Editing Vineta (section)

==Geographical place==
[[File:Vinetakarte.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Postulated locations of Vineta]]
===Vineta Reef off Koserow / Damerow===
Some variants of the myth have Vineta sunken off [[Koserow]] (on the isle of [[Usedom]]). The historian Wilhelm Ferdinand Gadebusch from [[Swinemünde]] (Świnoujście) made this and other observations the basis for his thesis of Vineta's location. According to Gadebusch, Wolin did not have the deep water port that Vineta must have had, and thus discarded the Wolin thesis (see below). [[David Chyträus]] in his 16th century ''Chronicon Saxoniae'' had Vineta "beyond the [[Peene]] river near the village of {{Interlanguage link multi|Damerow (Usedom)|de|3=Damerow (Usedom)|lt=Damerow}}"  which was a [[Folwark|Vorwerk]] of Koserow. For Chyträus, Usedom was the land of the Vinetans, while Julin on the neighboring island of [[Wolin]] was inhabited by Pomoranians. Since no traces of Slavic settlement have been found on northwest Usedom, this thesis is no longer accepted.

===Ruden===
Several maps published between 1633 and 1700 have the sunken "Wineta" east of the island of [[Ruden (island)|Ruden]] northwest of [[Usedom]]. About 1700, {{Interlanguage link multi|Bernhard Walther Marperger|de}} reported it in the same spot. The origin of this thesis is the [[All Saints' Flood (1304)|All Saints flood of 1306]] that reduced Ruden and other small islands from a much larger landmass that prior to the flood had existed between [[Mönchgut]] and Usedom.

===Wolin===
[[Rudolf Virchow]] said: "Vineta is Wollin!" Based on the primary sources outlined above, {{Interlanguage link multi|Adolf Hofmeister|de}} in 1931/32 formulated the thesis that Vineta, Jumne, Julin, Jomsborg etc. are all different spellings used for the same place on the site of today's town of Wolin.<ref name=Schmidt/> Beginning in the 1930s, and continued after the annexation of Wolin to [[Poland]] after [[World War II]], archaeologists unearthed the remains of a large settlement there. Hofmeister's thesis is the only mainstream thesis regarding the location of Vineta in today's historiography.

===Barth===
A thesis formulated by Goldmann und Wermusch placed Vineta near [[Barth, Germany|Barth]], pointing to a possibly different course of the Oder in the Middle Ages and a creative reading of the primary sources outlined above.