Wenningstedt-Braderup (Sylt)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 54 ° 56 '  N , 8 ° 20'  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	North Friesland
Office :	Sylt landscape
Height :	18 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.16 km 2
Residents:	1582 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	257 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	25996
Area code :	04651
License plate :	NF
Community key :	01 0 54 149
Office administration address:	Andreas-Nielsen-Strasse 1 25980 Sylt
Website :	www.wenningstedt.de
Mayoress :	Katrin Fifeik (non-attached)
Location of the community of Wenningstedt-Braderup (Sylt) in the district of North Friesland

Wenningstedt-Braderup (Sylt) ( North Frisian Woningstair-Brēderep (Söl) , Danish Venningsted-Brarup (Sild) ) is a municipality in the district of North Frisia in Schleswig-Holstein . It extends from the west coast of the island of Sylt to the east coast and is located north of the main town of Westerland .

history

Map of North Friesland by Johannes Mejer around 1240 (before the storm surge in 1362). The red lines indicate today's coastline.

Before the great storm surge ( Second Marcellus Flood ) in 1362, Johannes Mejer's North Friesland map (around 1240) found the place "Wendingstadt", about 2 km west of today's west coast of Sylt, which was lost along with large areas of land with the storm surge went.

According to old tradition, the tribal leaders of the Angles, Hengest and Horsa , are said to have left this port with their army for England. Today the street Horsatal reminds of this event.

Until the beginning of the 19th century, today's Wenningstedt consisted of only eight Stavenplatz (= courtyards). Its inhabitants lived from agriculture and fishing. Quite a few men drove into the North Sea on whaling ships or went fishing for herring on ships from Hamburg shipping companies. However, the growth of the place only began with the onset of tourism in the middle of the 19th century. Wenningstedt has been a seaside resort since 1859 and a North Sea spa since 1960 . Wenningstedt formed the municipality of Norddörfer from June 27, 1871 with Kampen and Braderup . The term "Norddörfer" originated at the time when List , the northernmost municipality / settlement on the island, belonged directly to the Kingdom of Denmark as part of the Royal Enclaves . The rest of the island belonged as the Sylt landscape to the Duchy of Schleswig , which was connected to the Danish kingdom as an imperial fief. So Wenningstedt, Kampen and Braderup were Schleswig's “northern villages”. After the German-Danish War, the entire island came from Denmark to Prussia. In 1914 the Protestant Fries chapel was built on the village pond. On March 21, 1927, Kampen formed its own community, and the Norddörfer community was renamed Wenningstedt on July 1, 1927.

From 1907 to 1970 Wenningstedt was on the small railway line of the " Inselbahn ", which connected Westerland with List.

During the Nazi dictatorship, Hermann Göring owned a summer house near Wenningstedt. During the Second World War , a heavy sea ​​target battery was stationed in the dunes northwest of Wenningstedt, approximately at the height of today's campsite . There were no immediate acts of war; After the German surrender, the facilities were blown up by British occupation troops in the 1950s and later completely dismantled and covered with dune sand by pioneers of the Bundeswehr.

On August 12, 2002, the community name was changed from Wenningstedt to Wenningstedt-Braderup .

politics

Community representation

Due to a formal error, the result of the municipal election of May 2008 was invalid. Since the by-election in September 2008, the active citizens ' community of voters had ten, the CDU , SPD and FDP one seat each. In the local elections on May 26, 2013, the active citizens' community of voters received 68.4 percent of the votes cast and won nine seats. The Wenningstedt-Braderup alliance got 31.6 percent and four seats. The turnout was 59.3 percent.

Mayoress

For the 2013-2018 election period, Katrin Fifeik was re-elected mayor. Although she received a mandate in the municipal council through the active citizens' list, she ran for election as non-attached.

coat of arms

The coat of arms and flag were approved on May 11, 1959.

Blazon : “Angled left divided by a wave cut. On the right, in red, a golden Viking boat emerging from the dividing line, the stem of which ends in a dragon head with a black, knocked-out, arrow-shaped tongue, on the left, in silver, two blue, oblique-left wave beams. "

The oblique division of the coat of arms of the municipality of Wenningstedt in the wave cut symbolizes, in connection with the parallel wave beams of the lower field, the particularly noticeable force of the sea in a municipality on the island of Sylt. From the beginning until the 19th century, seafaring and fishing were the main occupations of the Wenningstedt family. With the establishment of the seaside resort in 1859, tourism increasingly developed into the dominant industry. As a historical type of ship, the Viking ship symbolizes the eventful past of the place. Wenningstedt is said to have been an important Frisian port in the past. At the same time, the ship testifies to the daring and initiative of the “Uthland Frisians”. The "Frisian colors" blue, gold and red are also the colors of the island of Sylt. Blue, silver and red are the colors of Schleswig-Holstein. Both color triads are used in the coat of arms to show that the municipality belongs to Friesland and the state of Schleswig-Holstein.

The coat of arms was designed by the Brunsbüttel heraldist Willy "Horsa" Lippert .

flag

The flag shows the municipal coat of arms in the middle of a yellow field, slightly shifted towards the pole.

