Seagull Island
| Seagull Island | ||
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| Waters | Schlei | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 30 '29.1 " N , 9 ° 33' 44.6" E | |
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| length | 250 m | |
| width | 150 m | |
| surface | 2.3 ha | |
| Highest elevation | 5 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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The seagull island , also called Mövenberg , ( Danish : Mågeøen ) is an island ( Holm ) in the small latitude , the westernmost part of the Schlei . It belongs to the city of Schleswig and is a bird sanctuary .
geography
The island is 2.3 hectares and up to five meters high. Two spit hooks run to the northeast and southeast. The water depth between the seagull island and the closest mainland, 250 meters further north, the Königswiesen near the old town of Schleswig on the northern bank of the Schlei, is only one meter.
history
In the early 12th century (before 1115) Knud Lavard built a castle on Seagull Island. The castle was called Juriansburg or Juergensburg; later also Möwenburg. No remains of the castle have survived. It apparently disappeared over time. In the Middle Ages there was a wooden bridge between the center of Schleswig and the island.
A large black-headed gull colony was recorded from 1739. From 1834 the "Seagull King" was allowed to sell the eggs as a delicacy to shops and restaurants for a rent . Until 1867, the black-headed gulls were decimated annually by the folk festival-like gull shooting, until this event was banned by the Prussian government. The original task of the Seagull King was to collect seagull eggs for the Gottorfer Fürstenhof and to protect the clutches from egg thieves . When the Prussian King Wilhelm I visited the city of Schleswig on his inaugural visit to the province of Schleswig-Holstein in 1868 , a wooden mock-up of the medieval seagull castle was erected with the Prussian flag waving in greeting on the towers.
It was not until 1989 that the sale of eggs was stopped because the eggs were contaminated with harmful substances and the state of Schleswig-Holstein banned the sale and consumption of eggs. The island has been looked after by the Jordsand Association since 1991 . The island is supervised by a bird keeper. He is also known as the “Seagull King” and resides on the opposite bank of the Schlei in the Holm district of Schleswig. The Seagull King monitors the ban on entering the island, for example by canoeists or pedalos . The island may only be entered over the ice in winter. The ice conditions only allow this at intervals of several years, most recently in 1997, 2003, 2010 and 2012.
In 2000, fishermen found the remains of a wooden ship on the island's southeastern beach, which was dated to 1163. The ship was 15 meters long and 4 meters wide and, according to Nordic tradition, probably built near Schleswig. In 2004 the island was designated as a FFH area and a protected area according to the Ramsar Convention .
List of seagull kings
- 1834–1880: First seagull king: Nicolaus Wilhelm Andreas Hannberg
- 1881–1911: Second seagull king: Georg Hannberg, called Scharte Schorsch (1853–1912)
- 1912–1941: Third seagull king: Julius Hannberg, called Null (1879–1941)
- 1942–1978: Fourth seagull king: Georg Hannberg, called Schorsch (1901–1982)
- 1979–1984: Fifth seagull king: Gerhard Sinram
- 1985–1989: Sixth Seagull King: Rainer Hartel
- current: Gerd Roß, called Piko
fauna
Up until a few decades ago, the seagull island housed around 6,000 to 10,000 black-headed gulls that brooded there in summer. In 1985 2,500 breeding pairs were counted, in 2006 another 300, and in 2007 and 2008 none. The reasons for the decline are the increasing vegetation of the island (earlier the grass was mowed by the seagull king), an increase in the number of rats, a decrease (demolition) and increased flooding of the vegetation-free reefs, a greater spread of the herring gull and the appearance of sea eagles that didn't exist on the Schlei before. The decrease in black-headed gull breeding pairs can be tracked using a time series:
- 1913 6,000 breeding pairs
- 1981 2,500 breeding pairs
- 1991 1,500 breeding pairs
- 1997 700 breeding pairs
- 2000 250-300 breeding pairs
In 2012, 600 pairs of herring gulls , 50 pairs of herring gulls as well as common terns and greylag geese brooded on the gull island.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Seagull Island at the Jordsand Association , accessed on May 30, 2014.
- ↑ Information at burgeninventar.de ( Memento from August 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Jürgen Bremer : Brief description and history of Schleswig-Holstein , Oldenburg and Schleswig 1844, p. 58; Retrieved on: February 19, 2017
- ↑ Information at burgeninventar.de ( Memento from August 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Picture of the seagull island with Juriansburg from the 1860s or there ( memento of the original from February 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , from February 19, 2017
- ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Glücksburg: When Schleswig-Holstein became Prussian , from: February 18, 2017; Retrieved on: February 19, 2017
- ↑ Cf. regarding the date of the visit: sh: z : Kaiser Wilhelm I raved about her , from: February 23, 2012; retrieved on: February 19, 2017 and Flensburger Tageblatt : flying visit of a Prussian king , from: January 30, 2015; Retrieved on: February 19, 2017
- ↑ http://gerdtams.de/index.php/beute?blog=5
- ↑ Möweneier - Delicatessen for the bold
- ↑ Article from the sh: z , accessed on September 29, 2012
- ↑ http://gerdtams.de/index.php/beute?blog=5
