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lose. lose . one square kilometer of red rock in the middle of the northeast. this is tellico land. germany's only high sea island. enjoying nature, letting the wind blow all around you and relaxing. that's what many people who come here want me to the the journey from hamburg to hellig land takes 3 and a half hours. catch him around takes me there. no other boat is pastor

already on arrival. the holiday mood kicks in. ah, all the passengers initially have the same route. everybody passes the colorful ups, the hub, and walks along the problem, not somewhere here is my hotel. most of the truth to right here. go back in the afternoon. there are more or less $3000.00 visitors here every day. but i would like to stay overnight, so i have more time and no strength to discover this small island. ah, i must done legal in italy visit to the seals. if you like, it's out, you're in for the pants festival. and

there's another holiday video of the week this time it's from australia. ah, my 1st walk takes me into the countryside all the way up to the overland me. ah. a route along the edge of the rock that forms helical land leaves around the island, the water watch, or as far as the i can see, the mainland is 50 kilometers away. i pass the langer not that tall anna. this free standing rock is the landmark of helical land. every one hopes that it can withstand the wind and the waves for a long time. and i continued to germany, the smallest nature reserve the lumen says the rock of the give them. it is the

nesting ground of many see birds, but it is named after the gillum ups. in june, the small feathered bolts take when amateur photographers wait for them to take their courageous plunge. there are not many places in europe where you can get so close to wildlife bird watching isn't the only thing you can do here over there is the doing an offshore island and even smaller than hellig, where germany's largest greasy colony lives over there. and you can join a guided tour to get really close to those animals. ah, some animals have got it figured out. they lay on the beach all day, basking in the sun and cool off now and then would a quick dip in the sea. life and land is generally tranquil and unhurried. the do know island ranger. make sure it stays that way. show more and

more guests are coming to see liquor land and want to benefit from the high seas. more and more animals are coming as well. some of the gina ranges are here to make sure we can all live together and get along. all right. people can ask me questions and enjoy the beach in harmony. i'm catherine. tilly's area responsibility is just $710.00 to the square kilometer. the island of dune and a couple of dunes is about all it is in, you know, and dina range is only found here because this. annette is called dina and i medina range once a week, halligan's visitors have an opportunity to tag along with the ranger unexplored. do an island on an organized nature to the if you find something and think it looks exciting, pick it up and take it along. we'll have a look and i'm sure we can figure out what it is. i'm often buses is somewhat rare and not easy to find is the red flint or doesn't mother in 3 variations,

but it's always some shade of red. what not. rust colored and not orange if you can find it and yellow and several variations of that. but the red flint is what's unique to hillock or land for most of the visitors here, the true stars of the island are the seals. up over the birthing season begins around november and almost as soon as the females given beth, she's able to meet again often. so 2 weeks later, the 1st bulls are back trying to get at her again. when she was cute and harmless as the seals, they look, they're not necessarily cut. the gray seal is germany's biggest predator and it can move at 20 kilometers per hour. so it's not a good idea to get too close to them, even if nothing's happened so far. the possibility is always that i can't read

their minds but she can toasty animals. monitoring that population is one of her routine tasks, along with showing visitors around the on the sand and surf for a man and beast. the like the although this island is very small, it has an incredibly eventful history. and you can learn more about it in the legal museum. york. andries is the bus here. he tells me that this island used to be a pirates nest, a navy fort, and a trading post. in the early 18th century, it was just as important as the international port of hamburg is today. legal and was once part of denmark, then of great britain. it was not until 895th,

the island became german, a fiercely contested piece of ground. one was the most dramatic moment in the history of the island to the modest the most dramatic moment was definitely the end of world war 2 and the great bombardment for everybody had to be evacuated. and then came the big bang in april 1947, resulted in the complete destruction of the islands buildings. the british occupying forces once tried to destroy all the islands military facilities was $6.00 killer tons of explosives. never again, should it be used for military purposes. for many years, hellig length remained on inhabitable field. folks to come to the 3rd 1954. the population began returning to the island, and tourism immediately started up here again. on the 1st they slept, intends on doing it because there was no place at all to stay here on the island.

there were no houses or anything. so they stayed in this intense and didn't stand, so whatever they needed to call you could pass true and by little souvenirs and people came and drove to see hellig along again. that's something soon to risks came and masses, not because of the beautiful nature, but to buy duty free liquor and cigarettes on dois would be now did the i live in your this for i just imagine 10 or 12000 visitors here on this really small island was terrible, it must be said, it was no room between all the people. we just have to pass the shops and through here, shoulder to shoulder, unfolded until you might see something nice and one of the shops we didn't stand the chance of getting to it to buy it. we just pushed on ahead by the crowds until you ended up back of the ship and at the same hulu again. and how come prices are so cheap on helical, and i have those pre believe that's a privilege we had former time with britain. and it's been preserved through all the changes and rule it was taken on and tracy's. and so we've always hotter duty

and tax free status here in it still exists. but today the tourists come here for the nature almost as it used to be when legal and became a seaside resort in the early 1900 century. at 1st people came here for the good air. it was the beginning of last tourism. ah, this island is so small, you can easily walk around it and it just takes one or 2 hours, hello, goal and it's pretty popular with tourists. and we will show you why hentaker land still is getting crowded every day around noon. you can almost set your watch by it. that's when the excursion ships arrived from the north sea coast and hamburg the visitors a fairy to land from the ships, enjoying the boats known locally as built at boats in 2018,

they were listed with unesco. intangible world heritage afternoon, as the most fun, when the seaside result was founded here in 1827. we didn't have any harbor, no break, waters or peers. we had nothing at all. and i said, i just want to 1st passengers ship a ride to year later they had to drop anchor somewhere. and our fishermen and pundits went out in our fishing boat and brought the guests for the 1st time over to land in their birth. both of my brother book and i'm going and eventually the harbor was built and ferrying passengers was no longer necessary soon after the ships put in the pedestrian moles for luck, visitors still come to shop. do you see they generally have 4 hours before they ship sales. again, the tours at time so that the date of his can go along to the bank to bring them some 25,

meet his deep inside to red cliff. this is where the header land is sought shelter from the bombing. it's the only remainder of a once vast bunker complex running throughout had a good end. but the time, the biggest part we're in now came through all the bombings in and after the war on damaged the last, bombs fell in february 1952. so it's important to us talking to many helen calendars, especially the older ones, older lives to him, and because the forbid none that you need the enough, the huts are typical of helical land. that few people know they were built here in the 19 fifties and sixty's as part of a plant city was 1st of course the cliff was here and a huge bunker english blew up in 1947. then the more fits that led to the formation of the lines now called the middle land plant, us midland, and stun or, and the last the hot saw now essentially

a retaining wall for the loose rock. that's our look at the stein. an architect, competition was announced for the reconstruction, 951 over a 1000 and architects to pause. they tell us close to find the optimum use of the limited space while orienting the houses favorably to the sun and wind. every detail was thought up down to the paint. it was limited to 14 colors. today, hagar land is like an open museum of the 1900 fifties and sixties buildings town. almost every house is listed as historical. a closer look at hellig land quickly reveals that it's full of fascinating stories. and whereas the longest stay or even the return visit ah, ah,

i want to do that to get on the boat and go around the island. it takes 45 minutes. the excursion boats only put out if the waves are no higher than 2 meters. thank goodness me. the in the slip stream of the island, it is still peaceful. but as soon as we clear the tip of the island, the rocking stars almost to meet your ways. ah, all you need now is this john stomach and occasionally something to hold on to. ah, nobody get seasick. we all have our c legs.