List of Elbe Islands
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
- In the Elbe valley
- Pillnitz Elbe Island - in the south-eastern Dresden district of Pillnitz (nature reserve, entry ban)
- Gauernitz Elbe Island - northeast of Gauernitz between Dresden and Meißen (nature reserve, entry ban)
Middle Elbe
Lower Elbe
Hamburg inland delta
- Billwerder rash
- Large crowd
- Kaltehofe
- Return
- Little Grasbrook
- Neuhof
- Steinwerder
- Veddel (with Peute )
- Wall cream
- Wilhelmsburg (with the former islands Georgswerder , Moorwerder and Stillhorn )
In the Lower Elbe
- Pig sand - south of Hamburg-Blankenese ( 53 ° 33 ′ 15.4 ″ N , 9 ° 46 ′ 26.3 ″ E )
- Neßsand - south of Tinsdal ( 53 ° 33 ′ 18.3 ″ N , 9 ° 45 ′ 6 ″ E )
- Hahnöfersand - north of Jork ( 53 ° 32 ′ 51.4 ″ N , 9 ° 43 ′ 13.5 ″ E )
- Hanskalbsand - south of Schulau ( 53 ° 33 ′ 37.1 ″ N , 9 ° 40 ′ 40.8 ″ E )
- Lühesand - east of Stade or the village of Siebenhöfen ( 53 ° 35 ′ 35.8 ″ N , 9 ° 35 ′ 17.6 ″ E )
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Bishorster Sand / Auberg / Drommel - west of Haseldorf ( 53 ° 38 ′ 46.7 ″ N , 9 ° 32 ′ 26.8 ″ E ) (not accessible, Haseldorfer Inner Elbe nature reserve with Elbe foreland )
- Pagensand - west of Seestermühe ( 53 ° 41 ′ 42.1 ″ N , 9 ° 30 ′ 56.8 ″ E )
- Black ton sand - east of Drochtersen ( 53 ° 42 ′ 29.3 ″ N , 9 ° 27 ′ 54.5 ″ E )
- Rhinplate - west of Glückstadt ( 53 ° 46 ′ 26.5 ″ N , 9 ° 24 ′ 21 ″ E )
In the area of the Outer Elbe
- Neuwerk , Scharhörn and Nigehörn - south of the Outer Elbe in watts (the Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park ), northwest of Cuxhaven area
Former Elbe Islands
Some of the former Elbe islands that belong to the shore area or have been removed:
Saxon run
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 .
- Söbrigener Heeger - between Söbrigen and Zschieren on the south-eastern outskirts of Dresden
- Neudorfer Werder - between Neudorf and the Ostragehege
- Micktner Heeger - between Mickten and the Ostragehege
- Kaditzer Heeger - between Kaditz and Stetzsch
- Serkowitz Heeger - between Serkowitz and Gohlis
- Obergohliser Heeger - between Serkowitz and Gohlis
- Wildberger Heeger - near Wildberg (district of Gauernitz )
- Scharfenberger Heeger - near Scharfenberg (village in Klipphausen )
- Sörnewitzer Heeger - west of Sörnewitz
- Zehrener Heeger - at Zehren
- Nieder-Muschützer Heeger - at Muschütz
- Hirschsteiner Heeger - at Hirschstein
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
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).
- Altengamme - became the mainland by damming the Doven Elbe
- Altenwerder - became the mainland by damming the Old South Elbe
- Baakenhöft - today part of HafenCity
- Billwerder - including the current districts of Allermöhe, Neuallermöhe and Moorfleet, has become the mainland through the dikes of the Doven Elbe
- Curslack - the Doven Elbe has become mainland through the dike
- Dradenau - today to Waltershof
- Ellernholz - there were several islands with this name, today to Altenwerder or Steinwerder
- Entenwerder - today as a peninsula to Rothenburgsort
- Finkenwerder - became the mainland by damming the Old South Elbe
- Georgswerder - up in Wilhelmsburg
- Gorieswerder - disintegrated into several islands by storm surges in the 13th century
- Grasbrook - today part of HafenCity
- Griesenwerder - today to Waltershof
- Kattwyk - Große Kattwyk today part of the Hohen Schaar, Kleine Kattwyk zu Altenwerder
- Kirchwerder - became mainland by damming the Gosen Elbe
- Klütjenfelde - grown in the Kleiner Grasbrook and Wilhelmsburg (see Klütjenfelder main dike )
- Langenmorgen - today part of the Hohe Schaar
- Moorwerder - risen in Wilhelmsburg
- Ochsenwerder - became the mainland by damming the Gosen Elbe
- Reiherstiegsland - risen in Wilhelmsburg
- Reitbrook - Neuengamme - became the mainland by damming the Doven Elbe
- Ross - to Steinwerder today
- Rotehaus - risen in Wilhelmsburg
- Rugenbergen - today to Waltershof
- Schumacherwerder - today part of the Kleiner Grasbrook
- Spadenland - became the mainland by damming the Gosen Elbe
- Stillhorn - risen in Wilhelmsburg
- Tatenberg - became mainland by damming the Gosen Elbe
Niederelbe
- Asselersand - east of Drochtersen
- Bützflether Sand - east of Bützfleth
- Ferryman's Sand - west of Wedel
- Giesensand - west of Wedel
- Krautsand - north of Drochtersen , now part of the mainland
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
- ^ 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