Priwall Peninsula

The Priwall Peninsula (German: "die Halbinsel Priwall" or" der Priwall") is located across from the town of Travemünde at the Trave River estuary, on Germany's Baltic Sea coast. Since 1226 it has been administratively part of Travemünde, itself controlled by Lübeck.

The southern part has been designated a nature reserve ("Naturschutzgebiet »Südlicher Priwall«"). The Priwall is the eastern terminus of a bicycle path, opened in 1995, that begins at the Danish border at the town of Kruså. More famously, it is the northern terminus of the former inner German border, and a few remnants of the border fortifications have been preserved near the beach.

The Priwall's principal attraction is otherwise the four-masted barque "Passat" (now a museum ship) of the Flying P Line – which also included the four-masted barque "Priwall".

The beaches of the Priwall at the Bay of Lübeck are the site of an annual sand festival called Sand World.

External links

* [http://www.reiterhof-travemuende.de/Gesamtansicht-Priwall.jpgThe "Passat" shot from atop Travemünde's Maritim Strandhotel]
* [http://www.luebeck.de/natur_umwelt/naturschutz/pdf/karte_nsg_priwall.pdf Downloadable map (nature reserve in green)]
* [http://www.grenzerinnerungen.de/priwall2.htm FRG–GDR border photos, 1980s]
* [http://www.sandworld.de/content/blogcategory/89/223/ Sand World home page]
* [http://www.priwall.net Priwall Net]