Amrumer Odde

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The north of Amrum with the Odde, view from the west
Dunes, beach and border of the restricted area on the east side

The Amrumer Odde ( Öömrang : Ood , German: "tip") is the northernmost part of the island of Amrum and is located northeast of the village of Norddorf on Amrum .

geography

The Amrumer Odde is about two kilometers long and an average of 150 to 200 meters wide. It mainly consists of a belt of dunes up to 24 meters high . The Odde was created by the Kniepsand , which constantly migrated to the east and northeast . Around 150 hectares of the Odde are designated as a nature reserve, which is looked after by the Jordsand Association. It is officially referred to as the "Northern tip of Amrum nature reserve on the island of Amrum in the district of Südtondern" or as "Amrum-Odde". The Odde serves as a nesting place for numerous seabirds . Therefore, during the breeding season, it can only be migrated along the coastline. A gravel-covered spit hook belongs to the Odde , the actual northern tip of Amrum.

history

The area was designated as a nature reserve (NSG) in 1936. In the same year a thatched bird keeper's house was built in a dune valley, which still exists today (as of 2019). The Jordsand Association has been responsible for the maintenance of the area since 1941. To avoid a sea breakthrough, a short dike was built lengthways in 1955 at the narrowest point in the south of the Odde. In 1970 the NSG was enlarged.

Flora and fauna

On the west side you will find sea rocket -Spülsäume. In the dunes grow bedstraw , sand thyme , four-male hornwort and Carthusian carnation .

The Amrumer Odde is a breeding ground for numerous bird species. Around 700 pairs of herring gulls , herring gulls , eider ducks and middle saws breed here. Little terns breed on the Kiesspitze . The Odde is also important as a resting place and wintering area for birds.

Photographs

  • The Odde (in the background on the right) from the Norddorf viewing dune

  • Northern Kiesspitze with resting birds, behind Föhr

  • Dunes of the northern tip

  • Dunes on the west side

Web links

Commons : Nature reserve north tip Amrum on the island Amrum in the district Südtondern  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nils Århammar : The Amringer language - The Amringer literature . Special print. Verlag Hansen & Hansen, Itzehoe-Münsterdorf 1969, p. 20
  2. ↑ a b c d e Official description (PDF), accessed on July 4, 2015
  3. ↑ List of nature reserves in Schleswig-Holstein, as of 2016 (PDF), accessed on February 17, 2017

Coordinates: 54 ° 41 ′ 57 ″  N , 8 ° 20 ′ 20 ″  E