Vineta (sometimes Wineta) is the name of a legendary city at the southern coast of the Baltic Sea. The legend evolved around traditions about the Medieval emporium called Jumne, Jomsborg, Julin or similar names by the chronicles, and with which Vineta is sometimes identified.

Legend

There are several Vineta legends. All of them portray the Vinetans as having an excessive, voluptuous or blasphemous way of life and then being punished in a flood that took the city to the bottom of the Baltic. In some variants of the myth, the city or parts thereof reappear on certain days or can be seen from a boat, making the warning conveyed by the myth more tangible for the audience.

Primary sources

  • About 965, Ibrahim ibn Jaqub wrote in Arabic letters about this city. The transcription might be Weltaba, which corresponds to modern Polish "Wełtawa" meaning roughly a place among waves.
  • 1075/80, Adam of Bremen wrote about an emporium on an island in the Oder estuary, east of his Diocese, where Slavs, Barbarians and Greeks were supposed to live and Saxon merchants stayed for trade. Harald Bluetooth had once found refuge there. The oldest preserved manuscript, from the 11th century, has the spelling vimne or , and the second oldest manuscript, from around 1200, has and iumne or jumne (there is no distinction between v and u or i and j in the written Latin of that time). More recent copies of the text primarily use Jumne; in an early modern print the name is spelled Julinum and Juminem.
  • Between 1140 and 1159, three vitae of Otto of Bamberg were written using the name Julin for the medieval place located at the site of the later town of Wolin.
  • : Das Mädchen aus Vineta. Essay (2000; tells the story of an unsuccessful attempt to deliver Vineta from its curse.)
  • Uwe Tellkamp: '. Essay (2004; draws parallels between Dresden and Vineta)
  • : Die Glocken von Vineta. Novel (2007)
  • Toni Glenn: Mappa Ordica, Adventure/Novel (2008)
  • / (Oleg Yuriev): Винета. Novel (2007, Russian) / Die russische Fracht. Novel (2009, German translation)
  • : Vinetas Träume fliegen, Historical fantasy novel, Otto-Johann-Verlag, Lubmin 2009
  • Rolf Kahl: Rauher Wind am Birkhuhnsee, contains a travel to Jumne
  • : Vineta, Literaturverlag Droschl 2013,

Movies

  • Vineta, the Sunken City (1923) by Werner Funck
  • The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. anime (1980): Episode 15 – Die versunkene Stadt
  • ' (2006) by , with Peter Lohmeyer

TV-series

  • Küstenwache (ZDF), 21. Dezember 2011: „Der Fluch von Vineta“.

Board games

  • Vineta

Video games

  • The name of an ocean planet in Signalis.
  • The name of a track in Wipeout Pure.

Place names

thumb|Vinetastraße in [[Ahlbeck (Usedom)]]

  • In Berlin there is a Vineta Street (Vinetastraße) and a U-Bahn station.
  • In Berlin there is also a Vineta square (Vinetaplatz) in Wedding, next to Swinemünder Straße and Wolliner Straße.
  • The German Empire's navy had the vessels Vineta ( of 1863, of 1897, of 1915, and SMS Möwe, briefly renamed Vineta in 1915)
  • In 1903 a square in the center of , Kiel was named Vinetaplatz after SMS Vineta I.
  • The (West) German navy from 1961 to 1992 had a mine sweeper „Vineta“ (M2652, Ariadne-class) in 3. Minensuchgeschwader.
  • An artwork installation in near Leipzig is called „Vineta.“
  • A rare German Empire stamp is called "Vineta provisional".
  • In Swakopmund, Namibia, there is a neighborhood Vineta.
  • In Heidelberg there is a student fraternity "Vineta" since 1879.
  • In Schleswig-Holstein there is a sports club named TSV Vineta Audorf.
  • In Schleswig Holstein (Busdorf) there is a club called Disco-Vineta.
  • In Europa-Park Rust (Baden), in the themed land 'Scandinavia' there was an attraction 'Sunken city "Vineta"'. It was destroyed in a fire in 2018 and may never be rebuilt.

See also

  • Kitezh
  • Ys

References

Bibliography

  • : "Vineta," die quellenkritische Lösung eines vielberufenen Problems, in Forschungen und Fortschritte, vol. 8 (1932), pp. 341–343.
  • Carl Friedrich von Rumohr: Über das Verhältnis der seit lange gewöhnlichen Vorstellungen of einer prachtvollen Wineta zu unsrer positiven Kenntniß der Kultur und Kunst der deutschen Ostseeslaven. In: Sammlung für Kunst und Historie. Perthes & Besser, Hamburg, Erster Band Erstes Heft. 1816. Digitalisat der Sächsischen Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek
  • : Geheimnis um Vineta. Legende und Wirklichkeit einer versunkenen Stadt. Der Kinderbuchverlag Berlin, 4. Auflage 1969.
  • Ingrid Lange, P. Werner Lange: Vineta, Atlantis des Nordens. Urania-Verlag, Leipzig 1988,
  • , : Vineta. Die Wiederentdeckung einer versunkenen Stadt. Bergisch Gladbach 1999.
  • Franz Wegener: Neu-Vineta. Die Rassesiedlungspläne der Ariosophen für die Halbinseln Darß und Zingst. KFVR 2010,
  • , Das Vineta Rätsel. Boddin 2011. .
  • Albert Burkhardt von Hinstorff, Vineta. Sagen und Märchen vom Ostseestrand

Further reading

  • The Baltic Sea : New Developments in National Politics and International Cooperation, 1997, edited by Renate Platzöder, Philomène A. Verlaan, 1997, . See: Part I, Chapter 1 by John P. Craven, "Legend, History and Modern Times".
  • Vineta-Festspiele in Zinnowitz auf Usedom
  • Vineta-Museum in Barth
  • Vineta-Sage auf den Seiten der Vinetastadt Barth

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