Fisher statues of the South West Baltic

The fishers along the coast of the south west Baltic Sea have been squeezed out of many of their former fishing villages by the development of tourism and falling fish stocks. Many of the villages remember their history with statues and memorials to the people who worked these relatively shallow waters for bream, cod, eels, flounder, pike, perch, roach and salmon. These are not personalised memorials. 

Two statues in Heiligenhafen

The first statue of a fisher in Heiligenhafen (Holy Harbour) faces the town while the second stands down by the fishing dock with a plaque that reads,

On permanent loan from Mr. Hans-Joachim Piegenschke as a symbol of the importance of fishing in Heiligenhafen.

                 

                  

Memorial in Dahme

Dahme's fisher holds a net of local species and has two plaques. The first reads,
The Dahmer fisherman carved from a 150-year-old oak by the sculptor Friedrich Pankow 

Total height 3.20 m Figure 2.50 m Weight 1 ton

The second plaque says 

Dahme Fishing Association founded 1913

3 Oct 1997  

       

             

         

Kellenhusen
The fisher statue in the prow of his boat looks out to sea from the dyke built to stop the town flooding. 

The plaque reads, 

Kellenhusen fisherman

unveiled 20 September 1997

Made by the wood carver Axel Süphke

Thanks to all the Kellenhusen citizens who donated to the Fisherman 

Municipality of Kellenhusen

Ingelore Kohlert

Mayor

Hohwacht, fisher and flounder

The fisherman stands close to the old fishing huts and fish smokery looking out to sea . Its plaque reads,

The fisherman from Hohwacht

The fisherman stands for everyone who has ever worked as a fisherman in Hohwacht and Lippe

Around 1900 there were still 30 professional fishermen in Hohwacht today only a few around the port of Lippe

The flounder is at the other end of Hohwach't long beach by the pier.