Mighty meerumtoster red rock with green land and white sand
Because they walk too close to the water, calls man the two deepened this week ladies to order. Because the gray seal lying by the hundreds on the sandy beach of the dune already taking to his heels into the protected waters. Or "wave" with the fin, which means: Please do not come closer! Basically, however, they have become accustomed to the tourists and raise your head just curious, when the back them with camera and binoculars to grips. It will even happen, that a floating seal nudges a bather friendly with the nose. Who unaware controls the Helgoland upstream dune with the Börteboot and the funny-looking animals finds so numerous and so close, really surprised.
Not only do they, and the shallow southern beach with the red-white striped lighthouse, the bungalows, the sunny Restaurant and the beautiful nature reserve invite tourists to stay. Wherever on the flat dune with the extensive wide natural beaches, the small planes land - Caution! -, one finds flints, the old with million-year fossil shells are occupied.
In December and January invites Germany's only offshore island for baby seal-watching. This one-off nature experience, visitors can experience the birth and rearing of animals knopfäugigen as close as probably nowhere else in Germany. under expert guidance of a nature Representative.
Daily bob the seaside resorts ships off Heligoland between dunes and red rock, before returning in the late afternoon to the mainland.
In November and December, the baby seals are on the white beaches of Heligoland to the world. They weigh no more than ten to 14 Kg and are protected by a very thick fur against the cold and wind. Nourished by the extremely fatty breast milk the pups grow a thick layer of blubber, taking over the insulating function after three to four weeks. So they can after three weeks already about 50 weigh kg. In December and January invites Germany's only offshore island for baby seal-watching. This one-off nature experience visitors experience under expert guidance of a conservation officer birth and rearing of animals knopfäugigen as close as probably nowhere else in Germany. During this time, visitors can on the beach of Heligoland Badedüne the animals until 30 meters closer.
The "Lange Anna", Heligoland landmark
A storm surge tore Anno 1720 the island into two parts. Mighty towers of red rock with almost 50 Meter-high landmark, the "Long Anna", from the North Sea. Day tourists often come only duty-free shopping for, and well worth it, in fact,! Around the island with sub- and learn Oberland really know, takes time. you want to stay on the West Cliff with their bright red sandstone layers. This most beautiful part of the rock have Murre, Kittiwake, gannets, Oystercatchers and the Fulmar appropriated as their breeding territory. The itinerary on the green Oberland with the grazing moorland sea birds with binoculars are good to watch. Especially funny in June, the "Lummensprung", when the still flightless birds like rubber balls 40 Meters deep plop on the water.
Also nice is the view of the majestic bobbing off the island resorts white ships ", drive the early evening with the day guests back to the mainland. Neither engine noise or bikes disturb the idyll, the few cars in the lowlands drive electrically silent, and the dust-free and pollen reduced air does the rest. The only "public transport" are the elevator to the Oberland – naturally athletic people prefer the 182 to 260 Levels of stairs – and the boat to the dune.
Knieper or crab sushi
The maritime promenade, the listed Hummerbuden moulted, former fishermen's houses. Here you can rumstöbern and in the "Bunte Kuh" delicacy "Knieper" (Kneifer) essen. These are the scissors of the world-famous real Helgoland lobster, living off the island on rock bases and not in the mud, why he particularly fine taste. In one of the colorful wooden houses you can get married even. The place each year around 100 Couples chic.
Schick also found poets and thinkers of earlier times, the offshore island, the "Capri of the North". a 1830 everyone was here, had a name: Heinrich Heine 1829, Adelbert von Chamisso and Hoffmann von Fallersleben 1841, the ambience to the "Song of the Germans" encouraged, our National Anthem. They lived in fishing huts, and even kings lived their summer away courtly culture. the island in the German Bight was known by the physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, the end of the 18. century asked, why Germany do not have a seaside resort. To 1814 Heligoland was Danish, then British, 1826 it was the seaside resort. Lichtenberg discovered the island as a South Seas atoll – This design hotel atoll took the name -, on the one "beautiful, seductive, "Find willing women. Kaiser Wilhelm II. exchanged on Helgoland 10. August 1890 against the African Zanzibar and expanded it to the heavily fortified naval base. The 1919 destroyed equipment was Hitler renew. He would have preferred a Germanic "Atlantis". Himmler even search with submarines after the legendary island.
The bombing of England during the Second World War left the hopper of a 5,000-kilo bomb, now a green overgrown hole. The up to 20 Meters deep and about 20 Kilometer long bunker system, that saved the inhabitants, can be visited on guided tours.
In one of the Hummerbuden is also the “colorful cow” at home.
buried in a concrete slab on the jetty is a quote from Heinrich Heine: "The sea is my choice related element and even the sight of me is healing."
Thanks flight operations from Bremerhaven, Heide / Büsum and Wilhelmshaven and the futuristic catamaran "Halunder Jet" from Hamburg, Wedel and Cuxhaven can be reached the seaside resort well.
Tips:
Am 12. July every year, the day of the resorts service celebrated as Island Festival with stalls, music, dance, duty-free shopping and midnight fireworks, before the baths ships return to its ports.
Infos:
www.helgoland.de
www.helgoline.de
Photos:
Elke Backert
