Great width

The great breadth at Güby

Overview of the Schlei Nature Park with details of the large and small widths

The Great Width ( Danish Store Bredning ) describes a section of the inner loop between Missunde and the only 280 m wide Stexwiger Enge in northern Schleswig-Holstein (southern Schleswig). It is about four km long and has an area of ​​about twelve km². The loop here is up to 4.2 km wide and has a lake-like character. At the Stexwiger Enge between the place Stexwig and the Reesholm peninsula (also Palör , Danish Palør ) the large width changes to the small width (Danish Lille Bredning ), which extends to the city of Schleswig .

The name comes from the Danish, where Bredning describes a widening of an otherwise narrow fjord or an otherwise narrow river.

On the north bank of the Great Width are the Geel settlement , which belongs to the municipality of Brodersby-Goltoft, and Füsing, which belongs to the municipality of Schaalby , where the Viking settlement of Füsing was excavated. On the south bank are Weseby , Fleckeby with Götheby-Holm, Güby with Louisenlund and Borgwedel . The northern bank is part of the fishing landscape in the Schleswig-Flensburg district , the southern part of the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district . In front of the Reesholm peninsula is the uninhabited island of Hestholm and the shoal Kockbarg (also Kohöe ), which is said to have been an island in the Viking Age. The Schlei lake barrier was also located here in the Viking Age .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Robert Guderian and Günter Gunkel: Handbook of Environmental Changes and Ecotoxicology, Volume 3A, Aquatic Systems , Berlin / Heidelberg 2000, p. 66
2. ↑ Gyldendal Den Store Danske: Bredning

Coordinates: 54 ° 30 ′ 45 "  N , 9 ° 40 ′ 45"  E