Wesselburenerkoog

Wesselburenerkoog is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen in Schleswig-Holstein. Seehof situated in the municipality.

Geography

The polder was created by diking 1862. The municipality was created in 1934 from part of the parish community land Wesselburen and then had 313 inhabitants. Wesselburenerkoog is right on the Eider estuary into the North Sea and forms the southern access to the Eider barrage. The reclaimed land owned the foreshore dogs Knöll, which was the construction of the Eider Barrage official end point of the barrage later.

History

The landscape served as - not protected against the North Sea - foreshore. The criss-crossed by creeks terrain Wesselburener and Norddeicher farmers left their sheep and other livestock graze. 1819 built the farmers north dike at the highest point, the place of highest samphire a ring dike, in which there was a cattle trough. The dike, whose remains are still visible today, had a diameter of 200 meters. With a height of 5.80 m, it was slightly lower than regular sea dikes at this time. The ring dike potions presented both the fresh water supply of cattle safe and protected it also from storm surges up into the autumn. On the two hectares of land about 1000 sheep and cattle could be accommodated.

The construction of the Eider barrage in the 1970s, the community area which was created as a polder land reclamation grew again to a piece. The community has its own bathing place in the North, a campground and since 2003 also a cottage -colony in a Scandinavian style. Part of the protected Dithmarsch Eider Watts also belong to the municipality.

Policy

Since the local elections in 2013, the voters Community WGW all seven seats in the municipal council.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Theodor wiping ( born December 13, 1907 in Wesselburenerkoog, † 11 January 1995 Norderstedt), the SS Brigade Commander and Major General of the Waffen SS