Flensburg Firth

The fjord (Danish: Flensborg Fjord ) is a fjord in the western Baltic Sea on the east side of the peninsula Cimbrian. Through the Flensburg Fjord the border between Denmark and Germany runs.

Term interpretation

Although the Danish term contains the term fjord is the Flensburg Fjord as glacial lowland form in the geomorphological sense, not a fjord, but a promotion that will, however, referred to in tourism jargon, more recently, often incorrectly as such. Due to the only low side edges, they can not be referred to as inlet similar. In Danish, the word fjord is equally suitable for a conveyor as well as a fjord ( a glacial hollow shape in the mountains) and is etymologically related to the German word Fjord.

Formation

When funding is the Ausschürfung a glacier tongue, which was last overprint during the Weichsel glaciation. Are appropriate basic and Endmoränenablagerungen at the edges. The drainage of the fjord during the icing was, inter alia, by a glacier in the area of ​​Krusauer Tunneltals.

Main locations

At the innermost end of the Flensburg Fjord is the largest settlement on the Fjord. On the eastern shore of the inner fjord is the seaside resort of Glücksburg with its famous water castle. The Danish Sønderborg (German: Sonderburg ) lies in the northeast.

Topography

The fjord is 40 to 50 kilometers long (depending on the definition of the Kieler Bucht) and has all of fjords and the Cimbrian peninsula, the largest body of water. It thus forms a long stretch side arm of the Baltic Sea the most westerly point. The funding will be divided by the distinctive peninsula Holnis, a headland on which is the northernmost point on the German mainland ( in List on the island Sylt is Germany's northernmost point). The peninsula divides the Flensburg Fjord in the inner fjord (southwest ) and the outer fjord ( east ). The westernmost point of the conveyor forms the Flensburg harbor. In addition to the delivery bays are Geltinger bay, the Nybøl Nor and the Sønderborg Bugt with the Vemmingbund and the Hørup Hav The shoal Bredgrund (German: Breitgrund ) marks the transition of the conveying into the Bay of Kiel, in which the at this point from the north Little Belt opens. The Hørup Hav ( German Höruper Haff ) separates the peninsula Kegnæs ( German Kekenis ) from the rest As. In Gammel Pøl the funding goes to the Little Belt (Danish: Lille Bælt ) above.

• South shore

Typically, the south bank of the outer fjord is achieved through different forms of compensation coast geprägt.Steile sections with Grundmoränenkliffs alternate with mostly narrow beach areas where there are numerous beaches. Langballigau is the only fishing port. A landmark is the small church of Neukirchen, like its opposite counterpart to Kegnæs (German: Kekenis ) was built by Duke Johann the Younger. Further east Geltinger bay is a former ferry pier, which is now used as a marina. The spectacular scenic nature reserve Geltinger Birk marks the eastern end of the fjord.

• Pictures south shore

Views of the Flensburg Fjord of Glücksburg

The beach of Holnis overlooking the outer fjord and the open Baltic Sea

Coast at Bockholmwik in the community Munkbrarup

The Flensburg Fjord outside at Dollerup

• North Shore

The northern shores of the fjord and the two ox Islands (Danish: Okseøer ) belong to Denmark. The narrow sound at Egernsund (German: Ekensund ) connects the fjord with its northernmost bay, the Nybøl Nor ( German: Nübeler Noor ). Here are some important brickworks and the place Gråsten (German: Gravenstein ). Between the Noor and the outer fjord Broager the country peninsula lies with the community Broager (German: Broacker ). To the east are the Düppeler heights. The city of Sønderborg (German: Sonderburg ) to Flensburg is the biggest town on the fjord. Here separates the Als Sound (German: Alsen Sund ) Sundeved the peninsula of the island of Als (German: Alsen ). Along the northern shore conveyor leads the approximately 74 km long hiking trail Gendarmstien (German gendarmes path) along which was previously used by Danish border police for border surveillance.

