Meldorf Bay
54.0798.9Koordinaten: 54 ° 4 ' 44 " N, 8 ° 54' 0" E
The Meldorfer Bay (also Dithmarsch bay ) is a Schleswig -Holstein belonging Bay, which lies at the Heligoland Bight.
Location
The bay is about ( distance) 90 km northwest of Hamburg and 30 km north- north-east of Cuxhaven. In the north of belonging to Dithmar and located in the same county Meldorfer Bay the North Sea spa Büsum lies in the south is the beach resort Friedrichskoog, but which does not directly adjacent to the Meldorfer Bay. To the east is the place Hemmingstedt and the city Meldorf that the bay its name. To the west of the bay opens to the open North Sea. Dominant flow channel is up to 20 meters deep beep, which is divided into the three flow Meldorfer Bay in arms, the Wöhrdener hole (north), the crown hole and the Sommerkoog - Steertloch (south).
History
For more severe storm surges in the late Middle Ages and early modern times, the bay has continued to spread to the rather low marsh areas in and reached almost built on a ridge of city Meldorf. First territory recoveries were carried out until the 16th century and again dammed the first polders in the bay.
On February 17, 1500, the independent peasant republic Dithmar defended in the Battle of Hemmingstedt against the army of the king of Denmark and his brother. The royal, usually aristocratic cavalry was almost complete drowned in the waters of the accruing at Spring Tiede flood in the Meldorfer Bay.
Today
The bay has Meldorfer after the last embankment, until March 1978 took place from April 1969 at a stretch of about 8.5 times 8 kilometers still an area of (estimated) 30 km ². In the embankment last set was not the land reclamation but the coast guard in the foreground. So was the new 8.8 meter high ( in the core area of the bay) only 14.8 km long dike both the dike and significantly increased by the construction and significantly shortens the length. The newly created Speicherkoog at the Meldorfer bay to store primarily at high water flowing from the inland waters and dissipate over two sluice or pumping stations. In addition, the salt marshes of the avifauna serve as a protected refuge. Agriculture plays only a minor role in Speicherkoog. The grazing sheep here should help to stabilize the dikes. Both the Speicherkoog as well as other non- diked Meldorfer Bay belong to the protection zone 1 of the National Park Schleswig -Holstein Wadden Sea and therefore subject to special protection regulations.
Islands
In the bay Meldorfer the uninhabited former island Helmsand, which was comparable to a holm and was joined several years ago by a causeway to the mainland is located. It is as a bird sanctuary as the bay offshore island Trischen, even the sandbanks Blauort and Tertius may be entered only with special permission.
Human use
The direct coastal areas are fully developed for tourism. Norder and Southshore beep serve the ships as fairway to the port of Büsum. The stationed there shrimp boats fishing among other things, in the Meldofer bay. The southern part of Meldorfer Bay serves the Bundeswehr as a weapons testing area. In the western part, just north of the Elbe estuary and the Great Bird sand is a burial place for burials at sea.