... Beautiful view of a Stone Age grave and ancient witnesses of the village.... behind this megalithic monument, the tomb of Harhoog you see the Wadden Sea at high tide... it consists of a grave chamber with a rectangular border, a so-called long bed, and was built around 3000 BCE...
Keitum, the former capital of Sylt, is a piece of living island history and the Frisian jewel on the mudflats... with great matching Sylt Island stamp and lovely first day postmark👍... Thanks Dustin! (✿◠‿◠)
© Gernot Westendorf
Keitum is located on the Wadden Sea side of the island and stretches along the coast for around 3km. The village fronts on the sea at what is called the green cliff, a mostly vegetation-covered escarpment.
Sylt is Germany’s fourth largest island, shaped like a small strip in the Schleswig Holstein Wadden Sea National Park, covering an area of 99 square kilometers. On the eastern side is the North Sea and on the Western side is the Wadden Sea. It was once part of the mainland, and is still shrinking due to erosion from the North Sea and also originally part of Jutland (today Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein).
Since 2009, the Wadden Sea around Sylt has been part of the UNESCO World Natural Heritage.
Stamp:
SYLT
(Issued 06-06-2024)
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