Here on the beach in Westermarkelsdorf is the striking, yes ... what kind of part is that? Sheet piling, arranged in a circle with a concrete wreath around it, also totally crooked.
If children ask about it, it is often said that the Baltic Sea runs empty when you pull out the plug. As you know it from the bathtub. A nice story! But what is really behind the "Baltic Sea plug"? It used to happen that ships off Westermarkelsdorf took the wrong course and were stranded. They had mistakenly mistaken the lighthouse for the Fehmarnbelt lightship in fog and snow, but it was anchored a little further north to point the way. On the second day of Christmas 1923, for example, a coal steamer drove to the beach behind Westermarkelsdorf at 10:30 p.m. In 1935 something was finally done and a level was built in front of the beach that had two functions. First, he was supposed to measure the water levels due to the many storm surges, and second, he got a lamp on top that burned at night and in fog. Back then you got the power supply from the lighthouse. However, the level was only as straight as it was built for 7 years. In the pack ice 1942 he initially leaned to the left and at the end of the ice winter he got the inclined position that he still has today. By the way, before Staberhuk there was also a level!
Hopefully the “Ostseestöpsel” from Westermarkelsdorf will be preserved for a long time. Not that someone removes it and the Baltic Sea runs empty! 😉
The Baltic Sea peg is a quaint fairy tale ... it also looks like a bathtub plug and therefore children could also believe that the Baltic Sea runs empty if you pull it out - so stay away from it! 😊