Eidum

Eidum or Eydum was a historic place on Sylt. It was located several hundred meters west of the present coastline of present-day hamlet of Westerland.

According to tradition, the settlement area of Eidum was destroyed several times by floods and rebuilt. The All Saints' Day 1436 taught in the village Eidum probably such devastating injuries and property damage that it left the surviving inhabitants and founded a new settlement about two miles to the east. Their choice fell on the Geest higher ground on damaligem Tinnumer area. This settlement was named Südhedig; from it emerged today Westerland. The later name " Westerland " is said to derive from an old Tinnumer corridor designation on which this new settlement was: It was the land west of the village, so the " Wester- land".

The available after the flood of 1436 and allegedly remained for a long time visible steeple of the old Eidum rushed to contemporary representation finally " at night and calm weather " one. The second church had to be 1634 or 1635 given by the increasing spread of shifting sand dunes; in any event, provided the Westerländer two months before the Burchardiflut in August 1634 an application for support to build a new church, St. Niels- village church. With the construction of the new church was begun in 1637.

The last time the Eidumer church was mentioned on a map of John Mejer in the Chronicle New national description of the two duchies of Schleswig and Holstein by Caspar Danckwerth from 1652.

Others

At the northwest corner of the Rantumbeckens is an old duck decoy, which was named after the place Eidum Vogelkoje means. Today this is no longer in operation and serves as a nature information center.