Hooge, Germany

Hooge Huuge (nf) / Hoge (dan)
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Hooge Huuge (nf) / Hoge (dan) within Nordfriesland district
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Coordinates: 54°34′12″N 08°32′53″E
Country	Germany
State	Schleswig-Holstein
District	Nordfriesland
Municipal assoc.	Pellworm
Government
• Mayor	Katja Just
Area
• Total	5.78 km^2 (2.23 sq mi)
Elevation	5 m (16 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[1]
• Total	91
• Density	16/km^2 (41/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	25859
Dialling codes	04849
Vehicle registration	NF
Website	www.hooge.de

Hooge (German pronunciation: [ˈhoːgə] ^ⓘ; Danish: Hoge, North Frisian: Huuge) is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

The municipality is located on the island of Hooge – a small island off the coast of Germany. It is the second largest of the ten halligen in the Wadden Sea, after Langeneß. It is frequently called the Queen of the Halligen. The houses on the island are built on ten Warften ('artificial dwelling mounds').

The municipality (Gemeinde) Hooge also includes the uninhabited hallig Norderoog.

Settlements and geography

Hooge has 9 populated Warften:

• Backenswarft
• Kirchwarft
• Ockelützwarft
• Hanswarft
• Ockenswarft
• Lorenzwarft/Mitteltritt (double-terpen)
• Volkertswarft
• Ipkenswarft
• Westerwarft

The Pohnswarft still can be found close to the shore of Hooge. The Pohnswarft is an unpopulated Warft which has been abandoned due to its unfavourable location. There is only a water gauge on it.

The small island of Hainshallig, located off the east coast of Hooge, may have once been connected to the island by a levee and belonged to a Hooge resident, but became flooded and sank in 1860.

Farmers protest incident 2024

In January 2024, Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck (A90/Greens) visited Hooge. On the return ferry journey, protesting farmers were waiting, who escalated the situation so much that the ferry left again for safety reasons.

The "spontaneous protest of ordinary farmers" was mainly orchestrated by right-wing activists. The local hobby artist Tanja Berkhahn was on the ferry to Hooge and told her partner that Habeck is doing a day trip to Hooge. Berkhahn ran in the 2023 district election for right-wing AfD (election district 21 Friedrichstadt / Schwabstedt) and is spreading QAnon theorys.^[2] Her partner, the agriculture freelancer Holger T. mobilized in right-wing Telegram groups as well as in local farmer groups for a protest action. He is considered to be the main organizer of the violating protest by weekly Die Zeit.^[3][4]

Photo gallery

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  Backenswarft
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  View from the Backenswarft on Hooge.
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  Kirchwarft
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  Hooge church
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  Pulpit in the church of Hooge
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  Rainbow over Hallig Hooge
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References

1. "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden in Schleswig-Holstein 4. Quartal 2022" (XLS) (in German). Statistisches Amt für Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein.
2. Amtsblatt Kries Nordfriesland, Asugabe 9 / 2023: Bekanntmachung über die zugelassenen Wahlvorschläge für die Kreiswahl am 14. Mai 2023 im Kreis Nordfriesland
3. ""Kommen mit allem, was Räder hat": Rechtsextreme zettelten offenbar Protest an Fähranleger an". Der Tagesspiegel Online (in German). ISSN 1865-2263. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
4. Fuchs, Christian; Pausch, Robert (2024-01-10). "Schlüttsiel: Wer organisierte die Blockade gegen Habeck?". Die Zeit (in German). ISSN 0044-2070. Retrieved 2024-01-11.

External links

Media related to Hallig Hooge at Wikimedia Commons