List of Elbe Islands

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The Gauernitz Elbe Island (center)

The Elbe Islands are numerous river islands in the Elbe , the current flowing from the Czech Republic through Germany to the North Sea . Once widespread, they were eliminated almost everywhere with the river expansion that began in the 19th century .

Today's Elbe Islands

The currently remaining Elbe islands include:

Czech upper reaches

German upper course

The Elbe island in front of Pillnitz Castle

Middle Elbe

Lower Elbe

Hamburg inland delta

In the Lower Elbe

In the area of ​​the Outer Elbe

Former Elbe Islands

Some of the former Elbe islands that belong to the shore area or have been removed:

Saxon run

Expansion work on the Elbe near Serkowitz 1784 to 1788 after the rescue of Friedrich August the Just (map laid out on the 14th Martini 1797)

In the Kingdom of Saxony there were still numerous Elbe islands called Heeger in the middle of the 19th century, i.e. before the great river bed regulations .

Before that there were numerous other islands. In Saxon Switzerland there was Heeger near Prossen (town of Bad Schandau ) and Strand (municipality of Struppen ). Also roughly at the level of the New Elbe Bridge in Meißen , between Keilbusch and Karpfenschänke (municipality of Diera-Zehren ), near the baroque castle Seußlitz (municipality of Nünchritz ), near Leutewitz (city of Riesa ), near Forberge (city of Strehla ) and below Kreinitz (municipality of Zeithain ) were Heeger.

Middle Elbe
location with Elbe km :

  • Kleindröbener Heeger - near Kleindröben (km 189.3–189.4)
  • Klödener Heeger - near Klöden (km 190.5–191)
  • Wartenburger Heeger - near Wartenburg (km 195.4–195.8)
  • Iserbecka Heeger - near Iserbecka (km 202.4–202.7)
  • Hohndorfer Heeger - near Hohndorf (km 207.3–207.6)
  • Labetzer Heeger - near Labetz (km 212.4–212.5)
  • Apollensdorfer Heeger - near Apollensdorf (km 221.5–221.9)
  • Coswiger Lug Heeger - at the entrance to Coswiger Lug (km 231.4–231.6)
  • Coswiger Lug Heeger - at the Coswiger Lug exit (km 235.7–235.9)
  • Roßlauer Lug Heeger - at the Roßlauer Lug exit (km 263.1–263.2)
  • Neekener Lug Heeger - near Neeken (km 265.7–266.0)
  • Steutzer Heeger - near Steutz (km 273.5–273.9)
  • Akener Heeger - near Aken (km 274.7–274.8; today's anchor point of the yaw ferry)
  • Obselauer Heeger - near Obselau (km 278.4–279.7)
  • Steckbyer Heeger - near Steckby (km 280.6–281.3)
  • Lödderitzer Heeger - near Lödderitzer Forst (km 282.0–283.0)
  • Saaleschüttkegel - am Saalhorn (km 289.3–290.5)
  • Barbyer Heeger - near Barby (km 294.6–295.0)
  • Ranieser Heeger - near Ranies (km 306.6–306.7)
  • Frohser Heeger - near Frohse (km 312.1–313.5)
  • Frohser Heeger - near Frohse (km 314.5–314.7)
  • Fermersleben Heeger - near Fermersleben (km 320.5-320.7)
  • Glindenberger Heeger - near Glindenberg (km 342.5–343.1)
  • Niegripper Heeger - near Niegripp (km 344.0–344.5)
  • Rogätzer Heeger - near Rogätz (km 351.4–352.0)

Lower Elbe

Hamburg inland delta

Elbe islands near Hamburg around 1650

The inland delta formed by the tidal build-up originally extended roughly from Geesthacht to the mouth of the Alte Süderelbe at today's Mühlenberger Loch (see map from 1650). Through dikes and other interventions in the natural course of the river (cf. Chronology of Hydraulic Engineering on the Hamburg Lower Elbe ), numerous smaller islands were combined into larger ones (e.g. Wilhelmsburg) or part of the mainland ( Vier- und Marschlande , Altenwerder, Finkenwerder).

Niederelbe

Elbe estuary 1721

Outer Elbe

  • Medemsand Island - small area, the part of the mudflat "Medemsand" north of the Medemrinne (off the coast of Dithmarschen ), which protrudes above the line of the mean high water ( MHW ), has now become flatter again and is therefore only available as a sand bank

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Black maps of the Prussian General Staff 1852-1858 , in the map series Karte des Deutschen Reiches 1893 (KDR100) of the Reich Office for Land Recording , accessed on September 10, 2017, on davidrumsey.com