07/13/2026
... and the Wattenmeer is an UNESCO world heritage! See the Insel and walk in the Watt!
A fisherman's cottage in Amrum, where one of its main sources of income was seafaring, the North Frisian Island's sailors active in whaling, merchant shipping... and salvaging stranded ships. An important source of its revenue until the arrival of lighthouses in 1875.
In addition to salt production, agriculture and fishing.
And surrounded by woods and sand dunes, a typical thatched fisherman's cottage with its "cottage garden" in the island's 16th century village of Nebel.
In Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany, hundreds of Reetgedeckte Häuser, their roofs made from reeds, share the village with a 13th century church, museum, and Dutch built windmill, transported to the village by ship in 1770 and in use until 1962.
And flying above the cottage roof the North Frisian flag, with the region's coat of arms.
After 1864 more than a quarter of Amrum's population emigrated, most to the USA, and now there are more people of Amrum descent living there than on the island.
Small in size but big on freedom, with everything for an action-packed holiday or restful break, it's tourism that supports Amrum's economy and population these days. And cars are not encouraged so, together with public transport, renting a bike is the signature Amrum experience, as the island in the north sea is small, mostly flat, and crisscrossed with well-paved, scenic bike paths running through dunes, pine forests, and heathlands.
Photo credit: gallery.amrum.org
