Beltringharde

Alt-Nordstrand on the map by Johannes Blaeu , 1662. The old outlines are still drawn, but a large part of the island is already marked as being under water

The Beltringharde ( Danish : Beltring Herred ) was a medieval administrative district in what is now North Friesland . The Harde belonged to the Uthlanden and comprised the northern part of the island of Strand . In the second Marcellus flood in 1362 the Harde was inundated by the North Sea and lost several parishes .

At the end of the 16th century, the beaches on Strand Island were redistributed. The village of Ockholm , which remained as Hallig after the storm surges of the 14th century , was now counted to the Nordergoesharde , the Wiriksharde with the Halligen Langeneß and Gröde merged into the Beltringharde. Around 1600 the Beltringharde included the places Amhusen , Bupsee with the main church of the Harde, Buptee, Evensbüll, Königsbüll, Rorbeck, Oster- and Westerwoldt and Volligsbüll as well as several Halligen. In 1628 the Amsinckkoog was won. In the Burchardi flood of 1634, the Beltringharde, which was directly exposed to the Heverstrom in the middle of the island , was hit particularly hard. All eight parishes and several chapels were destroyed. A large part of the population perished, the survivors could not repair the dikes and therefore had to give up the land. The few remaining buildings were demolished.

The situation today

Today, only the Hallig Nordstrandischmoor and the Hamburger Hallig , the former Amsinckkoog, represent remnants of this harde. The Koog , which was diked in 1987 between the North Frisian mainland and Nordstrand , was named Beltringharder Koog in memory of this harde , although the area was not congruent with the former harde is.

In 2009, amateur archaeologists undertook several excursions to parts of the submerged island and found fragments of trenches and terps and other traces of settlement at the site of the presumably silted-up town center of Osterwolde . They also found a brick well, eight sod wells and countless bones in a large field of rubble. The focus of interest was the search for the remains of the extension of the moordeich, the Hohe Deich, which separated the Großer Koog from the Hagebüller Koog.

literature

• Hans Nicolai Andreas Jensen : An attempt at church statistics on the Duchy of Schleswig Volume 2; Flensburg 1843
• W. Lesser: Topography of the Duchy of Schleswig ; Kiel 1853

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Evidence of the downfall: Bones and Wells in the Watt , by hn, on shz.de, accessed October 26, 2015

Coordinates: 54 ° 34 ′ 0 ″  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E