Amrum: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

The Amrum Nature Centre presents maritime and natural history exhibitions, including material on whaling in the North Frisian Islands and on Amrum. You can rent a holiday apartment in Amrum for a stay on the island.

Nature

Amrum’s dunes are covered with heather and shrub vegetation; the island provides a habitat for birds and marine mammals, including grey seals and harbour porpoises.

Geographical Location

In the immediate map area around Amrum, the Bredstedt telecommunications tower and Stollberg are each recorded as named map features approximately 3.6 km to the south. Hallig Habel is recorded as a named map feature in the surrounding area approximately 11.6 km west of Amrum; Mühlenberg lies approximately 13.6 km to the northeast as a named map feature. In the wider area around Amrum, the Nolde Foundation approximately 25.3 km to the northwest, the Klixbüll Church approximately 15.6 km to the north and Große Kophallig approximately 21.2 km to the northwest are listed as named map features.

Culture and History

The Öömrang Hüs in Nebel presents traditional life on Amrum from the past.

Getting Around

Several boardwalks cross Amrum’s dune landscape and lead to viewing platforms, heathland valleys and the beach.

Amrum is served by ferry connections; cars can be taken to the island, and Wittdün is the island’s only ferry port.

A guided mudflat hike between Föhr and Amrum through the Wadden Sea is described.

Boat trips from Amrum to Föhr and to the Halligen of Hooge and Langeneß are described.

Amrum was settled by Frisians in the early Middle Ages; this history forms a lasting historical foundation for the island’s Frisian cultural identity.

Amrum is a North Frisian island whose west coast faces the open North Sea and whose east coast faces the tidal flats of the Wadden Sea.

Amrum combines extensive dunes and beaches with woodland and heathland. Kniepsand is described as one of the widest sandy beaches in Northern Europe.

For further orientation around Amrum, the links lead to Norddorf on Amrum, Süddorf.

For the overarching travel overview: Schleswig-Holstein.

More Destinations

More places within the same destination:

Segeberg, Duchy of Lauenburg, Kiel, Ostholstein, Schleswig-Flensburg, Plön.