress.

For those who would like to know more about regional history, a visit to the municipal museum in the von Günderoth'schen Hof, which Duke Frederick 111 had built around 1634 as a guest house for a legation of the Shah of Persia, is recommended. Among other things, early medieval finds are on display at Friedrichstraße 7-11. Also worth seeing are the documentation of the fishing settlement on the Holm and the reconstruction of the living conditions of a middle-class Schleswig family from the first half of the 19th century.

Drama performances, symphony concerts, operettas and operas are regularly offered at the Landestheater from September to May. Cultural attractions in July and August include open-air performances in the castle courtyard. Chamber music highlights include the Palace Concerts in June and September in the Palace's King's Hall.

The all-surpassing cathedral is best known for its Brueggemann Altar. It consists of some 400 figures that sculptor Hans Brueggemann carved out of oak and soaked in oil between 1514 and 1521. His intention is said to have been to make the life of Jesus visible to the illiterate. Most of the precious objects in the cathedral date from the heyday of the "Gottorf dynasty", i.e. the 16th and 17th centuries. Tomb monuments and crypt portals remind us that the cathedral was the burial church of the dukes. The probably only still preserved medieval Epiphany altar in the south choir is another jewel of the cathedral, where you can also see the worth seeing tomb of King Frederick 1 of Denmark.

Don't miss to have a look at the fishermen's settlement on the Holm, which was built in the 18th and 19th century. Around the cemetery, the fishermen built their cozy little houses. Against this historic backdrop, it is easy to imagine life and activity in the old town 200 years ago. A former noble St. John's monastery lies by the fishermen's settlement.

South of Schleswig is the Danewerk, a ramified system of ramparts that had the task of blocking the Schleswig isthmus to the south. The defensive ramparts were built from 808 to 1182 AD and are still well preserved at Klein-Dannewerk, Kurburg and Rotenkrug. It was necessary to secure the partly also well preserved military road against enemy invaders. The path runs from northern Jutland through the Schleswig Lowland Pass to the south. As its name suggests, the Danish armies went into battle on it, or the enemies of war used it in the opposite direction. In addition, the large herds of oxen were driven south on it for sale - all the way to Wedel in Holstein, where the path ends. That is why it is often called Ochsenweg. The Danewerk between the Treene and the Schlei was supposed to secure this path in any case, which was not always successful. Thus, the ramparts played a special role as the main fortification line of the Danes during the Prussian-Danish War of 1864. Prussians and Danes considered the fortifications impregnable, which did not prevent the Prussians from nevertheless making some attempts. At Missunde, which is part of the fortification line, they also tried to cross the Schlei, but had to give up and finally crossed the Schlei at Arnis.

Not least worthwhile is a trip to Haithabu, once the most important Viking craft and trade metropolis (see Haddeby). From the town harbour, you can take an excursion boat to Haddeby.

King Abel's fratricide

On Möweninsel, off the coast of Schleswig, what went down in history as "King Abel's fratricide"' began and can be read in the Heimatbuch des Kreises Eckernförde (1928, 2nd edition).When Erich Plogpenning was king in Denmark, his brother, Duke Abel, ruled in Schleswig. He had a permanent residence on the Möweninsel in the Jürgensburg. The two brothers did not live on the best of terms; they fought each other in bloody feuds until, after Abel's defeat, a reconciliation came about. Abel could not forget the ignominy of defeat, and two of his knights, fierce enemies of King Erich, encouraged the duke in his resentment against the brother. Yet the brothers had promised each other a firm friendship.

Now in 1250, when the Counts of Holstein attacked the town of Rendsburg, King Erich hastened to the city's aid. On that occasion he visited his brother at Jürgensburg with a few companions. They spent the summer evening in a house by the water and passed the time late into the night playing dice and board games. Just then Erich and the knight Hermann Kerkweder were busy with the board game, when Abel suddenly approached and stirred up the old quarrel again: "Do you still remember the time, he cried, when you plundered Schleswig and my daughter had to flee barefoot from you out of the city? Be of good cheer, replied the king, I still have so much that I can help your daughter to new shoes. Being still more irritated by his brother's mockery, Abel cried out, "Thou wilt never do that! - and declared the king a prisoner. He handed the prisoner over to Tyge Post, with instructions that he might lead him wherever he pleased. They put Erich into a boat and sailed down the Schlei to Missunde. When King Erich recognized his enemy Lauge Gudmundsen in the following boat, he knew what was in store for him. He wanted to confess, a priest was called. According to the legend there was a chapel to the dark star at the entrance of the Ornumer Noor. After the confession Gudmundsen slew the king; the corpse was weighed down with chains and sunk into the Schlei. In Schleswig they told of a misfortune in which King Erich was drowned.

Duke Abel swore with 24 knights that he was innocent of his brother's death, so he could become king in Denmark. In 1252, while fighting the Frisians, he received the punishment he deserved. A Frisian, the wheelwright Wessel Hummer from Pellworm, slew the king at the Milderdamm south of Husum.

The corpse is said to have been brought to Schleswig, but the spirit of the murderer could find no rest. At last the body was buried in a swamp in the Pöhler Gehege and a stake was driven through the body. On stormy nights, however, King Abel's wild hunt still moves through the air with the crack of whips and the yelp of dogs."

It is said that the treacherously murdered king, even in death, saw to it that his quarrelsome brother met a similar fate by putting a curse on Abel. Moreover, the corpse, though weighted with iron chains, drifted to the shore of the Schlei, where monks found and buried it. The hand of the dead man, it is said, was stretched out in an oath of vengeance.

Marina Information

Max Depth 2.1 m

Contact

Phone +49 4621 484 930
Website https://www.schlei-segel-club.de

Surroundings

Electricity

Water

Toilet

Shower

Restaurant

Imbiss

Crane

Atm

Internet

Grocery

Ramp

Public Transport

Bikerental

Garbage

Sewage

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Tore Laß, Freja
13.03.2024 08:12

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