List of settlements lost to floods in the Netherlands
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This list of settlements lost to floods in the Netherlands is an adapted translation of this list from Dutch
, plus some additions from other sources.
"Oud-" is Dutch for "Old". If you cannot find a name, look for it under "Oud-".
Drowned villages and places in Zeeland
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| Aandijke (also Aendike)
| Drowned village in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
. On the former island of Zaamslag.
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| Assenburg
| Small village on the former island Borssele
. It drowned during the storm floods of 1530 and 1532.
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| Avenkerke (also Brielle)
| One of the 4 drowned villages on the island Wulpen
. This island was in the Middle Ages
off the coast of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
. North of Wulpen was the island Koezand. Northwest was the island Schoneveld. Around 1570 Wulpen island went under. The last remains vanished by the end of the 17th century.
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| Baarzande
(also Bardesant, Burdasanda or Bersant)
| Northeast of the former island Cadzand
. Drowned about 1500.
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| Bakendorp (also Badickedorp)
| Village south of Baarland
. The storm flood of November 1530 destroyed Bakendorp. After re-diking it gradually vanished through dike collapses in the Westerschelde. A memory of Bakendorp is the gravestone of pastor Jan Lenaerts who died on 28 April 1518; that stone is now in the church of Hoedekenskerke
. Until the 19th century there was by Bakendorp a ferry to Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
. The remains of Bakendorp could until 1957 be found in the landscape. Afterwards a radical redistribution of multiple allotments of land completed the work of the water and the last remains of Bakendorp vanished.
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| Beoostenblije
| Settlement near Axel
. During the conquest of Axel by Prince Maurits in 1586 its inhabitants had to escape. They never came back.
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| Borrendamme
| South of Zierikzee
. Appears in 1297 for the first time in records. The storm floods of 1530 and 1532 nearly destroyed the village. In 1570 and in 1610 remains of the village were used to stop breaches in the southern dike of Schouwen-Duiveland. The foundations of the church remained visible up to 1822. The church lay 800 meters west of the mole of Zierikzee
.
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| Boterzande
| Drowned coastal village in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
north of Biervliet
. Occurs in 990 in the files of Saint Peter's Abbey in Ghent
. In 992 a farm with associated ground in "Boltreshanda" was given to the abbey. There must have lain there outside the dike considerable mud flat, which is listed in records as "outdike". Boterzande disappeared on 8 October 1375 in the waves of what now is called the Westerschelde.
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| Capelle
| Capelle
near Zierikzee
shares with Schuring in the Hoekse Waard the doubtful honour of being the most recently drowned village of the delta. Until 1 February 1953 Capelle was between Zierikzee and Nieuwerkerk. It was a sturdy hamlet, a street with a row of houses on both sides and a crossing point. The North Sea flood of 1953
swept Capelle away and it was not rebuilt. In the area around is only farmland.
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| Coxyde
(also Beniardskerke, Bingaerstkerke, Bengerskerke)
| Village near Oostburg
. It belonged to St. Baaf
's Abbey at Ghent
. It suffered so much from floods. In 1583 Prince Maurits flooded the area around Sluis
to block the march of the Spanish commander Parma
. The dikes by Coxyde were broken. The current scoured gullies out and sucked Coxyde away into the deep.
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| De Piet
(also Mude, Muiden)
| The name means swimming and sunbathing, for De Piet is now above all known as a recreation area at the south corner of the Veerse Meer
. Neat cultivation, neat creek and beach. The landscape there ever offers another bright panorama. But 700 years ago here on the western part of the former island of Wolphaartsdijk
was the village of De Piet. The outline of the village was shown by the castle of Muiden
. The village went under in 1377. The ruin of the castle stood long as a landmark in the Veerse Gat
.
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| Elmare
| Drowned village in the frontier region of the present-day Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
and Belgium
. Drowned in 1375. The village lay rather alone in an extensive wild peat bog region south of IJzendijke
. Graaf Diederik of the Elzas
gave in 1134 and 1135 20 bunder (an area unit) of peat
ground to St. Peter's Abbey
in Ghent
. The 20 bunder, 20 hectare, ground lay by a small stream called the Helmare. There was potential fuel, for there peat could be dug out. The monks built there a chapel to the honour of the Virgin Mary, a church dedicated to St. Nicholas, and also a mill. There was a monastery
with monks who were linked with the mother abbey in Ghent
. They controlled the village. The inhabitants were serfs, but rather property of the monks. Under their leading they brought the surrounding wild ground into cultivation. Elmare became through a way linked with the area around, likewise the drowned Oostmanskerke. Elmare is above all known through a famous fairy story: the village was called repeatedly in the Dutch version of the old animal epic "Reynard the Fox".
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| Emersweert
| No information
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| Everswaard
(also Eversweerde)
| Drowned village and parish north of Bath
. The parish belonged to the bishopric of Utrecht
. The church's patron saint was St. John the Evangelist. It vanished during the storm flood of 1530.
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| Ganuenta
| Drowned Roman
settlement in the Oosterschelde
in front of the coast of Colijnsplaat
.
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| Gaternesse
(also Gathernesse, Gaternisse)
| Village north of IJzendijke
. It existed in 1150. It had an extensive ground area. One of its pastors was Wouter Everard, a dynamic entrepreneur
, and likely vain. In 1357 he had a polder endiked and named it after himself. The Everardpolder was not allotted long life. Already the same year the dike broke and ran the fresh land reclamation under water. The village Gaternesse went under during storm floods in the 15th century. In 1660 inhabitants of IJzendijke
saw for the last time the foundations of Gaternesse.
