Æbelø

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Æbelø (Apple Island ) is a small Danish island in the Kattegat north of Funen ( Fyn ). It has an area of 2.32 km ². In the south of Æbelø are the even smaller islands Dræet, Ejlinge, Lindø and Æbelø Holm, with Lindø thus actually connected since a Eindeichungsmaßnahme in 1871 with Fyn and a peninsula. The island is part of the parish community (Danish: Sogn ) Klinte Sogn, the office belonged to 1970 in the Harde Skam Herred in the former Odense, then to Bogense municipality in the former County of Funen, with the municipal reform on 1 January 2007 in Nordfyns community in the region Syddanmark has worked. Since 2009, the island is uninhabited.

You can reach Æbelø a Wattweg which leads through shallow water and is a popular tourist destination.

Geology

Æbelø was about 8,000 to 9,000 years ago to the island, when the area was flooded by the postglacial Littorinameer. The surface of the island consists of several tertiary, mostly clayey layers and from glacial deposits of at least five glaciers were advancing here in the Saale- Glacial and in the Vistula Glacial.

On the cliffs of the island material is removed since their formation by wave erosion. While the larger boulders that have often clearly recognizable glacier scrapes, remain lying at the foot of the cliffs, the fine-grained material is transported around the island and there, on the leeward side of the island, deposited. From this, a rectilinear Spit was ( Bradet ) and at the end, the wave run-up area of ​​the north coast of Fyn, a small island ( Æbelø Holm ), at the southeast and southwest coast their part, have formed a number of spits which enclose the small island such as onion rings.

Between Æbelø Holm and Fyn are the islands Dræet, Ejlinge and Lindø whose shape is also characterized by the aforementioned rearrangement process of the material.

The particular interesting geological position of this island has meant that it has been included in the list of sites of national geological interest ( " Område af geologisk national interest "). In addition, the island enjoys since 1999 a special conservation status.

History

1787, the island had 17 inhabitants. 1940, there were about 50 Since the sixties of the 20th century, the population decreased continuously and today it is no more permanent settlement.

Use

The island was little changed by the action of man. It was mainly used as pasture for the cattle of the surrounding farms. There was a settlement on the island, several property and its own school. After several changes of ownership and different trials of useful Æbelø Aage V. Jensens owned by the Fund. All buildings with the exception of the lighthouse keepers house and a farm in the northern part of the island were removed and Æbelø is left almost entirely to nature. The drainage is no longer maintained, thereby bogged some areas.

On Æbelø early 20th century gravel was mined, the one also used in 1935 for the construction of the railway bridge over the Little Belt ( Little Belt ). Remnants of the gravel pits are still visible, as rails on which the gravel was taken to a loading station on the west side of the island. Also thereof relics are preserved.

Another attempt to use the island economically, was the logging. But this was illegal and has been denied. Until 1995 there was also intensive hunting Æbelø. These ducks, pheasants, goats, deer and fallow deer were exposed and then hunted. This had a considerable impact on the plant world. Thus, the original stock of Ilex disappeared.

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