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Dieren en planten

Water en land

Danish wadden region   Sonderjylland   Ribe   Tøndermarsk   

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Terp near Vestervedsted, Foto Fitis, www.fotofitis.nl

Sonderjylland (South Jutland county)

There is a moraine running from Hjerting to Esbjerg. It is made up of a mixture of boulders, sand and loam that developed from the scouring work of the glaciers on the underlying stony moraine landscape. The glacier flowed all the way to the Wadden Sea, where it ended by a steep bank past Myrtue and Marbok. A dike starting from Esbjerg running south protects the lower lying coast from the sea. The dike is only intercepted by a sand hill, the Astrup Bakke by Brns. The dikes vary in height, between 6.20 and 6.75 meters, while the Margrethe-kog dike is 7.45 meters high.

  • Esbjerg

    Esgjerg is the only reasonably large city in the vicinity of the Danish Wadden Sea and it is the fifth largest city in Denmark with its 85,000 residents. In addition, this young city is the capitol of Southwest Jutland. The large harbour was built around 1868. The large fish meal factory was closed in 2005 due to a lack of supply, which meant more or less the end of Esbjerg as a fishing harbour.

  • Misthusum

    Misthusum is a group of terpen, which was the most northern outer post of the Frisian farmers on the clay grounds. The remains of eight terpen from the Middle Ages have been found in the low plains of Ballum, between Skaerbaek and Hjer.

  • Margrethe-Kog

    The Margrethe-Kog lies along the German-Danish coast. It was impoldered in 1981 with the help of Germany. Part of this polder is the Vidi-sluice, which transports water from the Vidi into the North Sea. The new 'koog' is considered a coastal protective measure. However to compensate the loss of outer dike regions after the land reclamation, a saltwater lake was created taking up approximately one third of the polder, around 1100 hectares. The salt water is pumped in. The lake also serves as a catching basin for excess fresh water when the outer dike water levels are too high to pump it out. The clay polder on the Margrethe-Kog was only used as pasture. It is not part of the Tondermarsk Act and has been a protected area since 1984.

  • Jordsand

    The sandbank Jordsand is situated in the Listerdiep, off the shore of Hjer. The sandbank itself is around 40 square kilometers. The Hallig Jordsand used to be at the highest point. Presently, only a bare lookout post still reminds us of this formerly large island with its clay underground. The last remains of the island disappeared in the winter of 1998/1999. Jordsand supposedly had a surface area of around 2000 hectares around the year 1200 A.D., when it was probably connected to Jutland and Sylt. Around 1807, Jordsand was only 42 hectares and the last terp was swallowed up by the sea in 1895.