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The double-Braderup Wenningstedt community is faced with families highly valued. And for good reason, because family-friendliness is the trump card: If miniature golf or trampoline jumping, pony rides, painting, or the youngest guests come here for their full costs. The larger the district Wenningstedt is located on the west coast and can be used with a wide, fine sandy beach against the backdrop a majestic cliffs wait. The heart of the idyllic village pond, which once considered Viehtränke and housewives served as a washing place. Today this habitat is a popular recreation area and invites you to a secluded a walk. Near the village pond is the Denghoog, an impressive, 5000-year-old megalithic grave, which can be visited. In the immediate neighborhood: The warm Fries chapel, whose walls of the "Our Father" in Frisian to read. Old stories, according to the fishing and Saxons in the 5th Century with a Schiffsarmada of Wenningstedt broken in order to conquer England.

Up to the beginning of the 19th Century consisted of the city over many centuries, virtually unchanged from only eight Stavenplätzen (yards). Its inhabitants lived on agriculture and fishing. Not a few men went on whaling ships in the North Sea were on ships or shipping companies in Hamburg herring. The growth of the village, however, only began with the onset of tourism in mid-19th Century. Since 1859 is Wenningstedt Sea, North Sea spa since 1960. Wenningstedt formed with Braderup Kampen and the so-called "northern village" - an early inter-municipal association on the island. The term "northern village" was created at the time as a list, the northernmost town / village on the island, belonged to the Danish Kingdom. Thus Wenningstedt, Kampen and Braderup the German "Northern villages. 1914, the Protestant chapel frieze at the village pond was built. From 1907 to 1970 was Wenningstedt on the small rail line to the "Island Railway, the Westerland shrewedly connected.