Wittdün auf Amrum
Wittdün (Öömrang: Witjdün, ) is a municipality on the island of Amrum in the district of Nordfriesland in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Key facts
- German location.name
- WittdünWitjdün / Vitdyn
- German location.image_photo
- Aerial photograph 8102 DxO.jpg
- German location.image_plan
- Wittduen in NF.PNG
- German location.state
- Schleswig-Holstein
- German location.district
- Nordfriesland
- German location.Amt
- Föhr-Amrum
- German location.elevation
- 0
- German location.area
- 2.6
- German location.postal_code
- 25946
- German location.area_code
- 04682
- German location.licence
- NF
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 01 0 54 160
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Wittdün (Öömrang: Witjdün, ) is a municipality on the island of Amrum in the district of Nordfriesland in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
== History == thumb|left|View of Wittdün in 1895. Unlike the other villages of Amrum, Wittdün is a relatively young settlement. It was founded in 1890 as a seaside resort next to a new ferry port connecting the island to mainland Nordfriesland. The reason for founding this new village was the fear of many islanders of a decline of their Frisian culture due to the influx of tourists from the south. So, many Amrumers thought that concentrating the emerging seaside tourism in a single village would protect the local community from malign influences.