Die Fahrwasserbezeichnung des Danziger Hafens

Abstract: Due to the morphological circumstances of their locations, the aspiring port settlements and maritime towns on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea were compelled at an early date to indicate their entrances with nautical marks. The entrance to Gdansk often shifted due to changes in the courses of the Vistula and Motlawa. There is documentary evidence of the channel having been marked by a beacon since the thirteenth century, but the practise presumably began as early as the ninth or tenth centuries. In the course of the centuries, a long series of beacons were erected, adapting to both the shifting channels and the ongoing technical advancements. In the mid eighteenth century, through the erection of the two towers of Nowy Port, the very first range light system on the southern Baltic Sea coast was established. From the early seventeenth century on, the channels in the Gdansk Bay were also lit: by the beacons of Cape Rozewie and Hela in the west and those of Pillau and Krynica Mor

Object Details

• Alternative title: The channel markings of the port of Gdansk
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Deutsch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; nicht begutachtet ; In: Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv ; 25 (2002) ; 269-286

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr
• Keyword: Fahrwasser ; Hafen ; Leuchtturm ; Turm ; Danzig ; Danziger Bucht

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (when): 2002
• Creator: Litwin, Jerzy

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-55912-0
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 15.08.2025, 7:37 AM CEST