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| Hannekenswerve
| Drowned village between Sluis
and Aardenburg
in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
. A considerable village and there lived tidy religious people. In 1169 bishop Walter of Doornik approved that the pastor of Aardenburg and the curate of Hannekenswerve made mutual agreements over their service roster. Until then the pastor of Aardenburg
did the weddings, baptisms and burials of the village. Now the curate, with special powers, could do these himself. Quid pro quo? The man had to give a third of his income to the head church in Aardenburg. Excavations in 1964 unearthed the remains of the church, painted crypts and tombstones. In 1421 the region about Hannekenswerve went under water. In 1477 followed a flood. During the Eighty Years' War, in 1583, the inhabitants of Sluis
broke the dikes through. A text of 1666 says: "the place where formerly Hannekenswerve was, is flat". The village had vanished from the map through nature and war violence. Approximately on the place of Hannekenswerve now lies Draaibrug.
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| Roeselare
| A small town near Aardenburg
. It was described in 1404 as "lost to the endless days of the sea".
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| Hinkelenoord
| Drowned village northwest of Woensdrecht
. It drowned during the storm flood of 1552
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| Hugevlet
| A town northwest of Biervliet
in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
. Lodewijk van Male, count of Vlaanderen, gave Hugevlet town rights in the 13th century. The settlement existed in 1174. Hugevlet had its own weekly and yearly market, and its own harbour on the Westerschelde. In spite of privileges it never got the chance to become a proper town. In 1375/1376 the Westerschelde did a first attack on Hugevlet. It failed. In 1404 it was successful. Hugevlet vanished for all time in the waves.
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| Kadzand
| Island and settlement in the mouth of the Westerschelde. It was one of the many islands which in the Middle Ages
were in the mouth of the Westerschelde. It flooded in 1375. Kadzand was later attached to Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
by diking. The settlement vanished.
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| Kalfsteert
| Hamlet by Perkpolder. In the 16th century a ferry went from Kalfsteert to Waarde
. The Nieuhoespolder where Kalfsteert lay, vanished in 1591 in the Westerschelde.
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| Koezand
| Island in the mouth of the Westerschelde. In the spring of 1344 the dike-builders arrived on the mudflats of Koezand. The endiking happened by instigation of 4 private investor
s. Amongst them was an official of the town of Brugge
. The height of the dike was 10 feet, somewhat more than 3 meter. The width at top was 7 foot, somewhat more than two meter. The charter describing the endiking of Koezand is, as far as is known, the first written piece which described the measurements of sea dikes. Also the organisation of the polder governing board was regulated in details. In the first years there were 28 tenants on Koezand. They did not prosper. Floods did all during the first years and much land was lost. Afterwards followed a hard fight to save the island. In 1276 the tenants could no more produce the costs of the dike. The rent value was halved. A sea arm called the Hedensee separated the islands Koezand and Wulpen
from each other. After the island flooded it was attached to the island of Wulpen by diking. It vanished in the waves during the All Saints' Flood (Allerheiligenvloed) of 1570.
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| Mare
| Drowned village northwest of Rilland
. It lay approximately on the site of the present-day Stationsbuurt. The village dates from the 13th century. Its name is first known from about 1280. The village drowned on Saturday 5 November 1530.
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| Michielsdorp
| No information
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| Moggershil
| Drowned settlement on a small island at the west of Tholen
. It was lost in 1570.
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| Monster
| Vanished village on the former island Borssele
. The name Monster came from "Monasterium", which is Latin
for "monastery
". It drowned during the storm floods of 1530 and 1532. The area has been re-empoldered
since, and the modern village of Borssele
is approximately on its site. (Distinguish from the village called Monster
in Zuidholland province.)
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| Nieuwkapelle
| Drowned village at the mouth of the Hinkelinge at the south of Kruiningen
. The village lay in the Middenhinkelingepolder, which was endiked in 1327. The village was lost by floods in the 17th century.
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| Nieuwerkerk
| Drowned village in the west of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
. It was between Oostburg
and Groede
at the Nieuwerkerk creek. It existed in 1197. It was damaged by the Allerheiligenvloed in 1570. It was flooded deliberately during the Eighty Years' War, and that washed Nieuwerkerk from the Earth's surface.
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| Nieuwerkerke
| Drowned village by Arnemuiden
on Walcheren
.
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| Nummer Zes
| Hamlet by a drainage sluice in the neighbourhood of Hoofdplaat
. Nummer Zes vanished in 1808 in the waves of the Westerschelde. Its name means "Number Six".
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| Onze Lief Vrouw aan Zee
| Former hamlet by Renesse
. It was lost because of the advancing sea and being buried by dunes.
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| Oostkerke
| Drowned village on the former island of Borssele
. It belonged to the bishopric of Utrecht
. The village went under in 1530.
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| Oostmanskerke (also Ozemanskerke)
| Drowned village southeast of Schoondijke
in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
. Its church is mentioned in 1150. A sacred robe belonging to the church is mentioned in 1391.
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| Orisant
| Island in the Oosterschelde
. Empoldered in 1602, drowned in 1639. The village of Orisant was at the south corner of the island on the left bank of a dammed-off creek called the Vijsse.
