Hilgenried Bay

Coordinates: 53 ° 39 ′ 33 ″  N , 7 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  E

Hilgenried Bay​

Lower Saxony

Former Hilgenrieder Bay seen from the Blandorf-Wichter Geestrand

The Hilgenrieder Bay is now a largely silted up bay near Hilgenriedersiel , a district of the Hagermarsch community in the Aurich district in Lower Saxony . It was probably formed during the Dunkirk I transgression by washing out the mouth of one or more small streams.

On the eastern edge of the bay, the place Nesse emerged as a trading settlement and important port in the 9th century . The area around the Hilgen Rieder Bay was probably the venue of the so-called Battle of Norditi , a Frisian army in the year 884, under the leadership of Archbishop Rimbert of Bremen-Hamburg about Danish Vikings conquered what the full withdrawal of the Vikings from Ostfriesland meant .

The bay could be diked relatively easily during the High Middle Ages , as the tributaries had only a very small catchment area and the siltation was only slightly hindered by draining water. By the middle of the 13th century at the latest, Nesse was cut off from the water and by 1300 the dike line was already closed.

literature

• Hans Homeier: The shape change of the East Frisian coast over the centuries. Self-published, Pewsum 1969

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ortschronisten der Ostfriesischen Landschaft: Nesse, Samtgemeinde Dornum, Landkreis Aurich (PDF; 35 kB), accessed on August 11, 2010.
2. ^ Karl-Ernst Behre : The changes in the Lower Saxony coastlines in the last 3,000 years and their causes . Retrieved March 11, 2016.