Antoni flood

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The Antoniflut , also known as the ice flood , was a severe storm surge that devastated the coast of East Friesland and Oldenburg on January 16, 1511 and was named after the Antonitag ( Antonius the Great ) on January 17th. The flood was connected with strong ice drift and completed the work of destruction of the heavy storm surges of 1509 and 1510. The flood and the ice floes that came with it caused enormous damage to the dikes, especially in Rüstringen and Butjadingen .

"There the egg in the Jahde and Weser was swept up with a great and terrible storm wind, the water poured so much that it went over all the ponds (dykes), knocked over the houses with the ice, drowned the Beester, also a lot People in the Butjadingerland and Mohrime died. The Rustringerlandt was hit hardest, although the following churches and Carspel (parishes) Overahme, Dowens, Bandt, Seedick, Bordum, Oldtbrügge and the Havermonnicken monastery were submerged in the water. "

Since the dikes could no longer be repaired in many places, it became necessary to dike several villages and parishes , i. H. to give up. At Jade Bay before sands z. B. This concerned the parishes of Oldebrugge , Bordum , Bant , Ahm , Ellens , Seediek and the Johanniter commandery Havermonniken . Another series of parishes had been abandoned as early as the 15th century.

The land losses in the Dollard , in the Jade Bay and between Jade and Weser were considerable. Arngast became an island in the Jade Bay. The Dollard and the Jade Bay reached their greatest extent, and a breakthrough arose between the Jade and the Weser.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Second Cosmas and Damian Flood on September 26th, 1509, the St. Magnus Flood on September 5th / 6th. September 1510, and the All Saints Flood on November 1st, 1510.
  2. ^ Hermann Guthe : Die Lande Braunschweig and Hannover ... , Klindworth's Verlag, Hannover 1888, p. 27; online through google books
  3. ↑ In front of the church in the Sander district of Cäciliengroden, granite stones symbolically remind of the church of Ahm, which went under in 1511. ( Website Sande ( Memento from January 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ))
  4. ↑ The church of Seediek stood until 1531 and only disappeared afterwards ( http://www.klausdede.de/index.php?content=weserundjade&sub=12 ).