Noesskoog
The Nossekoog is an approximately 1780 hectare Koog on the island of Sylt. Together with the Rantum basin in the southwest, which is also diked, it forms the marshland of the island. It is named after the Nosel peninsula, which was previously located in this area, is not diked and is therefore affected by storm surges at regular intervals .
topography
The Koog extends along the southern edge of the Sylt Geest strip in the east of the island. It is very sparsely populated. Separated by a dike , but not viewed as an independent Koog, the Ratum basin is upstream in the south-west. Other neighboring areas are all formed by the ridge of the Sylt Geest.
Due to its age, the Nßekoog is one of the young marshes . The soil is at the limestone marsh stage .
history
Before colonization
Comparable to other marshland areas only protected by summer dykes, the Nöse peninsula was repeatedly inundated by storm surges in the past. Sometimes this even happened in the summer months, which made proper land management very difficult. As part of a National Socialist job creation and land reclamation program , the Lohse Plan, the dike in this area was considered. The goal of land reclamation was part of the National Socialist blood-and-soil ideology .
Meaning
The dike began in 1936. Despite a storm surge in October of the same year, the dike was completed in September 1937.
Settlement and drainage
Settlement and management of the area were severely affected by the fragmented ownership structure. In addition, there was a groundwater level that was unfavorable for agricultural use, because it was high, and little experience with large farm structures. Settlement cores of the marshland are today at the eastern end in the Osterende and Wall area .
Major public investments were made for the first time in the 1950s. The expansion of the Kooges with an infrastructure facility that was modern at the time took place as part of the North program . In this context, the courtyards were relocated and traffic routes were expanded, which was designed to meet the requirements of modern agricultural equipment.
A decade later, the drainage system was also expanded. The network of ditches developed for this purpose comprised a total length of around 60 km in 1967. The aim was to develop a sub-area of 500 ha for agricultural use. However, even after that, grassland farming still dominated the coastal marshland. Agriculture was concentrated in the areas near the geest.
literature
- Kunz, Harry and Albert Panten: Die Köge Nordfrieslands Nordfriisk Instituut, Bredstedt 1997, ISBN 3-88007-251-5 , p. 11
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Noesskoog. In: Nordfriesland-Datenbank.de. Nordfiisk Instituut, archived from the original on April 3, 2011 ; accessed on March 29, 2014 .
Coordinates: 54 ° 52 ′ 19 ″ N , 8 ° 22 ′ 18 ″ E