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The
Zuider Zee (International Phonetic Alphabet ,
Dutch language:
Zuiderzee, pronounced ) 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. It covered 5,000 km². (2,000 square miles). Its name means "southern sea" in Dutch, indicating that the origin of the name can be found in
Friesland to the north of the Zuiderzee (also see
North Sea). In the 20th century the majority of the Zuiderzee was closed off from the North Sea (leaving the mouth of the inlet to become part of the Wadden Sea) and the salt water inlet changed into a fresh water lake called the
IJsselmeer (
IJssel-lake) after the river that drains into it. The river IJssel is an estuary branch of the river
Rhine (Dutch:
w:nl:Rijn).
History and disasters
In classical times there was already a body of water in this location, called
Lacus Flevo ("Flevo Lake") by Roman Empire authors. It was much smaller than its later forms and its connection to the main sea was much narrower; it may have been a complex of lakes and marshes and channels, rather than one lake. Over time these lakes gradually eroded their soft peat shores waterwolf. Some part of this area of water was later called the
Vlie; it probably flowed into the sea through what is now the
Vlie channel between the islands of
Vlieland and Terschelling. The
Marsdiep was once a river (
fluvium Maresdeop) which may have been a distributary of the
Vlie. During the early Middle Ages this began to change as Floods in the Netherlands started to eat away at the coastal areas which consisted mainly of peatlands. In this period the inlet was referred to as the Almere, indicating it was still more of a lake, but when the mouth and size of the inlet were much widened in the
12th century and especially after a disastrous flood in 1282 broke through the barrier dunes near Texel, the name "Zuiderzee"' came into general usage. The disaster was the making of the little village of
Amsterdam, for sea-going traffic could now make it a rendezvous for the
Baltic Sea trade.
The size of this inland sea remained largely stable from the
15th century onwards due to improvements in dike (construction), but when storms pushed North Sea water into the inlet, the Zuiderzee became a volatile cauldron of water, frequently resulting in flooding and the loss of ships. For example, on
November 18,
1421, a
seawall at the Zuider Zee dike broke, which flooded 72 villages and killed about 10,000 people. This was the Second St. Elizabeth's Flood: see
Sint-Elisabethsvloed (1421). An even more massive flood occurred
December 14, 1287, when the seawalls broke during a storm, killing approximately 50,000 to 80,000 people in the fifth largest flood in recorded history: see
St. Lucia's flood.
Geography and development
Around the Zuiderzee many fishing villages grew up and several developed into walled towns with extensive trade connections, in particular towns in
Holland such as
Amsterdam, Hoorn, and Enkhuizen. These towns traded at first with ports on the Baltic Sea, in England, and in the
Hanseatic League, but later also with the rest of the world, when the Netherlands established its
Dutch Empire. When that lucrative trade diminished, most of the towns fell back on fishing and some
industry until the 20th century when
tourism became the major source of income. Contained within the Zuiderzee were four small islands, the remains of what were once larger islands or
peninsulas connected to the mainland. These were Wieringen, Urk, Schokland, and Marken. The inhabitants of these islands also subsisted mainly on fishing and related industries and still do in the case of Urk and Wieringen. All of these islands are now part of the mainland or connected to it.
in the NetherlandsThe construction in the early 20th century of a large enclosing dam (the
Afsluitdijk) tamed the Zuiderzee. The creation of this dam was a response to the flood of January 1916. Plans for closing the Zuiderzee had been made over thirty years earlier but had not yet passed in
States-General of the Netherlands. With the completion of the Afsluitdijk in
1932, the Zuiderzee became the IJsselmeer, and large areas of water could be reclaimed for farming and housing. These areas, known as polders, were respectively the
Wieringermeer, the
Noordoostpolder, and Flevoland. This enormous project under the direction of Cornelis Lely, called the
Zuiderzeeworks, ran from
1919 to
1986, culminating in the creation of the new provinces of the Netherlands of Flevoland. The reclamation project was originally intended to reclaim the former southwestern portion of the Zuiderzee, a body of water now known as the Markermeer, but this final stage of the reclamation project was indefinitely postponed in the 1980s.
