All Saints Flood 1532
Flood marks from 1532 and 1634 in the church in Klixbüll
The All Saints Flood of 1532 occurred from October 31 to November 2, 1532 . It is considered the third flood of All Saints' Day .
The storm surge flooded large parts of the Belgian, Dutch and German coasts. From the traditions one concludes today that several thousand dead in North Friesland . In East Friesland , the villages of Osterbur and Ostbense went under. At the St. Nikolaus Church in Klixbüll , the altitude mark preserved from 1532 (NN + 4.16 m) is the oldest of a North Sea storm surge.
For the island of Strand , which was torn apart in 1634 , the All Saints Flood in 1532 was one of the most serious floods in the 16th century, in which, according to the chroniclers, eleven dike breaches occurred and 1,500 people drowned.
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- ↑ Christoph Ohlig: DWhG - Ten Years of Water History Research and Reports, Part 2, Page 535
- ↑ The fight against storm surges
- ↑ Tobias Krohn: Effects of climate change on the Schleswig-Holstein coasts (pdf, accessed November 25, 2018)