ADVENTURE GUIDE Getting away from it all on Sylt. Sylt Shuttle: the fast and relaxed way to travel. You can rely on our decades of experience. We offer the highest capacity and guarantee to get you on the move with our double-decker car trains. Running 14,000 trains a year, we are there for you from early morning to late evening: your fast, safe and reliable shuttle service. We look forward to welcoming you aboard. More information at bahn.de/syltshuttle 14,000 trains a year. The Sylt Shuttle. www.sylt.de Last update November 2019 Anz_Sylt_Buerostuhl_engl_105x210_mm_apu.indd 1 01.02.18 08:57 ADVENTURE GUIDE 3 SYLT Welcome to Sylt Boredom on Sylt? Wrong! Whether as a researcher in Denghoog or as a dis- coverer in the mudflats, whether relaxed on the massage bench or rapt on a surfboard, whether as a daydreamer sitting in a roofed wicker beach chair or as a night owl in a beach club – Sylt offers an exciting and simultaneously laid-back mixture of laissez-faire and savoir-vivre. Get started and explore Sylt. Enjoy the oases of silence and discover how many sensual pleasures the island has in store for you. No matter how you would like to spend your free time on Sylt – you will find suitable suggestions and contact data in this adventure guide. Content NATURE . 04 CULTURE AND HISTORY . 08 GUIDED TOURS AND SIGHTSEEING TOURS . 12 EXCURSIONS . 14 WELLNESS FOR YOUR SOUL . 15 WELLNESS AND HEALTH . 16 LEISURE . 18 EVENT HIGHLIGHTS . .26 SERVICE . 28 SYLT ETIQUETTE GUIDE . 32 MORE ABOUT SYLT . 33 Imprint All contents have been carefully prepared with the best conscience. Sylt Marketing GmbH (SMG) is not liable for incorrect information. Publisher and editorial staff: Design: in medias red GbR Sylt Marketing GmbH · Stephanstraße 6 www.inmediasred.de 25980 Westerland Photos: Sylt Marketing GmbH, Insel Sylt phone: 04651 / 82 020 Tourismus-Service, Jan Blaffert, E-Mail: [email protected] Michael Reidinger, Dominik Täuber, www.sylt.de Holger Widera NATURE 4 SYLT NATURE 5 SYLT Nature Two is better than one, in List there are two lighthouses. Ellenbogen of Nature Exhibition Centre), an inter- Cliffs straße in Kampen to the foot of the dune. The narrow peninsula which bends east- active exhibition for the entire family, The island’s cliffs offer spectacular vis- There, you have 110 steps of the wooden ward north of List like an arm bent over is a popular place to visit located at tas and views. Even if the names of the staircase to overcome until there is a ma- the head is called Ellenbogen (‘elbow’) and the habour in List. Themes such as cliffs may remind you of rocks, it is about gnificent view overlooking Sylt. is private land (drivers pay a toll charge). “Powers of the North Sea”, “Living with a steep coast (Frisian: “Klef”) which the Here there is nothing but dunes, sea, wind the Forces of Nature” and “Weather, surf has rinsed from a range of hills for Braderup Heath and vastness. At the north beach of the Climate, Climate Research” are depicted about 9,000 years. The most popular Half of the heath area of the entire western Ellenbogen, the hiker is virtually and made perceptible on an exhibi- photo motif among the steep coasts State of Schleswig-Holstein is located standing on the “tip” of Germany. Ellenbo- tion area of 1,500 m² and an 800 m² is the five kilometre-long “Red Cliff” on Sylt. The Braderup Heath Nature gen is a nature reserve and bird sanctuary. outdoor facility. Visitors can generate that rises to nearly 30 metres between Reserve is the largest of the heaths on waves themselves, view the global cli- Wenningstedt and Kampen, and reveals the island with an area of nearly 140 Lister wandering dunes mate from the viewpoint of an astronaut where its name comes from during hectares. Common heather (Calluna The white dunes west of List actually still or brace themselves against the wind in a setting sun. Geologists most likely vulgaris), which blossoms purple in wander. They shift eastward an average the “storm room”. The marine animal prefer Morsum Cliff where you can late summer, is characteristic for this of six, in some years up to ten metres eve- pool in the outdoor area, exhibits for see ten million years of earth’s his- landscape, which provides a habitat ry year. Such dunes buried Old Rantum children and adolescents and a listening tory compressed into a few square for 2,500 animal species. What looks and Old List in the past. Today, the three trail for children are additional features. kilometres (tip: take part in a geo- and smells like pure nature is actually dunes in Listland are the only nonplanted logical tour!). The “White Cliff” a cultural landscape, a stage of deve- dunes and are protected. › Erlebniszentrum Naturgewalten shines between Munkmarsch and Bra- lopment between the clearing of wood- Hafenstraße 37, List derup, while