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Scharhörn
Scharhörn is an uninhabited island in the North Sea belonging to the city of Hamburg, Germany. The once most important daymark on the North Sea coast, the Scharhörnbake, was maintained here by the City of Hamburg from 1440 to 1979. Geography Scharhörn lies by the mouth of the Elbe, approximately northwest of Cuxhaven and northwest of the nearby island of Neuwerk. It is a part of Zone 1 of the Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park. Aside from a nature reserve warden, the island has no permanent residents. Together with the artificial island of Nigehörn the island lies on a large sandbank. Historically the whole area including the reef was called Scharhörn and the sandbank Scharhörnplate. After the human supported formation of the island in the 1920s and finally with the creation of Nigehörn on the same sandbank, the name Scharhörn was only used for the island. Though Scharhörn is generally flood-safe, the banks of the island are not protected, so the island faces perman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scharhörnbake
The Scharhörnbake was the most important daymark on the German North Sea coast for several centuries. First erected in 1661 by the City of Hamburg on the sandbank Scharhörn and south side of the Elbe estuary, it was rebuilt over centuries and taken down finally in 1979. Equipped with a room, it also functioned as a refuge beacon for shipwreck survivors from 1840 to 1965.Manfred Temme: ''Vogelfreistätte Scharhörn'', Verein Jordsand, 1967 The only remaining element today is the boulder stone foundation near Nigehörn. With a height of 29.10 meters (95'6"), it was the highest daymark from 1898 until 23 December 1914 on the North Sea coast. Often destroyed by storms, it was also taken down in wartime to make navigation harder for enemy ships. Function The main function of the daymark was to aid navigation for ships around the feared ''Scharhörn Reef ''into the Elbe coming from the North Sea. Many ships wrecked at this dangerous passage. As Hamburg depended most on this, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neuwerk
Neuwerk (; (''Archaic English'': New Werk or Newark) is a tidal island in the Wadden Sea on the German North Sea coast, with a population of 32. Neuwerk is located northwest of Cuxhaven, between the Weser and Elbe estuaries. The distance to the centre of Hamburg is about . Administratively, Neuwerk forms a homonymous quarter of the city and state of Hamburg, Germany, and is part of the borough Hamburg-Mitte. This quarter includes the islands of Scharhörn and Nigehörn, which are bird sanctuaries and closed to the public. All three islands and the Wadden Sea around them form the Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park. Dikes encircle the island, which is about , and one can walk around it in an hour. Salt marshes (the "Outland"), lie outside the dikes and provide a hatchery for birds such as oystercatchers, scrays, sandwich terns, black-headed gulls, herring gulls, and others. During the summer farmers may pasture cows and horses on the northern Outland. At low tide one can reach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigehörn
Nigehörn is an uninhabited artificial island in the North Sea belonging to the German city of Hamburg. Geography Located by the mouth of the Elbe, Nigehörn lies on the same sandbank as Scharhörn, about northwest of Neuwerk and northwest from Cuxhaven on the mainland. The island is a part of Zone 1 of the Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park. Rising about above sea level, it is not protected from storm surges, and is at risk of coastal erosion, especially on the western side. The sandbank on which Scharhörn and Nigehörn lie is a European Union Natura 2000-designated bird sanctuary, tended to by the environmental group '' Verein Jordsand''. The area, known as ''Scharhörnplate'', is around long and wide with an area of approximately . Unlike Scharhörn, where visitors may obtain official permission to visit, public access to Nigehörn is strictly forbidden. Construction and history Nigehörn was constructed in 1989 as a land fill to compensate for ongoing land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Shipwrecks In 1815
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Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park
The Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park (german: Hamburgisches Wattenmeer) is the smallest of the three German Wadden Sea National Parks which protect the single ecological entity of the Wadden Sea reaching from Den Helder to Esbjerg. It is an exclave of the city state of Hamburg in North Germany and lies 12.5 km off Cuxhaven in the estuary of the Elbe in the North Sea (German Bight) and includes the islands of Neuwerk, Scharhörn and Nigehörn. It is made up mainly of sand and mixed mudflats with shallow creeks, sand bars (''Plaaten'') and the dune islands. In 2011 the national park was added to the Wadden Sea World Heritage Site, highlighting its intact intertidal ecosystem, importance as a breeding area for many species of birds, and uniquely high biodiversity. National park In accordance with a ruling by the Hamburg Parliament on 9 April 1990 the area was reclassified as the Hamburg Wadden Sea National Park. On 5 April 2001 the law was updated and the national park a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Shipwrecks In 1955
The list of shipwrecks in 1955 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1955. January 2 January 7 January 10 January 13 January 15 January 16 January 17 January 18 January 20 January 21 January 22 January 23 January 24 January 25 January February 4 February 12 February 14 February 19 February 21 February 22 February March 2 March 8 March 14 March 20 March 23 March 24 March 25 March 28 March 29 March April 18 April 22 April 24 April 26 April May 6 May 7 May 9 May 10 May 11 May 18 May 22 May 23 May 29 May 30 May Unknown date June 8 June 9 June 10 June 16 June 26 June July 8 July 12 July 13 July 14 July 15 July 16 July 17 July 20 July 21 July 22 July 23 July 27 July 28 July 29 July August 4 Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamburg
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List Of Shipwrecks In 1954
The list of shipwrecks in 1954 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1954. January 4 January 10 January 22 January 26 January February 4 February 6 February 11 February 12 February 13 February 19 February 24 February 27 February March 1 March 8 March 10 March 18 March 25 March 26 March 30 March April 7 April 15 April 18 April May 2 May 9 May 10 May 11 May 14 May 15 May 17 May 18 May 22 May 25 May 26 May 30 May June 4 June 27 June 28 June July 3 July 9 July 10 July 12 July 15 July 16 July 19 July 21 July 26 July 27 July 31 July Unknown date August 7 August 8 August 13 August 19 August 27 August 28 August 29 August 30 August 31 August September 9 September 13 September 15 September 16 Septem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Shipwrecks In March 1939
The list of shipwrecks in March 1939 includes ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during March 1939 The following events occurred in March 1939: March 1, 1939 (Wednesday) *A munitions dump exploded in Hirakata, Osaka, Japan. Early estimates put the dead at over 200 people dead and almost 500 wounded. *The Papal conclave to elect a new pope be .... 2 March 4 March 5 March 7 March 8 March 9 March 10 March 13 March 14 March 15 March 16 March 17 March 19 March 21 March 22 March 23 March 24 March 26 March 27 March 28 March 29 March Unknown date References {{WWII shipwrecks 1939-03 03 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Shipwrecks In 1931
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List Of Shipwrecks In December 1940
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Elbe
The Elbe (; cs, Labe ; nds, Ilv or ''Elv''; Upper and dsb, Łobjo) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Giant Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia (western half of the Czech Republic), then Germany and flowing into the North Sea at Cuxhaven, northwest of Hamburg. Its total length is . The Elbe's major tributaries include the rivers Vltava, Saale, Havel, Mulde, Schwarze Elster, and Ohře. The Elbe river basin, comprising the Elbe and its tributaries, has a catchment area of , the twelfth largest in Europe. The basin spans four countries, however it lies almost entirely just in two of them, Germany (65.5%) and the Czech Republic (33.7%, covering about two thirds of the state's territory). Marginally, the basin stretches also to Austria (0.6%) and Poland (0.2%). The Elbe catchment area is inhabited by 24.4 million people, the biggest cities within are Berlin, Hamburg, Prague, Dresden and Leipzig. Etymology Firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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