House cliff end

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House cliff end
Sand containers made of geotextiles in front of the Kliffende property

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. "

- Kampen, September 11, 1927, Thomas Mann

“We're traveling again. How good that Kliffende stays. "

- August 30, 1928, Thomas Mann

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

literature

  • 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

Commons : Haus Kliffende  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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