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Amrum (German pronunciation:[ˈamʁʊm]ⓘ; Öömrang North Frisian: Oomram) is one of the North Frisian Islands on the German North Sea coast, south of Sylt and west of Föhr. It is part of the Nordfriesland district in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein and has approximately 2,300 inhabitants.
The island is made up of a sandy core of geestland and features an extended beach all along its west coast, facing the open North Sea. The east coast borders to mudflats of the Wadden Sea. Sand dunes are a characteristic part of Amrum's landscape, resulting in a vegetation that is largely made up of heath and shrubs. The island's only forest was planted in 1948. Amrum is a refuge for many species of birds and a number of marine mammals including the grey seal and harbour porpoise.
Settlements on Amrum have been traced back to the Neolithic period when the area was still a part of the mainland of the Jutland peninsula. During the Middle Ages, Frisian settlers arrived at Amrum and engaged in salt making and seafaring. A part of the modern population still speaks Öömrang, a dialect of the North Frisian language, and Frisian traditions are kept alive.
With the island hosting many endangered species of plants and animals, its soil being largely unproductive for agriculture and as a popular seaside resort in general, Amrum's population today almost exclusively lives from the tourism industry.
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Amrum (German pronunciation: [ˈamʁʊm] ; Öömrang North Frisian: Oomram) is one of the North Frisian Islands on the German North Sea coast, south of Sylt...
Amrum Frisian, also known as Öömrang, is the dialect of the North Frisian language spoken on the island of Amrum in the North Frisia region of Germany...
Amrum Bank (German: Amrumbank, Danish: Amrum Banke, North Frisian: Oomrambeenk) is an undersea bank in the North Sea approximately 54 km from Amrum island...
Norddorf auf Amrum (Öömrang: Noorsaarep üüb Oomram, Danish: Nordtorp) is a municipality on the island of Amrum, in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein...
The Amrum Lighthouse is located in the southern part of the German island of Amrum, approximately 2 kilometres west of the village of Wittdün, yet still...
islands and ten tiny islets. The names of the large islands are Sylt, Föhr, Amrum, and Pellworm. The islets are called Halligen. In medieval times, the present-day...
North Frisian mainland, and on the North Frisian Islands of Sylt, Föhr, Amrum, and the Halligs. It is also spoken on the islands of Heligoland (deät Lun)...
8°21′20″E / 54.6530°N 8.3555°E / 54.6530; 8.3555 The Talking Gravestones of Amrum (German: Sprechende Grabsteine), also known as the Story-telling Gravestones...
because medieval fishery around Heligoland attracted Frisians from Föhr and Amrum, and close contacts have been maintained ever since. In fact Fering and...
Knut Jungbohn Clement (born 4 December 1803 in the island of Amrum, Denmark – 7 October 1873 in Bergen, New Jersey) was a Danish linguist. He was educated...
a local and natural historian. Quedens has been living on the island of Amrum since he was born, and so his work has been influenced by the nature and...
*Ymbre (dat. Ymbrum), a tribe mentioned in the Widsith, the islands of Amrum (older Ambrum) and Imbria (modern Fehmarn), the river names Ammer, Amper...
including the Wadden Sea Islands on the west coast of Schleswig. However, Amrum, southern Rømø, northern Sylt and western Föhr did not belong to the Duchy...
October 2010. Goodfellow, Melanie (22 April 2024). "Fatih Akin's 1945 Drama 'Amrum' Kicks Off Principal Photography With Jasper Billerbeck, Laura Tonke & Diane...
original on 2011-05-27. Retrieved 2010-06-27. Martin Reinheimer (2003). "From Amrum to Algiers and Back: The Reintegration of a Renegade in the Eighteenth Century"...
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