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SWINEMUNDE

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 237 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SWINEMUNDE , a See also:

port and seaside resort of See also:Germany, in the Prussian See also:province of See also:Pomerania, situated at the See also:east extremity of the See also:island of See also:Usedom, and on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:river See also:Swine which connects the Stettiner Haff with the Baltic. Pop. (1905), 13,272. It serves as the See also:outer port of See also:Stettin (q.v.), 42 M. distant by See also:water, with which, as with See also:Heringsdorf, it has See also:direct railway communication. Its broad unpaved streets and one-See also:storey houses built in the Dutch See also:style give it an almost rustic See also:appearance, although its See also:industries, beyond some fishing, are entirely connected with its See also:shipping. The entrance to the See also:harbour, the best on the Prussian Baltic See also:coast, is protected by two See also:long breakwaters, and is strongly fortified. The See also:grand lighthouse, 216 ft. high, rises beside the new docks on the island of See also:Wollin, on the other See also:side of the narrow Swine. In 1897 the river continuation of the Kaiserfahrt was opened to See also:navigation, and, further, the waterway between the Haff and the Baltic was deepened to 24 ft. in 'goo-19o1 and in other ways improved. The connexion between Swinemunde and Stettin is kept open in See also:winter by See also:ice breakers. Formerly See also:ships of heavy See also:burden See also:bound for Stettin discharged or lightened their See also:cargo at Swinemunde, but since the See also:recent deepening of the river See also:Oder they can proceed direct to the larger port. The Swine, the central and shortest passage between the Stettiner Haff and the Baltic See also:Sea, was formerly flanked by the fishing villages of See also:West and East Swine. Towards the beginning of last See also:century it was made navigable for large ships, and Swinemunde, which was founded on the site of West Swine in 1748, was fortified and raised to the dignity of a See also:town by See also:Frederick the See also:Great in '765.

See See also:

Wittenberg, Swinemunde, Ahlbeck and Heringsdorf (See also:Linz, 1893).

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