The Harlebucht or Harle Bay was originally a bay approximately 15 kilometers wide that reached about 10 kilometers inland north of Wittmund in today's East Frisia . (A more appropriate translation of bucht here might be Bight ; the German word can mean either.)
5-592: The water encroachments into the hinterland in the Grote Mandrenke (Second Marcellus Flood) in 1362, which reached as far as the Geest near Jever , gave rise to side bays and greatly enlarged the Harlebucht. Around 1550 began a period of building dikes and polders, draining the Harlebucht and turning it into farmland. Piece by piece, fertile farmland was created from what had been marsh and bay, until in 1894
10-567: The Elisabethgroden section was completed. 53°42′N 7°48′E / 53.700°N 7.800°E / 53.700; 7.800 This East Frisia article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Lower Saxony location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Grote Mandrenke Saint Marcellus's flood or Grote Mandrenke ( Low Saxon : /ɣroːtə mandrɛŋkə/ ; Danish : Den Store Manddrukning , 'Great Drowning of Men')
15-733: The coasts of West Friesland and Groningen on 16 January 1219. An immense storm tide from the North Sea swept far inland from England and the Netherlands to Denmark and the German coast, breaking up islands, making parts of the mainland into islands, and wiping out entire towns and districts. These included Rungholt , said to have been located on the island of Strand in North Frisia , Ravenser Odd in East Yorkshire , and
20-615: The harbour of Dunwich in Suffolk . This storm tide, along with others of like size in the 13th century and 14th century, played a part in the formation of the Zuiderzee , and was characteristic of the unsettled and changeable weather in northern Europe at the beginning of the Little Ice Age . This article related to a specific weather event is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about
25-582: Was an intense extratropical cyclone , coinciding with a new moon , which swept across the British Isles , the Netherlands , northern Germany, and Denmark (including Schleswig / Southern Jutland ) around 16 January 1362, causing at least 25,000 deaths. The storm tide is also called the "Second St. Marcellus flood" because it peaked on 16 January, the feast day of St. Marcellus . A previous "First St. Marcellus flood" had drowned 36,000 people along
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