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
The fisher statue in the prow of his boat looks out to sea from the dyke built to stop the town flooding.
Hohwacht, fisher and flounder
The fisherman from Hohwacht
The flounder is at the other end of Hohwach't long beach by the pier.
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