Tunø
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| Waters | Aarhus Bay, Kattegat | |
| Geographical location | 55 ° 57 '6 " N , 10 ° 26' 7" E | |
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| length | 3.9 km | |
| width | 1.5 km | |
| surface | 3.52 km² | |
| Highest elevation | unnamed 24 m |
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| Residents | 105 (January 1, 2020) 30 inhabitants / km² |
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| main place | Tunø By | |
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Tunø is a 3.52 km² large Danish island in the Kattegat with 105 inhabitants (January 1, 2020). It lies between the island of Samsø (3.8 km east) and the east coast of Jutland (8.4 km west) and is car-free.
The island belongs to the Odder municipality in the Midtjylland region . Before 1970 it was an independent parish in Ning Herred in the Århus office , from 1970 to 2007 it was part of the Odder municipality in the enlarged Århus office .
description
Most of the islanders ( tunboer ) live in the village of Tunø By; the small settlement Løkkegårde / Stenkalven is on the west side. On the east side is Tunos Port: It is formed by two moles protected and connected by a ferry with Hov and Samsø.
The island church's 18-meter-high whitewashed steeple also serves as the Tunø Fyr lighthouse .
The Tunøfestival music festival takes place once a year .
The island has a grass runway as a runway for small planes. As cars are prohibited, tractors with passenger trailers are used.
Sailing area
A spit hook leads east into the shallows of Tunø Røn . One kilometer from the shore, it falls dry as a sandbank . A fairway buoy warns shipping.
The 2.5 kilometer long Tunø Knob sandbank is located about two kilometers west of the western tip of Tunø. It is marked in the west by a cardinal buoy, the fairway between Tunø and Tunø Knob is marked by two fairway buoys.
The shallows of Kirkegrund are three kilometers southwest of the island . Its shallowest depth of 3.1 meters is marked by a cardinal buoy.
Offshore wind farm
The Tunø Knob offshore wind farm , which was commissioned in 1995, is 300 to 1300 meters north of Tunø Knob . The ten illuminated wind turbines , each 500 kW, are located in three to five meters deep water. It was the second Danish offshore demonstration project.
nature
The island is almost completely under nature protection and can be hiked on a seven-kilometer circular route. In the village pond that spawns toad . In the middle of the island moor areas spread out. The mild island climate explains the occurrence of mulberry and fig trees .
The rare bottlenose dolphins , seals and eider ducks visit the waters.
Coastal fishing is possible: sea trout , garfish , flounder , cod , eels and mullets can be caught.
history
Archaeological finds date the island's first settlement to around 2500 BC. It was first mentioned in a document in 1216. The islanders lived mainly from agriculture, a little from fishing, many men went to sea on wages .
Tunø By was built in the 12th century, but in 1852 a major fire destroyed 16 farms and 15 houses. For this reason, individual farms have been built outside the village since then. The island's first telephone was installed in the school in 1895. In 1961 telephone lines were laid underground.
When DSB was still operating a ferry connection between Kalundborg-Samsø-Aarhus, the ferry at Tunø slowed down so that a cutter could go alongside: Passengers could then change trains and load cargo. This practice ended in the 1970s.
Sons and daughters
- Holger Biilmann (1797–1864), merchant and inspector of Greenland
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b statistics banks -> Befolkning og valg -> BEF4: Folketal pr. January 1st demands på øer (Danish)
- ↑ Danmarks Statistics : Statistical Yearbook 2009 - Geography and climate, Table 3 Area and population. Regions and inhabited islands (English; PDF; 39 kB)
- ↑ NV. Baltic Sea Sports Navigation Maps, Series 2 - Samsö - Sund - Kattegat , Map S29 - Århus Bay
- ↑ Erich Hau, Wind Power Plants: Basics, Technology, Use, Economy. Berlin, Heidelberg 2008, pp. 709f.
Web links
- Information about Tunø VisitOdder (German)