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The peninsula Eiderstedt
image author: Nordfriesland-Fotos JESSEN Welcome on the peninsula of Eiderstedt
The peninsula Eiderstedt has been connected by dykes from 97 polders around the three old settlements Eiderstedt, Everschop and Utholm during the centuries; it was then called 'Dreilande' (three land).
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The main villages are
St. Peter-Ording, Tönning and
Garding. The spa resort
St. Peter-Ording has 16km of sandy beach at the west coast and the biggest forest, 300ha, directly at the sea. Garding as well as Tönning look back on 400 years of town history.
That's how peaceful it is here.
image author: Nordfriesland-Fotos JESSEN Garding is the geographical centre and its chunky church tower sticks out far over the land (8m higher than the remaining marsh).
Tönning, climatic spa resort as Garding, is known as a romantic fishing village. The seat of the national park office for the Nationapark Schleswig-Holsteinisches Wattenmeer (mudflats) is here located. South of Tönning is the leisure time landscape 'Katinger Watt'.
A swimming place on Eiderstedt
image author: Stadt Garding
Through that for the first time an independent political county Eiderstedt arose. Different areas with their own forms emerged, which can still be recognised today.
Colourful life at the beach of St.Peter-Ording
image author: Gemeinde St.Peter-Ording Landmarks are for instance the many
Eiderstedter churches , nearly all founded in the 12.century. There are exactly 18 churches so that every village has at least one church.
The climate is well-balanced, during winter sometimes mild, during the summer a little bit cool. Fast change is typical for the North Sea. Rain doesn't last long, wind makes sure of that.
The peninsula Eiderstedt sticks out far into the big sea. Day by day surrounded more or less by water, just as the tide likes it.
Sometimes storms race from the sea over the countryside. Every now and then, Eiderstedt bathes in the sun with a clear sky but most of the time, mountains of clouds pass over the wide flat land and alter the perspective and the light from one minute to another.
A Frisiean house on Eiderstedt.
image author: Nordfriesland-Fotos JESSEN
Many little villages are situated around the county, many with a grown centre, some with only a few houses, church and Kirchspielskrug, more Hallig than village character.
The red Haubarg.
image author: Nordfriesland-Fotos JESSEN
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The typical farmhouses of the Eiderstedt countryside, the Haubarge, one should have seen once.
image author: Jörn Kohlus GeoConsult
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