Klanxbüll

Klanxbüll is a municipality on the mainland in the northwest corner of Schleswig-Holstein, in Kreis Nordfriesland, Germany. The municipality belongs to the Amt Südtondern.HistoryThe village's chronicle goes with dike construction in the region, because only as the area of Klanxbüll was endiked and drained, could houses be built. Klanxbüll is first mentioned in 1231 with an entry in the land register of the Danish king Waldemar, since the former duchy of Schleswig (with short exceptions) belonged until 1864 to the Danish crown.At 1240 a church began to be built; that church, which is now under monument protection, is still the only surviving reed-thatched church on the mainland: image.Around 1400 Klanxbüll was separated by a storm tide from the remaining mainland and was now on an island.In 1566 new dams and dikes were built, making a new polder, the Gotteskoog, reconnecting Klanxbüll and the area around to the mainland; part of this separating sea remains as the Gotteskoogsee lake.MarschbahnKlanxbüll got economic importance in 1921, when it got a station on the Marsh Railway railroad.