Romantically, the Old Port of Neuharlingersiel
Unesco World Heritage Wadden Sea. A unique refuge for tens of thousands of sea creatures, Plants, like animals.
"That is nich Watt merely good for the Foot, de whole body was fit. "The inhabitants claim the Schleswig-Holstein North Sea coast and islands. With the mineral mud but the whole North Sea coast is blessed by North Friesland on the East Frisian coast and its islands to the Dutch.
Who loves sunrises, could begin his trip to the Wadden Sea in Wilhelmshaven. He stayed in the fine Columbia hotel in a room with harbor view, he is woken up by a glowing sun. So romantic holiday can begin.
But then it comes to Neuharlingersiel, a 1000-soul patches, the 1912 brought out the first local brochure and had five beach chairs for rent. Meanwhile, there are 600, 1.200 RV spaces and a separate camping site for 800.000 Overnight guests in. Updraft got the place, because two television series of "Doc Martin" were filmed there. but unique in Ostfriesland is also the silt kitchen, the 400 Year-old silt from a field behind the dike prepared for use in skin problems and rheumatic diseases.
In the picturesque Old Port, the sculpture makes "Alt- and young fishermen 'attention to themselves. The boy looks for the girls out, faces the sea while the old man eagerly. It should be smack on the butt stretched out, the bring luck. The one buttock shines even golden.
Here are not only the shrimp boats, to go to catch, Here one is waiting for passengers to cruise and ferry to Spiekeroog, the traffic-free East Frisian Island, but which can be reached by ferry.
During the cutter trip a trawler fishing for a few minutes the sea floor, and emerged with a nice catch on again. In the first place cavort as long-tailed crabs, also known as brown shrimp or lobster. Cooked later, gepult and tasted. Our certified tour guides Frank Hensel (www.wattwandern.de) explains and shows, what we have captured all. A veritable treasure trove.
Freshly caught shrimp
A hermit crab rushes to the house of a whelk it. The swimming crab got its name, because they have "propeller" on the feet. The beach crab is an omnivore and robbers first class. Your tanks do not grow with. It hides itself, where the mating takes place, and create a new tanks. We also learn, to distinguish male and female on her haunches. we hear about the soil, to up to a size of 10 Millimeter swim like a fish. After that, their head change- and eye structure, so that the head is not symmetrical, but as for Platt- and demersal will. Their size can achieve a Klodeckels. The dab is similar to flounder, but her skin is not smooth, but bristly. We feel, it is true. The starfish crack mussel, by one syringe her a kind of anesthetic poison, her then überstülpe his stomach and digest the same. Seeskorpion, stone Picker, sand Grundelsgården, mullet, Eel and cod we learn to distinguish and recognize a barnacle on the cancer tanks.
But then it says, to keep quiet. We are approaching a sandbar with seals. Countless romp since, some swimming. The oystercatchers eyeing us, meanwhile,.
cooked crabs
A mullet
Spiekeroog is reached. The idyllic village takes only one-twelfth of the elongated island and has only 850 population. We eat fish in the "Spiekerooger passion". Perfect.
The railway from 1890 has been 1980 abolished. In the former railway station, a pizzeria is spreading. The porches were once open to the houses, they were later glazed or at all only grown. This style the locals call Spiekerooger resort architecture. The Artists' House offers year-round in creative courses for photography, grind, Goldsmiths and much more.
Nice 1799 war Spiekeroog Seebad. 1826 the ferryman was admonished, to treat the bathers friendly and accommodating, although in 1846 first 162 were in number. But we conceded for them the room and drew so long in the attic or in the basement.
In the window of the Island Museum are two porcelain dogs. times they had a meaning. For prudish time of Queen Victoria of England brothels were banned. They made do, by placing the window such "Liebeswauwaus". They turned to the outsider back on, had the chance not, but watched her out of the window, he was clean.
Many men have then brought a dog couple of the wife as a souvenir.
Only now, visitors exceed the peak on the island counter. Because of sharp shell edges with rubber boots, solid or sneakers, who dares, barefoot `s over the salt marshes to the Wadden.
"Back and forth and back and forth / slippers we through the Wadden Sea,/ Includes all of you, woman and man,/Our Polonaise on. "
A postcard from 1880, the men with rolled-up trousers, the ladies in high clamped skirts, otherwise totally clothed, demonstrates the tideland at that time. Wading is praised as by the sea mud to Sleep- and loss of appetite.
We want to learn about the wonderful world Watt closer. An exciting adventure, which continues at a good three hours Watt guide and a fork until sunset.
Frank Hensel introduces us to the edible samphire, the, as long as he is lush green, could nicely salty taste and are used in salads. But he is under protection, like the rest of watts with the upstream salt marshes. your name, clear, stems from, that they are always flooded during high tide of the salty North Sea. 40 Halophytes species can be found, the salztoleranteren are closer to the water. The purple flowering lilac beach has approximately glands to removal of salt. The wormwood plant, also flea- or moth herb welcomed, you can smell from afar. Salzmiere and beach Aster have just arranged with the extreme habitat Watts as the various animal species, of which 30 to 40 living in Watts. After all, the tidal flats is frozen in winter and hot in summer as mud. Sandklaff-, heart- and pepper shell about living a few centimeters below the tidal flats and bubble through a siphon residual water upwards.
The samphire tastes good, but should not be picked.
For the birds a rich table is always covered. Thanks to their different lengths and curved beaks they reach the appropriate depth living Watt residents. On the auburn Sandpierwurm, the pile lives in a U-shaped tube and so strange on the surface of leaves, waiting at the seagulls Flutsaum, because if he just takes a sip of sand and the birds can catch him briefly on the surface. not then, if he brings his feces to the surface and to highly stretched his backside, then it was too heavy for pulling, know the tour guides. The avocet grazes the Wadden only from top. The mullet leaves traces, if it meanders over Watt and diatoms destroyed.
A nice experiment should make the tour guides. He digs his finger from a ten by ten centimeters small area whopping 28 Cockles from. Extrapolated, this means, that on one square meter 2.800 live cockles. Hardly imaginable, and even less imaginable, that you, as soon as it is quiet, with her Grabefuß, of a tongue occurs regardless of the slightly opened clam, dig again. Wonderful world Wadden Sea.
Infos:
www.die-nordsee.de
Photos:
Elke Backert
