Nieblum

Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	North Friesland
Office :	Foehr-Amrum
Height :	4 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.86 km 2
Residents:	569 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	72 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	25938
Area code :	04681
License plate :	NF
Community key :	01 0 54 087
LOCODE :	DE 69Q
Office administration address:	Hafenstrasse 23 ; 25938 Wyk auf Föhr
Website :	www.nieblum-online.de
Mayor :	Friedrich Riewerts
Location of the municipality Nieblum in the district of North Friesland

Nieblum ( Danish : Niblum , North Frisian : Njiblem ) is a municipality on the island of Föhr in northwestern Schleswig-Holstein . It belongs to the district of North Friesland and, in addition to Nieblum, also consists of Goting , an independent municipality with 106 inhabitants until 1970.

geography

Nieblum is located in the south of the island of Föhr, about halfway between the west and east side of the island. The Goting district to the west belongs to Nieblum and was an independent municipality until 1970. In the far east at the Wyk airfield is the Greveling district. The bathing beach, which begins at Wyker Südstrand , also runs to Goting . Goting includes the Gotingkliff, which is several meters high.

The water depths at Nieblumer and Gotinger Strand are relatively low, so that large parts of the tidal flats fall dry when the tide is low .

history

The church of Nieblum in 1895

Many of the old Frisian houses once belonged to captains who earned their fortune as seafarers, often on Dutch whaling ships . This was hard and dangerous work, many of which never got home alive. The gravestones in the cemetery around the "Friesendom" St. Johannis , built in the 13th century, the largest of the three island churches, bear witness to this .

The southern part of Nieblum and Goting belonged to the villages that were part of Harde Westerland Föhr , a royal enclave of Denmark , which existed until 1864 .

The northern part of the village Nieblum, on the other hand, belonged to Osterland Föhr and thus to the Duchy of Schleswig .

In 1970 the previously independent municipality of Goting was incorporated into Nieblum.

politics

In the local elections in 2018 , the Nieblum voter community (NWG) won all nine seats.

Culture and sights

St. Johannis

St. John's Church

The main attraction of the village is the defiant, widely visible Church of St. Johannis with its listed cemetery and the talking tombstones . Nieblum also has a beautiful townscape with thatched Friesian houses, cobblestone streets and many deciduous trees. As early as the 18th century, Nieblum was mentioned as an extraordinarily beautiful place, the village was voted the most beautiful village in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1979. The Nieblum lighthouse is located south of Nieblum .

School camp

Since the 1950s, the Ernst-Schlee-Gymnasium in Hamburg-Groß Flottbek used a school camp in Nieblum. After the conversion into a state commercial school, the home was handed over to the Othmarschen high school in the Hamburg district of the same name .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Jens Jacob Eschels (1757–1842), captain, was best known for his autobiography
Carl-Christian Arfsten (1889–1969), German politician (CDU), member of the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament

Other personalities

Dorothea von Arronet (1886–1973), Baltic German painter, illustrator and graphic artist
Karin von Arronet (1917–2006), Baltic German painter, graphic artist and art teacher