Grote Mandrenke

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Grote Mandrenke

The (1^st) Grote Mandrenke (Low Saxon

Low Saxon

Low Saxon may refer to:*Of or relating to Lower Saxony*Any West Low German speech variety*The Northern Low Saxon speech varieties*Especially in the Netherlands, any Low German speech variety ? see also Dutch Low Saxon...
for "Great Drowning of Men") was the name of a massive southwesterly Atlantic gale

Gale

A gale is a very strong wind. There are conflicting definitions of how strong. The U.S. Government's National Weather Service defines a gale as 34 to 47 knots of sustained surface winds....
(see also European windstorm

European windstorm

A European windstorm is a severe cyclone windstorm associated with areas of low pressure that track across the North Atlantic towards northwestern Europe....
) which swept across England

England

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
, northern Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
, and Schleswig

Schleswig

Schleswig or South Jutland is a region covering the area about 60 km north and 70 km south of the border between Germany and Denmark. The region is also known archaically in English language as Sleswick....
around January 16 1362, causing at minimum 25,000 deaths. January 16 is the feast day of St. Marcellus (pope Marcellus I), hence the terrible storm tide is also called the "2^nd St. Marcellus flood".

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The (1^st) Grote Mandrenke (Low Saxon

Low Saxon

Gale

European windstorm

A European windstorm is a severe cyclone windstorm associated with areas of low pressure that track across the North Atlantic towards northwestern Europe....
) which swept across England

England

Netherlands

Germany

Schleswig

Friesland

Friesland is a province in the north of the Netherlands and part of the bigger region known as Frisia. In order to distinguish it from the other Frisian regions, it is commonly specified as Westerlauwer Frisia, Westerlauwer Friesland, West Frisia or West Friesland....
and Groningen

Groningen (province)

Groningen is the northeasternmost province of the Netherlands. In the east it borders the Germany state of Lower Saxony , in the south Drenthe, in the west Friesland and in the north the Wadden Sea....
(today provinces in the north of the Netherlands) took place on the same day (January 16) in 1219.

An immense storm tide

Storm tide

A storm tide is a tide with a high flood period caused by a storm. Storm tides can be a severe danger to the coast and the people living along the coast....
of the North Sea

North Sea

The North Sea is a marginal sea, epeiric sea on the European continental shelf. The Dover Strait and the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Sea in the north connect it to the Atlantic Ocean....
swept far inland from the Netherlands to Denmark, wiping out entire towns and districts, such as Rungholt

Rungholt

Rungholt was a wealthy city in Nordfriesland, northern Germany. It sank beneath the waves when a Storm tides of the North Sea in the North Sea tore through the area on January 16, 1362....
on the island of Strand

Strand (island)

Strand was an island on the west coast of Nordfriesland in modern Germany. It was destroyed by the Burchardi flood of 1634 splitting into the islands Nordstrand, Germany, Pellworm, and Nordstrandischmoor....
in North Frisia

North Frisia

North Frisia or Northern Friesland is the northernmost portion of Frisia, located primarily in Germany between the rivers Eider River and Vid?....
.

This storm tide, along with others of like size in the 13th century and 14th century, played a part in the formation of the Zuider Zee

Zuider Zee

The Zuiderzee was a shallow inlet of the North Sea in the northwest of the Netherlands, extending about 100 km inland and at most 50 km wide, with an overall depth of about 4 to 5 meters and a coastline of about 300 km....
, and was characteristic of the unsettled and changeable weather

Weather

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in northern Europe

Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
at the beginning of the Little Ice Age

Little Ice Age

The Little Ice Age was a period of cooling occurring after a warmer North Atlantic era known as the Medieval Warm Period or Medieval Climate Optimum....
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Grote Mandrenke

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