Schlei

The Schlei ( German Slie down or closing, Danish: Slien ) is an inlet of the Baltic Sea in Schleswig -Holstein. Their classification as funding is controversial because of their background. According to the common doctrine is a glacial trough, but not a fjord.

• 2.1 Medieval trade
• 2.2 Gutslandschaft

Description

Geomorphological development

The loop was created during the Weichsel glaciation 115000-11000 years ago by the pressing forward of Scandinavia ice. Their classification as funding is controversial, as is sometimes argued that it was not created as the Flensburg or the Kiel Fjord by Gletscherschurf a glacier tongue, but merely served as drainage of melt water. The loop has therefore not herausgeschürft by glaciers within the ice sheet, but was created by subglacial erosion glazifluviale due to melt water, a so-called tunnel valley. Although such glacial troughs are also inlets, but only in a broader sense. However, never the Schlei is a fjord ( a glacial hollow shape in the mountains), as is often incorrectly asserted in tourism lingo. Due to the low side edges only they can geomorphological not be called fjord similar. In Danish and in Südjütischen the word fjord is equally suitable for a conveyor as well as a fjord and is etymologically related to the German word Fjord.

Geography

The loop extends to a length of 42 km from Schleimünde about Kappeln and Arnis to the city of Schleswig by the Schleswig -Holstein hill country and separates the areas of fishing and Schwansen. It has an average width of 1.3 km and an average depth of 3 m. This represents a water area of 54.6 km ² and a volume of 163.8 million m³. The water of the Schlei is brackish, the salinity increases from Schleimünde to Schleswig constantly declining.

The widest is the loop between Missunde and Schleswig, where the popular sailing and rowing are areas Large width ( up to 4.2 km wide ) and small width ( up to 2.1 km wide ), by the Stexwiger Enge ( 280 m wide) are separated.

The castle lake ( with Gottorp Castle on Castle Island ) was once the most inland part of the loop, but was removed in 1582 by Duke Adolf I by now widened to around 28 meters and nearly 100 meters long Gottorfer dam from the Schlei.

Before Schleswig is the 1.8 acre island of seagulls, little further east in the Great width, the nature reserve island Hestholm. Other islands in the loop are Kieholm and Flintholm; today's Peninsula Pilot Island is Schleimünde. There are many natural bays on the Schlei. Left and right have seeähnliche extensions, called Noor, formed associated with the loop in conjunction (see also: Ornumer Noor, Noor Haddebyer and Selker Noor ).

Nature

A biological feature is the Schleischnäpel, a fish that is related to trout and whitefish. The last loop fishermen have preserved in the spar in Schleswig their centuries-old tradition, while other sites, such Kappeln, Arnis, Missunde and Sieseby have lost their meaning. Until about a hundred years, fishing on the Schlei was an important branch of industry. Above all, herring, eel, perch, bream and other white fish have been caught here.

Since October 2008, the region is recognized around the loop as a nature park loop.

Tourism

The loop is a popular sailing area. The partial touristy loop region is an important recreational area for the nearby city of Kiel and the city of Hamburg, especially since the good motorway access by the A7.

At the output of the loop of the Baltic Sea lies the uninhabited Schleimünde Pilot Island, with a small harbor of refuge for yachts, the famous pub Giftbude and a lighthouse at the tip.

For a better tourism marketing the loop is sometimes referred to as Ostseefjord or " Schlei Fjord ".

Historical Overview

Medieval trade

In the Middle Ages the Schlei had great importance as a trade route in the Baltic region. The land of Schleswig to treene, a tributary of the Eider, was only 16 kilometers. At this point, therefore, there was a favorable place for the exchange of goods between the North Sea and Baltic Sea.

Even today, the loop between Schleimünde and Kappeln is still occasionally used as a transport route for commercial shipping.

Gutslandschaft

With the beginning of modern times, the property rule was the dominant economic system in the south of the loop located Schwansen, which is confirmed by numerous goods in the region to this day. Unlike in Schwansen the peasants remained in large parts of fishing except as free peasants of Gutsherrschaft and serfdom. Among the larger goods include the noble goods Louisenlund and Buck Hagen, the Good Saxtorf at Rieseby and the former Good Geréby with the mansion Carl castle.