Ox Islands

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Ox Islands
Map of the Ox Islands
Map of the Ox Islands
Waters Flensburg Fjord
Geographical location 54 ° 52 ′  N , 9 ° 30 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 52 ′  N , 9 ° 30 ′  E
Map of Ox Islands
Number of islands 2
Main island Big ox island
Total land area 0.11 km²
Residents 3 (2009-01-01)
View of the ox islands from Sønderhav
View of the ox islands from Sønderhav

The Ox Islands ( Danish: Okseøer ) are two small Danish islands in the Flensburg Fjord near Sønderhav . The Large Ox Island (Danish: Store Okseø ) is 11  ha with 3 permanent residents (January 1, 2009), while the Small Ox Island (Danish: Lille Okseø ) is uninhabited. Both islands belong to the parish of Holebüll ( Holbøl Sogn in the Harde Lundtoft Herred ( Åbenrå Amt )), from 1970 to the municipality of Bov (German construction ) in the Sønderjyllands Amt , which has been part of the Aabenraa municipality in the Aabenraa municipality since the Danish municipal reform on January 1, 2007 Region Syddanmark has risen.

location

The islands are within sight of various areas of the city of Flensburg . The islands can be seen in particular from the Ostseebad and the Mürwiker district and Solitüde lido . They can also be recognized from Meierwik , Glücksburg (Baltic Sea) and Holnis .

Infrastructure

The large ox island is used as a landscape again today and has a land area of ​​around 7.5  hectares . On the island there is a campsite and a restaurant called Oens Kro with 110 covered spaces. In the summer season the 360 ​​m² winter storage hall is used for events and concerts. Also, the shipyard was resumed. The Gendarmstien (Gendarme Path) runs along the fjord on the Danish side , a former control route of the Danish border police and today a hiking trail from which the islands are clearly visible.

In their slipstream, the islands offer an ideal anchorage for pleasure craft. On the large ox island, which is open to the public, there is also a small pier for the passenger ferry from the mainland, which runs from April to September and leaves Annie's kiosk across from Sønderhav's famous snack bar . From Flensburg Harbor Coming circumnavigate several excursion boats, the ox islands. In addition, seaplanes from the Sonwiker company Clipper Aviation land on the beach on the large Danish ox island .

History of the islands

The two islands until the end of the Middle Ages

According to a well-known legend , the ox islands are said to have arisen from sloping lumps of clay from the shoe of a giant who once tried to jump the Flensburg Fjord from Süderhaff ( Sønderhav ) to Glücksburg . The attempt failed because the giant did not jump far enough and landed in the water. Lumps of clay fell from the giant's shoes, creating the ox islands. Beyond this legend, finds suggest that the islands were colonized in the Neolithic , soon after their formation after the Glaciation of the Vistula .

The first written mention of the ox islands can be found in the earth book of King Waldemar II of Denmark with the designation "Oxenör minor et major" in the year 1231. At that time the island was probably used as a pasture area: Via the ox path , which at that time an Flensburg passed, at that time there was a brisk cattle trade. In addition, the use of the ox islands as pasture area for the Duburg Fortress in Flensburg, which was built in 1411 under Queen Margaret I , is known. There is also a local tradition that Queen Margrethe - who died on October 28, 1412 on a ship on the Flensburg Fjord as a result of the plague - was then buried on one of the two islands. The said rumor of a secret burial of the kings on Ox Island did not arise until the 19th century when an old grave was discovered on one of the two islands.

In the 16th century, the area around the Ox Islands was owned by Duke Hans the Younger. It was at this time that the islands were probably first permanently inhabited.

The big ox island (Store Okseø) since the 18th century

At the beginning of the 18th century, boats are said to have been built on the large ox island . The inhabitants of the island also lived from agriculture and fishing until the storm surge in 1872. In 1830 the island was bought by the Frueskov manor, which is east of Sønderhav. In 1845 the boat builder Lorenz Issack bought the island. The Issack family has been building boats for several generations. a. Clinker dinghies for fishing and built as yacht dingies, several Greenland cutters, Nordic folk and junior boats, kites and smaller sailing and motor yachts up to 11 m. In the 1970s, four boat builders were active on the island; Christian Isaack, Hans Isaack, Hans-Christian Isaack and later also Bent Isaack, who is still working as a boat builder together with his son Christian in Egernsund . In 1982 the Issack family sold the island, which is now owned by the Ministry of the Environment, the Syddanmark region and the Aabenraa municipality . Due to illness, Hans-Christian Isaack (died December 2002) and his wife Merete had to give up the island in autumn 2002 and terminate the lease.

