Horns Rev

Horns Rev, German and Horns Reef, is an elongated, consisting of two main parts sand bank in the eastern North Sea off the coast of Denmark.

Geography

It extends from the western point of the west coast of Jutland, the Blåvandshuk Blåvand, north of Esbjerg, west about 20 miles to the North Sea. The sand of the Horns Rev that rises partly down to only 4 m water depth, comes from both prehistoric glacier as well as from marine sediments.

Blåvandshuk and Horns Rev share the west coast of Jutland in a striking way: the great southern Wadden Sea area of the North Sea, north begins, however, is a long chain of high dunes. Between the north-east and closer to the coast nearby Indre Horns Rev ( "Inner Horns Reef" ), which immediately adjoins the north Blåvandshuk, and which further southwest widely extending into the North Sea Ydre Horns Rev ( " Outer Horns Reef" ) runs a deeper fairway of up to 20 m deep Slugen, generally in a north-westerly direction, which is used by coasters and fishermen.

West of the Horns Rev is marked with a Untiefentonne. To the east, close to the shore, it can in good weather by the Slugen and Sören Bovbjerg Dyb be passed also by sailors. From 1914 to 1980, with war-related interruptions, a Danish lightship was at Horns Rev in order to secure the Umfahrt around the reef and the entrance to Esbjerg. The last used there, the 1913/14, built motor Fyrskib No. 1 - Horns Rev, is now a museum ship at the port of Esbjerg.

Horns Rev wind farm

Since 2002, the Horns Rev site of the first large and until 2004 the largest offshore wind farms in the world, Horns Rev and Horns Rev Havmøllepark 1, with 80 wind turbines and a total capacity of 160 MW. In clear weather you can see with the naked eye from Vejer and Blåvand beach in a south-westerly direction. In 2009, the wind farm Horns Rev 2 with 91 wind turbines and a total capacity of 209 MW was about ten miles northwest commissioned.

History

On the night of June 1, 1916 Admiral Reinhard Scheer used the passage through the Horns Rev in order to return home after the Battle of Jutland in the back of the British Grand Fleet, who tried to block the way to him in the North Sea with the German High Seas Fleet to Wilhelmshaven.

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