Wenningstedt-Braderup

Wenningstedt- Braderup (Sylt ) (Danish: Venningsted - Brårup, Frisian: Woningstair - Brēderep ) is a municipality in the district of North Friesland Schleswig -Holstein. It extends from the west coast of the island of Sylt to the East Coast and is located north of the main town, Westerland.

• 6.1 Christianity
• 6.2 Buddhism

History

According to legend, some 100 meters was before today's coast, the old place " Wendingstedt " with an old Frisian harbor to the west coast. Whether this port ever existed or if it is only a legend, but there is debate among scientists. Contradicted by the fact that the geographical location should have bid on the rugged west coast of the island no preferred anchorage.

The tribal leader of the fishing, Horsa and Hengist, should be broken from this port with their army to England to ancient tradition. Today the road Horsatal reminded of this incident.

Until the beginning of the 19th century the place was for many centuries almost unchanged from only eight Stavenplätzen ( = courtyards ). Its inhabitants lived by farming and fishing. Quite a few men went on whaling ships in the North Sea or went to Hamburg shipping companies on herring fishing. However, the growth of the place began with the onset of tourism middle of the 19th century. Since 1859 Westerland seaside resort since 1960 Nordseeheilbad. Westerland formed with Kampen and Braderup the community north villages. The term "North Village " was created at the time as list, the northernmost town / settlement on the island, part of the Danish Kingdom. The rest of the island belonged to the Duchy of Schleswig as a landscape Sylt. Thus Westerland, Kampen and Braderup were the German " Northern Villages". 1914, the Protestant Fries chapel was built at the village pond. 1927 formed Kampen own community and the community changed its name to Northern villages in Westerland.

From 1907 to 1970 Westerland was due to the small railroad in the " Island Railway ", connecting with Westerland List.

During the period of Nazi dictatorship Hermann Goering had (after the Hitler ' number two ' in the Nazi regime ) a summer house in Westerland. During the Second World War, a severe Seezielbatterie was in the dunes northwest of Westerland, approximately at the level of today's campsite, stationed. For immediate military action was not reached; the facilities were blown up after the German surrender of British occupation forces in the 1950s and completely removed later by pioneers of the German Armed Forces and covered with sand dunes.

On 12 August 2002 the community name of Westerland in Westerland -Braderup was changed.

Policy

Municipal council

Due to a technicality the result of the municipal election was invalid by May 2008. Since the by-election in September 2008, the voters Community Active Citizens ten, the CDU, the SPD and the FDP per one seat In the local elections on May 26, 2013 received the Wählergemeinschaft Active citizens 68.4 percent of the vote and won nine seats. The Alliance Wenningstedt- Braderup came to 31.6 per cent and four seats. The turnout was 59.3 percent.

Mayoress

For the election period 2013-2018 Katrin Fifeick was re-elected mayor. Although she received a mandate in the municipal council of the Active Citizens list, she joined the election as a non-attached.

Coat of arms

Districts

Wenningstedt- Braderup consists of the village of Westerland, on the west coast and the east by the Wadden Sea lying district Braderup.

Westerland is the center of town and township office, retail and spa management due to its much higher population and guest bed number.

The district Braderup has no actual ancient village, but until the middle of the 19th century only a peasantry with a few farms. There can be found no large hotels to this day. Interesting there is the natural and information center of the conservation community Sylt.

Attractions

Northeast of town is the Braderuper Heath. This unspoilt heathland has been declared already in the 1920s, a nature reserve and is now one of the natural attractions of the island. This nature reserve is immediately adjacent to the National Park Schleswig -Holstein Wadden Sea, are offered by the mudflat hiking.

The passage grave Denghoog, which was built over 5000 years ago in the Neolithic Age, is located on the northern edge of the district Westerland. The name means Thing hill. It consists of twelve supporting stones that support a ceiling of three stone slabs. It was opened in 1868 and is open to visitors since 1928. Another attraction is the village pond in the center of the district Westerland. This pond was the town of Wenningstedt in the 1950s donated by the owner families with the proviso him to make available to the public and to obtain as spa facility. Today, this area between the main road and Fries chapel is a peaceful haven right in place. A statute that regulates adjacent housing shall be provided with thatched roofs to get the village charm.

Westerland is on the edge of the dunes on the Red Cliff. Below the cliff is, over the entire length of the place, a sandy beach, in the summer as guarded beach is particularly the main tourist attraction.

The passage grave Denghoog

The village pond

Tourism

Westerland describes himself today as " family pool " and has about a million nights of the fifth-largest resort in Schleswig -Holstein. These nights spread over 7000 beds, 2000 of them are assigned to the Wenningstedter campsite, about 4000 the apartments and the remaining attributable to the hotels and pensions Wenningstedter.

Westerland is seen as a health resort, but the classic spa treatments due to the changed health insurance schemes are almost extinct. Thus, only less than 2% of all guests are currently true spa guests who specifically use a prescribed course of treatment. Nevertheless, the Kurwert Wenningstedts is still undisputed. The North Sea with the harsh bracing climate promotes health and strengthens the immune system even without specific applications. The spa building, which formerly next to drinking cures and massages and mud and spas have been offered, has been abandoned and demolished in the course of this development.

