Westerhever

Westerhever (Danish: Vesterhever ) is a municipality in the district of North Friesland Schleswig -Holstein.

• 5.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography and transport

Westerhever is located on the northwestern tip of the peninsula Eiderstedt. The lighthouse Westerheversand is the landmark of the place and the whole peninsula eiderstedt and surrounded by protected salt marshes.

The salt meadows with the lighthouse and the upstream high Westerheversand sand beach with his subject each year to some 80,000 visitors.

History

Westerhever was once an island. It was settled in the 12th century. The first people built large Dorfwarften as Sieversbüll, Leikenhusen or Stufhusen and protect the economy in the island with a ring dike.

With the large Mandränke ( storm surge ) of 1362 the first church was destroyed by 1123.

The present brick church of St. Stephen, consisting of over previously greatly reduced ship from the 1804 and the 1370 -built Gothic tower together with the restaurant Kirchspielkrug, is the sole center of the village.

In the center of the village lies the Wogemannsburg, a mound, on the 1362-1370 survived the so-called Wogemänner. These operated piracy, but also plundered the surrounding villages. The Wogemänner were from 1370 Staller Owe herring and conquered the inhabitants of the area. The castle was destroyed and their stones used to strengthen the Church and for the construction of the church tower.

In westerhever many Haubarge are still preserved. On one of these Haubarge, the Siekhof, came in 1860, Jacob Albert, called the painter of the holms, to the world. His final resting he found in the cemetery of westerhever.

Policy

Municipal council

Of the seven seats in the municipal council voters Community BGW has since the municipal election 2008, four seats and the voter community DGW three. In the local elections on May 26, 2013, were no changes. The turnout was 73.7 percent.

Mayor

For the election period 2013-2018 Olaf Dircks ( BGW) was elected mayor. He succeeds Roland Reckziegel, who was from 2008-2013 in office.

Salt marshes

The salt marshes between sandbar and sea wall are now 246 acres in size and have expanded in recent years. The first measurement of a three -hectare area is from 1887. According to the insulation by a dike parallel Priels the same year the meadows grew until 1901 on 90 acres. 1903 was a navigable dam added as Grüppen for dewatering, 1930 then fascines for land reclamation.

Was the land originally used for intensive grazing, the situation through the National Park Schleswig -Holstein Wadden Sea changed. Since 1991, three-quarters of the area are exempted from use. Since then, the number of vegetation types has increased from seven to 16. In particular, since increased Queller and beach Soden- corridors, which now account for almost a quarter of the area. Likewise, increased salt Log - corridors that were not 1988 yet to find in 2001 but seven percent of the vegetation formed, beach Quecken emerged as new and form three percent. The grazing insensitive Andel lawn fell sharply: he made in 1988 still 71 percent of the vegetation, in 2001 it was only eleven percent, which is also insensitive red fescue lawn fell from eight percent to four percent. Bottenbinsen lawn again went from 1988 to 1996 back to 2001 to expand again and this year took ten percent of the area a.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Detlef Sammann (1857-1938), German painter
• Jacob Albert (1860-1941), German painter