Golden Ring (dyke system)

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Goldener Ring is the name of the first continuous dyke system along the entire Frisian North Sea coast , which was completed around the year 1300 and was intended to protect the hinterland from floods and storm surges .

The first scheduled dikes were started on the North Sea coast in the 11th century. These individual dikes were gradually connected to one another until the entire Frisian coast was enclosed by a continuous dike system, the Golden Ring, at the end of the 13th century. The dyke system stretched from East Friesland via Butjadingen , Dithmarschen and North Friesland , and the lower reaches of the rivers were bordered by dams . The Golden Ring is regarded as the forerunner of comprehensive coastal protection on the German North Sea coast.

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literature

  • HF: The golden ring was neither gold nor money . In: Ostfriesischer Kurier . March 14, 2009, p. 40 ( pf-control.de [PDF; 915 kB ; accessed on February 19, 2013]).
  • Heie F. Erchinger: History of dike construction in East Friesland . 2001 ( ostfriesenelandschaft.de [PDF; 50 kB ] Minutes of the meeting of June 22, 2001).
  • Wiemann, Doedens: The Golden Ring . In: Die Leutboje: a series of publications tied to the homeland . No. 1 . Zopfs, Leer 1950.
  • Georg-Christoph von Unruh : The "Golden Ring". The dike on the North Sea coast as a symbol of the state and its task for the people . (= Small series of work on European and comparative legal history, vol. 14). Graz 1981

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hansjörg Küster: History of the landscape in Central Europe: from the Ice Age to the present . CH Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-45357-0 , p. 215 f .

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