( North Frisian: ''di Ströön'') is a peninsula and former island in

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on the

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coast of

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. It is part of the

Nordfriesland Nordfriesland (; da, Nordfrisland; frr, Nordfraschlönj ), also known as North Frisia, is the northernmost district of Germany, part of the state of Schleswig-Holstein. It includes almost all of traditional North Frisia (with the exception o ...

district in the federal state of

Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein (; da, Slesvig-Holsten; nds, Sleswig-Holsteen; frr, Slaswik-Holstiinj) is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Sch ...

. Its area is 50 km² and its population is 2,300. Nordstrand has two municipalities, Nordstrand and smaller

Elisabeth-Sophien-Koog Elisabeth-Sophien-Koog is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It occupies a small part in the northwest of Nordstrand peninsula. The municipality is located in and named after the polder (german: Koog) ...

, which are part of the ''Amt''

Nordsee-Treene Nordsee-Treene is an ''Amt (subnational entity), Amt'' ("collective municipality") in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Its seat is in Mildstedt. It was formed on 1 January 2008 from the former ''Ämter'' Friedrichstadt ...

. In medieval times Nordstrand was a part of the larger island of

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, which was torn into pieces in a disastrous

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in 1634. More than 6,000 people drowned. Before 1634 the area of the island was about . Other remnants of Strand are

Pellworm ( da, Pelvorm; North Frisian ''Polweerm'') is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The municipality is located on the island of Pellworm – one of the North Frisian Islands on the North Sea coast of ...

and some

Hallig The ''Halligen'' (German, singular ''Hallig'', ) or the ''halliger'' (Danish, singular ''hallig'') are small islands without protective levee, dikes. They are variously pluralized in English as the Halligen, Halligs, Hallig islands, or Halligen isl ...

en islets. Nordstrand is accessible by road over a

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, which connects to the mainland and was built in 1936. In 1987 the

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Beltringharder Koog was completed, turning the former

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into a

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Local alcoholic beverage

Nordstrand is the origin of a locally famous alcoholic beverage, the ''Pharisäer'' (

Pharisee The Pharisees (; he, פְּרוּשִׁים, Pərūšīm) were a Jewish social movement and a school of thought in the Levant during the time of Second Temple Judaism. After the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, Pharisaic beliefs bec ...

), which the islanders developed in 1872 to be able to drink alcohol in the presence of local pastor Georg Bleyer, who preached abstinence. It is made from hot strong coffee, sugar, dark rum (4 cl of 54% vol.) and

whipped cream Whipped cream is liquid heavy cream that is whipped by a whisk or mixer until it is light and fluffy and holds its shape, or by the expansion of dissolved gas, forming a firm colloid. It is often sweetened, typically with white sugar, and ...

(to prevent the alcohol from evaporating, so that it could not be smelled). The pastor got the only cup without rum, but one day the cups got mixed up. When he discovered the deceit he exclaimed ''"Ihr Pharisäer!"'' ("You Pharisees!", connoting: "hypocrites"). Hence the name.

North American emigrants who used it as a surname

The original Nordstrand island (before the flood of 1634) is thought to be the ancestral homeland of the North American surname ‘van Nostrand’ (including variants: vanNostrand, vanNordstrandt, vanOstrand). Two brothers emigrated from here to what is now New York, USA, in 1637 and 1638 after the flood. One of the three granite panels of the Canadian van Nostrand monument, in York Mill's Cemetery, Toronto (St John’s, York Mills, Anglican Church, 19 Don Ridge Dr., North York, Toronto, Ontario), points to Nordstrand Island. Pieter Karstense van Nortstrant was born about 1605 on the island of Norstrand. Coupled with the name of his father, Carsten or Kersten, and the fact that his children were baptized in the Lutheran Church in Amsterdam, it would seem that a German, Frisian or Danish origin is probable. It is uncertain when Pieter Karstense came to Amsterdam, possibly as a child with his father, though no record of the latter has been found there. The sons of Pieter Pietersen Ostrander (son of Pieter Karstense van Nortstrant) were called Van Norstrande or Van Nostrande, whilst Van Ostrande was used in other baptisms and eventually became the surname Oostrander and then the spelling as it is today, Ostrander.

Characters from Nordstrand

Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen (6 February 1834 – 23 May 1918) was a German Lutheran Protestantism missionary to Sumatra who also translated the New Testament into the native Batak language and Batak script writing. Stephen Neill, a historian of ...

, her was a

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from

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in the

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(today part of

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) who also translated the

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into the native

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. *

Peter Harry Carstensen Peter Harry Carstensen (born 12 March 1947) is a German politician, in the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. From 2005 to 2012 he was Minister President of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, serving as ...

, prime minister of the state of Schleswig-Holstein from 2005 until 2012.

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Integrated Landscape and Cultural Heritage Management and Development Plan for the Wadden Sea Region
{{Authority control Polders Peninsulas of Schleswig-Holstein Former islands of Germany North Frisian Islands Nordfriesland

Local alcoholic beverage

North American emigrants who used it as a surname

Characters from Nordstrand

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