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| Oud-Arnemuiden (2 uses)
| The village Arnemuiden
occurs comes for the first in written sources in 1223. According to a record of 1288, Floris V wanted to give town rights to the village, but that never happened. Because the current of the Arne
always moved more to the west, the village became threatened, and about 1440 was swallowed by the water. For about 20 years there was a second Arnemuiden. That vanished in the water as well. In 1462 arose the third and definitive Arnemuiden
.
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| Oudeman
(also Waterland)
| Drowned village in the Oudemanspolder by the former municipality of IJzendijke
. Vanished about 1500.
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| Oud-Bath
| Some kilometers east of the present-day Bath
. It drowned in 1552.
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| Oud-Breskens
| In 1510 the Groot-Breskenspolder was endiked. There between 1515 and 1585 a settlement centre grew about a church dedicated to St. Barbara. In 1585 the first Breskens drowned in a flood caused by the inhabitants of the nearby Groede
. In 1610 the present-day Breskens
developed.
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| Oud-Domburg
| Settlement somewhat west of the present-day Domburg
. Also called Romeins Domburg. Buried under moving sand dunes and partly in the sea.
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| Oud-Graauw
| In 1170 the village Graauw in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
was property of the abbey of Ter Duinen in Vlaanderen. Vanished during floods in the 16th century. A new Graauw
was built after the new Melopolder was made in 1682.
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| Oud-Kortgene
| This town was found in archives first in 1247. The storm floods of 1530 and 1532 were too much for Oud-Kortgene. In 1684 the region was re-diked and the present-day Kortgene
arose.
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| Oud-Othene
| Small village east of Terneuzen
. Mentioned first in 1160. The village went under in 1586.
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| Oud-Rilland
| The abbey
of Nijvel owned settlements in Rilland in 980. Until the 13th century Rilland was an island. By Rilland at the bank of the Westerschelde was a toll
collection point. Rilland went under in 1530. In the 18th century the present-day Rilland
was founded.
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| Oud-Schoondijke
| In the west of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
This village was mentioned first in 1246, as Sconendica. Between 1585 and 1587 this old Schoondijke through war operations came under water. The village would have been where the old churchyard is by the present-day Schoondijke
, which was founded in 1652 with a strict geometric groundplan.
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| Oud-Stavenisse
| The parish Stavenisse was named in 1223. The church was dedicated to St. Martin
. In 1304 Stavenisse was flooded. After re-diking the village vanished in 1509 again in the waves. This lasted until 1599 when a new inpoldering took place, and the present-day Stavenisse, entirely planned, was founded, at the west corner of Tholen. This new Stavenisse
is a Voorstraat village. Also in similar villages in Zeeland and West-Brabant
the Voorstraat runs from the church to the harbour.
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| Oud-Westkapelle
| Drowned trading settlement which was submerged due to damage to the banks. In 1696 M. Smallegange wrote that the old Westkapelle had been in the sea for "several centuries" and that men "catch fish there daily". Historians say that the old Westkapelle flooded in 1368 and 1377. Its church had to be demolished in 1458 because the sea approached it foundations. By Westkapelle
men found in 1514 an altar dedicated both to the Germanic god Magusanus and to the Roman
god Hercules
.
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| Remboudsdorpe
| One of the 4 drowned villages of the quite densely populated island of Wulpen
. Lost in 1345.
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| Risinge
| Hamlet on the former island of Borssele
. Drowned during the storm floods of 1530 and 1532.
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| Rodee
| The hamlet lay some hundreds of meters west of the harbour mole of Zierikzee
. The last dwellings of Rodee were demolished in 1642. Shortly afterwards the water of the Oosterschelde
closed above this small village.
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| Runckendorp
| No information
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| Ruschevlet
(also Rusgefleta, Ruschflite)
| Vanished and drowned village southwest of Schoondijke
. Around 1150 the small river Rusgefleta flowed in western Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
in the region between Schoondijk and Oostburg
. In those years the abbey
of St. Peter at Ghent
bought land along the Rusgefleta. It went around agricultural land and around fen land. The abbey organised there the church's governing board in a (proosdij?).
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| Schoneveld
(Sconeveld)
| In the mouth of the Westerschelde in the Middle Ages
were some islands. One of them was Schoneveld. When Gwijde of Dampierre
was count of Vlaanderen, 1278–1305, there must have been a small village and even a country seat there. The storm flood of 1375 broke the dikes of Schoneveld. It flooded, and is not mentioned in source documents afterwards. The sandbank which is now on the place of the island, is still called the Schoneveldbank.
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| St. Catharina
(also St. Cathelijne)
| Drowned village by the present-day Oostburg
, on the south side of the water that we now know as the Grote Gat. St. Peter's Abbey
at Ghent
owned a taxation right there. During the storm flood of 1375/1376 the village vanished under water. After repairs the village and the church were rebuilt in about 1400. The village vanished in 1583. The region where the village is, is now the Cathalijnepolder. In 1962 during building activities remains of the church and of houses were found in the ground.
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| St. Christoffelskapelle
| Small settlement in the Yevenpolder in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
, in the neighbourhood of Gaternesse. The Yevenpolder drowned at the end of the 16th century; then St. Christoffelskapelle also vanished.
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| St. Janscapelle
| The village of St. Janscapelle was in about 1300 west of Sas van Gent. Excavations in 1979 showed that a prosperous community had been there. It vanished through flood in 1488.
