Schleswig Stadthafen

Marina near Schleswig (Holm)

Last edited 26.10.2023 at 09:35 by Viola.ramcke

Latitude

54° 30’ 39.2” N

Longitude

9° 34’ 16” E

Description

Lively marina near the old town of Schleswig. Cathedral and the old fishermen's settlement "Holm" are directly adjacent to the harbour.

NV Cruising Guide

Navigation

The fairway branches off at buoy 80/Haddeby 1 and leads directly to the harbour at 318°.

Berths

Extensive mooring possibilities also for larger yachts on 2,5 - 3m water depth, in summer however often overcrowded.

Surroundings

The central harbor directly below the cathedral offers in the city center, only a few minutes walk away, with numerous shops all shopping opportunities. Gastronomy with a lot of variety directly at the harbour, a bicycle rental as well as excursion trips on the Schlei round off the offer.

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 Castle is probably the oldest surviving seagoing tall ship in northern Europe, the Nydam ship from the fourth century. The Viking ship, about 23 metres long, 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 Museum of Pre- and Early History 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 German 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 want to know more about regional history, a visit to the municipal museum in the von Günderoth'schen Hof, which Duke Friedrich III had built around 1634 as a guest house for a legation of the Shah of Persia, is highly 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.

 Among the cultural attractions in July and August are the open-air performances in the courtyard of the castle. 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 from oak and drenched in oil between 1514 and 1521. His intention is said to have been to make the life of Jesus visible to the illiterate. The precious objects in the cathedral mostly originate 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. Probably the only surviving medieval Epiphany altar in the south choir is another jewel of the cathedral, where you can also see the tomb of King Frederick I of Denmark, which is well worth seeing.

Don't miss a visit to the fishermen's settlement on the Holm, which was built in the 18th and 19th centuries. 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 army route against hostile invaders from the south - namely the Saxons. 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. It was also used to drive the large herds of oxen south for sale - all the way to Wedel in Holstein, where the road 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 the excursion to Haithabu, once the most important Viking craft and trade metropolis (see Haddeby). From Stadthafen/Schleswig you can take an excursion boat to Haddeby.

King Abel's fratricide

On the island of the seagulls off the coast of Schleswig began what has gone down in history as "King Abel's fratricide"' and can be read in the Heimatbuch des Kreises Eckernförde (1928, 2nd edition): "King Abel's fratricide".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. But 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 from the city barefoot before you? Be of good cheer, replied the king, I still have so much that I can help your daughter to new shoes. Irritated still more by his brother's mockery, Abel cried out, "You will never do that again! - 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 fetched. According to legend, there was a chapel to the Dark Star at the entrance to Ornum 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 body 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 yapping of dogs."

It is said that even in death the treacherously murdered king ensured that his quarrelsome brother would meet 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 revenge.

The DGzRS sails its missions in the area of the inner Schlei from the town harbour of Schleswig with the sea rescue boat "Walter Merz" (Rufz. DH 3773).

Marina Information

Contact

Phone +49 172 4387335
Website https://www.hafen-schleswig.de/

Surroundings

Electricity

Water

Toilet

Shower

Restaurant

Imbiss

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Atm

Internet

Grocery

Ramp

Travellift

Public Transport

Bikerental

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Sewage

Comments

Martina / Martin Teterra, CONZISKA
Man liegt hier gut Marina OK
16.06.2022 14:54
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Nettes Personal, sehr gepflegter Hafen. Schön gelegen.
31.05.2020 21:32

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