Langeneß Wadden Sea Station

The National Park Retreat House Langeneß or Wattenmeerhaus Langeneß is an information center on the Langeneß in the Biosphere Reserve Schleswig -Holstein Wadden Sea and islets. The Nature Conservation Society Conservation Station Wadden Sea acquired the main building on the Peter Threw the mid-1980s and set up a today's National Park Retreat House. The National Park Retreat House Langeneß is certified as an educational institution within the framework of the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD ) and partner of the European Animal and Nature Protection Association.

History

Originally there were two courtyards on the mound. Next to the building in which today's National Park Retreat House is located, there was another building that was demolished in the 60s and today is in Schleswig -Holstein Open Air Museum near Kiel. From this building still exists the stable area to which a residential part was grown. The National Park Retreat House Langeneß Schutzstation Wadden Sea is a former Hallighof, in the seminar, group rooms, bedrooms and an apartment for the staff members were installed. 2006/2007 of the information space were redesigned to Rixwarf and the exhibition at the National Park Retreat House. 2009 was followed by a reorganization of the staff rooms, a solar solar heating system was installed for the whole house.

The National Park Retreat House Langeneß

Since the establishment of the National Park Retreat House, the house is of three employees of the Wadden Sea Conservation Station and the WWF cared (FÖJ and Federal Voluntary Service ( BFD) ). The " home team " provides both public Watt excursions and slide shows. Moreover, it is on behalf of the National Park Office responsible for nature conservation monitoring tasks on the holm ( drift line monitoring, bird counts, breeding bird mapping, Watt mapping, registration of dead marine mammals, etc.). The house is almost all year seminars for schools, organizations, universities, inter alia, utilized.

Scientific Work

On a side adjacent to the house Venne ( holm pasture ) WWF carries out a long-term grazing project. Is compared with cattle management on extensively and intensively used areas with salt marsh vegetation.

Students of the University of Hamburg since 2007 lead scientific investigations about the oystercatcher population on the southern tip of the holm.

The Institute of Geography, University of Göttingen leads to Langeneß and other holms studies on sedimentation by country by sub. Using statistical method forecasts for "growth" of the holms and development may be made to rising sea levels.