Brauerplate

Brauerplate
	Oblique aerial view from the southwest
Waters	North Sea
Archipelago	East Frisian Islands
Geographical location	53 ° 38 ′ N , 6 ° 45 ′ E Coordinates: 53 ° 38 ′ N , 6 ° 45 ′ E
Residents	uninhabited

The Brauerplate is a sandbank and partly high sand in the Lower Saxony Wadden Sea of the North Sea . The southern tip of the sandbank with the high sand is about three kilometers north of the island of Borkum in the water of the Osterems , between the Voorentief and the Hommegat .

Intensive investigations in the mid-1990s identified large-scale morphological changes north of Borkum. These changes are related to the complex relocation processes of the Osterems, the Hommegat and the Brauerplate. Starting from Borkum, the Brauerplate has been increasingly perceptible to non-geologists as an island-like object since around 2000.

Since there is no human intervention in the development of the sandbank, it is to be expected that its size and structure will continue to change. The Brauerplate belongs to the protection zone (Zone I) of the Wadden Sea National Park and may not be entered.

Detail from the map by Karl Ludwig von Le Coq in 1805: The two earlier parts of today's island of Borkum ; northeast of it the Brouwers Plaat
The Brauerplate seen from Borkum. The distance is about three kilometers.

Web links

Commons : Brauerplate - collection of images, videos and audio files

Sources and individual references

↑ Beach erosion and dune demolitions on the northwest and north beaches of Borkum. Causal large-scale development: rotation of the Osterems, expansion of the flood-ebb current system Borkumriffbalje / Voorentief, relocation of the high reef . Retrieved July 9, 2011 (PDF file; 17.5 MB)

The next island to the west:
Lütje Hörn

East Frisian Islands

The next island to the east:
Kachelotplate

[1] Beach erosion and dune demolitions on the northwest and north beaches of Borkum. Causal large-scale development: rotation of the Osterems, expansion of the flood-ebb current system Borkumriffbalje / Voorentief, relocation of the high reef . Retrieved July 9, 2011 (PDF file; 17.5 MB)