Rottumeroog

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The island Rottumeroog, also briefly Rottum, is the easternmost and smallest of the West Frisian Islands. Rottumeroog is uninhabited since the last beach Vogt in 1965 left the island. From the State only a few security measures are carried out. Rottum as bird island of great importance for the stocks of many coastal bird species.

Rottumeroog is currently about 250 acres in size, but will disappear continuously smaller and threatened because at the east end of the Ems estuary increases less than is removed at the west end by the flow. The nearby sandbank Rottumerplaat other hand, forms slowly out to a new island.

History

The island Rottumeroog was, as Schiermonnikoog, in the Middle Ages monastic property. Two-thirds of the island were the eponymous Benedictine monastery in the south of Rottum Usquert and one-third the Premonstratensian monastery at Kloosterburen ( De Marne), the Oldenklooster. This property was in 1594 transferred to the Staten van Groningen, where the Reformation the victory was 14 years later than in the province of Friesland. Before that, the Groninger Wassergeuse Barthold van Entens Mentheda had the island in his power.

1608 gave the Staten van Groningen the island to Johan Sickinghe, who had granted them a loan, pledge. After the loan had been repaid, the island was leased several times. 1659 sold the Staten them. In the second half of the 17th century an owner followed the other in quick succession. The value of the small island, which has been repeatedly hit by storm surges, fell steadily.

The most spectacular owner of Rottumeroog from this period is undoubtedly MacCarty Donough, Earl of Clancarty ( 1707-1734 ). This Irish nobleman had gone as supporters of the 1688 exiled English King James II into exile.

1738 Rottumeroog came back into the possession of the Staten van Groningen. 60 years later, the island was owned by the Dutch State.

The island belonged to the municipality Warffum, which was incorporated in 1990 after Eemsmond.

Maps

Map of Rottum and untergangenen island Bosch before 1682

Noorderhaaks | texel | Vlieland | Richel | Terschelling | Griend | Ameland | Rif | Engelsmanplaat | Schiermonnikoog | Simonszand | Rottumerplaat | Rottumeroog | Zuiderduintjes

East Frisian Islands - North Frisian Islands - Other islands in the German Bight

• Uninhabited Island
• Island ( Netherlands)
• Island ( North Sea)
• Island ( Europe)
• Island ( West Frisian Islands)
• Geography (Groningen )
• Eemsmond