over 200 year old, combines the traditional Niedersächsische Staatsbad Norderney, the oldest in Germany, former glory, modern comfort, Environmental and health awareness.
"Taxis of the Royal. Seebadeanstalt on Norderney for Portechaisenträger 1. after the strand back and forth 15 Sgr., 2. within the local 10 Sgr., in the latter case, after 10 pm 2 1/2 Sgr. more. Riding donkeys after the Ladies'- or men's Badestrande 3 Sgr. ". It says so in the "Norderneyer bath line" of 1868 under the title "hints for bathers". "For a bath in a horse-drawn carriage with a horse swimming" was demanded 10 Silbergroschen. You read and marvel: Already more than 100 Years, the North Sea island has offered all kinds of services, of course, against appropriate payment.
A green island with a wide, white sand beach, then Norderney shows from the aircraft.
But, you read and marvel, what you can still learn about Norderneys bathing habits: "Men and women were driven with bathing machines at two different parts of the beach separated. There she took lying or kneeling a swim. Still the Lord path and Damenpfad exists. The Physikus Friedrich-Wilhelm von Halem described the adequate distance between the ladies- and Herrenbad: Am Strande der Badegegend sind in gehöriger Entfernung zwei Stangen aufgerichtet, in deren Zwischenräumen sich niemand baden darf und woselbst die Buden für die Badekutschen stehen. Außer der Linie derselben nach Süden hin baden sich die Frauenzimmer, und der nach Norden die Mannspersonen. Diese Einrichtung ist des Abstands wegen erforderlich und wird jeder honette Badegast sich Beobachtung derselben zu bescheiden wissen“
As the seaside resort on 1. May 1800 was officially opened and the inhabitants of the East Frisian island 70 Room for three and a half dollars a week rented, counted it 250 Spa guests. Soon become the Modebad for the wealthy class, exceed the stranger locals. And since the royal house of Hanover under the subsequent George V. 1836 Norderney as a summer residence chose, was built diligently: "To accommodate princely people appropriately", about the "Great Logierhaus".
A touch of this era radiates the North Sea resort of today: Magnificent and the extensive beach promenade and behind the green Seed calibration, Spa and Casino, pretty narrow brick streets, wide sandy beaches
Reminiscent of old times
Nudist beach sections and sauna, up to 25 Meter high dunes, maintained parks, Golf- and airfield, exquisite restaurants and boutiques – truly regal Hotels. since 2005 there is the so-called "bath:haus” - the largest thalassotherapy center in Germany. built close to water and beach, far away from all the hustle and surrounded by dunes and salt marshes, It offers a variety of thalassotherapy. seawater, Schlick, seaweed, Sand or limestone - the ingredient list for medical or cosmetic health- and spa treatments is long. Not without reason, the East Frisian island for the nomination "Special Award for Health Tourism of the German Tourism Award 2010".
who that 80 Kilometer Rad- would like to use and hiking trails, should know, was 1875 a contemporary has measured: "The island is long one and forty-five minutes, fifteen minutes wide and can be bypassed in four hours. "
While customer numbers in all of Lower Saxony are declining, Norderney reported growth. So every year see the 6.500 residents about 300.000 When- and bathers over, Book the approximately three million overnight stays. Basis of the all-year cure is the marine environment with dust- and sterility of sea air, which has proven itself in diseases of the respiratory system to cystic fibrosis, but also for skin diseases. Other indications: susceptibility to infection, exhaustion, Praesklerose and Aufbrauchleiden of the spine and joints.
Nice 1872 to found the first beach chairs at the inlet characterized, and already 1931 created a sea water indoor pool, the first of its kind on the European continent. 1990 is it for 30 Million marks become a modern water park: "The wave". In general, the Lower Saxony Staatsbad pioneered: 1887 received the island of telephone connection, 1888 year-round boat service with Norddeich. 1889 Water supply and sewerage system were introduced. Gas- and power followed. The first fully biological sewage treatment plant on the North Sea coast was 1971 completed on Norderney, and the waste is since 1979 disposed of on the mainland. So everything perfectly on the island, which "Queen of the North" boasts?
There was a, the ridiculed the "anemic" fishermen and sailors of the island. In year 1826 said Heinrich Heine, that "the natives have a tea, which is different from boiled seawater only by the name, chat and a language, which seems hard to understand, as it is possible for them yourself, to understand them ".
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Infos:
info@norderney.de
www.norderney.de
Staatsbad Norderney, 26535 Norderney, Tel. 04932/8910,
Photos:
Elke Backert
