Itzendorf

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Itzendorf was a settlement in the East Frisian Wadden Sea with a harbor, which was dammed after the Christmas flood in 1717 . Today you can only find the so-called Itzendorfplate as the last remnant, so to speak. This is located between the North Sea spa Norddeich and the island of Juist. The place is probably ancestral seat of the chief family Idzinga , who later came into great possession in the city of Norden and held a predominant position in the place until the 15th century. The spur wheels in the North coat of arms come from the coat of arms of the chief family.

East Frisia around 1600, drawn by Ubbo Emmius . Itzendorf is located north of the Leybucht , west of the north.

history

Itzendorf was a center of peat salt extraction in East Frisia. Here, peat deposits in the mudflats were dismantled at low tide and the peat obtained in this way was brought ashore, dried and then burned. From the ashes, a gray-colored salt, which was traded under the name "Frisian salt", was then produced in further steps.

Peat extraction in the Wadden Sea is believed to have accelerated the erosion of the coast. The land area in the foreland of the dyke was lowered, making it more exposed to storm surges.

In severe storm surge of between was Norddeich and Utlandshörn running Wester Marscher sea wall badly damaged and completely broken in six places. Deep pools formed at four breakthroughs . Four of these dike breaches were in the area around the village, many residents were killed and the building structure was badly damaged. First of all, the surviving residents tried to secure their village again. Three years later, the New Years flood (December 31, 1720 to January 1, 1721) wreaked havoc on the North Sea. Itzendorf was completely destroyed. After unsuccessful attempts at repairs, the old dike line was finally abandoned in 1721, the emergency dike south of the village was expanded to become a sea ​​dike and Itzendorf was thus dammed.

In the immediate vicinity of the submerged village, a 20-meter-long successor building for the port, which was used until 1840, was built no later than 1780. To the east of this, another port developed from the end of the 18th century, which was initially called Fischerhausen (...) on the so-called Norddeich , the nucleus of today's Norddeich .

The Itzendorfer Plate , a shoal off the north coast at the level of the Westermarsch I district and a settlement in the district that bears the name Itzendorf, remind of the former village .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friends of the North Sea Spa Museum Norderney e. V. (Ed.): Exhibition: Sea & Salt . In: museums-nachrichten, bade ~ museum norderney , issue 1/2009, Norderney 2009, p. 3.
  2. ↑ Christoph Ohlig: Ostfriesland and the state of Oldenburg in the protection of dykes and other water history contributions , 2005, ISBN 3-8334-1503-7 , p. 36
  3. ↑ Johann Haddinga / Martin Stromann: Norden / Norddeich - An East Frisian coastal town introduces itself . Verlag SKN, Norden 2001, ISBN 3-928327-43-7 , p. 48.

Coordinates: 53 ° 37 '8.4 "  N , 7 ° 7' 36.1"  E