Sea sand
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| Waters | German Bight , North Sea | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 34 '7 " N , 8 ° 22' 54" E | |
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| length | 2.47 km | |
| width | 920 m | |
| surface | 2 km² | |
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The sea sand (Danish: Søsand ) was a high sand in the German Bight that existed throughout the 19th century and was removed again in 1903.
history
The sea sand was about ten kilometers south of the island of Amrum , the closest island , and about twelve kilometers west of the Hallig Hooge . Temporarily it was even a dune island with corresponding vegetation. In the 18th century, according to a report published in 1865, there were remains of former houses on the sea sand. The high sand lay between the Schmaltief in the east and the Ruyter Tief (today Rütergat) in the west (towards the open North Sea ). Towards the end of the 19th century, the sea sand measured almost 2.5 kilometers in length from north to south and was over 900 meters wide at its widest point.
On the sand of the lake, the Danish government responsible at the time erected a beacon over 18 meters high for the first time in July 1801 to enable safe entry into the Schmaltief (and on to Amrum, Föhr and some Halligen ). The beacon was destroyed and rebuilt several times over the decades and was provided with a rescue chamber for the shipwrecked, which could be reached through a ladder on the east side. Because of the migration of the sea sand, the original beacon was moved to the east-north-east around 1854. In 1890 a simplified beacon was erected 660 meters east-north-east of the old site, but it was soon close to the southwest water line. The last time the beacon was destroyed was the storms of winter 1900/1901. On April 8, 1903, it was reported that the sea sand had completely disappeared (flooded). The spot was then marked with a floating pointed bucket.
On current nautical maps, the sea sand is only shown as a mudflat or flooded sandbank . Between the former sea sand and the Hallig Hooge, but on the east side of the narrow deep, lies the high sand Japsand , which used to be just a flooded sandbank ( Junge Jap in the north and Old Jap in the south).
Historical map sheets
Table sheet 1416 "Sea sand" (1880)
Central Europe 1: 200,000 ( Reymann’s Special Card), sheet "Tondern" (1864)
Topographical overview map of the German Empire, sheet 08/09 Westerland-Tondern (1906): The sea sand is now just a flooded sandbank, marked by a floating navigation sign
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Peter Hansen: The Schleswig Wadden Sea and the Frisian Islands. Verlag Carl Flemming, Glogau 1865, p. 53
- ↑ measured to scale on the Seesand measuring table from 1880
- ↑ a b Baken-Net.de: Seesand-Bake
- ^ Nautical chart excerpt from the German Hydrographic Institute in Georg Quedens : Die Halligen. Breklumer Verlag, 14th edition, Breklum 1997, pp. 86-87