We are Viennese and have fallen in love with the North Sea. So much so that we and our 5 children had to save one of the most beautiful houses in Eiderstedt from decay and lovingly renovate it. Our favourite house has given us and our guests great pleasure ever since.

The old Frisian longhouse with a leaky thatched roof was damp, musty and furnished in 1980s style when we discovered it in 2017. The former vicarage was built around 1780 in a park-like garden with extensive grafts (ponds) on a mound (a manually constructed hill on which houses were protected from storm surges). It is located in the heart of the Eiderstedt peninsula, in the centre of the romantic picture-book village of Tetenbüll, which is unique with its majestic St. Anna's Church, the historic merchant's shop in Haus Peters and the listed ensemble along the Dörpstraat. Yet no one else recognised the value of this unique structure in the centre of Tetenbüll. In 2018, we renovated the old thatched house – accompanied and awarded by the monument protection authority – as a private North Sea hideaway from the ground up, meticulously and carefully, and furnished it to the highest quality with many personal details.