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| St. Katherijnekerke
| Drowned village and parish on the former island of Borssele
. The church stood there before 1275. The storm floods of 1530 and 1532 meant the loss of St. Katherijnekerke.
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| St. Kruispolder
| Drowned parish village by Aardenburg
. It went under the water in 1375/1376.
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| St. Lambert-Wulpen
| Village on the island of Wulpen
, which was in front of the coast of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen and had 4 villages. It had its own hospital. In 1292 it was listed as "Sancte Marie in Wlpis." Wulpen was constantly threatened by storms and floods. In 1516 St. Lambert-Wulpen was the last village of the island that was devastated by the sea.
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| St. Nicolaas in Varne
(Vaerne or Langaardenburg)
| A little place in the frontier region of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
and Belgium
. In 1252 it even had its own "ship bank". Its inhabitants must have thought that they lived in the front porch of Hell
. Their village lay southwest of IJzendijke
in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen. It was a morass
-ridden desolate wild region, the end of the land, though many saw it as the beginning of the underworld
. Some say that "Varne" came from "Avernus
", a lake in Italy
where by tradition the underworld began. Other sources hold simply that "varne" came from "varnte", an old word for "weed
s". Anyway, the village with the beautiful name drowned in 1377 and left nothing behind except a name in official documents.
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| Slepeldamme
| Hamlet
on former harbour mole
of Aardenburg
. There was a sluice. Also there was a toll office for the shipping from and to Aardenburg. Via Slepeldamme much cattle and grain was transported from Holland and Zeeland. In 1280 Slepeldamme promoted its toll office to Damme
. The small village went through floods in 1583 and 1604 and was lost for good.
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| Stuivezand
| Drowned village and parish south of Baarland
. Stuivezand was endiked between 1370 and 1375 by instruction of Count Willem V of Holland. Because the gullies of the Westerschelde (which was then still called the Honte), more and more pressed against the Beveland
wall, Stuivezand had many dike breaks. In 1525 the Dierik, a current gully between Stuivezand and the mainland of Zuid-Beveland, was dammed off. The inhabitants of Stuivezand could now go on foot to the land of Borssele
and Baarland
. They did, and most did not come back, certainly not after the floods of 1532, 1552 and 1570. Floods always made the island smaller. The last little piece of Stuivezand definitively vanished under water in the beginning of the 17th century.
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| Ter Hamer
| Village between Biervliet
and IJzendijke
. The parish of Ter Hamer was mentioned for the first time in 1194. Much ground in the area round the village was property of Count Boudewijn IX of Vlaanderen. He loved warmer regions, took part in the 4th Crusade, and became Emperor
of Constantinople
. On his return journey he was seized by the Bulgaria
ns. His brother Hendrik succeeded him. He used the inhabitants of Ter Hamer as property insurance. Walter van Monnickenwerve and the brothers Jacob and Boudewijn van IJzendijke farmed by Ter Hamer. They had ground in fief there. However, with it came obligations. The inhabitants of Ter Hamer had to watch properties of lord Hendrik. In case of necessity they were obliged to march as an armed village militia
. The village did not get its own jurisdiction
in the form of a "ship-bank". The simple village Ter Hamer went under during the storm flood of 1375/1376.
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| Tewijk (also Tevewijc, Thevic, Tewic, Tevicambacht)
| Drowned village on the former island of Borssele
, north of the village of Monster, which is the present Borssele
. Tewijk became a parish in 1275. Its church was dedicated to Johannes de Doper. Vestiges of Tewijk are found on the border of Borsselepolder and the Nieuw-Westkraaijertpolder.
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| Triniteit
| Maria of Artois, the widow of count Jan of Namen, founded on 19 September 1336 the village of Triniteit south of Terneuzen
. They promised to Jan van Diest
, the bishop of Utrecht
, that three quarters of the place's tax income would go to the pastor; one quarter was intended for the installation and maintenance of a hospital
. The bishop
approved. He wanted the church inaugurated, however. The noble Maria then wanted to supply a contribution to building the church. Her son Willem had also a demand: he wanted for himself and his followers by law of inheritance
to be able to appoint pastor
s. The bishop did this without difficulty. On 21 January 1340 a substitute of the bishop presented to the church in Maria of Namen its first pastor: Johannes Boudweijnsz. The new parish got still a particular attraction: whoever visited the church, in devotion ran around the churchyard
, and presented some alms
to the church, could count on redemption of sin
s: an indulgence
of 40 days. During the Eighty Years' War Triniteit was a battlefield zone. The village vanished in 1584 and 1585 by an army flooding it. The church stood there then still. The Catholic
s then lost all their authority there. Lieven Coenen became circa 1580 the first Protestant priest of Triniteit
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| Valkenisse
| Southeast of Waarde
. The church of Valkenisse was in 1233 dedicated and belonged to the chapter of Oudmunster at Utrecht
. Valkenisse vanished in 1682 in the Westerschelde.
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| Vinninge
| Drowned village south of Biezelinge
in the Westerschelde, on the former island Baarland
. Its church was dedicated to the Holy Mary. Vinkenisse was known in Rome
, for in 1216 it was mentioned in a papal document. Vinninge apparently went under in the flood of 1530.
