The marina has been hanging in the balance for years now. It is almost finished and was even partially usable, but never really became a good address. The reason for this was the investor's insolvency and subsidy fraud during the construction phase. The state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern had subsidised the project with around 3.7 million euros, but the money was allegedly misappropriated. The investor has now been ordered to repay the money. The marina was to be supplemented by a holiday home development directly on the harbour area and beach as well as a huge winter storage hall. The flats have been completed apart from the interior work, but have been standing on the coast as a ghost village for years.
The jetties of the 120-place harbour, for which a channel had to be dredged into the shallow bay, have been dockable in recent years, but the infrastructure on land was poor. The planned shops, catering facilities and club rooms were not completed, and the small village of Hohen Wieschendorf has little to offer apart from the nearby beach and the now also insolvent golf club. The marina was placed under receivership for a number of years, took in permanent moorings and had its own website, but this has not been online for some time and the jetties to the land have been dismantled.
But that is finally set to change. The new investor, a holding company from Frankfurt, has bought the site for 3 million euros at the third attempt at a forced auction. Two other bidders had previously been interested in the property, but their bids, which were lower than the current amount, were unsuccessful. Now it is up to the bank, to which the marina operator still owes millions, to approve the sale. This was precisely the reason why the last offer failed in the summer. As the market value of the facility is estimated at around 5.2 million euros according to an expert opinion, it will be interesting to see whether the sale actually goes through. In any case, the buyers are confident that construction will be completed as early as next spring. However, there is the problem that the authorities revoked the planning permission granted for the entire project around a year ago. The bay is now also an EU bird sanctuary, which is unlikely to make the situation any easier.
