Hamburger Hallig
Geographical location
The Hamburg Holm (Danish Hamborg reverberant, friesian Hamborjer hali ) is a non- reclaimed area on the west coast of the district of North Friesland Schleswig -Holstein.
History
The name comes from the holm two Hamburg merchants, the brothers Rudolf and Arnold Amsinck. These acquired as Oktroy the dike rights on the northeast corner of the island beach and built 1624-1628 dikes. So the Amsinck polder was created. By Burchardiflut in 1634 the dikes were destroyed. Only the mound with the "Hamburg House " remained, and was for many Strander residents during the storm surge to the rescue. After 1634, the dikes were created at great expense again and survivors of the flood settled there. After the death of Arnold Amsinck 1658 on the holm, in 1661 the "Hamburg House " canceled and replaced by a smaller one. 1711 Amsinck polder was a holm again. The holm remained until 1760 owned by the Amsinck family.
1781 the name "Hamburg Holm " was first mentioned. The house on the holm in 1825 destroyed by the flood in February 1825.
1855 the plan was a connecting causeway to the mainland. 1859/60, the dam was built, but broke again in 1860. 1866/67 they built a dam from the bush Bordelumersiel for holm. This dam was fixed in 1874 and got a spill site, which was closed in 1875. Due to the interruption of the continuous Tideströme the mud deposition was on both sides of the dam greatly accelerated. The experience gained here have influenced the further development of land reclamation crucial. 1878 bought the Treasury the holm and leased them henceforth to manage. 1880 an artesian well was created. Since 1901, the dam is passable.
1908 was the holm 96 hectares. On April 16, 1930, she was with the foreland 216 hectares and was declared a nature reserve to protect the avocet. Today it includes, together with the foreland of the Sönke -Nissen - polder and the salt marshes around 1,000 hectares and is managed by the Wildlife Protection Society NABU.
Geography
Strictly speaking, the Hamburg Holm is no longer an island, as it was in 1860 connected by a motorable causeway to the mainland today. Today she joins the foreland in front of the Sönke -Nissen - enclosed land, it is like this for the community and district Reußenköge. By 1899 she was a community of free Gutsbezirk. The west coast of the holm is now secured by fastening measures largely against further loss of land.
While a land bridge over a dam makes definition of an island no peninsula, will be added to the dam upstream salt marsh here.
Terps
The Hamburg Holm has three mounds (including a mound on the dyke and a vacant mound ).
Hauptwarft
The Hauptwarft at the Hamburg Holm, four kilometers west of the dike of the Sönke -Nissen - Koog, has no name. On it are three buildings:
- Restaurant " holm Krog ", which is of Easter ( but no later than April 1 ) farmed until October 31,
- A base for the National Park Service gGmbH (NPS ) with interns apartment ( occupied only occasionally in summer)
- "Watt 's workshop " ( exhibition and laboratory of NPS)
Cow Mountain
About 300 meters south of the Hauptwarft located on the holm of Cow Mountain, a low, undeveloped mound, which serves as a rescue for hill sheep with light country enterprises.
Sheep mountain
Two kilometers to the west and exactly on the half way to the holm is a mound of "Sheep Mountain" with NABU National Park station and information center, "Claus -Jürgen man riding - house". The property is occupied only occasionally by volunteer NABU nature Wait. The Sheep Mountain is located in the foothills before the Sönke -Nissen - enclosed land, no longer at the Hamburg holm. Reason, some sources speak of only a mound at the Hamburg holm.