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| Vulendike (also Volendike)
| no information
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| Waterdunen
| One of the most mysterious small towns in Zeeland
's history. It must have been on an island in the mouth of the Westerschelde, between the islands of Wulpen
and Koezand, in front of the coast of the present-day Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
. Old tax records show clearly that Waterdunen was of rather big scope. Waterdunen paid more tax than IJzendijke
and Biervliet
. According to the annals Waterdunen in 1357 was swallowed by the sea. Afterwards, after re-diking, a new parish was founded on the island. This second Waterdunen vanished at the end of the 15th century in the waves of the North Sea
.
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| Weldamme
| Small village by Zierikzee
, after 1600 sunk in the Oosterschelde
.
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| Westende
| One of the 4 drowned villages on the island Wulpen
, vanished about 1570.
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| Westkerke (1)
(also Raaskerke)
| Drowned village on the former island of Borssele
. Westkerke went under during the storm flood of 1530. It is in the Westerschelde southwest of Borssele
.
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| Westkerke (2)
| Drowned village west of Oud-Sabbinge on the island Wolphaartsdijk
that existed then. This Westkerke drowned on 16 November 1377. The region where the village lay, was re-endiked in 1665; the area was later named as the Westerlandpolder. In 1975 remains of Westkerke were found west of the farm of Hof Westkerke. The finds include coffin
s, tombstones, gravestones, and wallwork of the former church.
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| Wiksdorp
| Vanished village north of Braasdorp in De Poel.
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| Wolfertsdorp
| Drowned village on the former island Borssele. The first mention of Wolfertsdorp dates from 1353. It was southeast of Monster, the present Borssele
. Shortly after the storm flood of 1530 Wolfertsdorp was mentioned as "entirely swept away".
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Drowned villages and places in Noord-Beveland
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| Campen
| It existed in 976. It drowned during the storm flood of 1530. After the re-diking of Noord-Beveland
the present-day Kamperland
arose on the site of Campen.
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| Dyxhoecke
| Drowned village. Its parish belonged to the bishopric of Utrecht
. It existed in 1329. It drowned in 1530. Vestiges of the village are still found in the neighbourhood of Wissenkerke
.
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| Edekinge
(also Ekingen)
| Drowned village. Sunk in 1530. (Perhaps the same as Oud-Hamerstee)
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| Emelisse
| Drowned village. First mentioned in 1216. A considerable number of people must have lived there: the records of the bishopric of Utrecht
show that there were two pastor
s. In Emelisse stood further a guest house and a nunnery. During the storm floods of 1530 and 1532 Emelisse vanished.
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| Nyenvlet
| Hamlet northeast of Wissenkerke
. It went under during the storm flood of 1530.
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| Offlet
| Drowned village. It is in the archives from 1395 until 1460. Offlet is perhaps the same village as Grutersdijc. Where Grutersdijc was is not known.
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| Oostkerke
| Approximately where Wolphaartsdijk
is, on the north coast of Zuid-Beveland
It drowned in 1334.
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| Oud-Geersdijk
| This village was in 1216 a separate parish. It vanished in the waves during the floods of 1530 and 1532. In the neighbourhood of the drowned village a new Geersdijk
grew after the inpoldering of Noord-Beveland
in 1598.
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| Oud-Hamerstee (Its coat of arms occurs in Smallegange)
| Drowned village. North of the present-day Kats
. Its church was in 1304 left on the seaward side of the dike and vanished in the Oosterschelde
. Vestiges of Oud-Hamerstee can still be found on the mudflats north of Kats.
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| Oud-Kats
| Subburchdijk is an old name for the village that we now now as Kats
. In 1530 the village went under. It was so called because its church was answerable to the church of West-Souburg
. In 1598 by the re-diking of Noord-Beveland
the present-day Kats arose somewhat north of the drowned village. By redistribution of multiple allotments of land in 1971 remains of the old village of Subburchdijk came to the daylight.
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| Oud-Wissenkerke (I)
| Wissenkerke is mentioned as a separate parish in 1242. It must have been a considerable parish, for there lived enough people to need two pastors. Where the first Wissenkerke
precisely was is not known. After floods in 1352 the village moved to the north corner of the present-day Geersdijkpolder.
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| Oud-Wissenkerke (II)
| The second Wissenkerke's disappearance was caused by the water as well. It flooded during the storm flood of 1530. The tower of the old Wissenkerke stood a long time; in popular speech this remnant was called the Plompe Toren or Kamperlandse Toren. That is why the Torenpolder got its name. In 1755 the ruin was cleared away. In 1774 a memorial stone commemorating this was placed by the Torenhoeve.
|-
| Soetelingkercke
(also Soelekerke, Zoelenkerke, apparently also Soeke)
| Drowned village in the southwest of the old Noord-Beveland
. Its church dated from 1206. It drowned in 1530 and 1532. After re-diking the region of Soetelingkercke was joined to Wissenkerke
.
|-
| Vlete (also Nyenvlet)
| The small village Vlete was known as a place of fishermen. Vlete lay west of Wijtvlet. There stood a chapel to St. Catherina. According to Reygersbergh a castle also stood there. Vlete drowned in 1530.
|-
| Weele
| Drowned village, north of Wissenkerke
. It was mentioned the first time in 1395. Its church belonged to the chapter of St. Peter in Utrecht
. The village went under during the storm flood of 1530. The region of the former Weele after re-diking was joined to Wissenkerke
and lies now in the Torenpolder.
