Bensersiel
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Bensersiel
City of Esens
Coordinates: 53 ° 40 ′ 27 " N , 7 ° 34 ′ 36" E
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| Height : | 1 m above sea level NHN | |
| Residents : | 231 | |
| Incorporation : | July 1, 1972 | |
| Postal code : | 26427 | |
| Area code : | 04971 | |
Location of Bensersiel in Lower Saxony |
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Bensersiel is a North Sea spa in East Frisia and a district of the East Frisian town of Esens in Lower Saxony .
location
The place is on the northern coast of East Frisia on the North Sea , about 4 kilometers northwest of the city of Esens, 25 kilometers east of the city of Norden , 23 kilometers northeast of Aurich and a good 40 kilometers northwest of Wilhelmshaven . Bensersiel is located on the Benser Tief , a sluice train that leads far into the inland and drains the marshes to the south .
Infrastructure
Bypass
Since May 2011, a two-kilometer bypass road has relieved the town center from local traffic. With the judgment of the Lower Saxony Higher Administrative Court of April 10, 2013, however, the two development plans 72 and 72a of the road were declared ineffective because the relief road runs in a "de facto bird sanctuary" in the sense of the bird protection directive. The judgment was confirmed by the Federal Administrative Court on January 13, 2014. The town council of Esens and the administration were aware of the status of "de facto bird sanctuary" when they voted on the development plans, and corresponding objections from nature conservation associations in the participation process were not taken into account. On June 16, 2017, the road was closed to traffic due to its unclear legal status. The unusable road is criticized by the German taxpayers' association .
The area in question was eventually by the county Wittmund as Natura 2000 - conservation area reported that construction projects under strict conditions allowed (unlike a nature reserve ) and the road thus retrospectively but could still legalize. The area was previously designated as a bird sanctuary by the EU, but has not yet been officially designated by the state of Lower Saxony, which means that the exact legal status of the area was unclear. As a result, the legal status of the area has now been precisely defined, which means that it is not the stricter provisions of a nature reserve but the less stringent provisions of a landscape protection area that apply. The Lüneburg Higher Administrative Court declared this to be legal in 2019.
However, the question of whether the street is legal has not yet been clarified. For this purpose, the city of Esens adopted the development plan 89 in April 2018, through which the road is planned again on the basis of the provisions of the newly designated landscape protection area, as if it did not yet exist. This new development plan was also the subject of legal disputes.
additional
Bensersiel is located on the Green Coastal Road , a predominantly well-developed state road that connects the holiday resorts on the East Frisian coast. The state road, which branches off from the federal road 210 ( Aurich - Wilhelmshaven ) and leads around Esens to Bensersiel, also ends at the port of Bensersiel . The next motorway junctions are at Wilhelmshaven, Westerstede and Emden .
Railway stations of national importance are located in Bremen and Oldenburg . A regional train runs every hour between Sande or Wilhelmshaven and the Esens stop south of the city . Until May 29, 1983, the route continued as the East Frisian Coast Railway via Dornum and Hage to the north . Between Bensersiel and Esens there was passenger traffic on the Leer-Aurich-Wittmund small railway until it was closed on February 6, 1967 .
The next major airport is Bremen Airport . Flights to some of the East Frisian islands and to Heligoland are offered from the airports at Norddeich and Harlesiel / Carolinensiel .
A passenger ferry runs several times a day from the port of Bensersiel, regardless of the tide, to the car-free island of Langeoog .
Economy and tourism
Agriculture , which still dominated until the middle of the 20th century, no longer plays a role in Bensersiel today. There are also no industrial companies. Today tourism is the basis of the local economy.
Bensersiel offers numerous overnight accommodations in hotels, inns, private quarters, apartments and holiday homes. There is a spacious campsite to the west of the village. There is a green beach and an artificially created sandy beach. The place has two swimming pools. The open sea water swimming pool with an 80-meter-long slide is located directly on the sea and is open from May to September depending on the weather. The covered and year-round open leisure and adventure pool "Nordseetherme" has five pools with different depths and three slides as well as a varied sauna landscape. In the town center there are a few restaurants and several retail stores. The parking spaces are chargeable. A fee is charged for access to the beach if people do not have a spa card .
In 2012, 135,302 guests and 834,504 overnight stays were counted in Esens / Bensersiel.
Trivia
- Robert Erskine Childer's spy novel The Riddle of the Sandbank from 1903 plays a. a. in Bensersiel as well as the 1979 film adaptation of At Night and Fog .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cars have been rolling on the bypass since Thursday , Ostfriesen-Zeitung, May 27, 2011, accessed on May 29, 2011.
- ^ OVG Lüneburg , judgment of April 10, 2013, 1 KN 33/10
- ↑ BVerwG , decision of January 13, 2014, 4 BN 37.13
- ↑ Relief road - in the worst case, there is a risk of dismantling , Anzeiger für Harlingerland, May 4, 2013, p. 1.
- ↑ Marco Seng: Illegal street closed from now on. In: Nordwest-Zeitung . June 17, 2017. Retrieved August 7, 2017 .
- ^ BdSt: The "most expensive black building in Lower Saxony". In: Norddeutscher Rundfunk . Retrieved October 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Landscape protection area 25 "East Frisian march between the north and Esens in the area of the district of Wittmund" , district of Wittmund; Accessed March 31, 2020
- ^ OVG: Protected area legal - will the road stay? , Norddeutscher Rundfunk on May 22, 2019; Accessed March 31, 2020
- ↑ Bypassing Bensersiel: Is illegal becoming legal? In: Norddeutscher Rundfunk . Retrieved April 19, 2018 .
- ^ The bypass road remains a bone of contention , Nordwest-Zeitung of August 6, 2019; Accessed March 31, 2020
- ↑ Bensersiel bypassing: Landowner sues again , Norddeutscher Rundfunk, October 30, 2019; Accessed March 31, 2020
- ^ IHK for East Frisia and Papenburg, according to the spa administration.