Lang schon verschwunden ist die Burg

Long gone is the castle. Story(s) of the Seagull Island and its inhabitants The Seagull Island off Schleswig: the scene of history for centuries and the place where the town's landmark once stood. Only a few decades were needed to turn the charismatic, legendary island into a place with increasingly more question marks and concerns about its preservation. Jens Nielsen, museum educator, city guide and historian, wants to show with this book what makes up and has made up the unique charm of this beautiful spot on the mirror of the Schlei. The volume, filled with facets and information about the island, is meant to be an appetiser, to get one's curiosity aroused again and to deal more intensively with the history and the future of the island, which once had a very great significance in the history of the city and the state of Schleswig-Holstein. The book introduces the natural and cultural history of the island in a well-founded but also fascinating way, explains its special landscape features and describes the often futile efforts to protect the island from harmful effects. May it help the island to become or remain for a long time not only a visual but also a mental centre in the life of a city.