Nösse dyke

Sheep on the Nössedeich

The Nössedeich is a 13 kilometer long sea dwarf on the southeast coast of the North Sea Sylt. The dyke was built in the years 1936/37, together with the Rantum basin, by section 1/77 "Matthias Claudius" of the Reichsarbeitsdienst, which had its camps in Tinnum and Morsum. Since then, it has prevented flooding of the meadows and settlements on the southern Nift peninsula. The dike stretches east-west from the eastern tip of the island, east of Morsum to the dike of the Rantum Basin south of Tinnum.

A southern part of the Keitum district is responsible for the discharge of fresh water through the dyke into the Wattenmeer, and another at Tinnum drains the Koog into the Rantum Basin.

Behind the dyke is the nature reserve "Nordfriesisches Wattenmeer", part of the national park Schleswig-Holstein Wattenmeer. There is an absolute ban on entry here. Weblinks Edit sourcetext

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