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An island of Eco-Energy: Föhr will now expand its total electricity with solar cells and wind turbines deny. And attract more young visitors - for example with high-tech gadgets for mobile.

 

Wyk on Föhr - For courageous natures boots do not come into question: Ins watts before the North Island Föhr go, at least in the summer semester only barefoot. But on this spring day, the water not ten degrees. Even the sun warms the Ostwind little. Stubenrauch Walter, director of the National Center on Föhr Wyk, Watts knows that his fascination as well as its pitfalls. He picks today prefer to protective boots. "Many underestimate the Wadden Sea," says the 52-year-old former biology and history teacher.

Stubenrauch grave stands a steel fork firmly in the North Sea floor in front of the South Wyker and promotes a remarkable worm watts to light. Of these, up to 20-centimeter-long worms live up to 50 on a square meter. They dwell in the j-shaped tubes, eat their way through the soil, digest the organic material in it and try to do not even hungry birds to catch.

Because life in the most productive ecosystems in the world largely in secret rages, tourists have the ground beneath their feet hold. "We have a Bück National Park," explains Stubenrauch guests.

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From their island and sisters Amrum Sylt shielded against the North Sea, is located in the middle of the Föhr Nationalpark "Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea." In addition to pensioners and patients come mainly school children and families with children Walter Stubenrauch guides.

Indeed, in recent years, the nearly 83-square-meter island a reputation as a family vacation goal. This should remain so. However, the classic family is rare, Föhr looking for alternatives. Singles, young couples without children and travelers in the retirement age have some other claims, knows the head of the Tourism Marketing GmbH Föhr, Sandra Lessau.

Master suites in the house

The season in the spring and fall outside of the holiday should be extended. "We can not with families with school-age children, plus we have people from 50 or 55", said Lessau. The suppliers must be based on shorter-term bookings and shorter travel setting. These are more hotels with higher levels of need.

A first step in the marketing Föhr has already been made. Since early 2007, all communities in the tourism GmbH. They offer a unified Internet presence and a common reservation platform. Last year, a tourism concept Föhr decided by 2012 to achieve its goals.

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Marianne and Brar Roeloffs have already reacted and her small bed and breakfast hotel "Rackmers yard" in the contemplative Friesdorf Oevenum expanded. In the old master of the house and in two new buildings, they offer eleven suites under thatch to meet the specific needs of couples and young families are. "The bookings are very short and usually for a few days," confirms the trend Roeloffs Marianne. "2009 is indeed a Spätbucherjahr how the experts have predicted."

Although the recent opening of the new building with four suites, only a few weeks ago, the landlord already look to the future: "We now have a size that is economical for us, but we plan to have a café with a terrace open," says Marianne Roeloffs.

Fries Museum comes to mobile phones

Besides the traditional attractions like the beach, sea and mudflats, and thatched-roof villages Fries romance, golf and sailing marina wants Föhr future other accents. Sun wants the island as a pioneer in the use of renewable energy market.

Many farmers have realized that with large solar panels on their barn roofs not only a green image, but also a lot of money can get. For years now rotate, 19 wind turbines on Föhr distributed. "We want to make it through five more to replace and spatially summed up," says the mayor of Wyk on Föhr, Heinz Lorenzen. There are a nation politically but still no green light.

The 63-year-old honorary chief of the island's capital, before he retired teacher, can be a body of information on renewable energy on Föhr imagine. "We have a hundred-percent target and do not want to stand still," says Lorenzen. That is, to be Föhr with solar and wind energy and geothermal energy at least as much electricity to be produced, as residents and tourists consume. That is a lot. Because the islanders to come throughout the year at least 200,000 guests, for a total of 1.9 million overnight care.

Even with modern communications Föhr wants to stay ahead. Young people who prefer an SMS Feriengruß tap as postcards to write, it should well find that their Internet-enabled mobile phone photo is now also a travel guide is: At 140 points like the Cathedral in Nieblum or Fries museum in Wyk, they need only a sign with a sign code can be photographed and then on a special Web page to read the pertinent information. "Föhr, this new technology as the first widely available," says Lessau.