Tourism in Westerland also benefits from both located in the immediate vicinity of the 18-hole golf courses that have emerged since the mid- 1980s.

Already at the beginning of the last century drew Westerland profile guests. So, for example made ​​of the painter Wassily Kandinsky in August 1924 with his wife Nina holiday in Westerland. The National Socialist and (later) war criminal Hermann Goering had a summer house in Westerland, where he was regularly. The Buddhist and writer Paul Dahlke built in Westerland probably the largest Buddha monument in Europe and even lived for many years on the island. The actor Heinz Schubert ( Alfred disgust ) found in his adopted home Westerland his final resting place.

Religion

Christianity

From time immemorial, the Frisians were from a Christian perspective, a pagan people. With the Christianization of the Frisians were officially Catholic, but retained some of their pagan rituals at, such as the Biikebrennen. The first church for the village of Westerland was in the former capital of the island in Westerland, it was the parish church of St. Severin still preserved. With the Reformation, the islanders took to the Lutheran Confessions, which still applies today. It was not until 1914, in close proximity to a pagan place of worship called the frieze of the Chapel Lutheran. Church built after the Wenningstedter previously had to make the arduous journey to Keitumer St. Severin Church in the winter months, because found only in the summer months for spa guests weekly worship in the hall of the inn " Friesenhof " instead. The nearest Roman Catholic church of St. Christopher in Westerland. The nearest Danish church is located in Westerland ( Vester country Danske Kirke ).

To preserve the independence of the frieze chapel and the pastorate was established a foundation in September 2005: With the Foundation " Üüs Serk - Our Church " wants to save their work in the villages Kampen, Westerland and Braderup the northern villages Church community. These almost 1 million euros have so far met initial capital ( as of 2012). . The community hopes to achieve a mixture solely by interest on the money donated around 50 000 Euro per year for their work.

Buddhism

By a physician and writer Paul Dahlke early 1910s, Buddhism reached the island. Dahlke was built around 1914 in Westerland be " Buddhist Home ", which should also serve as a meeting place for Buddhists and temples on the island. From the planned construction of a Buddhist monastery in the Braderuper Heide - it would have been the first on European soil - but he refrained because all the island no longer deposited appeared after the resumption of the plans for the construction of the Hindenburg Damm enough. In 1920 he had been in the Braderuper Heath, at the place where he had acquired for the planned monastery land, a Buddhist monument made ​​of red bricks with the inscription " Namo BUDDHAYA - Glory to the sublime. It Paul Dahlke " build. 1932 or 1933, the letters from strangers knocked out .. In the fall of 1939 eventually became the entire monument by the Nazis - with a view to angedachte airport expansion - destroyed, the debris was removed. Today Buddhism plays any role in Sylt. A Buddhist center of Diamond Way Buddhism exists in Westerland in Bundiswung.

Architecture, urban development

The development Wenningstedts was dominated until the mid 19th century by uthlandfriesischen architectural style of the farmhouses. Town center was the village pond ( Kiar ). With the onset of tourism developed in the years before 1900, numerous lodging-houses and villas for summer guests. Until then there was no place planmäßiges road system, created on the drawing board now in this time, roads and land parcels. The current road layout is based mainly on the former drawing board designs. Since the guesthouses and farther from the old town center moved away, the new center shifted westward towards the beach. Now was the formative development of the townscape of seaside style - two-storey buildings with high ceilings and white wooden porches, enclosures now served as a white-painted picket fence. In the 1950s and 1960s recognized the construction boom also Westerland, and the townscape changed again serious: It created the simple classic brick buildings - often as small guest houses or guest houses, also the first true summer houses were built in the postwar period. In the 1980s and 1990s, almost all arable land were cultivated in local situation so that new buildings usually the demolition of old buildings presupposed. Since the 1980s, caused almost exclusively apartment homes - some in Frisian style similar style - usually in zweieinhalbgeschossiger construction with up to six apartments. Displaces thus were not only the classic Family pensions, and the living room for Wenningstedter ( permanent) population is declining for years. Since the mid- 1980s thus created a new type of building: Building with ( publicly subsidized ) rental housing. High-rise buildings or apartment blocks as in the neighboring village of Westerland in Westerland have not been built, some of the larger apartment complexes were only along the main road and dunes built in the early 1980s. By 2015, built on the site of the demolished in 2009 Kurverwaltung on the cliff, the new spa center with auditorium, restaurant and office of tourism service. For summer 2013, the new Promenade is after the demolition of the house " Düneck " with the former Gosch branch are completed.

Economy

The economy is Wenningstedts - heavily influenced by tourism - such as on the island of Sylt. Hardly any industry does not live at least indirectly on tourism. In addition to the guest and restaurant industry ( such as hotels, guest houses, apartment rentals, restaurants, spa, sauna, sanatorium, massage, baths and spa facilities ) also retailers and service providers rely on the purchasing power of the guests.

Personalities

The first spa director of community Berthin Bleeg is an honorary citizen of Wenningstedt -Braderup.