Reußenkoog

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The Reußenkoog is a nearly 500  hectares large Koog in the municipality Reußenköge in Bredstedt in Schleswig-Holstein North Friesland in Germany .

It is named after its builder, Count Heinrich XLIII. Reuss named to Köstritz . It was completed in 1789.

topography

The Reußenkoog is located in the middle of the North Frisian Marsh in the Central North Frisia region and is sparsely populated. In terms of traffic, it is accessible via two parallel main roads, which lead from Bordelum and Bredstedt to the Sönke-Nissen-Koog in the west and cross the Reußenkoog. An asphalt farm road runs lengthways through the Koog.

The neighboring keds are

Louisenkoog Sterdebüller Neuer Koog
Sönke-Nissen-Koog Neighboring communities Frau-Metten-Koog,
Bordelumer Koog
Cecilienkoog Sophien-Magdalenen-Koog

history

Due to its age, the Reußenkoog is one of the young marshes .

Before colonization

The history of the Reußenkoog goes back to the Bredstedt factory . After this project remained unfinished, the Danish king awarded an octroy to Count Jean Henri Desmercières in 1728 , who dammed up the Sophien-Magdalenen-Koog and the Desmerciereskoog in the years 1741 to 1743 and from 1765 to 1767.

After the death of the childless Desmercières' in 1778 its assets went as Fideikommiss on his step-nieces and their families over. The growth in front of the diked lands in the Bredstedter Bay was considered the pearl of this heritage. Desmercières, who was a successful entrepreneur, had already allowed the growth to grow rapidly through structural measures, so that after the transfer of the Oktroy to the family of the Prince von Reuss, they could quickly start the dike.

Embankment

The Reußenkoog dike began in the spring of 1787 and was carried out without great difficulty. The dike, with a total length of around 6.2 km, was divided into areas of around 50 meters each and then assigned to so-called plowers who completed the dike piece by piece. The work lasted until the summer of 1789. In addition to the construction of the dyke, the installation of the drainage system was necessary and the subject of the agreements. Day laborers were employed for the work to be carried out , and they often came from the neighboring Geest villages.

Drainage and settlement

Following the completion of the dike, the Koog was first measured. This was divided into lots between 16 and 30 Demat . The basis of the survey was the '' Eiderstedter Landmass ''. The lands were sold to the highest bidder. A noticeably large number of interest groups were involved in the purchase. The new owners lived mainly in the neighboring Kögen or on the Geest. The small-scale distribution of the parcels gave the latter the opportunity to add a small piece of fertile marshland to their farms. Therefore, only a few companies with their own farm settled in the Koog. For a long time there were two of them. In addition, only the Bordelum sluice existed as a third property from the beginning of the dike. This was canceled in 1913 due to dilapidation. The last resident spent the last years of her life in one of the main courtyards. A large part of the land belonging to the Schleusenhaus was acquired by the Schleswig-Holstein Landgesellschaft, which set up seven settlement sites here between 1936 and 1939. In 1970 one of the main courtyards was finally demolished. The land belonging to it could be farmed by another family farm in Mönkebüll .

The drainage was of great importance for the valuation of the Reußenkoog. The main drainage was through the Bordelumer Priel from the beginning. This drained in the northern part of the Kooges through the Bordelumer Siel into the North Sea . In addition, there was another lock for the lands further south in the south leg of the outer dike. This was closed in 1819 because the foreland adjoining here in the area of ​​today's Cecilienkoog silted up heavily. The Bordelumer Priel was extended by the dike activities of the Sönke-Nissen-Koog. The Bordelumer Siel was replaced by the Sönke-Nissen-Koog-Siel in the new Koog.

use

Agriculture

The Koog is inhabited and used for agriculture by businesses outside the Koog. In the Koog itself there is no longer any farmer with a farm.

Living

As in the neighboring arcs, the residential function plays a very subordinate role. Since this is also an outdoor area in terms of building law , only privileged projects are permitted. Structural growth is thus automatically curbed and is largely limited to the potential construction of agricultural buildings and removal houses for agricultural retirement dividers .

Business

Businesses are not located in the Koog. However, 14 wind turbines were built in the Koog in the course of the 21st century  . They are operated in the form of community wind farms.

Statistical data on the Koog

The table below shows residents and households from the May 25, 1987 census . Since then, these figures have only been updated at community level.

Residential space
no.		 Koog Embankment Area
km²		 1987 census
Residents households
4th Reußenkoog 1789 5.11 15th 6th

Web links

Commons : Reußenkoog  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Sielverband Reußenkoog (ed.): 200 years Reußenkoog 1789–1989. Verlag Nordfriisk Instituut, Bredstedt 1989, ISBN 3-88007-154-3 .
  • Harry Kunz, Albert Panten: The Köge of North Frisia. Nordfriisk Instituut, Bredstedt 1997, ISBN 3-88007-251-5 , p. 40.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reußenköge - Reußenkoog
  2. ^ Sielverband Reußenkoog (ed.): 200 years Reußenkoog 1789–1989. Verlag Nordfriisk Instituut, Bredstedt 1989, ISBN 3-88007-154-3 , p. 15.
  3. ↑ Harry Kunz, Albert Panten: The Köge of North Friesland. Nordfriisk Instituut, Bredstedt 1997, ISBN 3-88007-251-5 , p. 92.
  4. ^ Sielverband Reußenkoog (ed.): 200 years Reußenkoog 1789–1989. Verlag Nordfriisk Instituut, Bredstedt 1989, ISBN 3-88007-154-3 , p. 13.
  5. ^ Sielverband Reußenkoog (ed.): 200 years Reußenkoog 1789–1989. Verlag Nordfriisk Instituut, Bredstedt 1989, ISBN 3-88007-154-3 , p. 13.
  6. ↑ There is uncertainty about the exact date of the dike closure (cf. ibid, p. 16)
  7. ↑ ibid, p. 15.
  8. ↑ ibid, p. 16.
  9. ↑ ibid, p. 17.
  10. ↑ cf. ibid.
  11. ↑ ibid, p. 29ff.
  12. ↑ ibid, p. 54.
  13. ↑ ibid, p. 54.
  14. ↑ ibid, p. 36.
  15. ↑ ibid, p. 21.
  16. ↑ Data source: Federal Companies Register

Coordinates: 54 ° 36 ′ 45 ″  N , 8 ° 54 ′ 35 ″  E