Cimbrian Peninsula
| Cimbrian or Jutian Peninsula | |
 The peninsula with its political and geographical areas |
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| Geographical location | |
| Coordinates | 55 ° 38 ′ N , 9 ° 12 ′ E |
| Waters 1 | North Sea , Skagerrak |
| Waters 2 | Kattegat , Baltic Sea |
| length | 450 km |
The Cimbrian Peninsula ( lat.chersonesus cimbrica , Danish kimbriske halvø ), or also Cimbrian Peninsula or Jutian Peninsula , is a peninsula between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea , which extends from the Elbe estuary in the south over a length of approx. 450 km to Grenen in Vendsyssel in the north. It includes Jutland (Danish Jylland ), the continental European part of Denmark , most of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein and the part of Hamburg north of the Elbe .
Concept history
The term "Cimbrian Peninsula" is older than the term "Jutland" and has been known since ancient times. It can be found, for example, in Ptolemaios ' text Geographike Hyphegesis , in Chapter II.x as Κιμβρική Χερσόνησος ( kimbrikè chersónesos ). It is derived from the since the end of the 2nd century BC. Known Germanic people of the Cimbri . Whether these actually settled the peninsula or the nearby Elbe estuary cannot be said with certainty because of the poor ancient sources. However, they are located on the Cimbrian Peninsula by all ancient sources.
Definition of terms
The physical-geographical term dealt with here must be separated from the political-geographical term Jutland .
geography
The ground level of the peninsula is mostly less than 50 m above sea level and only in a few places reaches more than 100 m above sea level. NN. The west coast is particularly low as part of the subsidence coast of the German Bight . In the southern part from the Elbe estuary to the Danish port town of Esbjerg , the original dune line broke in prehistoric times. It is intact to the north of Blåvandshuk , but here too there are beach lakes and lagoons inland from the dunes . The east coast is richly structured by fjords . Both types of water are called “ fjords ” in Danish . From the Little Belt to the Kattegat, the eastern ridge of the peninsula is an undulating ice age moraine landscape with several glacial valleys .
Trivia
On the cross - border long-distance journey "Transcimbrica", participants have to cycle over 1,320 km from Hamburg to Skagen and back again.
literature
- Max Him : Chersonesos 27 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Col. 2269 f.
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Footnotes
- ↑ Transcimbrica. Accessed October 16, 2015 (German).