|-
| Welle
| Drowned village. Its church was in 1162 in possession of the abbey of Middelburg
. Welle drowned in 1530. After the re-diking of Noord-Beveland in 1598 the region of Welle was joined to Colijnsplaat
.
|}>
Drowned villages and places in Zuid-Beveland
|-
| Coudorpe
| A small village, southwest of Driewegen
It existed in 1267. It was depopulated by floods. In 1572 the remains of the village were used as reinforcement in the Westerscheldedijk of Zuid-Beveland
. The refuge mount of Coudorpe exists, built in the 12th century.
|-
| Hongersdijk 1
| Drowned village, west of Wilhelminadorp. It went under in 1334 in a flood.
|-
| Hongersdijk 2
| In 1429 a new Hongersdijk arose. That settlement was not allotted long life either. The village drowned in 1551. A new endiking followed in 1708. In 1857 on the place of the second Hongersdijk still tombstones and remains of the village
were found. The place of the finds lay somewhat north of the farm
of Hongersdijk.
|-
| Nieuw-Everinge
| Around 1500 the inhabitants of the drowned Oud-Everinge founded a new village on Zuid-Beveland
. That new village flooded in the storm flood of 1530 and had to be cleared. Around 1600 it vanished for good in the Westerschelde.
|-
| Oostende
| Drowned village northeast of Hoedekenskerke
on the southeast coast of Zuid-Beveland
. In the 15th century it put up a continuing fight against the advancing Honte (= Westerschelde). In the winter of 1520/1521 Oostende was abandoned and left on the seaward side of the dike. (Distinguish from "Oostende" as the Dutch
name of Ostend
in Belgium
.)
|-
| Oud-Everinge
| Drowned village west of Ellewoutsdijk
(which is on the south corner of Zuid-Beveland
). Mentioned in 1288 in the accounts of the bishopric of Utrecht
. The exact site is not known. It vanished between 1450 and 1500 in the Westerschelde.
|-
| Oud-Krabbendijke
| Hendrik of Schoten
, lord of Breda
, in the 12th century owned land in the area. North of the present-day Krabbendijke
on Zuid-Beveland
he owned a desolate mud flat. In 1187 he gave it as a generous gesture to the abbey of Ter Doest in Brugge
. The monks, industrious people, endiked the mudbank and founded there two big farms. There grew a small village. The St. Felixvloed of 5 November 1530 was too powerful for the monks. Krabbendijke went under. In 1595 after re-diking a new Krabbendijke
was founded.
|-
| St. Trooye
| Drowned settlement.
|-
| Vinkenisse
| Former village. It had a chapel dedicated to St. Cornelis. Vinkenisse was swallowed by the flood of 1 November 1530. It is in the Westerschelde south of the Zimmermanpolder by Waarde
.
|}>
|-
| Auwersluis
| Hamlet
in the former manor Saeftinghe
.
|-
| Casuele
| Former village. The village lay at a creek called the Couveringe, in the middle of an extensive peat bog region. For the inhabitants that was somewhat as Slochteren
is now. They dug the peat
out and sold this mediaeval fuel
.
|-
| Namen
| Drowned village. Namen went under in 1715. Its tower remained a long time as a landmark for shipping. Only its tower bell has survived to today. The bell, cast in 1664 in Amsterdam
, hangs now in the tower of Graauw
. Nieuw-Namen
was built to the south, adjacent to the Belgian village of Kieldrecht. (Distinguish from "Namen" as the Dutch
name of Namur
in Belgium
.)
|-
| Saeftinghe
| The town of Saeftinghe was at the castle of Saeftinghe. It went completely under in 1214 by a high flood. The oldest mention of Saeftinghe is a charter of 821 of Louis the Pious
of the Frankish Empire
. He confirms possession of these places. After a devastating flood in 1334 Saeftinghe was reduced to a village. The castle
of Saeftinghe was devastated by the men of Antwerp in the beginning of the 16th century. Around 1930 Gustaaf de Maaijer (Staf de Sterke) outwards from Nieuw-Namen saw the foundations of the castle still above water at ebb tide
.
|-
| Stampaert
| Village.
|-
| Ter Hoole
| Hamlet, in the neighbourhood of the likewise drowned village Weele.
|}>
|-
| Bommenede
| At the north corner of Schouwen-Duiveland. It was listed in 1153 as property of the Cistercian monastery of Ter Duinen in Vlaanderen. The village survived two floods in 1530 and 1532 and a fire in 1540. In 1575 the Spanish commander Mondragon
besieged it and shot the village to pieces. After that blow it was never rebuilt. The Grevelingen
did the rest in the 17th century. The last occupants left in 1684. The remains of Bommenede still years later showed above water.
|-
| Brieskerke
(also Breiskerke or Brisselkerc)
| Village in the drowned south of Schouwen. Recorded for the first time in 1276. In 1542 Brieskerke was left on the seaward side of the dike, and the village vanished for ever in the Oosterschelde
.
|-
| Claeskerke
(also Clauskinderen and Oostkerke)
| Village in the former south of Schouwen, between Westenschouwen
and Coudekerke. We now can only see the church tower in the Oosterscheldedijk. Claeskerke, long-term threatened with floods, drowned in 1511 in the Oosterschelde
.