the mudflat walk in Keitum land and new growth through birch, oak Erlebniszentrum phone: + 49 (0) 4651 / 83 61 90 passes by the “Green Cliff”. and beech trees. The Naturschutzge- Naturgewalten Open daily from 10 am meinschaft (Sylt Nature Conservation Erlebniszentrum Naturgewalten (Forces www.naturgewalten-sylt.de Uwe-Dune Association) offers guided tours, inclu- The platform on the islands highest na- ding the heathland, starting at Braderup tural elevation, the Uwe-Dune, is remar- Nature Center. A newly conceived exhi- kable 52 metres above the North Sea. A bition on the island’s habitat and herbal footpath leads from the end of Kurhaus- garden can also be discovered there. NATURE 6 SYLT NATURE 7 SYLT › Naturschutzgemeinschaft Sylt e.V. plane port, but it was hardly ever used. Propoises › Amber polishing M.-T.-Buchholz-Stich 10a In addition to cyclists and hikers, prima- As part of the national park, the small in the Kuno-Ehlfeldt-Haus Wenningstedt-Braderup rily fauna and flora love the man-made propoise sanctuary west of Sylt offers once a week, phone: + 49 (0) 4651 / 44 421 entity today: since the basin was de- harbour propoises a quiet zone for bree- with reservation only, www.naturschutz-sylt.de signed a nature conservation area in 1962, ding and rearing offspring. With a bit of Rantumer Straße 27, Hörnum [email protected] a species-rich breeding and resting area luck, their triangular dorsal fins can been phone: +49 (0) 4651 / 88 10 93 for birds has evolved. seen from the beach on quiet evenings. Sylt Aquarium Hörnum-Odde Only a few metres from the water’s edge Wadden Sea Arche Wattenmeer During a walk around the southern tip and very close to the beach, there are Sylt is located in the middle of the Schles- The Wadden Sea Conservation Station of the island, preferably at low tide, quite a few indigenous as well as exotic wig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park, exhibition known as “Arche Wattenmeer” you can experience the faces of both of fishes on Sylt. In the Aquarium south of which also bears the title UNESCO World (“Wadden Sea Ark”) in the former Catholic Sylt’s beaches well within one hour: a Westerland, a section of the 25 pools Heritage Site. The habitat is defined by Church in Hörnum has been open since gentle beach on the eastern side and a is dedicated to the North Sea and its changing tides, salty water of the North summer of 2013. The exhibition primari- wild beach of the open sea in the west. inhabitants, whereas the other section Sea and strong wind. These special con- ly deals with the open North Sea. Inside However, this is also the most vulnerable is dedicated to tropical oceans with ditions have virtually cultivated “experts” the Ark, small and large guests can spot of the island. their coral worlds. Visitors walk through such as the common glasswort, a plant experience underwater landscapes in Current and storm tides gnaw away at the two largest pools in glass tunnels. which grows on the frequently flooded a playful manner while understanding Hörnum-Odde. About 15 years ago a hike Aquarium officials are particularly proud salt meadows on the eastern side of the contexts and deepening their knowledge. took three hours, whereas today it is only of the zebra sharks as well as leopard island, or the lugworm, which lives from › Arche Wattenmeer 1.5 hours. whiprays. Dogs are welcome here. organic substances in the sand of soil. Rantumer Straße 33, Hörnum › Sylt-Aquarium Mud flats are also a breeding and resting phone: + 49 (0) 4651 / 88 62 229 Gaadt 33, Westerland place for numerous bird species. There www.arche-wattenmeer.de phone: + 49 (0) 4651 / 83 62 522 are numerous opportunities to explore [email protected] Open daily from 10 am this unique natural environment, such as [email protected] a mud flats hike or a boat tour with an www.syltaquarium.de explanation of marine animals as well as an ornithological tour. Tourism services Rantum Basin of the respective village provide infor- In 1936/37, over 560 hectares of mud- mation. The facilities of the association flats were diked between Tinnum and “Wadden Sea Conservation Station”, Rantum with a dam that is more than five which takes care of parts of the national kilometres long in order to build a sea- park, are good places to go. CULTURE AND HISTORY 8 SYLT CULTURE AND HISTORY 9 SYLT Culture and history Denghoog The “Altfriesisches Haus” (“Old Fri- Cemetery for the Homeless Musical pleasure on the highest level can Denghoog is located next to the Frisian sian House”), built in the early 18th Laid out in 1854 as the cemetery for also be experienced in Sylt‘s churches; chapel in Wenningstedt and was built century as a captain’s house, was shipwrecked people, it was located out- for instance, weekly concerts are offered about 5,000 years ago.