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Hohwachter Bucht shooting rangeShooting until after midnight - and a week's break

Jill Grigoleit

 · 04.06.2026

Hohwachter Bucht shooting range: Shooting until after midnight - and a week's breakPhoto: Bundeswehr / Andrea Bienert
Bundeswehr mine divers during an exercise in the Hohwachter Bucht firing range.
The authorities have published the times when shooting will take place in Hohwacht Bay in June. Two days a week will be practised until after midnight - and one week will be suspended.

In June, the Putlos and Todendorf military training areas are once again used for live firing. This involves firing out into Hohwacht Bay. The responsible Baltic Sea Waterways and Shipping Office has organised the following exercises for June now published the times.

The following shooting times then apply for June 2026:

  • Monday to Thursday: 9 am to 5 pm
  • Friday 9 am to 12.30 pm
  • Wednesdays and Thursdays additionally until 00.30 hrs

At the same time, it is pointed out that no shooting projects are planned in the period from 20 June to 28 June 2026.

Driving prohibited!

The shooting range may not be used during the times specified above. However, exercises may also take place outside the time frame - but then only using illuminating and signalling ammunition.

The adjacent danger area to the north should be avoided during shooting times. It is marked by the yellow light buoys "H1" to "H3". However, passage is possible after prior consultation with the German Armed Forces. Further information on the signalling points on land you can find here.

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Jill Grigoleit was born in Hanover in 1985. An early childhood memory is the large collection of YACHT and SURF magazines from her sailing and surfing enthusiast father. However, growing up in a small Swabian village on the Neckar, she had less to do with water sports in her childhood, apart from a few trips to the Baltic Sea with her family. After studying journalism in Bremen and Hanover, she went into television for a few years. Through a few lucky coincidences, she ended up on the water in 2011 and then returned to the written word professionally. For over ten years, she lived with her family on a houseboat in their own harbor south of Hamburg and wrote a book about houseboat building and life with children on the water. Since 2020, she has mainly been writing travel reports and features about people who live and work on and near the water for BOOTE. She has been a permanent member of the Delius Klasing water sports editorial team since January 2024.

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