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6.3.2022 | Süderoogsand

Interim report on a wreck survey on Süderoogsand

Süderoogsand 2 wreck at dawn. In the background the wreck of the ULPIANO can be spotted (© Martin Hain)
Detail observations on Süderoogsand 2 wreck remains (Photos: D. Zwick, Drawing: E.W. Petrejus)
The wreck of the Spanish barque ULPIANO of 1870 (© Dr. Daniel Zwick)
Süderoogsand 3 wreck with burn marks, which is currently being flooded (© Dr. Daniel Zwick)

Overview map: The post-medieval wrecks known so far on Schleswig-Holstein’s North Sea coast are concentrated on the outer sands of the North Frisian Wadden Sea. The points shown here only represent the known sites, which in the best case have been archaeologically investigated and published and in the worst case have only found their way into the archaeological register as a laconic note. The number of unreported wreck sites, which either remained undiscovered or were not reported, is probably much higher. The first archaeologically investigated wrecks from the Wadden Sea area both came from dike breaches, namely a wreck discovered in 1969 at Hedwigenkoog and a wreck discovered in 1994 near Uelvesbüll (the latter wreck is now exhibited in the North Frisian Maritime Museum in Husum). One of the two newly discovered wrecks on Süderoogsand was already reported by Holger Spreer-Wree in 2020, of which initially only the frames protruded from the sediment (shown here as Süderoogsand wreck 2) (© Dr. Daniel Zwick)