Vineta
Vineta is a legendary North Baltic emporium variously identified with the medieval trading settlement (Jumne/Julin/Jomsborg) at the mouth of the Dievenow on the island of Wollin. Sources and archaeology describe a dense early–medieval harbour town of wooden landing-bridges, market streets, workshops and adjacent burial mounds. The Vineta tradition also holds that the city was lost beneath the sea, which is why it appears in later legend as a sunken city.
Its prime
1100
Today
Legendary
As it stood in 1100
What Vineta looked like in its prime.
A low, densely built riverside emporium of timber: rows of stilted and block-built wooden houses with steep thatch roofs, wattle-and-daub cottages, and storage sheds clustered along pile-built landing bridges and quays on the Dievenow estuary. Narrow dirt streets run behind the waterfront; workshops and open stalls back onto the houses. The town is fringed by an earthen burgwall and nearby burial mounds rise on sandy scarps above marshy gardens and reed-lined shallows of the Baltic inlet.
Step inside
9 places to explore in 1100.
The record describes 9 distinct spots at Vineta, including 3 interiors: interior of a block-built longhouse, craftsmen's quarter and workshops, shipshed and clinker-boat slip. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and explore every one, more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.
Build Your Own Castle
Recreate Vineta with AI to explore it.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1100, a photoreal reconstruction that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
Recreate Landmark to Explore →
