New Year flood 1721

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The New Years flood of 1721 caused great damage to the North Sea coast from December 31, 1720 to January 1, 1721 . Three years after the Christmas flood of 1717, the even higher New Year flood destroyed many of the previously poorly repaired dikes . The storm was not as violent as the previous floods, but it lasted longer.

Damage

On Föhr , after the dike was broken, the water penetrated into the land and flooded the Föhrer Marsch. On Nordstrandischmoor all walls were crushed by the pastorate and the church was devastated, the pulpit, altar, confessional and all the seating were washed away. All the houses were damaged and three were thrown into the sea. The Hallig Hooge was flooded and the water tore four houses away, the remaining houses were almost completely ruined. Nordmarsch was partially flooded by the high ebb . Two hours later the houses were on the terpsafflicted by the water and torn away seven of them. A woman and her two young children drowned. The church on Langeneß was damaged and the churchyard was so badly devastated that many corpses were washed out of their graves and drove away. In addition, seven cows and 39 sheep drowned. Almost all houses on Oland were damaged.

All polders in the Duchy of Schleswig were flooded by water, but the two Christian Albrechts polders in office Tonder . Südermarsch was hit by the water, and the Porrenkoog was completely under water. The water in Husum was higher than in the two floods in 1717 and 1718, bridges were destroyed, and the houses were left with water for days.

At the Eddelaker Bracke in Dithmarschen , the water tore away some of the nearby houses, killing some people. At Kudensee , a brack formed again that was 50 to 100 feet wide and 16 feet deep. It was assumed that this time the water was almost a foot higher than in the floods of 1717 and 1718. In the villages of Abebtissinwisch and Seedorf the water rose almost two feet higher than in the flood of 1718 and caused even more damage. A three- acre piece was torn out of the high moor nearby, which had already suffered badly in the previous flood , which rendered the lands of two neighboring farms unusable.

The Elbe dike from Sankt Margarethen to Wewelsfleth was miserably damaged and almost completely torn, so that the floods fell more than a ton over it. The houses on the dike at Brokdorf were partially washed away or badly damaged. The water flowed into the Gujer Marsch and then over the Ohlenburgsfühldeich, where a ground breach occurred and the Beckmünder Land and Brockmoor were completely submerged. On the other side of the Stör , Heiligenstedtenerkamp , Hochdorper and Barenflether Land were partially flooded. At Heiligenstedten the tide ran through all the houses on the dike, and the water in the new poor house was over a foot high.

The Wilsterau overflowed and the villages of Moorhusen and Neuendorf-Sachsenbande were up to four to five feet high under water. In the Wilstermarsch this flood also exceeded the floods of previous years in extent and height. The Wilstermarsch was turned into a lake by the flood, five people drowned and many cattle died.

The island of Helgoland was separated from the dune as a result of the storm surge when the stone wall , the land connection, was washed over and removed. Some houses on the foreshore were torn into the sea.

In East Friesland , the dykes were moved further into the hinterland due to a lack of earth, the villages of Bettewehr II and the Itzendorf , which sank in 1717 , were dammed and thus abandoned.

See also

literature

  • Christian Kuß : Yearbook of memorable natural events in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein from the 11th to the 19th century . Itzehoe 1825 pp. 51-59
  • Ludwig Kohli: Handbook of a historical-statistical-geographical description of the Duchy of Oldenburg together with the inheritance of Jever and the two principalities of Lübeck and Birkenfeld . Volume 1. Wilhelm Kaiser, Bremen 1824, p. 79 f.
  • Konrad Kretschmer : Historical geography of Central Europe . Oldenbourg, Munich 1904, p. 115
  • Dirk Meier : Land Under! The history of the flood disasters . Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2005, ISBN 3-7995-0158-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Kuß: Yearbook of memorable natural events in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein from the 11th to 19th centuries . Itzehoe 1825; P. 59