• Images, North Shore

Look at the ox islands at Annie's Kiosk in Sønderhav

Flensburg Fjord and waterfront in Sønderhav

View from the end of the show Holnis Peninsula on the Danish coast

Stranderød on the banks of the Flensburg distance t

Shipping

History

As founder of the Flensburg Fjord shipping applies the coffee trader Frederick Mommse Bruhn (1832-1909), who presented with the Seagull 1866 the first conveyor steamer in service. It was a lucrative line of traffic Steamship Company, which led from Flensburg on Kollund, Ekensund and Gravenstein on the northern shore to Glücksburg- Sandwig on the south bank. With more ships like two years later, the Eagle and the Heinrich Adolph and new piers in Randershof, Rinkenis - Sandacker and Brunsnis built Flensburg and Sonderburg sea and merchants under Bruhns leadership of the delivery fleet to one of the grandest coastal fleets of Germany. For this purpose, was founded in March 1873, the Flensburg- Ekensunder steamship company and two months later with the Skjold on the line Aabenraa - Sønderborg -Flensburg competing Sonderburger Steamship Actien Society, which in 1897 to form the United Flensburg- Ekensunder and Sonderburger Steamship Company (in short " United " ) merged. At its peak in 1910, the shipping company owned 25 ships (1913 as 29, including the Feodora of 1898, the Alexandra by 1908 and the albatross of 1912), the total up to 50 daily departures to more than one million passengers and 1.2 million cargo transported.

After the demarcation in 1920, at the Flensburg lost its hinterland and the pass forced was introduced, as well as the global economic crisis in the early 1930s, the promotion cruise came to a virtual standstill in 1935 and the end of the United. A generational shift to motor ships like the trout ( 1934) and the level ( 1934) led in 1935 to the founding of the promotion cruise line; it created new moorings in Solitude, at the Holnisspitze and Langballigau and in Flensburg in 1937 a new bridge funding, a convenient brick low-rise, which continued until the redesign of the ship's bridge in 1997. During and after the Second World War kept livestock transports the passenger ship upright. Following the lifting of the exclusion zone for German ships in the Danish North Shore began in 1953 (initially between Kollund and Flensburg ) the era of cross-border butter rides, animated by the competition of the 1957 newly shipping companies Hansa Line and Flensburg personal navigation GmbH. The booming Fjord cruise posted mid-1960s, about two and a half million passengers on newly built ships like the Glücksburg ( 1959), Mürwik (1960), Holnis (1961 ), Meierwik (1963 ), Jürgensby (1966) and with the Langballigau (1966 ) drove up to Ærøskøbing. With the decommissioning of the Alexandra in 1975 the great era of the conveyor steamer and ended the Flensburg Fjord ships were sold in the 1980s and 1990s gradually.

Presence

The promotion is now considered important for sailing. Sailors from many countries they visit each year. The Flensburg Fjord Regatta and the Rum Regatta will be held here every year. The bay is navigable for commercially operated cargo ships; Ships from the Flensburg shipyard use it as a link in the open Baltic Sea. Similarly, the Flensburg Fjord is important for the military as a traditional seafaring naval base in Mürwik. Moreover, even after the end of the butter trips run mainly in the summer half of the year excursion ships on different routes, including from Flensburg to Glücksburg and from Denmark around the ox islands.

Lighthouses

The Lightship Flensburg ( until 1924 Kalkgrund II) was from 1910 to 1963 before Geltinger Bay, a southern bay of the Flensburg Fjord. In 1963 it was replaced by a lighthouse.

In and on the fjord are several well-known lighthouses: At the inner fjord on the south shore east of the lighthouse -looking Holnis according to official designation (the place Holnis is further away by sight ). At the transition to the Baltic Sea is the lighthouse Kalkgrund in the fjord (closer to the south shore ), on the north shore of the lighthouse Kegnæs. The exit of the conveyor north of Bredgrund marked the lighthouse Gammel Pøl. Lying at the southern end of the output Lighthouse Falshöft is now out of service.