Helgoland, "South Pacific atoll" and "Capri of the North"

Posted on 3. January 2015 by Elke Backert

Mighty meerumtoster red rock with green land and white sand
Helgoland Oberland

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. Continue reading →

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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 trip

„Halt, how are you going to rise because? Without a ladder `s not." The bearded coachman man of few words. First of all, he lights a cigar and puffs a few moves. Then he takes a heavy wooden ladder from the horse and cart down, while the draft horses have strong water. Three times he has to start the ladder, be able to place all passengers.

Neuwerk Pferdewasser

Endlessly seems to be the Watt. No wonder, that one can be lost and surprised by the flood.

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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 tides

the ferry reached the Ascended to Seeheilbad Frisian Islands Pellworm, see the newcomers nothing – except a green dike, is maintained by woolly lawnmowers, the sheep. but they have climbed the eight-meter, they realize, Why: The marshes Island is located 60 to 120 cm below the sea. The dike to protect against storm surges 26,4 Kilometers long and surrounds 13 Køge, were wrested from the North Sea and made arable. On him, partly in front of and behind him can turn his rounds, on foot or by bike.

On the dike are beach chairs to relax

On Pellworm there is hardly built-up areas. The large farms are, often alone, on high mounds and provide locals and visitors with island own products. In memory of a sure the "island milk" remains with 5,5 Percent fat content, which is "exported" even to the mainland. One verkoste also plenty of the "Pellwormer storm surge", the refined with vodka and lemon milk, 2 cl for three euros. So you can brag, how many floods they had survived. 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, as the philosopher, Doctor and landscape painter Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869) wrote these words, "No one used" to enter except the complaints painters in southern barrier island Vilm. That was in GDR times as. 1959 the public was completely locked out. Only high government officials were allowed to vacation in the purpose-built thatched houses. 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. That was the small lumps, God stuck in the creation of the world is still on the hands. Even in the heißesten bathing season, no one has to jostle. Each comes around 1000 square meters. The Kniepsand seduced even many couples to, to promise the marriage, then in the thatched house, Öömrang first house, can be closed in fog.

That Amrumer Friesentracht vor dem Öömrang house in Nebel Much of Amrum is a nature reserve.

The fascination Amrum but certainly does not end at the beach. Rather, it picks up. Behind the beach is a huge dune area spreads, available to everyone, but only on specially constructed boardwalks. Logical. How else would so many birds rest to breed and raise their young. in Wriakhörn, the only brackish water in the North Sea, feel Wat- and water birds in paradise, Degree- and Shelducks, Eiderenten, Herings- and herring gulls.
Zivi Holger allows guests like to look through his perspective. Gar horrible the spectacle may be, if a cheeky Herring will tear a Eider chick. The signposted trail makes the visitors also with creeping, Marsh Cinquefoil and other salt marsh plants known. Continue reading →

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Sylt, the island at the top

Posted on 16. December 2014 by Elke Backert

Sylt
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". For many fans next Kampen the island metropolis of Westerland is equivalent to Sylt. That "Whiskey Road" in Kampen, officially Strön`wai, Strandweg, of "Gogärtchen" to "chimney" makes its name. But only two percent of the guests would see the place as a stage, once said a Kampener Mayor. After all, one finds neither Paris nor New York all well-known designers as close together as in Kampen. 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.

Hallig Habel

Hallig Habel, the smallest of the Halligen, with only one house, inhabited only by a bird warden of the conservation group Jordsand E.V.

The last reveler leaves the "Friesenpesel" on the Backenswarft and cycling through the full moon. unusual silence. No human, no car far and wide. At the Hanswarft he puts his bike in the stand and walks the few steps to walk to "Olgas Hus". neither house- still room door are closed. The world of the islets is another.
Cars are reserved for residents, Horse carts bring guests from the pier to the quarters and day-trippers on the lush green Fenne, the picturesque crisscrossed by creeks pastures. see for the newcomer all nine mounds on Hallig Hooge alike – these mounds with houses on it. A cycling map shows, where it on with 5,6 long goes sq second largest of the ten Halligen. 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, the "Wissower clinics" between Sassnitz and the highest point of the chalk cliffs, the 119 Meter high Koenigsstuhl. But not - and that's the good news - the famous chalk silhouette, the Caspar David Friedrich almost 200 Years his painting "Chalk Cliffs on Rügen" (1816) inspired. Which is namely the Victoria-view overlooking the Königstuhl and remains safely accessible. How ever, the entire high bank trail has not suffered.

Ruegen Kreidekueste

Spectacular: Rügen's chalk cliffs

For the, who wants to trace the Cretaceous, offer several sightseeing at. The "sudden chalk riffs falling" - as she described the extremely moving doctor, Philosopher and painter Carl Gustav Carus, a student Frederick - can be seen in almost poetic guided walk from Sassnitz to Lohme by Stubnitz, a closed woodland, enjoy.
"Trees are poems, writes the earth to heaven. "And" Death is only a trick of nature, to as much as possible to preserve life ", the accompanying lady quoted from the literature. Na, because one can see that the overgrown forest just in a different light. 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'm going in. I'm also in Benz on the island of Usedom Pomeranian and experience an old pastor, speaks to first-graders. A child-friendly way, he wants to outline to you the history of the place and its famous church. After all, it has the world-famous German-American painter Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) richly varied, times in oil, times in open water colors, recorded for posterity.

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Lyonel Feininger's favorite object, he painted the church of St. Petri repeatedly in Benz.

The pastor told very much alive and ends with a great history, which leaves the second-graders sit up. He had found an old document in the church tower, the strange, contains indecipherable characters. A fellow Chinese but was able to decipher one of the magic characters. as it stood three large B, BBB, and the Chinese also knew their meaning. A Benzer shower tree would grow in the church garden.
"Have you ever seen a shower tree?“ – "No", shout the kids. – "But", replied the pastor, "We look at ourselves now at this."
The children burst out. In fact, hanging there on a tree yellow lemonade bottle, and red, the tires", are already in the grass. Cheering children are certainly the pastor. 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.

sea ​​buckthorn

Sun yellow light, the sea buckthorn berries,
silvery glisten the tender leaves.

Hiddensee-Dornbusch was 2009 the sunniest place. The sun came out in total 2146 hours, in 2008 at all 2168 hours, as the weather service announced.

Dornbusch, which is in the north of the "Sea resort island Hiddensee", where the lighthouse stands, which it applies to scale and grow countless sun yellow shining sea buckthorn bushes in the nearby. Continue reading →

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