Klanxbüll (
Danish ''Klangsbøl'',
North Frisian ''Klangsbel'') is a municipality on the mainland in the northwest corner of
Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein (; ; ; ; ; occasionally in English ''Sleswick-Holsatia'') is the Northern Germany, northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical Duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of S ...
, in
Kreis Nordfriesland
Nordfriesland (; ; Low German: Noordfreesland), also known as North Frisia, is the northernmost Districts of Germany, district of Germany, part of the state of Schleswig-Holstein. It includes almost all of traditional North Frisia (with the e ...
, Germany. The municipality belongs to the
Amt Südtondern.
History
The village's chronicle goes with
dike construction in the region, because only as the area of Klanxbüll was endiked and drained, could houses be built. Klanxbüll is first mentioned in 1231 with an entry in the land register of the Danish king
Valdemar II, since the former duchy of
Schleswig
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(with short exceptions) belonged
until 1864 to the Danish crown.
At 1240 a church began to be built; that church, which is now under monument protection, is still the only surviving
reed-
thatch
Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, Phragmites, water reed, Cyperaceae, sedge (''Cladium mariscus''), Juncus, rushes, Calluna, heather, or palm branches, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away fr ...
ed church on the mainland:
image
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.
Around 1400 Klanxbüll was separated by a storm tide from the remaining mainland and was now on an island.
In 1566 new
dam
A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of surface water or underground streams. Reservoirs created by dams not only suppress floods but also provide water for activities such as irrigation, human consumption, industrial use, aqua ...
s and dikes were built, making a new
polder
A polder () is a low-lying tract of land that forms an artificial hydrology, hydrological entity, enclosed by embankments known as levee, dikes. The three types of polder are:
# Land reclamation, Land reclaimed from a body of water, such as a ...
, the
Gotteskoog, reconnecting Klanxbüll and the area around to the mainland; part of this separating sea remains as the
Gotteskoogsee lake.
Marschbahn
Klanxbüll got economic importance in 1921, when it got a station on the
Marsh Railway railroad.
In 1927 the
Hindenburgdamm was built. This
causeway
A causeway is a track, road or railway on the upper point of an embankment across "a low, or wet place, or piece of water". It can be constructed of earth, masonry, wood, or concrete. One of the earliest known wooden causeways is the Sweet T ...
connects
Sylt
Sylt (; ; Söl'ring North Frisian: ) is an island in northern Germany, part of Nordfriesland district, Schleswig-Holstein, with a distinctively shaped shoreline. It belongs to the North Frisian Islands and is the largest island in North Fris ...
island to the mainland. Klanxbüll is the last station on the mainland, before the track reaches Sylt; thus is it for people working in the surrounding countryside and on Sylt an important
Park&Ride station (chargeable:; 2.50
euro
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s per day). The surrounding populated areas are declared to be prohibited for
parking
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areas, to stop
tourist
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s going to Sylt from choking the area with parked cars. The station equipment was reorganized gradually in the last years. In 2006 a road bridge was built over the railroad, as before road traffic often had long waits at the
level crossing
A level crossing is an intersection where a railway line crosses a road, Trail, path, or (in rare situations) airport runway, at the same level, as opposed to the railway line or the road etc. crossing over or under using an Overpass#Railway, o ...
while the gates were closed for trains to pass.
In popular culture
Klanxbüll is the setting of the 157th episode of the horror podcast
The Magnus Archives
''The Magnus Archives'' is a supernatural horror Podcast#Fiction_podcast, fiction podcast written by Jonathan Sims, directed by Alexander J. Newall, and distributed by Rusty Quill. Sims starred as the Head Archivist for the fictional Magnus Ins ...
, where a fictional disease outbreak takes place.
References
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