Sylt-Ost

Sylt-Ost is a former municipality on the island of Sylt, in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It used to be the administrative seat of the Amt Landschaft Sylt and a municipality into which a number of villages had been amalgamated in 1970. However, following a referendum in May 2008, Sylt-Ost merged with Westerland and Rantum to form the collective municipality Gemeinde Sylt which was created on 1 January 2009. Since 2009, the seat of the Amt Landschaft Sylt has been in Westerland.SubdivisionThe former municipality "Sylt-Ost" was created from five villages in 1970: Archsum Keitum Morsum Munkmarsch (previously an Ortsteil of Keitum) Tinnum The five villages are now Ortsteile of Gemeinde Sylt.PoliticsMayors1986-1996: Heinz Maurus, CDU1996-2005: Ingbert Liebing, CDU2005-2008: Christoph Schmatloch, CDU2008: Erik KennelArmsBlazon: Per fess low or and azure. Above a sun rising in his splendour gules, accompanied by five eight-pointed mullets azure. Below a herring argent swimming to the left.