Insel Föhr

Island Föhr


„faerie in the arms of tides “

Purifies sand beaches, wadden sea, medieval churches, island round travels by carriage, beachvolleyball, gulf, kite surf, music festival, jazz days, organ events, readings, juggler days, ring riding - the marsh-green island with its white beaches offers nature, culture and enthusiastic about sport one a various program for each season. Discover country and people. If you dip into the island world, experience the frisian traditions of the Uthlande very closely, world open and cordially. 

In the midst of the wadden sea national park convenient, presents itself the green island Föhr as island for all seasons: 200 km far away from Hamburg, Föhr offers as contrast to the dune island Amrum and the glamorous island Sylt for each taste something. A well developed moving and cycle track net which the country hotel Laura leads past, loads to long walks or cycling tours in. On that approx. 40 km long round way the island with its 12 villages and small decorations the city Wyk can be explored in relaxed way. In the summer the white sand beaches and led wadden sea migrations do not only lure. Whether Schleswig-Holstein music festival, jazz days or sporty meetings, here participate for each something. Who rather looks for the peace, can enjoy into the stormy autumn about romantic cobbled alleyways in Old-Wyk and magnificently flowering rosebushes. In the winter the time for long walks comes. A good book before the tiled stove or a "Klönschnackrunde" with grog and pharisäer. Then one experiences, why it is so wonderful cosy under a thick reed roof and also the allergic persons can breathe deeply owing to clear air again so correctly. Medieval churches from that 12th and 13th century wait for you to be discovered. In the southwest of the island the Frisian museum in Wyk and grave finds are to be admired from the Bronze Age. Also mill fans come at their expense. Five beautiful copies are on the island. Who would like himself to operate sportily, numerous offers are to that at the disposal. Apart from inline and bicycle tours on flat distances you can set yourselves on the back of one of the 850 horses and explore the 82 square kilometers of the island with their small river „for Godel “, the bird protected areas, the dyke before country, the unmistakable heath landscape, the coastal seam, the cliff or the city copse with Wyk on four hooves. At the beaches a beachvolleyballmatch offers itself. The Wyker bath bridges at the sand barrier invite to stroll. On the water are surfers, kit fans, the sailer and motorboat fans owing to guidance and set under supervision of the DLRG hardly borders. Naturally there are also a dog beach and beautiful playgrounds for the children in nearly each village. Golfer find one of the most beautiful and oldest plants of Germany with view of the peninsula Langeness with hole 9 beside the small airfield at the southern beach, scarcely 4 kilometers far away from the country hotel Laura, forwards. Whether young  or old, actively or relaxed, single, too secondly or with the whole family - on the North Sea island Föhr, the "green pearl" of the North Sea, unite apparently all contrasts to one „fantastic ensemble “. Not of approximate the Danish poet Hans Christian Andersen one describes the quadrilingual island after a stay in at that time Danish Wyk than „faerie in the arms of tides “.

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