Simonsberg

Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	North Friesland
Office :	North Sea Treene
Height :	5 m above sea level NHN
Area :	17.09 km 2
Residents:	824 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	48 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	25813
Area code :	04841
License plate :	NF
Community key :	01 0 54 120
Office administration address:	Schulweg 19 ; 25866 Mildstedt
Website :	www.simonsberg.de
Mayoress :	Angela Feddersen (WGS)
Location of the community Simonsberg in the district of North Friesland

Aerial photo (May 2012)

Simonsberg is a municipality in the district of North Friesland in Schleswig-Holstein . Finkhaushallig and Padelackhallig are in the municipality.

Geography and traffic

Simonsberg is located about eight kilometers southwest of Husum on the Eiderstedt peninsula on the North Sea coast. To the east runs the federal highway 5 , the green coastal road from Husum to Heide .

history

Simonsberg - founded by the Danish King Olaf I. - belonged together with Lundberg and Padelack and two other parishes to Lundberg Harde . This former administrative unit was connected to Alt-Nordstrand until a storm surge in 1338 , while it was separated from Eiderstedt by the northern estuary of the Eider . Further storm surges divided the Lundenbergharde and turned the southern part with Simonsberg, Padelack and Lundenberg into an island, which was only connected to the mainland in 1468 when the southern march was dyed. The northern part joined the Edom Shard . By extracting the Adolfskoog in 1579 and the Obbenskoog in 1565, the remaining Lundenbergharde was connected to Eiderstedt.

Simonsberg itself was destroyed three times by storm surges and rebuilt further inland. After the Burchardi flood of 1634 had destroyed all three churches of the Harde, a Simonsberg church was built in 1657 on a terp in the area of the New Padelacker Koog, which was built in 1531 and now completely destroyed.

The severe storm surges of 1717/18 (see Christmas flood 1717 ), which made the entire Harde a victim of the forces of nature, raged even worse . 1500 hectares of land were lost. The survivors built houses out of sod, driftwood and reeds and used areas of the former Lundenbergharde as a foreland for grassing for 143 years . The former southern sea dike of the Harde has now become the northern sea dike. Only a tiny bit was protected by a dike in 1721 as the new Koog . The church from 1657, which was in front of the new dike and could only be reached at low tide since the February flood of 1825 at the latest , was demolished in 1829 and replaced by today's church.

In 1860 the residents bought the land from the Danish king for re-embankment. In 1861 the new Simonsberger-Koog was diked, but it is nowhere near the size of the old Harde.

As part of a land reclamation program supported by the National Socialist blood-and-soil ideology , the Finkhaushalligkoog was diked in 1934/35 (see, among others, Dieksanderkoog , Tümlauer Koog ), the one from the foreland of the Finkhaus-Hallig and the Padelack-Hallig, where before 1634 the old Padelacker church had stood, with the corresponding mudflat lands. The last re- dike took place after a major storm surge in 1962 as part of the dyke shortening between 1965 and 1967. A pool with 30 hectares of storage basins and 170 hectares of additional areas was diked. The dike, previously called Simonsberger Koog, was renamed “Deich der 163er” in honor of the Panzergrenadier Battalion 163, which defended this dike.

politics

Community representation

Of the eleven seats in the municipal council, the WGS community of voters had eight seats since the 2008 local elections and the SPD three. In the local elections on May 26, 2013, the WGS received 68.6 percent of the votes cast. The SPD reached 31.4 percent. The distribution of seats remained unchanged. The turnout was 56.6 percent.

Mayoress

Angela Feddersen (WGS) was elected mayor for the 2013–2018 election period. She succeeded Erwin Kröger (WGS).

Attractions

church

The first known Simonsberg church - which may have had a predecessor further north - went down in the Burchardi flood. Since it was not possible to re-dike the flooded land after the Christmas flood of 1717, the Salvator Church, built in 1657, stood in the foreland, so that the times of worship were dependent on the ebb and flow of the tide. In 1825 it suffered such severe storm damage that it soon had to be demolished.

The third church, a classical brick building, was built according to plans by the Danish state architect Christian Frederik Hansen on the highest and largest terp, which also had space for the cemetery, a little away from the village. Pulpit, baptismal font and lid as well as the late Gothic altar cross come from the lost churches of the Lundenbergharde. The church bell from 1486 was found again in 1830 at the bottom of a Wehle .

Wester-Spätinge

Wester-Spätinge is a 27 hectare nature reserve in the municipality.

tourism

There is a swimming area at the pumping station, a campsite nearby and a hotel right on the sea dike. There is a holiday home area and various holiday apartments in the village.