<== The Pellworm Island lighthouse, Photo made by my last visit in 1993

The Island of Pellworm, located in the northern part of the German Wattenmeer and located offshore the coast of Schleswig-Holstein, is one of the larger islands inside the National Park Wattenmeer. The island is quite young and was formed in 1362 after a heavy flood desaster named as the 'Blanke Hans'. After a second one in 1634 it became the today known form. Since that time the complete coastline is saved by man-made land and polders. Some of the most older warf could be seen in the western part of the island in to the vicinity of the Lake Mittelser Koog, a small salt-water lake in which the oldest known warft is situated, overbuilt by an old church. Most of the today built walls round the island are 10 to 12 m high and since 1938 only one time in 1962 it was flooted again.
Pellworm is rich in old culturical monuments, and the oldest known is the church of St.Salvador, original built in 1095, destroyed by the sea in 1362, rebuilt and twice destroyed in 1634. It's today known form it becams in 1691. A second building, an old monastery, stands close offshore and was built in 1528, and was not destroyed, but abandoned in 1634.
One of the most pupular buildings is the lighthouse. It stands near the south-eastern end of the island on a position of 54N30, 08E40, is 41 m high and was built in 1907. The lighthouse operates since 1977 automaticly, and it is planed to built up a museum of the big floots inside the tower.
Pellworm is today a well known tourist resort along the coast, is permanent inhabited by about 2500 people. A big part, mostly in the north-west is a restrictive nature reserve, but could be visited by some ways.