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The fleeces or the Vliestroom is a Dutch tidal inlet in the Wadden Sea between the West Frisian islands Vlieland Terschelling in the southwest and the northeast.

History

The fleeces called today the tidal inlet in the Wadden Sea, in the early Middle Ages saw the sea area but still very different. Around 800 AD, ie before the emergence of the Zuider Zee, joined the fleeces as navigable, narrow inlet of the Wadden Sea to the North Sea with the inland lake Almere, a forerunner of the Zuider Zee. About dewatered both the IJssel in the North Sea.

The devastating floods of the Middle Ages as the Julianenflut of 1164, the All Saints' Day of 1170, and ultimately the first Marcellus of 1219 broke into the area, and from the inland waters Almere originated with the Zuiderzee, a large bay.

Historical Significance

The fleeces was the historical boundary between the historic landscape Westfriesland on the mainland in the province of North Holland and Friesland today in the early Middle Ages. This goes back to the Großfriesische Empire, which was the Frankish kingdom into conflict. The Frisians under their king Radbod lost 690 AD at the Battle of Wijk bij Duurstede and had the part west of the fleeces assign them to the Franks. Although the Frisians were the areas 716 AD recapture Chr briefly again, but had to give these and other areas of the Franks after the Battle of the Boorne of 734 AD.

The historic boundary of the nonwovens is also in the Lex Frisionum, one of the oldest legal texts of the Frisians, seen. The Lex Frisionum was true for almost all of Friesland. However, were distinguished in their various regions. Specifically, they applied to the central part of Friesland (approximately the area of ​​present-day province of Friesland in the Netherlands). Different rules have been made ​​in some places for two adjacent areas:

• The area between the rivers Zwin and fleeces (in the south of the Netherlands and in northern Belgium ) and
• The area between the rivers Lauwers and Weser, or about the area of ​​the present Dutch province of Groningen and East Friesland in north-west Germany.

This is a very early historical subdivision of the Frisian areas in a core country and neighboring areas.