Districts

Wenningstedt beach and promenade.

Wenningstedt-Braderup consists of the Wenningstedt district, located on the west coast, and the Braderup district to the east on the Wadden Sea.

Due to its considerably higher number of residents and guest beds, Wenningstedt forms the center of the community with its community office, spa administration and retail trade.

The district of Braderup does not actually have an old town center, but was only a peasantry with a few farms until the middle of the 19th century . Even today there are no large hotels there. The wide heathland of the Braderuper Heide facing the Wadden Sea are worth seeing , as is the nature and information center of the Sylt Nature Conservation Association.

Attractions

To the northeast of the village is the Braderuper Heide. This unspoilt heathland was already declared a nature reserve in the 1920s and is now one of the island's natural attractions . This nature reserve borders directly on the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park , through which guided mudflat walks are offered.

The Denghoog passage grave , which was built over 5000 years ago in the Neolithic Age , is located on the northern edge of the Wenningstedt district. The name means thing hill . It consists of twelve supporting stones that support a ceiling made of three stone slabs. It was opened in 1868 and has been open to visitors since 1928. Another attraction is the village pond in the center of the Wenningstedt district. This pond was donated to the community of Wenningstedt in the 1950s by the owner families with the proviso that it was made accessible to the public and kept as a spa facility. Today this area between the main street and the Friesenkapelle forms an oasis of calm in the middle of town. A statute regulates that adjacent buildings are to be provided with thatched roofs in order to maintain the village charm.

Wenningstedt is on the edge of the dune landscape on the Red Cliff . Below the cliff, over the entire length of the place, there is a sandy beach , which is the main tourist attraction as a guarded bathing beach , especially in summer.

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  NSG Braderuper Heide

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  The Denghoog barrow

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  The village pond

tourism

Wenningstedt describes itself today as a "family pool" and is the fifth largest holiday destination in Schleswig-Holstein with around one million overnight stays. These overnight stays are spread over 7000 guest beds, 2000 of which are allocated to the Wenningstedter campsite, approx. 4000 to the holiday apartments and the remainder are allocated to the Wenningstedter hotels and pensions.

Wenningstedt is also considered a health resort , but the classic health treatments have almost died out due to the changed health insurance regulations . Currently, only less than 2% of all guests are real spa guests who specifically use a prescribed treatment. Nevertheless, Wenningstedts' spa value is still undisputed. The North Sea with its harsh stimulating climate promotes health and strengthens the immune system even without special applications. The resort's health resort, which used to offer drinking cures and massages as well as mud and medicinal baths, has been abandoned and demolished in the course of this development.

Tourism in Wenningstedt also benefits from the two 18-hole golf courses in the immediate vicinity, which have been in existence since the mid-1980s.

Wenningstedt also attracted prominent guests at the beginning of the last century. For example, the painter Wassily Kandinsky went on vacation to Wenningstedt with his wife Nina in August 1924. The National Socialist and (later) war criminal Hermann Göring owned a summer house in Wenningstedt, where he stayed regularly. The Buddhist and writer Paul Dahlke erected what is probably the largest Buddha monument in Europe in Wenningstedt and lived on the island for many years. The actor Heinz Schubert (disgusted Alfred) found his final resting place in his adopted home Wenningstedt.

See also : List of Sylt personalities

Trivia

The songwriter Reinhard Mey characterizes the place in Wenningstedt Mitte .

religion

Christianity

The "Friesenkapelle"

Coffered ceiling with Our Father in Frisian at the base

From the Christian perspective, the Frisians have always been a pagan people. With Christianization they became officially Catholic, but retained some of their pagan rituals, such as B. the Biikebrennen . The first church for the village of Wenningstedt was in the then capital of the island, in Keitum , it was the still preserved parish church of St. Severin . With the Reformation, the islanders accepted the Lutheran creed, which is still valid today. It was not until 1914 that the so-called Friesenkapelle of the Evangelical Lutheran was built in close proximity to a pagan place of worship . Church built after the Wenningstedter had to make the arduous way to the Keitum St. Severins Church in the winter months, because only in the summer months there was a weekly service for the spa guests in the hall of the “Friesenhof” inn.

To maintain the independence of the Friesenkapelle and the pastor's position, the “Üüs Serk - Our Church” foundation was established in September 2005. In this way, the parish wants to secure its work in the northern villages of Kampen, Wenningstedt and Braderup. To date, just under a million euros in start-up capital have been collected (as of 2012). In the medium term, the community hopes to be able to use around 50,000 euros per year for their work from the interest on the donated money alone.

The closest Roman Catholic Church is St. Christopherus in Westerland. There is also a Danish church there. ( Vesterland Danske Kirke ).

