Theme Week East Frisian Islands – Borkum and Juist
Saturday, 21 February 2015 - 08:28 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische UnionCategory/Kategorie: General Reading Time: 4 minutes
Juist – Aerial view © Bin im Garten
Juist is one of the seven inhabited East Frisian Islands at the edge of the Lower Saxon Wadden Sea in the southern North Sea, located between Borkum Island (west), Memmert Island (southwest) and Norderney (east). It is also a municipality in the district of Aurich in Lower Saxony in Germany.
Juist is 17 km long and 500 m to 1 km wide (this depends on the level of tide, which sinks and falls about 2.5 m in 6 hours). There are two villages on the island: the main village Juist, and Loog.
What you can see from the North Sea as ‘skyline’ are just two buildings: the water tower and an old hotel, which looks a bit like the German Reichstag since its restoration. The lighthouse at the port is not high enough to be seen from the North Sea – has no nautical importance, not even for the ferries to the island. Its use is rather to make the port area look nicer.
Tourism is the main source of income for Juist’s economy. In almost all the buildings on the island are guestrooms. There are also several hotels and a youth hostel. The island is popular for people having respiratory complaints because of the unpolluted air.
Read more on Island Administration Juist (German only), Juist Online Newspaper and Tourist Information (German only) and Wikipedia Juist.
Borkum – Main Beach © Robert Breuer
Borkum is an island and a municipality in the Leer District in Lower Saxony, northwestern Germany. Borkum is bordered to the west by the Westereems strait (which forms the border with the Netherlands), to the east by the Osterems strait, to the north by the North Sea, and to the south by the Wadden Sea. It is the largest and westernmost of the East Frisian Islands in the North Sea, due north of the Dutch province of Groningen. The island was formed by two previously separate islands which were still separated by a shallow water in 1863. The seam between the former eastern and western parts is called Tüskendör (“through in between”).
The island is partially car-free. Off-season, driving by car is permitted everywhere, otherwise there are car-free zones. The only town on the island is also called Borkum. There is an air field in the Tüskendör area. Borkum is serviced by ferries from Emden, Germany and Eemshaven, The Netherlands. Passengers get a free train ride between the harbour and the town of Borkum.
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