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Become an expert in Zingelschleuse 2 June 2018. Text, graphic design and illustrations: Skope inventive spaces Hamburg, skope-group.de coastal protection. Nordfriesland Museum 1

Schleswig-Holstein is surrounded by water: About 25 percent Start: Anywhere along the route or at the 1st stop at the Nordfriesland Museum. of the land area is threatened by flooding. 350,000 people Nissenhaus Husum, Herzog-Adolf-Straße 25, 25813 Husum. Length: approx. 4 km. live in these areas. Coastal protection concerns us all, today The Coastal Protection Route can be explored on foot, by bike or by using our app. more than ever – because of rising sea levels we face For more information refer to the editor: Zweckverband Museumsverbund fundamental challenges. The Husum Coastal Protection Nordfriesland, +49 (0) 4841-2545, [email protected], www.kuestenschutz-route.de Route starts in the city centre of Husum and takes you to the coastline of the Wadden Sea at Dockkoogspitze. Immerse yourself in the vivid history of coastal protection and learn all about it: how have people living in coastal The project is supported by: regions been guarding themselves against storm surges? An app-guided twelve-stop route along the Husum coast. Which buildings and structures protect us against flooding? What makes sheep the perfect lawnmowers, and what has popcorn to do with coastal defence? Photo: © Oliver Franke / LKN.SH Photo: © JFL Photography, adobestock.com Storm surges Always Four-legged The exact shape the on call! dyke dose of water coast From oil-spill emergencies to protectors Flood prevention is not just dyke construction – it is all about water coming in from The legendary village of There’s more to a sheep than in the hands of the Schleswig- the sea – the inland areas was swallowed by just wool: It has a “golden Holstein Agency for Coastal need to be drained as well. the sea more than 500 years tread” and a “short bite” and Defence, National Park and Understand how a refined ago. Learn more about the plays an important part in Maritime Conservation system of pumps, canals and historical storm surges of securing the outer layer of a (LKN.SH). Get a view behind barrages keeps water at North and discover how dyke. See who else lives the scenes of the LKN.SH, level in Schleswig-Holstein. Husum gained direct access at the dyke and what roles where the experts are well to the sea! they play! prepared for worst cases!

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Moon’s centrifugal forces gravitational of the system ancient pull dyke profiles Earth / Moon

Sun common centre Ready for of gravity Earth / Moon Eurimage 2003 Sonne the future © The Coastal Protection Route High tide and Modern so-called “climate

Detail from coloured copperplate by Johannes Mejer, 1651 was Frerk’s idea! dykes” have a built-in reserve: low tide The top can be raised by a Where do low and high tide metre when sea levels con- come from and what have Husum tinue to rise. Discover the Earth, Moon and Sun to do mathematics behind a dyke, with it? Discover what tides see how it is built and watch are, how they work, and the land in front of it grow. why the day has 25 hours at the . 2006 Brockmann Consult, Original Data Landsat 7 ETM © Martje here

Detail from “Halligwarft während einer Sturmflut” by Alexander Eckener, lives next to the barrage.

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