All children flood

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The Allerkind flood was a devastating storm surge that hit the west coast of Schleswig-Holstein and the Elbe on December 28, 1248 . December 28, 1248 is the day of the innocent children ; he gave the storm surge its name. According to other sources, it happened in 1249.

consequences

The storm surge separated the West Frisian Islands from the mainland on the North Sea coast , destroyed parts of the first dyke system in the Elbe , devastated large parts of the Haseldorfer Marsch area and separated the present-day islands of Altenwerder and Finkenwerder from the then diked Elbe island of Gorieswerder . The number of victims in the Elbe region and in North Friesland was extremely high, but it is not exactly known. A parish on the west side of Röms near Husum was devastated by the storm surge.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annales Albiani ad a. 1265 conscripti . In: Scriptores Rerum Danicarum Medii Ævi , edited by Jacob Langebek . Godiche, Copenhagen 1772, pp. 198–212, here p. 209; on the Annales Albiani see Johann Martin Lappenberg : Annales Albiani (ca 1265) . In: Archive of the Society for Older German History , Volume 6 (1838), pp. 357–363.
  2. ↑ So it says in the Annales from anonymo quodam circiter a. 1288 conscripti for the year 1249: "maxima tempestas cum inundatione aquarum orta est nocte puerorum" ("the greatest storm with floods arose in the night of the children"). In: Scriptores rerum Germanicarum septentrionalium, vicinarumque populorum diversi , edited by Erpold Lindenbrog . de Bry, Frankfurt am Main 1609, pp. 278–291, here p. 288.
  3. ↑ Christian Kuß : Yearbook of memorable natural events in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein from the 11th to the 19th century , volume 1. Busch, Altona / Schönfeldt, Itzehoe 1825, p. 14.