Maade Bay

Development of the Jade Bay and Weser Delta; The silting up of water surfaces created since 1300, from 1500 only shown indirectly via the dike.
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The Maadebucht is a former sea bay on the west side of today's Jademündung . The bay was completely dyed in the early 16th century.

history

The Maadebucht formed in the Middle Ages, the boundary between the districts Östringen and Rüstringen . The funnel-shaped bay was created after the last ice age from one of the many meltwater valleys of the Oldenburg-East Frisian Geestrücke. It began in the lowlands of Friedeburg and Reepsholt and ran in the form of a funnel in a north-easterly direction towards today's inner jade . The mouth of the Maade Bay was about eight kilometers wide and took up almost the entire area on which the northern urban area of ​​Wilhelmshaven is located today. Large merchant ships could sail on it, and pirates like Klaus Störtebeker are said to have sailed the Maade Bay to hide in one of the foothills of the bay. In the 12th century, the dike in the Maade Bay began. However, the complete dike could not be completed until 1520.

literature

• Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon , Volume 1–3. Brune, Wilhelmshaven 1986–1987
• Hans Egidius: Sunken land and submerged parishes , Komregis-Verlag, Oldenburg 2007, ISBN 9783938501139

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Werner Brune (Ed.): Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon , Volume 1–3. Brune, Wilhelmshaven 1986-1987, Volume 2, page 199ff.