The All Saints Day Flood of 1436 (german: link=no, Allerheiligenflut) on
All Saints' Day (1 November) in 1436 was a
storm tide that hit the entire
North Sea coast of the
German Bight.
In the
North Frisian village of
Tetenbüll
Tetenbüll ( da, Tetenbøl) is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Geography and transport
Tetenbüll lies about 8 km northwest of Tönning and 12 km northeast of St. Peter-Ording on the Eid ...
alone 180 people died.
Eidum
Eidum or Eydum ( da, Ejdum, North Frisian: ''Eidem'') was a historic place on the German (former: Danish) island of Sylt in the North Sea. It was several hundred metres west of the present coast line of the present-day village of Westerland.
Hi ...
on the island of
Sylt was destroyed, its inhabitants left and founded the village of
Westerland as a result.
on Sylt was also abandoned after the floods and rebuilt further west.
Dykes burst along the river
Oste and in
Kehdingen
Kehdingen is the name of a landscape in the north German district of Landkreis Stade, Stade on the Niederelbe, Lower Elbe, the lower reaches of the River Elbe. It extends roughly from the mouth of the Oste in the north to the town of Stade in the s ...
. The island of
Pellworm
( da, Pelvorm; North Frisian ''Polweerm'') is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
The municipality is located on the island of Pellworm – one of the North Frisian Islands on the North Sea coast of ...
was separated from neighbouring
Nordstrand and only diked again in 1550.
References
1436 in Europe
1430s in the Holy Roman Empire
15th-century floods
Floods in Germany
Floods in Europe
History of Schleswig-Holstein
Medieval weather events
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