All Saints Flood 1436

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The All Saints Flood on All Saints Day ( November 1st ) 1436 was a storm surge that affected the entire North Sea coast of the German Bight .

course

At midnight on November 1st, an unusually strong storm arose, causing the water to rise to unprecedented heights. The dikes broke almost everywhere and the floods caused great damage , especially in Dithmarschen , where many people and cattle were killed. In the parish of Lunden the water rose to the foundation walls of the St. Laurentius Church.

In the North Frisian town of Tetenbüll alone 180 people died, according to other sources 280 people. Eidum on Sylt was destroyed, the residents moved away and then founded Westerland . List on Sylt was abandoned after the flood and moved further to the east. Pellworm was separated from the island of Strand . It was not until 1550 that the connection could be re-established by acquiring a new Koog .

As a result of the storm, so much snow fell that people were locked in their houses for several days and the roads were impassable. It was also very cold that continued until Lent , so that many travelers were killed on the way. The damage caused by the storm surge could only be repaired from late spring of the following year.

Dike breaches also occurred on the Oste and in Kehdingen .

literature

  • Christian Kuß : Yearbook of memorable natural events in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein from the 11th to the 19th century (Volume 1, Itzehoe 1825)
  • Hans Rohde: Historical coastal protection: dyke construction, island protection and inland drainage on the North and Baltic Seas . Ed .: Johann Kramer. Wittwer Konrad GmbH, 1992, ISBN 978-3-87919-163-5 , p. 40 .
  • Lexicon Institute Bertelsmann (ed.): The great Germany Atlas . Wissen Media Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-577-13531-3 , p. 45 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Kuß : Yearbook of memorable natural events in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein from the 11th to the 19th century (Volume 1, 1825) p. 43
  2. ↑ History of North Beach. Website of the island of north beach
  3. ↑ Christian Kuß: Yearbook of memorable natural events in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein from the 11th to the 19th century (Volume 1, 1825) p. 44