First Cosmas and Damian flood
The first Cosmas and Damian flood on September 27, 1477 was a storm surge that affected the entire North Sea coast of the German Bight and the Dutch-Belgian coast. It is named after the church saints Cosmas and Damian , whose feast day is September 26th.
The storm surge destroyed some dikes in East Frisia . It is known from the Rheiderland that several localities had to be abandoned. With the destruction of the First Cosmas and Damian Floods, the development of the Dollart was promoted. The storm surge of 1477 is considered to be one of the worst to hit the Netherlands. The coast of Flanders was particularly hard hit. In Zeeland , the town of Arnemuiden was devastated and Hellenburg Castle near Baarland was badly damaged.
literature
- Royal Prussian Meteorological Institute (Ed.): Treatises . tape 2 . Berlin 1901, p. 41 .
Web links
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Trottmann: Storm surges on the North Sea from the year 838. March 10, 2012, accessed on March 9, 2014 .
- 1509–2009: 500 years of the Cosmas and Damian floods. The creation of the dollar. Local history working group e. V., accessed March 9, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Local history working group: Devastating storm surges - The floods responsible for the dollar slump ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 6, 2010.
- ↑ James Gordon Nelson, Robert C. Scace (Ed.): Impact of Technology on Environment. Some global examples. University of Western Ontario, Lonson / Ontario 1974, p. 98.
- ↑ Tim Soens: Flood Security in the Medieval and Early Modern North Sea Area. A Question of Entitlement? In: Environment and History. 19, 2013, 226 (209–232) ( online (PDF file; 423 kB), accessed on March 10, 2014).
