Coastal protection camp Elisabethgrodendeich
The coastal protection camp Elisabethgrodendeich is an information facility for coastal protection on the Frisian North Sea coast and is located on the Elisabethgrodendeich north of the village of Friederikensiel in the municipality of Wangerland in Lower Saxony . The core of the coastal protection camp is a ten-meter-high observation hill, which allows a wide view over the Elisabethgroden and the Wadden Sea to the island of Wangerooge . Display boards explain the construction of the dyke and coastal protection in the former Harle Bay .
description
The center of the facility is the viewing hill. A semicircular path leads from the base of the hill to the top. Markings in the path show the storm surge water levels of various storm surges above sea level (NN) and the dyke height of 2018. Display boards on the viewing hill explain the history of the dyke construction with photos and illustrations and details about the elevation and reinforcement of the Elisabethgrodendeich, in particular the origin and extraction of the material required for the dyke construction Kleiboden . The concrete sculpture Woge back by the artist Uta Grams from Bassens stands on the viewing hill.
history
The coastal protection camp was inaugurated on September 7, 2018. It is the visible end of the 20-year construction period to raise and strengthen the Elisabethgrodendeich. To do this, the dike had to be increased to a length of twelve kilometers. The original dike line had an average under-stick of around one meter. In addition, the dike profile was no longer up to date, the embankments were too steep and the clay soil used was inadequate. The plans to raise and strengthen the dike began in 1995, and construction began in 1998. The builder of the measure was the III. Oldenburg dike tape . During the construction period, the coastal protection camp served as a construction camp, the site of the construction management and as a material store.
The area of the coastal defense camp was used from 1964 to 1989 as a fire control station (IFC) of the anti-aircraft missile battalion 26 (FlaRakBtl 26). The viewing hill was built on the site of the battalion's originally elevated radar station, which was attached to III after the battalion was disbanded as part of the dyke construction work. Oldenburgische Deichband was transferred.
sculpture
The concrete sculpture Woge retour by the artist Uta Grams from Bassens symbolizes the meaning of coastal protection. The dykes on the coast are supposed to throw back the waves of the North Sea.
"It should withstand the oncoming floods, the renewed dike - throw the waves back, back into the sea."
Individual evidence
- ↑ nwz-online.de: Elisabethgrodendeich - After 23 years this dike is finally finished , accessed on September 15, 2018
- ↑ a b "Concrete sculpture throws back the waves", Wilhelmshavener Zeitung of September 8, 2018, page 15
Coordinates: 53 ° 42 ′ 41.6 " N , 7 ° 53 ′ 47.8" E