Arngast
Arngast was originally a parish and temporarily also an island in the area of today's Jadebusen .
history
The Jade Bay was created as a result of several storm surges in the Middle Ages , during which large land losses were recorded. The parish of Arngast suffered great damage during the Clement flood of November 23, 1334 and had to be abandoned. However, the abandoned church was mentioned in 1428. No later than 1509, during the second Cosmas and Damian flood on 25/26. September, the connection with the mainland broke at Dangast and Arngast became an island in the Jade Bay. At six square kilometers, Arngast was temporarily the largest of around 45 islands in the Jade Bay, but kept losing area until it disappeared completely almost four hundred years later.
The church of Arngast collapsed in 1613. In 1645 the island was only about two square kilometers. Remnants of the church could still be seen in 1661. Around 1800 Arngast was a narrow island about 1½ km long. In 1883 the Jade Bay including Arngast was slammed into the Imperial War Port Wilhelmshaven . According to the Reich War Haven Act, “without the approval of the naval station chief”, no embankments or embankments could be made “which would promote sand or silt deposits or siltation”. This meant that no measures could be taken to protect the islands in the Jade Bay, as the tidal currents should also be kept as large as possible with the tidal flats . In 1898 there were still three small remaining islands of Arngast, Groß Arngast ⊙ , Klein Arngast ⊙ and its side island. The distance between these islands was almost as great as the diameter of the contiguous island in the 17th century. In the spring of 1904 there was still a narrow green stripe that was "about 60 meters long but only a few meters wide", the "Peilbake only hung with one strut on the sand." After further storm surges, the island sank in winter 1904 / 1905. After the First World War , Wilhelm Kuck described “the elongated dune of Klein-Arngast, which was flooded with every flood”, as well as Groß-Arngast, which protruded “about three meters from the usual flood as a sickle-shaped sand dune”, about 150 meters long and was 30 meters wide and was used as a nesting place for numerous birds. The two islands are also listed in the measurement table from 1940.
lighthouse
In the years 1909/1910 the lighthouse Arngast was built on a sand bank in the middle of the Jade Bay . Contrary to popular opinion, it is not located in the area of the former island, but almost twice as far from Dangast on the same ridge. It serves both vessels with the aim of Wilhelmshaven as a direction mark the Inner Jade and the orientation in the navigable waters (tonne and Prickenwegen ) to Varel and Dangast.
Views
East Frisian Peninsula around 1600
The Jade Bay is much larger than it is today.
In the Jade Bay, the parish “Arnegast” can be seen as an island.
The Jade Bay in the early 19th century with the small island of Arngast
Individual evidence
- ↑ Law, regarding the Reichs-Kriegshaäfen and the determination of a supplement to the Reich budget budget for the budget year 1883/84. June 19, 1883. ( Wikisource )
- ^ H. Schütte: The submerged island of Arngast . In: Naturwiss. Association Bremen, XIX. Volume 3rd issue, 1909, quoted from baken-net.de
- ^ Hansjörg Streif : The East Frisian coastal area. North Sea, islands, mud flats and marshes . In: Collection of geological guides . 2nd Edition. tape 57 . Gebr. Borntraeger, Berlin / Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-443-15051-9 , p. 288 .
- ^ Wilhelm Kuck: The streets of Varel . Quoted from: Arngast swallowed by the sea . Nordwestzeitung , October 31, 2009.
- ↑ a b Mes table sheet from 1940 ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. with the islands of Gr. Arngast and Kl. Arngast as well as the light. Arngast .
Coordinates: 53 ° 28 '5 " N , 8 ° 10' 54.9" E