Julian flood
The Julian flood occurred from the 16th, the name day of St. Juliana of Nicomedia , to February 17th, 1164 and is thus the first concretely recorded storm surge on the North Sea coast .
Helmold von Bosau reports on her in his Slav chronicle, which he wrote between 1163 and 1168 . The Pöhlder annals also contain a corresponding note. According to these sources, around 20,000 people and many thousands of livestock were killed in this storm surge. With the most difficult stretches of coastline in today were Lower Saxony regions East Friesland and the district of Friesland and the Zuiderzee affected. The Julian flood formed a precursor to today's Jade Bay in the jade estuary .
Even decades later, the Julian flood was considered a fixed point in chronology, so that Emo von Wittewierum , the author of an eyewitness report on the first Marcellus flood in 1219, was able to date it to the 55th year after the Julian flood.
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literature
- Bernd Rieken : The North Sea is Murder Sea . Waxmann Verlag, Münster 2005 (habilitation thesis), ISBN 3-8309-1499-7 , p. 126.