Jammer Bay

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Jammer Bay
Fishing trawler on Torup Beach

Fishing trawler on Torup Beach

Waters Skagerrak , North Sea
Land mass Vendsyssel-Thy , Jutland
Geographical location 57 ° 19 ′  N , 9 ° 33 ′  E Coordinates: 57 ° 19 ′  N , 9 ° 33 ′  E
Jammerbucht (Nordjylland)
Jammer Bay
Coastline 100 km
Islands no

The Jammerbucht ( Danish Jammerbugt ) is an open body of water in the Skagerrak . The bay is part of the Danish North Sea on the northwest coast of Jutland and stretches around 100 kilometers from Hirtshals via Løkken to Bulbjerg . The name of the bay is probably derived from " Jammer ": The countless strandings in earlier times meant the miserable deaths of many seafarers. To the west, the bay Vigsø Bugt connects to Hanstholm , in the northeast the Tannis Bugt extends to Skagen .

The bay offers good fishing grounds . The ports of Hirtshals and Hanstholm were only built in the 20th century to replace numerous small landing sites on the open sandy beach. In Løkken, Lønstrup and Torup Strand you can still see fishing tractors lying on the beach, which are pulled into the sea or on land with winches or caterpillars . As the first Danish port on the open North Sea, Hirtshals Havn was built between 1919 and 1930 and is now one of Denmark's largest fishing ports . The port of Hanstholm was inaugurated in 1967 after seven years of construction. The most important branch of the economy in the coastal region, however, is tourism - benefiting from wide sandy beaches , which are mostly accessible by car. The coastline is endangered by erosion , especially at Lønstrup, despite coastal protection measures , while the dune belts between Blokhus and Bulbjerg are even growing - due to the calmer currents inside the shallow bay.

In 2007, four municipalities on Vendsyssel-Thy merged to form the new Jammerbucht municipality ( Jammerbugt municipality ).

  • Jammerbucht with Bulberg in the background

  • Bulberg at low tide

  • Jammer Bay at Blokhus

  • Jammer Bay at Blokhus

literature

  • Ingrid Nielsen: Wretched . In: Nordjyllands Amt (Ed.): Havets Nordjylland . Aalborg 2002, ISBN 87-7775-461-1 , p. 142 ff . (Danish).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Den Store Danske : Jammerbugt , accessed on October 6, 2010 (Danish).
  2. ↑ Note: Other ports such as Esbjerg are protected z. B. behind an island, in the fjord or on the canal.
  3. ^ Hanstholm Havn: History. Port of Hanstholm , accessed November 13, 2015.

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