German navy establishing torpedo testing station near Schiksee-Strander Burch according to the magazine Mitteilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens dated 1906

 An item reported that the German navy started with the building of a torpedo testing station with workshops, houses and coal bunkers near the villages Schilksee and Strander Bucht on the western bank of the Kieler Föhrede between Friedrichsort and Bülk. Length of the shooting range was 4-5 kilometres enough for the future was expected. The German company Berliner Maschinenbau-Akitengeschellschaft the former L. Schwartzkopff acquired near Hörnphaff at Alsen an area of 4 hectares to build there her own shooting range.