Warwerort Explained

Type:Gemeinde
Warwerort
Image Coa:DEU Warwerort COA.svg
Coordinates:54.15°N 62°W
Image Plan:Warwerort in HEI.PNG
State:Schleswig-Holstein
District:Dithmarschen
Amt:Büsum-Wesselburen
Elevation:0
Area:4.58
Postal Code:25761
Area Code:04834
Licence:HEI
Gemeindeschlüssel:01 0 51 121
Website:www.amt-buesum.de
Mayor:Karl-Heinz von Postel

Warwerort is a municipality in the Amt ("collective municipality") Büsum-Wesselburen in the district Dithmarschen in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Warwerort is located along the north coast of the Meldorf Bight east of Büsum and Büsumer Deichhausen. The name is a combination of the old village of Werven/Warven and Ort (place). Werven originally was located south of Warverort and depicted on maps of the island Büsum as early as 1559. It sank completely during devastating storm tides in 1717 and 1718.

The Wehl behind the dike in Warwerort serves as another flood reminder. It formed where the sea washed out the soil after a dike break and left a brackish lake on the landside of the dike. Warwerort's harbor became dysfunctional when the dike around the Speicherkoog (build between 1969 and 1978) to the southeast blocked its access to the North Sea.