North Frisian Islands

The North Frisian Islands lie off the west coast of Schleswig -Holstein in the North Frisian Wadden Sea, part of the North Sea. They are surrounded by the National Park Schleswig -Holstein Wadden Sea, but not itself part of the conservation area. The islands belong to the district of North Friesland.

In part, the Danish Wadden Sea islands are expected to the North Frisian Islands. These lie off the west coast of Jutland and the Danish part of the Region of Southern Denmark.

In addition to larger islands there are smaller so-called holms, which are not usually protected with dikes against floods and their development is on mounds.

Unlike the German, Danish islands were not settled by Frisians. The term North Frisian Islands is thus a geographical primarily.

Traffic

Car ferries Wyk Steamship Company Fohr Amrum GmbH connect the port Dagebüll on the mainland with the islands of Fohr ( port Wyk ) and Amrum ( port Wittdün ) and the mainland port Schlüttsiel the islets Hooge and Langeneß and Amrum. The holms Oland, Langeneß, Gröde and Hooge are served by Schlüttsiel irregular with a supply ship, used by tourists. Car Ferries of the New Pellwormer Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft use the connection from the port Strucklahnungshörn on the north beach peninsula to the island Pellworm. A speedboat connects the villages Strucklahnungshörn on North beach with Hooge holm, Wittdün on Amrum and Hoernum on Sylt.

North beach has become by the 1987 finished Beltringharder polder to the Peninsula, and was previously achievable by a causeway to highway.

The Danish island of Romo is through the Rømødæmningen (German: Romo - dam ) to a highway to the mainland, the island of Sylt has the Hindenburgdamm a rail link to the mainland. Sylt is accessible via a shipping connection between list and the Danish island of Romo also by car ferry.

The holms Oland and Langeness can be reached by a path from Loren Dagebüll.

The holm Nordstrandischmoor Loren has a rail link to Beltringharder polder.

At low tide the mudflats between some islands, holms and the mainland is free. So falls between Amrum and Foehr free an 8 km long Wattenweg, but this is not dependent on weather and tide each day to walk on. In many places mudflat walks are offered.

Formation

The territory of the North Frisian Wadden Sea has been subject to great and constant changes in the past centuries. Since first maps exist only for the 17th century, one is in front for the time dependent on reconstructions. Today's islands and islets have emerged over the centuries from larger contiguous land masses that have been torn by storm surges. So, for example, included the present-day peninsula north beach and the island Pellworm in earlier times to a large island, or better land mass of craggy and then crossed by creeks Coastline, which bore the name of the beach and its largest town was Rungholt. Beach was destroyed on January 16, 1362 in the second Marcellus ( Grote Mandränke ) to a large extent. During the Burchardiflut 1634, the remaining island, the Old North beach broke, then in the islands north beach and Pellworm and the holm Nordstrandischmoor.

History

After the Frisian and Danish colonization of the islands in the 8th century the Frisian populated Harden formed ( between eiderstedt and Sylt) along the Uthlande. The North Frisians in the Uthlanden under stood as king Friesen directly to the Danish king. Only later came the Uthlande except for minor royal enclaves to the Duchy of Schleswig. Also a part Romo was under the Schleswig duke. According to the German -Danish wars, the islands of the north beach became Prussian Romo to 1866. Following a referendum in 1920, the current border between the islands of Sylt and Romo was fixed.

An overview of the life, everyday, language, dress and customs of the island Friesen granted the Carl- Haeberlin Fries Museum in Wyk auf Foehr.

The Islands at a glance

To the North Frisian Islands are ( from north to south ):

  • Danish islands and islets Langli ( holm )
  • Fano (ferry from Esbjerg )
  • Mando ( former holm, dammed since 1937, Wattenweg only passable at low tide )
  • Koresand ( no island or holm, but a high sand)
  • Romo ( causeway road link to the mainland ferry to Sylt)
  • Jordsand ( former holm, 1999, gone )
  • German islands Sylt ( the Hindenburgdamm provides a rail link to the mainland) Uthörn (a narrow island of Sylt)
  • Oland ( Loren rail link to the mainland and after Langeneß )
  • Langeneß ( Loren rail link to Oland )
  • Gröde
  • Habel
  • Hamburg Holm ( dam with road connection to the mainland, land access through polders )
  • Hooge
  • Nordstrandischmoor ( Loren rail link to the mainland)
  • Norderoog
  • Süderoog
  • Südfall
  • Frisian Außensände (without Koresand, see above) Japsand
  • Norderoogsand
  • Süderoogsand
  • Kniepsand
  • Young names sand
Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park Nordfriesland Halligen Nordstrand, Germany Baseflow Burchardi flood Hundred (county division) List of islands of Germany Hallig Habel Hamburger Hallig West Frisian Islands East Frisian Islands Integrated Authority File
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