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, 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.
Really romantic, the "floating dreams" already work from the ferry. In the "storm surge cinema" in Hooge you will be disabused. Since the storm whipped with strengths nine to twelve the North Sea into the holm. Since not benefit the 1,5 Meter high summer dike, since only helps, in time to pick up cows and cars on the Terps. Even the birds take refuge in the protection of a mound. "Land Under" report the Halligen then, and out of the water, only the houses look out.
Hooge is up to nine times a year flooded, the small islets like Habel up to fifty times. Half days so raging a storm, to the sea again like a mirror lying there. Not high enough, the Kirchwarft, so that they will be flooded more often. But as builders beließen among church benches the sandy soil, in which the water can seep. was raised high enough only Westerwarft, "All others are Versauflöcher", scolds the oldest inhabitants of Hooge, who nailed the windows of his house to the surf down with plexiglass. Because even the sea level rises, the Terps be increased at great expense. Because North Friesland Halligen, Remains of the great by the storm surges of 1362 and 1634 battered coast, serve primarily as a breakwater for obtaining the coast. With the theme also an international coastal protection conference in Cuxhaven dealt.
Picturesque of creeks crisscrossed pastures: Hallig Hooge in the North Sea
The wealth of the inhabitants from the "Mandränke" testify as sand stone coffins from the 12. century. From the subsequent poverty – by About rinses no agriculture is possible – the "Ditten" and the tools for the production of this cow manure as fuel. Clearly, the local museums Hooge and Langeneß demonstrate life on the islets, before receiving power and "water out of the wall", Hooge z. B. 1954 electricity and 1969 water. Before they started the rainwater in the Soods, cisterns, and in Fething, the cattle trough. They still exist.
The Kirchwarft on Hallig Hooge
The thatched-roof beacon of Hallig Oland
With the water out of the wall and the boarders came. And many a time they contribute to the dinner with. With rubber boots and buckets's going to Watt for mussel bank. When you have passed up, the muddy, "Pluck" studded with barnacles blue-black shellfish from the byssus threads to, the buckets are filled quickly. they are presented Scrubs cleaned under the hose at sea and in the guest house again and prepared. Delicious and free for.
A dam with Loren rails leading from Langeneß Hallig Oland
During a trip to Langeness, the largest Hallig, shows the tourist guide proud of a modest house. "This is our grocery store. Since there are twice a week fresh bread. "He also supplies Hallig Oland, which is connected by a four kilometers long dam with Langeneß. About him, the locals travel on rails with Loren. Strangers have damn long walk. But it's worth. Oland has probably the only thatched-roof beacon of world, but only one restaurant.
Although you can walk to Hallig Gröde at low tide from the mainland – it runs a battleship -, is insignificant day tourism. After elections, they announced with its few inhabitants as the first result. To orbit once Gröde, one does not need a lot of time. But here you have to look at the typical holm-church with a Renaissance altar of 1592 and the even older pulpit. The Reethäuser offer the guest while a roof over your head, but no service – and there is only one kiosk!
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Infos:
www.halligen.de
Photos:
Elke Backert
