Karnin Lift Bridge

The lifting part of the bridge has stood since the end of the Second World War as a relic and technical monument in the middle of the Peenestrom.

The bridge crossed the Strom, as the southern part of the Peenestrom is called, from the mouth of the Peene to the Stettin Lagoon, between Kamp and Karnin.

The centre section was saved because there were still units of the German navy operating in the Stettin Lagoon and they wanted to keep open an escape route to the Baltic Sea.

The route of the old railway line from Ducherow via Karnin, Usedom and Dargen to Swinemünde can still be made out on satellite and aerial photographs.

[2] The good condition of the lift bridge today is due to the fact that a rust-resistant steel was used, which corrodes very little even when not regularly painted.

In Germany's 2003 Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan, the rebuilding of the line from Seebad Heringsdorf via Świnoujście to Ducherow was listed under the international projects section.

[5][6][7][8] In November 2010 it began collecting signatures Germany-wide for a petition to rebuild the southern railway link on the island of Usedom via Karnin.