External links
- The Zuiderzee Museum (www.zuiderzeemuseum.nl), dedicated to the history and culture of the former Zuiderzee.
nds-nl:Zuderzee
The
Zuider Zee (International Phonetic Alphabet ,
Dutch language:
Zuiderzee, pronounced ) 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. It covered 5,000 km². (2,000 square miles). Its name means "southern sea" in Dutch, indicating that the origin of the name can be found in
Friesland to the north of the Zuiderzee (also see
North Sea). In the 20th century the majority of the Zuiderzee was closed off from the North Sea (leaving the mouth of the inlet to become part of the
Wadden Sea) and the salt water inlet changed into a fresh water lake called the
IJsselmeer (
IJssel-lake) after the river that drains into it. The river IJssel is an estuary branch of the river Rhine (Dutch:
w:nl:Rijn).
History and disasters
In classical times there was already a body of water in this location, called
Lacus Flevo ("Flevo Lake") by
Roman Empire authors. It was much smaller than its later forms and its connection to the main sea was much narrower; it may have been a complex of lakes and marshes and channels, rather than one lake. Over time these lakes gradually eroded their soft peat shores waterwolf. Some part of this area of water was later called the
Vlie; it probably flowed into the sea through what is now the Vlie channel between the islands of
Vlieland and Terschelling. The Marsdiep was once a river (
fluvium Maresdeop) which may have been a distributary of the
Vlie. During the early
Middle Ages this began to change as
Floods in the Netherlands started to eat away at the coastal areas which consisted mainly of peatlands. In this period the inlet was referred to as the Almere, indicating it was still more of a lake, but when the mouth and size of the inlet were much widened in the
12th century and especially after a disastrous flood in 1282 broke through the barrier dunes near Texel, the name "Zuiderzee"' came into general usage. The disaster was the making of the little village of Amsterdam, for sea-going traffic could now make it a rendezvous for the Baltic Sea trade.
The size of this inland sea remained largely stable from the
15th century onwards due to improvements in dike (construction), but when storms pushed North Sea water into the inlet, the Zuiderzee became a volatile cauldron of water, frequently resulting in flooding and the loss of ships. For example, on November 18, 1421, a seawall at the Zuider Zee dike broke, which flooded 72 villages and killed about 10,000 people. This was the Second St. Elizabeth's Flood: see Sint-Elisabethsvloed (1421). An even more massive flood occurred
December 14,
1287, when the seawalls broke during a storm, killing approximately 50,000 to 80,000 people in the fifth largest flood in recorded history: see
St. Lucia's flood.
Geography and development
Around the Zuiderzee many fishing villages grew up and several developed into walled towns with extensive trade connections, in particular towns in
Holland such as
Amsterdam,
Hoorn, and
Enkhuizen. These towns traded at first with ports on the
Baltic Sea, in
England, and in the Hanseatic League, but later also with the rest of the world, when the Netherlands established its
Dutch Empire. When that lucrative trade diminished, most of the towns fell back on fishing and some
industry until the 20th century when tourism became the major source of income. Contained within the Zuiderzee were four small islands, the remains of what were once larger islands or
peninsulas connected to the
mainland. These were
Wieringen, Urk,
Schokland, and
Marken. The inhabitants of these islands also subsisted mainly on fishing and related industries and still do in the case of Urk and Wieringen. All of these islands are now part of the mainland or connected to it.
in the NetherlandsThe construction in the early 20th century of a large enclosing dam (the
Afsluitdijk) tamed the Zuiderzee. The creation of this dam was a response to the flood of January 1916. Plans for closing the Zuiderzee had been made over thirty years earlier but had not yet passed in
States-General of the Netherlands. With the completion of the Afsluitdijk in
1932, the Zuiderzee became the IJsselmeer, and large areas of water could be reclaimed for farming and housing. These areas, known as polders, were respectively the Wieringermeer, the
Noordoostpolder, and
Flevoland. This enormous project under the direction of Cornelis Lely, called the
Zuiderzeeworks, ran from 1919 to 1986, culminating in the creation of the new
provinces of the Netherlands of Flevoland. The reclamation project was originally intended to reclaim the former southwestern portion of the Zuiderzee, a body of water now known as the
Markermeer, but this final stage of the reclamation project was indefinitely postponed in the 1980s.
External links
- The Zuiderzee Museum (www.zuiderzeemuseum.nl), dedicated to the history and culture of the former Zuiderzee.
nds-nl:Zuderzee
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