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St. Lucia's flood (Sint-Luciavloed) was a storm tide that affected the Netherlands
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....
 and Northern Germany
Northern Germany

Northern Germany is the geographic area in the north of Germany. The native Germans concept of northern Germany is called Norddeutschland....
 on December 14, 1287 (the day after St. Lucia Day
St. Lucia Day

Saint Lucy's Day or the Feast of St. Lucy is the Church feast day dedicated to St. Lucy and is observed on December 13. It retains traditional forms of celebration mainly in Scandinavia, parts of the United States and southern Europe....
) when a dike broke during a storm, killing approximately 50,000 to 80,000 people in the fifth largest flood in recorded history. Much land was permanently flooded in what is now the Waddenzee and IJsselmeer
IJsselmeer

IJsselmeer is a shallow lake of 1100 km? in the central Netherlands bordering the Provinces of the Netherlands of Flevoland, North Holland and Friesland, with an average depth of 5 to 6 m....
. It especially affected the north of the Netherlands, particularly Friesland
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....
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St. Lucia's flood (Sint-Luciavloed) was a storm tide that affected the Netherlands
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....
 and Northern Germany
Northern Germany

Northern Germany is the geographic area in the north of Germany. The native Germans concept of northern Germany is called Norddeutschland....
 on December 14, 1287 (the day after St. Lucia Day
St. Lucia Day

Saint Lucy's Day or the Feast of St. Lucy is the Church feast day dedicated to St. Lucy and is observed on December 13. It retains traditional forms of celebration mainly in Scandinavia, parts of the United States and southern Europe....
) when a dike broke during a storm, killing approximately 50,000 to 80,000 people in the fifth largest flood in recorded history. Much land was permanently flooded in what is now the Waddenzee and IJsselmeer
IJsselmeer

IJsselmeer is a shallow lake of 1100 km? in the central Netherlands bordering the Provinces of the Netherlands of Flevoland, North Holland and Friesland, with an average depth of 5 to 6 m....
. It especially affected the north of the Netherlands, particularly Friesland
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....
. The Griend
Griend

Griend is a small, uninhabited, Netherlands island in the Wadden Sea, lying around 20 kilometres south of Terschelling. It is one of the West Frisian Islands, and belongs to the municipality of Terschelling....
 disappeared almost completely under the waves. The name Zuiderzee
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....
 dates from this event, as the water had merely been a shallow inland lake when the first dikes were being built, but rising 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....
 levels created the "Southern Sea" when floods including this flood came in.

External links

  • Map of (pre flood)
  • Map of (post flood)


See also

  • Floods in the Netherlands
    Floods in the Netherlands

    This is a chronological list of floods that have occurred in the Netherlands, till 1500 most parts of the Netherlands were in Frisia.*838 December 26: A large part of the northwest of the Netherlands was flooded by a storm....