In a moderate storm around 1985, weak winds or waterspouts of level F0 / F1 on the Fujita scale triggered a small landslide on the south side of the Great Ox Island, with part of the cliffs located there in the Flensburg Fjord was removed. Extreme weather conditions in February 2010 caused supply bottlenecks for humans and animals. After the island had been cut off from the outside world for 14 days due to ice and permafrost , the Sonwiker seaplane company Clipper Aviation helped to set up an airlift - the first in German-Danish history - and to resolve the emergency.

Denmark's state nature authority, Naturstyrelsen , leased the Große Ochseninsel in 2004 to a German tenant community of five. But after only 12 years they gave up the management. The last tenant left the island in 2016 because the ferry service had previously been discontinued by a co-tenant. Even if the lessor terminated the lease, the island is still open to the public.

The little ox island (Lille Okseø) since the 19th century

Around 1800 a restaurant was built on the small ox island, which was open in summer and was frequented by numerous guests. On November 13, 1872, a storm surge destroyed all buildings on the island, and the restaurant was finally auctioned off. In 1881 the island came to the lawyer and notary Emil Ebsen from Flensburg , who redesigned the island into his summer residence with a park and laid out numerous paths with benches, as well as vases and sculptures from antiquity. Rigmor Bardram Mayer bought the island in 1919 and sold it to the Danish state in 1933. In 1963 the Copenhagen Teaching Association acquired the island and built a school camp there. The park has disappeared today and the island overgrown.

Future of the islands

The future of the Great Ox Island is currently uncertain, because after the last quarreling German tenants moved out and the lease contracts expired, the Danish nature conservation authority has not yet decided on the further use of the island.

various

  • At the beginning of the 20th century there were supposed to have been plans to build the naval school on the Ox Islands .

See also

literature

  • Gerhard Moltsen: The history of the ox islands and their inhabitants . Schleswiger Druck- und Verlagshaus, Schleswig 1982, ISBN 3-88242-071-5 (104 pages).

Individual evidence

  1. Danmarks Statistics : Statistical Yearbook 2009 - Geography and climate, Table 3 Area and population. Regions and inhabited islands (English; PDF file; 38 kB)
  2. www.statistikbanken.dk → Befolkning og valg → Folketal → Table BEF4 (Folketal pr. January 1, demands på øer) , accessed on October 5, 2009
  3. “Oens Kro” The restaurant with a difference! In: Big Ox Island - Store Okseø. Retrieved June 28, 2015 .
  4. Big Ox Island / Store Okseø: Contact / Ferry Schedule / Campground , accessed on May 5, 2011
  5. Juliane Kahlke : Fördeschifffahrt: Once Ochseninseln and back , in: Flensburger Tageblatt , April 19, 2014; Retrieved on: July 6, 2014
  6. ^ Johanna Blohm: Take off once with the waterplane. In: Flensburger Tageblatt . July 9, 2013, accessed April 28, 2015 .
  7. Cf. Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (Hrsg.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 274
  8. The old legend is also mentioned in the detective novel Hanseaten-Mord (in the chapter June 21 in Flensburg) by Stella Michels .
  9. Flensburg Online, Ochseninseln ; Retrieved July 6, 2014
  10. Cf. Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (Hrsg.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 283
  11. ^ SH meerumschlungen, boat trip around the ox islands ( memento from November 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ); accessed on: July 6, 2014 as well as: Europese-Bibliotheek, Flensburg in old views, Volume 2 ; accessed on: July 6, 2014; In general, the place of burial on the Ox Islands is assumed to be pure legend. See for example: Danmarks Konger, Dronning Margrete I. , accessed on: September 10, 2014
  12. First German-Danish Airlift !!! Thank you!!! In: Current. Great Ox Islands, July 2, 2010, accessed May 10, 2015 .
  13. ^ "Airlift": Ox islands in the ice: Airplane brings supplies. In: shz.de. February 11, 2010, accessed May 10, 2015 .
  14. Holger Ohlsen: Flensburger Förde: Lease contract for Große Ochseninsel canceled: What's next? In: Flensburger Tageblatt . July 25, 2016. Retrieved July 28, 2016 .
  15. Flensburger Tageblatt: No ferry, quarreling tenants - Ox Island sinks into chaos, July 7, 2015 , accessed on June 7, 2017
  16. Flensburger Tageblatt: Lease contract for Große Ochseninsel terminated: What's next? (Holger Olsen), July 25, 2016 , accessed June 7, 2017
  17. Der Nordschleswiger: The Ochseninsel must remain open (Joachim Pohl, SHZ), June 3, 2017 , accessed on June 7, 2017
  18. Flensburg in old views , Volume 1, No. 91

Web links

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