Eckernförde Bay
Eckernförde Bay (Template:Lang-de; Template:Lang-da) is a fjord and a branch of the Bay of Kiel between the Danish Wahld peninsula in the south and the Schwansen peninsula in the north in the Baltic Sea off the lands of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The bay extends around 17 km (11 mi) deep into the land and is 10 km (6.2 mi) wide at its entrance as Booknis-Eck (municipality of Waabs) and Danish-Nienhof (municipality of Schwedeneck) mark the endpoints. The bay is up to 28 m (92 ft) deep. The border to the Kiel Fjord lies at the Bülk Lighthouse. The once forested Danish Wahld peninsula between Kiel Fjord and Eckernförde Bay once formed the borderland between the Saxons and the Danes until the Middle Ages. At the end of the bay lies the town of Eckernförde.[1]
Geography
The bay formed during the last Ice Age between 120,000 to 10,000 years ago from a glacier. According to some geologists, the depth contour of the Eckernförde Bay had already formed before the Ice Age and contributed to the fact that the Eckernförde glacier was divided into two parts, the northern Windebyer-Noor and the southern Wittensee-Goossee.
The original postglacial end of Eckernförde Bay, today's Windebyer Noor, is now separated from the Baltic Sea by a headland on which the town of Eckernförde was built. In 1929 man-made embankments further separated the Noor. There are plans to re-establish a canal between the Bay and the Windebyer Noor.
The shores of the bay are shaped by the tides and the surf. During high winds from the northeast and southwest, heavy sea might build up. When the water level is 0.75 m (2.5 ft) higher, sand and gravel is being eroded from the cliff coast. In some places, the coastline recedes 15 to 20 cm (5.9 to 7.9 in) every year. In the southeast the hills of the Terminal moraines of the last Ice Age are cut. In this way, a 30 m (98 ft) high and 3.6 km (2.2 mi) long cliff has formed in front of Altenhof. Its steadily eroded material is partly deposited further west and separated the Goossee from the Eckernförde Bay. Several sand banks run parallel to the beach. The banks are mainly forested with deciduous trees.[2][3]
References
- ^ "Spannende Radrouten in der Eckernförder Bucht". Ostseebad Eckernfoerde. Retrieved January 4, 2021.
- ^ "Effects of the Temporal Variability of Storm Surges on Coastal Flooding". ResearchGate. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
- ^ Samuel J. Bentley, Charles A. Nittrouer. "Physical and Biological Influences on the Formation of Sedimentary Fabric in an Oxygen-Restricted Depositional Environment: Eckernförde Bay, Southwestern Baltic Sea". jstor. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
External links
- Map (in German)
54°28′N 9°57′E / 54.467°N 9.950°E
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