|-
| Coudekerk
| Village in the vanished south of Schouwen. It is one of the few drowned villages which are still very visible in the Zeeland landscape. Of the village remains still the tower, alone and without church with its foundation in the Oosterscheldedijk at the south coast of Schouwen-Duiveland. In 1475 the sea dike was still 3 kilometers from the village, but in 1583 the Oosterschelde had so far advanced that the church had to be demolished. Only the tower, also known as the Plompe Toren, remained, as landmark for shipping. In the tower is a freely accessible visitors' centre with an exhibition about the Zeeland floods.
|-
| 's Heer Arendshaven
| Drowned hamlet and small fishing harbour in the south of Schouwen-Duiveland. It lay in the neighbourhood of Coudekerk in the now drowned, but then through farming prosperous, southland.
|-
| Herkesteyn
| Drowned and/or burnt up settlement with castle on Schouwen-Duiveland.
|-
| Klaaskinderkerke (also Claeskinderkerke)
| Vanished and drowned village on Schouwen-Duiveland. Its oldest mention is of 14 January 1286. On that day Pieter Nobel and his brother paid an amount to Floris the V about the harbour and the village. Its church was dedicated to St. Nicolaas. The last pastor, in 1549, was Michael Bense. The Allerheiligenvloed submerged Klaaskinderkerke. The surviving inhabitants did not return. In 1959 archeologists found the churchyard
of the village.
|-
| Lookshaven
(also Laoxhaven)
| Drowned village on the south coast of Schouwen. Between 1500 and 1550 it was left on the seaward side of the dike and vanished in the Oosterschelde
.
|-
| Oud-Westenschouwen
| This village was originally called Paalvoetseinde. It was at a creek in an opening of the dunes on Schouwen. The protecting dune girdle became damaged. Oud-Westenschouwen vanished under the sea surface at the end of the 15th century.
|-
| Rengerskerke
| Vanished and drowned village in the south of Schouwen. By Rengerskerke was a monastery of the Regulieren van Bethlehem, founded in 1479, answerable to the congregation of Sion. Not long after, the Oosterschelde
advanced. In 1486 all the canons had to move to a new building. By 1662 the village had totally vanished.
|-
| Simonskerke
| Drowned village on the south coast of Schouwen. Lost before 1500.
|-
| St. Jacobskerke
| A village in the south of Schouwen. Lost in the Oosterschelde
before 1500.
|-
| Welland
| Settlement and castle by Noordwelle
on Schouwen-Duiveland. Through floods in 1421 and 1424 destroyed and vanished.
|-
| Westkerke (3)
| Drowned village in the south of Schouwen, a long way south of Coudekerke, therefore south of the present-day Plompe Toren which stands in the Oosterscheldedijk.
|-
| Zuidkerke
| The most important village of Zuidland, the region at the south corner of Schouwen that at the end of the Middle Ages was eroded away by the aggressive Oosterschelde
. Zuidkerke was so named around 1250.
|}>
Drowned villages in the Drowned Land of Reimerswaal
{| cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="1" border="1"
|-
| Agger
| Drowned village. It went under in 1551.
|-
| Assemansbroek
| The village Assemansbroek existed apparently in the 13th century. It was opposite Bergen op Zoom
on the western bank of the Schelde. It drowned in 1530.
|-
| Broecke
| Village in the east part of the Drowned Land of Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal
. It drowned in 1530-1532.
|-
| Couveringe
| Village.
|-
| Duvenee
| West of Reimerswaal
town. The name is first known from 1275. It went under during the storm floods of 1530 and 1532.
|-
| Kapeldorp
| Name first known from 1495. A chapel
called the Ramskapel, to the honour of the Holy Virgin
and St. Quirinus stood there. Kapeldorp vanished during the floods of 1530 and 1532.
|-
| Kouwerve
| East of Yerseke
. The word "werve" means "artificially raised height". That could not save the village. Kouwerve went under during the storm floods of 1530 and 1532.
|-
| Kreke
| It lay west of Bergen op Zoom
on the left bank of the Schelde. Kreke went under during the storm floods of 1530 and 1532.
|-
| Lodijke
| Village with castle. It went under during the storm floods of 1530 and 1532, by mismanagement. Kervinck van Reimerswaal lord of Lodijke eagerly wanted a harbour by the village. He thought that a scouring gully which was arisen by a dike break would give him a harbour. The gully scoured away both the castle
and the village
. The place in the water is now called the Gat van Lodijke. Divers
found remains of the castle some years ago there.
|-
| Looketers
| Hamlet by the village of Steelvlet. Lost in the floods of 1530 and 1532.
|-
| Miehole
| Hamlet.
|-
| Nieuwkerke
| It was mentioned as a parish in 1240. Its church was a splitting of the parish of Lodijke. Nieuwkerke went under in 1530. The tower long remained a landmark in the flooded land.
|-
| Nieuwlande
| 500 meters from the dike of the present-day Zuid-Beveland
. It was mentioned in 1242 in Latin
as Terra Nova. It went under during the storm floods of 1530 and 1532. The inhabitants must have been known as pious people. As a result Nieuwland became a haven for treasure
diggers, who found 600 so-called pilgrim badges there, frequently rather suggestive ornaments with phallic symbols. These pilgrimage souvenirs were bought by the collector Van Beuningen. They are now in the Boymans-Van Beuningen museum. Rubble and foundations of Nieuwlande show above water at ebb tide. It is a forbidden region.
|-
| Ouderdinge
| Northeast of Rilland
. Its name is recorded from 1288. Its church was dedicated to St. James and the Holy Virgin
. It drowned in 1530.
