Süderoog

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Süderoog (Danish Sønderog, friesian Saruug, Saaruuch ) is a holm in the North Frisian Wadden Sea, off the west coast of Schleswig -Holstein. It belongs administratively to the municipality Pellworm and is a bird sanctuary.

Geography

The holm today is about one kilometer long and 800 meters wide. Nearest islands are Pellworm in the Northeast and Norderoog in the north. Upstream West Southwest is the Süderoogsand. On Süderoog there is a mound on which a house stands. The holm part of the National Park Schleswig -Holstein Wadden Sea.

History

Before Burchardiflut in 1634 were on the holm three apartments, one was an inhabited by the beach Vogt. This was also the overseer of a beacon, which was destroyed during the storm surge in 1634. In this flood two houses were destroyed and ten people were drowned. In the February 1825 flood, the last remaining house was destroyed. However, it was rebuilt and then served again as a residence of the bailiff beach.

The most famous resident was Hermann Neuton Paulsen, who until his death in 1951 there operating an international youth meeting since 1927, the "island of the boys ". It was continued after his death by his wife Gunvor and 1960 converted into a foundation that was intended "based on the work of Hermann Neuton Paulsen in the interest of international understanding, youth from different countries be given the opportunity to engage in responsibility to meet borne freedom on the holm Süderoog friendly, meet and live together in forms that are to be adjusted at any time of the development of psychology and pedagogy "(§ 2 of the deed of Foundation, Stockholm, 22 February 1960).

Difficult sanitary conditions, which could be better only inadequate, and damage from the 1962 storm surge caused the decline of Süderooger holiday plant. The holm centuries owned by the Paulsen family located was eventually sold in 1971 to the State of Schleswig -Holstein. In 1974, the Foundation was disbanded.

Management

Süderoog was managed from 1990 to August 2013 by a married couple for the purposes of coastal, nature conservation and species protection and managed. In September 2013 they were replaced by two other people. An object of the residents is the island to farm organically and to feed the sheep and cows grazing on the salt marshes. These must be brought, for example, in case of imminent "Land under " on the mound. The primary task of the operator, however, is the preservation of the existing shoreline stabilization measures on the holm. Furthermore, the operator shall perform the functions of a national park warden. These include the counting of breeding and migratory birds on the holm. Also, visitors who come to Süderoog Pellworm out on guided tours or trips, hosted. On the mound 500 trees were planted the apple tree to the oak, in five rows to provide a windbreak. The trees have reached a height of 2013 six to eight meters.

Have strangers only on a guided walk across the mudflats and in excursions of Pellworm from access to the holm Süderoog.