St. Lucia's flood

From 13 to 14 December 1287 Lucia flood broke over the North Sea coast beginning. The chronicles speak for the German North Sea coast, approximately 50,000 deaths and severe devastation. Many villages sank beneath the waves, alone in Ostfriesland, there were over 30, it formed a precursor to the Dollard. Due to the large loss of land and relative vulnerability of march now attracted many people from the march on the Geest.

Named after the flood was the day of Saint Lucy of Syracuse, on which occurred the disaster.

In the Netherlands, the Lucia Flood made ​​a previous lake to the North Sea bay Zuiderzee, from the first in 1932 by damming back the freshwater lake IJsselmeer emerged.

  • Floods ( North Sea)
  • Schleswig- Holstein's history
  • History of Friesland
  • 1287
  • Natural disaster (13th century)
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