Sylt-Rømø-Wadden Sea Bay
Coordinates: 55 ° 2 ′ 9 ″ N , 8 ° 33 ′ 21 ″ E
The Sylt – Rømø Wadden Sea Bay is a bay and a tidal basin on the German-Danish North Sea coast . It is shielded from the North Sea by Sylt in the southwest and Rømø in the northwest. Since the construction of the Hindenburg dam in 1927 and the Rømødæmningen ( German : Röm dam ) in 1948, the only connection to the open sea has been via the Lister Tief, which is up to 40 meters deep .
At 404 km², the bay is one of the largest bays in the North Sea's Wadden Sea . It has a low water volume of around 570 million cubic meters, at medium high tide it rises to 1,120 million cubic meters. With a tidal flat share of around a third, it has significantly less watts than smaller bays, most of them have shares around 70 or 80 percent. The habitat is marine, the freshwater inflows from the adjacent mainland areas do not even reach a thousandth of the volume of the tidal current.
Among other things, it houses the now silted up Königshafen near List , once the most important port between the Elbe and Skagen and now popular with tourists and water sports enthusiasts. The small island of Uthörn on Sylt is located in Königshafen . The former Hallig Jordsand is also located in this bay and is - today as a sandbank - a resting place for numerous seals.
literature
- Christiane Gätje, Karsten Reise (Ed.): Wadden Sea Ecosystem. Exchange, transport and material conversion processes . Springer, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-540-63018-X .
- Robbert-Jan Nortier: Morphodynamics of the Lister Tief tidal basin TU Delft 2004, as pdf, English