Lossiemouth
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Lossiemouth Scottish Gaelic Inbhir Losaidh Scots Lossie |
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| Coordinates | 57 ° 43 ′ N , 3 ° 17 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 7705 2011 census | ||
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| Post town | LOSSIEMOUTH | ||
| ZIP code section | IV31 | ||
| prefix | 01343 | ||
| Part of the country | Scotland | ||
| Lieutenancy Area | Moray | ||
| Council area | Moray | ||
| British Parliament | Moray | ||
| Scottish Parliament | Moray | ||
| Website: http://www.moray.gov.uk/ | |||
Lossiemouth ( Scottish Gaelic : Inbhir Losaidh ) is a city on the coast in the Council Area Moray in Scotland with 7705 inhabitants.
history
At the time of its foundation, Lossiemouth was still an independent municipality, today it is co-administered by the town of Elgin . In 1685 the German engineer Peter Brauss was commissioned by the Elgin City Council to build a North Sea port at the mouth of the Lossie River . The city of Elgin is four miles inland and had a modest trade during that time. The first efforts at the beginning of the 18th century failed because of the limited financial resources available to Brauss. The second attempt was made in 1764 for a new jetty for £ 1200. At that time, a new city district with parallel streets in a right-angled arrangement was built around the port facility. An open square of houses with a cross on the green area separated the first settlement from the new quarter. The fishermen occupied the houses in the lower seaside town and the builders, craftsmen and merchants occupied the new Lossiemouth. Later a drainage canal was built from Loch Spynie to the River Lossie, which created a physical barrier between the two settlements. In 1844 the 36 meter high Covesea Lighthouse , the lighthouse west of Lossiemouth, was built by Alan Stevenson .
economy
As Lossiemouth is on the coast, the town has its own port and the main source of income is fishing . The nearby Royal Air Force airbase and tourism are of economic importance . Lossiemouth has a folk, golf and sailing club.
RAF Lossiemouth
RAF Lossiemouth is a Royal Air Force (RAF) station west of Lossiemouth. The military airfield is one of the largest of the RAF and is currently a main base for the Typhoon FGR4 fleet.
geology
A large part of the subsoil of Lossiemouth consists of a fine-grained, yellow-brown light sandstone, the Lossiemouth Sandstone Formation . This was deposited 225 million years ago in the Carnian ( Upper Triassic ). The sandstones show typical properties of dune sediments, so that it is assumed that they were not formed in the water, but deposited by the wind. Fossils of eight species of reptiles have been found in the sandstone. The most common are the rhynchosaur Hyperodapedon and the aetosaur Stagonolepis . Both were medium-sized herbivores and were likely hunted by the carnivorous archosaur Ornithosuchus , the largest carnivore of the Lossiemouth fauna. The smaller archosaurs like Erpetosuchus and Saltopus presumably hunted small reptiles like the procolophonid Leptopleuron , the sphenodontic Brachyrhinodon and Scleromochlus , an archosaur that is considered a close relative of the pterosaurs. The last three forms were only 15 to 20 cm long and made up 5 to 25% of the fauna.
Town twinning
Since 1972 Hersbruck Bavaria sister city of Lossiemouth.
Personalities
- James Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937), British politician and twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Stewart Imlach (1932-2001), Scottish football player and coach
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2011 census
- ↑ Michael J. Benton : Paleontology of the Vertebrates - The Reptiles of Elgin. Verlag Friedrich Pfeil, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-89937-072-0 , p. 162.