House cliff end
Haus Kliffende is a residential building in Kampen on the island of Sylt . It marks the end of the Red Cliff and was threatened with extinction for a long time due to its location near the edge of the precipice.
history
The house was built in 1923 based on a design by the architect Walther Baedeker on behalf of Heinrich Tiedemann, a Berlin-based bookseller and antiquarian . Tiedemann gave it to his wife, actress Clara Tiedemann (1891–1966), who ran the Kliffende house until 1955 as a guest house . Here she accommodated personalities such as Thomas Mann , Ernst Rowohlt , Emil Nolde , but also Hermann Göring . Thomas Mann wrote in the guest book:
“Not luck or bad luck - the depth of life is what matters. I have lived deeply by this shattering sea, and whatever it excited, that will, God give it, somehow one day become honorable. I also want to come back. Of course, one should never want to repeat, because it is certain from the start that it will be different the next time. But just out of gratitude I want to return: the lasting feeling of gratitude that I hereby extend my heartfelt thanks to the hosts of this good house. "
“We're traveling again. How good that Kliffende stays. "
And Emil Nolde wrote about his stay in Kliffende:
“In the nights I felt the pale cold moon, disturbing me in sleep and dream, and the beacons flashed. I drank wine as if I were a drinker. "
After 1955, Deutsche Bank used the building as a guest house for employees before it was sold to a group of investors around Clemens Vedder at the end of the 1990s and converted into a private hostel.
Coastal defense
As a result of the storm surges in January and February 1990, the front of the Kliffende house was less than 5.5 meters from the edge of the break. To prevent total loss of the building due to further storm surges, ten layers of geotextile sand containers were built in front of the house on a coastline of around 165 meters between September and December 1990. The task of the resulting artificial dune is to prevent the cliff from breaking off further and to build a second "line of defense" in front of the house as soon as the sand deposit from the pre-wash has been consumed by hydrodynamic loads.
As a result, the structure withstood various violent storms with wind speeds of up to 200 km / h. In the course of these storm surges, the geotextile structure was washed away a little from time to time, but always covered with sand again promptly by excavators. Also due to the planted beach grass the dune has grown considerably. It always proved to be stable and reliable, so that damage to the Kliffende house could be successfully prevented.
Guests of the house Kliffende
- Roland Freisler (1893–1945), German lawyer and President of the People's Court , the highest court in the Nazi state for political criminal matters
- Carl Friedberg (1872–1955), German pianist and music teacher
- Hermann Göring (1893–1946), leading National Socialist politician, Prussian Prime Minister and Commander in Chief of the German Air Force
- Bronisław Huberman (1882–1947), Polish violinist
- Friedrich Hollaender (1896–1976), German revue and sound film composer , cabaret artist and music poet
- Erich Kleiber (1890–1956), Austrian conductor
- Emmi Leisner (1885–1958), German concert and opera singer (alto)
- Hans Luther (1879–1962), German politician and Imperial Chancellor of the Weimar Republic
- Thomas Mann (1875–1955), German writer and one of the most important storytellers of the 20th century
- Katia Mann (1883–1980), wife of the writer Thomas Mann
- Johannes Müller (1864–1949), German Protestant theologian
- Emil Nolde (1867-1956), German painter of Expressionism
- Ernst Rowohlt (1887–1960), German publisher
- Renée Sintenis (1888–1965), German sculptor and graphic artist
- Albert Talhoff (1888–1956), Swiss writer and director
- Ernst Toller (1893–1939), German writer, politician and left-wing socialist revolutionary
- Bruno Walter (1876–1962), German-Austrian conductor , pianist and composer
- Fritz Wichert (1878–1951), German art historian and director of the Mannheimer Kunsthalle and the Frankfurt Städelschule
literature
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Sven Simon (Ed.): Sylt. Adventure of an island. (Illustrated book) Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1980, ISBN 3-455-08920-8 . - in this:
- Claus Jacobi : Weeks of Love. Sense of grog. (via Thomas Mann in Haus Kliffende), pp. 184–185.
- Claus Jacobi: I drank wine as if I were a drinker. (about Emil Nolde in the Kliffende house), pp. 204–205.
- Clara Tiedemann: Flag parade at the end of the cliff. (on a visit by Hermann Göring in the summer of 1933), pp. 224–227.
- Clara Tiedemann: Kampener sketches. Encounters, conversations, fates. Self-published / private printing , Stuttgart 1966. / 3rd, expanded and improved edition, Verlag Hansen & Hansen, Münsterdorf 1985, ISBN 3-87980-404-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arfst Hinrichsen: Geotextiles should hold sand firmly. In: Sylter Rundschau from August 6, 2011 ( online in the SHZ Internet portal, last accessed on July 28, 2020)
Coordinates: 54 ° 57 ′ 51.5 " N , 8 ° 20 ′ 4.7" E