"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.
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.
In the bush, the highest point on the island, perched the lighthouse. From the top you can even see the chalk cliffs of the Danish island of Moen.
All visitors hike to the lighthouse first. Who turns left shortly before the secluded restaurant Klausner, learns of the host Wolfgang Siegel, in a "seminar", Sea buckthorn is a very vitamin C rich fruit. 100 grams of 6-8 contained mm thick berries 200-450 Gramm Vitamin C, while the lemon it only 150 gram bring, The rose-hip for comparison to 700 gram. Also, the sea buckthorn is rich in beta-carotene. Logical, that he, although consuming to harvest, is processed into juice, jam, Wine, liqueur, oil, Cakes, Skin cream and other cosmetics. Must be tasted everything and try. He must also offer sun- and wound protection do service. Because it is rooted very deep, he is moreover ideal as ground- and erosion control.
In order for the guests of the "Klausner" understand, how extremely difficult the harvest is, arm them with buckets, Rubber gloves and a plastic coat and protect themselves from enemy spray stains and their hands before the thorns of up to six meters high shrub. Because the yellow berries will be pressed on the bush. It packs a branch from above and wrestling him to the bucket. This then is milking. With all due skill, the yield remains lean.
A continent in miniature is the complaints upstream National Park Hiddensee. "We Soeten Länneken", Our sweet little, lovingly tell the 1300 Insulaner. The car-free island of Ruegen sister, a single Parkland, similar in shape to a seahorse, but covers 18 kilometer Long. Here dominate pedestrian, Cyclists and horse carriage.
Garhart Captain
A fascinating rose sky with a wooden baptismal awaits visitors in the church in monastery.
in monastery, the main town of the north, Guests visit the former home of the 1946 deceased playwright Gerhart Hauptmann, now a museum. There they hear his voice on tape, as his literary works dictated to his secretary in the machine. He reportedly made little notes – except once in bed. As he scribbled his thoughts simply on the wall. still be seen.
In the nearby cemetery he rests under a simple boulder. The Church, however, has rich decoration. Your vault is a single rose sky, of the seems to descend a wooden baptismal. But he is no longer used and no longer needs to be pulled down to the chain. but which still baptized, that is the salt water from the Baltic.
Especially after storms the wind strength 10/11 the Baltic Sea makes the Amber shop in Kloster rich. For then the two men can "harvest" fresh Bernstein, which is stranded from Russia and from the Baltic states. The fossil resin process them into jewelry, they sell locally.
Chair Art by Jo Harbort
Chair Art by Jo Harbort
In Vitte in the island is another artist at work. He carves smart Holzfiguren from Eichenstämmen, about unorthodox chairs, where at the bottom a carved cat in life-size seated quite close. "The sit there at the level of children's eyes and causes you to purchase."
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Infos:
www.seebad-hiddensee.de
Photos:
Elke Backert