Buddhism

Through the doctor and writer Paul Dahlke , Buddhism reached the island in the early 1910s . Dahlke built his "Buddhist home" in Wenningstedt around 1914, which was also to serve as a meeting place and temple for Buddhists on the island. However, he refrained from the planned construction of a Buddhist monastery in Braderuper Heide - it would have been the first on European soil - because after the resumption of the plans for the construction of the Hindenburg dam, the island no longer seemed isolated enough to him. In 1920 he already had a Buddhist monument made of red bricks with the inscription “Namo Buddhaya - Honor the Blessed One, in the Braderup Heath, where he had purchased land for the planned monastery. Paul Dahlke ”. In 1932 or 1933 the letters were knocked out by strangers. In autumn 1939, the entire monument was finally destroyed by the National Socialists - with a view to a planned airport expansion - and the rubble was removed. Today Buddhism no longer plays an important role on Sylt. A Buddhist center of Diamond Way Buddhism exists in Westerland in Bundiswung.

Architecture, settlement development

School camp in Wenningstedt

Up until the middle of the 19th century, Wenningstedt's development was characterized by the Uthland-Frisian style of farmhouses. The center of the village was the village pond (Kiar). With the onset of tourism, numerous lodgings and villas for summer guests were built in the years before 1900. Up until then, there was no systematic road system in the village, streets and lots were now being built on the drawing board. Today's street layout is essentially based on the drawing board drafts of the time. As the guest houses moved further and further away from the old town center, the new center shifted to the west towards the beach. Now the formative development of the townscape was the bathing style - two-story buildings with high rooms and white wooden verandas, a white lacquered picket fence served as a fence . In the 1950s and 1960s, the construction boom also hit Wenningstedt, and the townscape changed dramatically again: the simple, classic brick buildings were built - often as small pensions or guest houses, and the first pure summer houses were also built in the post-war period. In the 1980s and 1990s, almost all of the building plots in the local area were built on, so that new buildings usually required the demolition of old structures. Since the 1980s, almost exclusively apartment houses have been built - some in the Frisian-inspired architectural style - usually in two and a half storeys with up to six apartments. Not only have traditional family pensions been displaced, but living space for (permanent) residents of Wenningstedt has also been on the decline for years. Since the mid-1980s, a new type of development has emerged: Buildings with (publicly subsidized) rental apartments. High-rise buildings or apartment blocks like those in the neighboring municipality of Westerland were not built in Wenningstedt, only a few larger apartment complexes were built along Hauptstrasse and Dünenstrasse in the early 1980s.

Since 2014 a new tourist center has been built between the beach crossings “Strandstrasse” and “Risgap”. On the area of ​​the spa administration, which was demolished in 2009, directly on the cliff, the new spa center with an event hall, restaurant and tourist service office was opened in 2015; On the lake side of this, a newly designed promenade extends along the edge of the red cliff. Access to the main beach of the municipality is now via a new wooden staircase, which has been relocated slightly to the south compared to its distinctive predecessor building. At the southern end of the promenade, a new multi-purpose area was created directly at the Risgap beach crossing by dismantling the trampoline facility and the surf school building. At the northern end of the promenade, along the Strandstrasse, the existing buildings are to be replaced by 2020 and, if necessary, the promenade is to be continued northwards.

economy

Wenningstedt's economy is - as on the entire island of Sylt - strongly shaped by tourism . There is hardly a branch of industry that does not at least indirectly live from tourism. In addition to the hospitality and catering trade (such as hotels , guest houses, apartment rentals, restaurants, spa, sauna, sanatorium, massage, baths and wellness facilities), retailers and service providers are also dependent on the purchasing power of their guests.

Personalities

The first spa director of the community, Berthin Bleeg, is an honorary citizen of Wenningstedt-Braderup.

Web links

Commons : Wenningstedt-Braderup  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Wenningstedt-Braderup community (Sylt) at the Sylt landscape office

Individual evidence

1. ↑ North Statistics Office - Population of the municipalities in Schleswig-Holstein 4th quarter 2019 (XLSX file) (update based on the 2011 census) ( help on this ).
2. ^ "North Friesland - then and now", Ingenieurbüro Strunk-Husum, printed by Bogdan Gisevius, Berlin West (with maps of North Friesland around 1240, 1634 and today, which the Husum cartographer Johannes Mejer created in 1649).
3. ^ Frank Deppe: Street names on Sylt . Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2006, ISBN 978-3-8334-4516-3 , p. 72 .
4. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Schleswig-Holstein (ed.): The population of the communities in Schleswig-Holstein 1867–1970 . State Statistical Office Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel 1972, p. 237 .
5. ↑ photo (b / w)
6. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2002
7. ↑ Web editing: Result of the Wenningstedt-Braderup municipal election 2013. (No longer available online.) In: www.gemeinde-sylt.de. Municipality of Sylt, archived from the original on June 9, 2013 ; Retrieved June 23, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ ^{a b} Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms
9. ↑ Die Braderuper Heide ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ H. K. (d. I. Helmut Klar): Silent place. (Dr. Dahlke's Buddhist home on Sylt). In: Die Brockensammlung Jg. 1933, pp. 52–55, here: 54 f.
11. ↑ Karl Kersten u. Peter La Baume: Prehistory of the North Frisian Islands. Neumünster 1958, p. 598.
12. ↑ http://www.shz.de/lokales/sylter-rundschau/bauprojekt-es-ist-mehr-als-eine-treppe-id10996626.html
13. ↑ http://www.shz.de/lokales/sylter-rundschau/wenningstedts-neue-hotelplaene-id7528171.html