page_title: Kühlungsborn Pier
section_title: History and architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Kühlungsborn Pier / History and architecture
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Kühlungsborn\Kühlungsborn MS Baltica 2
context_page_description: Kühlungsborn Pier is a pier on the Baltic Sea coast in Kühlungsborn in the German county of Rostock.
context_section_description: The first jetties were built from about 1895; they were the forerunners of those in Brunshaupten and Arendsee. Because these simple wooden structures could not cope with the strong ice drift in the winter, they frequently had to be replaced. The first large jetties were built in 1901 to enable sailing boat services to call here. In 1906, piers were built large enough to enable steamboats to tie up, thus negating the inconvenience of ferrying passengers from the ships in tenders. A pier was built in 1929, but this, too, could not withstand the weather. The last pier was destroyed in the winter of 1941/42. During East German times, the continued shortage of material and construction capacity prevented a new pier being built. This also prevented people escaping the country to the West.
  The new pier was built in 1991 in the suburb of Ost. It is 240 metres long and oriented axially to the beach road (Strandstraße). The pier is located on the longest German Baltic Sea beach promenade, which is about 3.2 km long, and the pier was the first new pier to be built on the Baltic Sea coast in Mecklenburg. It is considered to be one of the landmarks of the town and is one of the 189 piers in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
caption: Baltica berthing at the pier
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