All Saints' Flood (1570)

The All Saints' Day 1570 took place on November 1, 1570th

The entire coast of Flanders on Groningen to the north -west Germany was flooded. Five-sixths of Holland were flooded. There were about 20,000 deaths.

In the Old Country, in Still Horn, Moorwerder and in the four-and marshlands broke the dikes. In Hamburg, the Ellerntorsbrücke was destroyed.

In the north of the island beach there were several dike breaches, which could be closed until years later.