Category Archives: Islands

The Hamburg Neuwerk

Posted on 18. December 2014 by Elke Backert

At low tide, belonging to Hamburg Neuwerk Cuxhaven-Sahlenburger beach is walking distance, to reach on horseback and with a horse cart. An exciting day out "Halt, how are you going to rise because? Without a ladder not `s." The bearded coachman … Continue reading →

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A shard of the lost city of Rungholt

Posted on 16. December 2014 by Elke Backert

Pellworm, the green island between high and low tide reaches the ferry which ascended to Seeheilbad Frisian Islands Pellworm, see the newcomers nothing – except a green dike, is maintained by woolly lawnmowers, the sheep. but they have the … Continue reading →

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Conservation Vilm off the southern coast of Rügen

Posted on 16. December 2014 by Elke Backert

Just 30 visitors a day, "I have hardly ever the feeling quite pure, had beautiful and secluded nature experience as it was on the small islands, no one else cares to see, the complaints visited. "Not only 1819, when … Continue reading →

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Amrum with great Buddelkiste

Posted on 16. December 2014 by Elke Backert

Where is one of the longest beaches in Europe? No, not in the South, but in the North Sea, on the North Frisian island of Amrum. Twelve kilometers long and infinitely wide, the "Kniepsand", of about two-thirds of the 29 Square-kilometer stretches Eilands. … Continue reading →

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Sylt, the island at the top

Posted on 16. December 2014 by Elke Backert

Despite continuous intervention by man, to secure coastal protection, the island has lost none of its charm at the top. She is so well known, that they simply called "the island": Sylt, also called "Queen of the North Sea". Für viele Fans ist … Continue reading →

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Floating dreams in the North Sea

Posted on 16. December 2014 by Elke Backert

If the islets in the North Sea's land base, only the houses look on their mounds out of the water. But at any other time they have a relaxing holiday come true. The last reveler leaves the "Friesenpesel" on the Backenswarft and … Continue reading →

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Rügen: Chalk with sea view

Posted on 16. December 2014 by Elke Backert

Nature is the largest builder. But sometimes it's about something rude with their creations, as on Ruegen, where pinnacles broke out the famous chalk cliffs and plunged into the Baltic Sea. It hit one of the most distinctive rock formations of the island, … Continue reading →

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The island of Usedom: Where the last German emperor was staying for summer

Posted on 16. December 2014 by Elke Backert

Dreikaiserbäder, a vineyard, a surge tank, Bäderarchitektur, Forest, Seen, Sandy beach and around the sea – what does the vacationers more I do not think with journalists, who are said facetiously, They looked at a church from the outside. I go … Continue reading →

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Sea resort island of Hiddensee – from where the sea buckthorn is

Posted on 16. December 2014 by Elke Backert

"Dat Island Weather, as if every day Sünndag would ... " …and that is to be taken literally, Sunday in every sense of the word as "sunny", because of which there are on the island of Hiddensee as much as almost anywhere else in Germany. Hiddensee-Dornbusch was 2009 … Continue reading →

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My Islands: Overview

Posted on 9. September 1999 by Elke Backert
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