All Saints Flood 1510

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The All Saints Flood of 1510 was a severe storm surge that hit the entire North Sea coast from Flanders to Eiderstedt on November 1, 1510 . It followed the so-called St. Magnus flood, which took place on 5./6. September 1510 had already wreaked havoc and had already broken through the dykes , which had already been damaged and only poorly repaired by the Second Cosmas and Damian Flood of September 26, 1509 . Many dikes were breached again and large coastal areas were flooded. The water rose to 3.80 meters above MThw .

Only ten weeks later, on January 16, 1511, the Antoni flood or "ice flood", a storm surge with simultaneous strong ice drift , broke over East Friesland and Butjadingen and completed the work of destruction of the floods of 1509 and 1510. The Dollart and the Jade Bay reached their largest Expansion, there were great losses of land between Jade and Weser , and a breakthrough occurred between Jade and Weser.

literature

  • Manfred Jakubowski-Thiessen: “The big mandrels”. Storm surges in North Frisia. In: Thomas Stensen (Ed.): The great North Friesland book. Verlag Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2000, pp. 122-133, ISBN 3-89234-886-3 .