Pagensand

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Coordinates: 53 ° 41 ′ 26 "  N , 9 ° 31 ′ 4"  E

Map: Schleswig-Holstein
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Schleswig-Holstein
Lower Elbe with Pagensand and other islands
Southern tip of the island

Pagensand (from Low German : Paag = Wallach ) is an Elbe island in the Lower Elbe .

It mainly belongs to the municipality of Seestermühe ( district of Pinneberg , Schleswig-Holstein ), smaller areas also to the municipalities of Haselau (district of Pinneberg), Kollmar ( district of Steinburg ) and Neuendorf (district of Steinburg). The island is about 5.8 km long, about 1 km wide and 460-520 hectares in size.

history

Originally it was just a large sandbank on the east bank of the Elbe . It was used as a dumping ground for dredged Elb silt from around 1900 , and was enlarged by about five times and its level increased. This created a fertile cultural and meadow landscape.

Pagensand is uninhabited today. Until the summer of 1998 there was a farm with an attached restaurant on the island. However, it was evacuated on May 31, 1998 by order of the authorities and later demolished because the property was used for further flushing, which became necessary due to the deepening of the main fairway of the Elbe. The residents of the farm were previously the only residents of the island. For the children of the respective tenant families, a teacher from the Seester primary school might come by boat to Pagensand once or twice a week . The island is now a fully nature reserve ; In the summer months, cattle are brought to the island by boats to graze. In addition to the economic benefit, this also has a nature-protecting background: the grazing cattle keep the landscape open to many species of meadow breeders .

View from the Pagensander Nebenelbe to Pagensand, bay at the NABU hut (1997)

Literary setting

Pagensand plays a major role in the youth book series “The eight from the great river” by the author Gabriele Kuhnke under the name “Bananensand”. Furthermore, Pagensand is the main setting in the adventure novel for children written by Uwe Timm "The treasure on Pagensand". Four children go on a boat trip on the Lower Elbe during the summer holidays and are shipwrecked off Pagensand , where they are confronted with all sorts of oddities.

swell

  • Article of May 22, 1997 in the Hamburger Abendblatt "Will the court be filled in?"
  • Article dated November 12, 1997 in the Hamburger Abendblatt "Bauer steers one"

literature

  • Jochim Bohn: Pagensand. The history of the Elbe island and its inhabitants. 2nd Edition. Husum Verlag, Husum 2005, ISBN 978-3-89876-196-3 .
  • Hans-Joachim Augst: Built on sand - set in the sand? In: Bauernblatt , January 17, 1998, pp. 16-17 ( PDF, 488 kB ).

Web links

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