{"id":23186,"date":"2023-12-12T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/?p=23186"},"modified":"2023-02-16T15:47:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T14:47:56","slug":"ueckermuende","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromplacetoplace.travel\/germany\/mecklenburg-western-pomerania\/western-pomerania\/ueckermuende\/","title":{"rendered":"Ueckerm\u00fcnde – tour of the harbor town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
In Western Pomerania is the port city of Ueckerm\u00fcnde, which I visited one afternoon. I was very surprised, because here there is not only a residential castle and the city harbor, here you can also discover a reconstructed Pomeranian cog and have a wonderful meal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
At the mouth of the Uecker River into the Szczecin Lagoon in Western Pomerania lies the town of Ueckerm\u00fcnde. The name of the city derives from a Slavic group of people, the Wendish Ukrers, who had already settled the area before 1200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Duke Barnim I endowed the region with a monastery around 1260 and granted the trading place the town charter. Later a castle was built in which the dukes of Pomerania from the Griffin house lived. A town wall with two gates was also built. As is often the case in the history of a town, fires and wars repeatedly lead to the destruction and reconstruction of individual parts of the town and to changing rulers. This was also the case in Ueckerm\u00fcnde, medieval houses were destroyed, a new church was built, the castle was expanded\u2026.. The town was hit particularly hard during the Thirty Years’ War. Out of 1600 inhabitants, just 15 survived and the town was almost completely destroyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n