Hooge (; da, Hoge,
North Frisian: ''Huuge'') is a municipality in the district of
Nordfriesland, in
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 Sc ...
,
Germany
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.
The municipality is located on the island of Hooge – a small island off the coast of Germany. It is the second largest of the ten
halligen
The ''Halligen'' (German, singular ''Hallig'', ) or the ''halliger'' (Danish, singular ''hallig'') are small islands without protective dikes. They are variously pluralized in English as the Halligen, Halligs, Hallig islands, or Halligen islands. ...
in the
Wadden Sea, after
Langeneß
( da, Langenæs, North Frisian ''Nees'') is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It consists of the halligen (islands) Langeneß and Oland. Before the flood of 1634 the two islands were directly atta ...
. It is frequently called the Queen of the Halligen. The houses on the island are built on ten
''Warften'' ('artificial dwelling mounds').
The
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
(''Gemeinde'') Hooge also includes the uninhabited hallig
Norderoog
Norderoog (Halligen Frisian: Noorderuug, Danish language, Danish: Nørreog) is one of the ten German halligen islands of the North Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea, which is part of the North Sea off the coast of Germany. A part of Hooge, Germany, ...
.
Settlements and geography
Hooge has 9 populated Warften:
* Backenswarft
* Kirchwarft
* Ockelützwarft
* Hanswarft
* Ockenswarft
* Lorenzwarft/Mitteltritt (double-terpen)
* Volkertswarft
* Ipkenswarft
* Westerwarft
The Pohnswarft still can be found close to the shore of Hooge. The Pohnswarft is an unpopulated ''Warft'' which has been abandoned due to its unfavourable location. There is only a water gauge on it.
The small island of
Hainshallig, located off the east coast of Hooge, may have once been connected to the island by a
levee and belonged to a Hooge resident, but became flooded and sank in 1860.
Photo gallery
File:Backenswarft, Hallig Hooge, Germany.jpg, Backenswarft
File:Hallig Hooge, Germany, view from the Backenswarft.jpg, View from the Backenswarft on Hooge.
File:Kirchwarft (Hallig Hooge)-msu-2021-9297-9509.jpg, Kirchwarft
File:Hooge church.jpg, Hooge church
File:Hooge church pulpit.jpg, Pulpit in the church of Hooge
File:Hooge Rainbow.jpg, Rainbow over Hallig Hooge
References
External links
Hooge
Nordfriesland
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