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.
The island of Sylt, famous and infamous as the island of the rich and famous, moved already to 1855 Guests under its spell, after King Frederick VII., Duke of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, the place Westerland bathing concession had given. When 1894 a hotel owner Berliner set up the first beach carts, began the era of "Bathers". In the 20's were so famous there like Thomas Mann, Emil Nolde, Zuckmayer, lured by the light, the high sky and a burst of color intensity.
The famous Red Cliff, one about 30 Meter high cliffs between the towns of Wenningstedt and Kampen
Gut 100 Years have passed, Westerland on Sylt that received by imperial decree town charter. Gut 150 Years have passed, issued since the first Westerland Kurkarten. Because the use of changing tents had to be solved "swim cards". thus applies 1855 as a founding year for the North Sea resort. Its recognition as a spa received city 1949.
Only when the 11,2 Kilometer long railway embankment was built and the island to the mainland association, traveled tourists in droves. The then President Paul von Hindenburg dedicated the dam on 1. June 1927 on. Am 1. April 1930 is the first car on the car train mitgefahren. One of the first routes was Hamburg-Lörrach. This has then still 33 taken hours.
Under the motto "car on board, Mobile spot "today take Einstock- and double-deck carriages of the DB Autozug Sylt Shuttle in Niebüll vehicles and passengers piggyback and bring them into 35 Minutes to Westerland. The journey is unique in the world, on one side the surf, on the other, the Wadden Sea. Thanks to innovative smart card instead of a paper ticket and ExpressCheckIn can in one hour 320 Vehicles are loaded.
A typical thatched house is characterized by a deep-drawn down thatched. The gable is located in the center of the house, so that remains free in a fire escape route.
by 1913 originating design regulations of the place Kampen applies today: no house is higher than eight meters, Distance from the property line twelve meters. Lattice windows are required, but no more than 40 taking a percentage of total house wall. And each villa its thatched roof. Although reed grows on the doorstep, but is not sufficient and is imported from Hungary.
closed to bus traffic, was the oldest place of Sylt, also known for its old tree population the "green heart of the island", Carless. 36 part 300 Year-old houses are listed in Keitum. In the famous St. Severin Church (one 1200) can throughout the year every Wednesday, stylish by candlelight, up to 500 Guests listen to concerts. The city tax of Keitum is cheap and still be entitled to prospect the wide beach of Westerland.
The Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park
Because Keitum is located on the Wadden Sea. But this has its special charm. The requests for mudflats, so Environmental manager, were barely cope. A fork is on board, when it comes to dig up the bristle worm, the so miraculous piles on the silt settles, Although he 20 Centimeters lives deep. The bryozoan colony, recognizable as such only under the microscope, looks more like a fern. The green slimy something turns out to be Eipaket a leaf worm. And redshank and snipe wait there, where the Watt dry falls, to the bristle worm, because if he wants to swallow the mud.
The lighthouse of Hörnum on the southern tip of the islandAnyone who walks once around the southern tip of the island in Hörnum, find shells and variations of oyster shells, partly occupied by fossil triangular tube worm and delicately chased by boring sponge. And on Flutsaum penetrates the healing iodine-rich aerosol in the bronchi and lungs. "You can not resist it, to be healthy and to stay there ", swarming islanders. From the free North Sea one of steady west wind blows the cleanest, because pollution-free and low-allergen air face. Help out can be achieved by applications in the therapy center, about packs with Schlick, inhalations, movement baths, which makes the whole body fit around.
The Sylt style is affectionately dubbed as Fries Baroque
When 1968 the "Hissing Elias" was lifted off the tracks, built to the route of the island train as bike path. You set them up 38 cycle along kilometers from the southern tip in Hörnum until Lister Elle Borgen. That tetrapods before Westerland, anchored as coastal protection, be used while sunbathing as a windbreak and climbing, lit a, but that the guests 1,2 Kilometers long and 20 take-meter high dune near List literally, brings the spa director of Sylt-Ost Rage. Because the cratering, generated during the poaching of vegetation, is irreparable.
Sylt oysters are experts to be especially tasty
In the dunes of List and on Königshafen loneliness is announced, in "Gosch", the northernmost fish shop in Germany, the friends a delicious fish meal romp abound.
And then the "Sylt wave" must, swimming- and sauna bath Westerland, and the "Sylt Quelle" are mentioned. The latter is a particularly iodine mineral water, in Rantum, on the edge of the largest bird sanctuary in northern Germany, Intersects, you can carry boxes of home and buy in Germany. But the clear 16-square glass building of the "Sylt Quelle" can also be rented for events of all kinds.
Infos:
www.sylt.de
Photos:
Elke Backert