|-
| Poppendijke
| Hamlet.
|-
| Reimerswaal
| The drowned Reimerswaal
was the third town of Zeeland
. It was flooded in 1530 and went definitively under in 1634. Its name has recently been reused as the name of a new municipality
formed by amalgamating five villages in the east of Zuid-Beveland
.
|-
| Schoudee
| Village in the western part of the Drowned Land of Reimerswaal
. It sank in 1530-1532.
|-
| St. Jooskapel
| Hamlet. It went under in 1530.
|-
| Steelvlet
| It went under in the floods of 1530 and 1532.
|-
| Tolsende
(also Tolseynde, Totelsende, Tholsende)
| It started in a 12th century endiking east of Yerseke
. Tolsende was first recorded in 1275. Storm floods happened regularly. In 1439 Tolsende became property in land of symbolic value. It was noted as a lost domain. After re-diking the village vanished definitively during the floods of 1530 and 1532. In 1656 and 1669 small pieces of the drowned Tolsende were re-diked and joined to Kruiningen
and Yerseke
. The name survives still as the Olzendepolder south of Yerseke
.
|-
| Yersekeroord
| Settement in the Land of Reimerswaal
. It is located where the Schelde (which then still flowed into the Oosterschelde
) turned west by the height of Bergen op Zoom
, stood the toll house
of Yersekeroord. On old maps that is indicated as a stone fort. Yersekeroord drowned during the storm floods of 1530 and 1532.
|-
| Zwartewale
(also Swartewaal, Swartewiel)
| Hamlet in the Land of Reimerswaal
, between Duvenee and Nieuwkerke. It drowned during the floods of 1530 and 1532.
|}
Drowned villages in the Braakman
|-
| Hughersluis (c.1500)
| Small town. It was a centre for transport of peat
by ship
.
|-
| Hertinge
| South of the Mauritsfort in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
. Hertinghe counted 33 dwellings in 1469. In the 1488 flood it vanished from the map.
|-
| Koudekerke
| Village.
|-
| Moerkerke
| Moerkerk was a village along a road at the south of Biervliet
, a street with houses and farms on each side. The village drowned in 1488.
|-
| Niekerke (also Nieuw-Moerkerke or Nieuwerkerke)
| Its church lay between Mauritsfort and Sluiskil
. In 1393 a storm flood submerged the village. The last mention of its name dates from 1404.
|-
| Oud-IJzendijke
| Oud-IJzendijke apperars in the archives in 1046. It got town rights in 1127. The first IJzendijke went under in 1404. In 1587 the Spanish
army commander Parma
had a redoubt
with 4 bulwarks built two kilometers southwest of the old IJzendijke. That was the beginning of IJzendijke
such as we now know: it was thus founded by the Spanish
.
|-
| Pakinge
(also St. Laurenskerke)
| Village northwest of Hoek
in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
between two other drowned villages: Wevelswale and Vremdijke. Of Pakinge we know that there were, apart from houses or huts, also two sheepfolds. Pakinge went under in the waves of the Braakman
in 1214. After all this time Pakinge is only a memory in books.
|-
| Peerboom
| South of Sluiskil
. First mentioned in 1250. The Flemish
abbey
of Ter Duinen had there in 1240 a grange and a big farm. To this grange also a hospital
was linked. War violence sealed the fate of the village of Peerboom. In 1488 Maximiliaan of Oostenrijk started a war in the present-day Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
. Peerboom had to become desolate because of floods. The storm flood of 1493 sealed the fate of Peerboom.
|-
| St. Laurenskerke
| Village.
|-
| Stardijk
| Drowned hamlet in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
, lost about 1300. It was in the neighbourhood of Boterzande in the present-day Braakman
.
|-
| Steelant
| Village southwest of Terneuzen
, in the direction of Sluiskil
It was in 1199 a parish. The church belonged to the chapter of St. Salvator at Utrecht
. Steeland counted in 1469 95 dwellings. The village went under water in the 14th century and vanished in 1488 definitively in the advancing Braakman
.
|-
| Ter Piet
| Hamlet
or village
in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
, north of Biervliet
. In 1242 the region about Ter Piet came into possession of St. Peter's Abbey
. The inhabitants of Ter Piet were small farmer
s. They specialised in growing wheat
and madder
. Each year they had to pay tax
, ground taxes, hauled off to the landowners in Ghent
. One part of that payment was for the place's pastor
and his expenses. The archives show clearly that the farmers of Ter Piet did not always agree. Regularly they could not pay their ground taxes in full. The abbot of St. Peter's sent then immediately a messenger on horse to Biervliet. The mounted bailiff
had to take care that the folk of Ter Piet paid to the last penny. Ter Piet vanished during the storm flood of 8 October 1375 in the Braakman
, which was then called the Zuudzee.
|-
| Vremdijke
(also Vroondijk, Vremdic, Frondic, Vrandic)
| In 1114 the abbey of St.Peter at Ghent
owned all immovable property in Vremdijke. The church of Vremdijke was dedicated to St. Basilius. Through storm floods in the 14th and the 15th century much property in land vanished in the Braakman
. Vremdijke went under in 1488. Two years after a re-diking a new Vremdijke was founded, in 1515. In 1579 the pastor Michael Struv van Vremdijke converted to Protestantism
. That went not entirely smoothly. An enquiry showed that the ex-pastor was not good at home in the rituals of the new doctrine. He was steered to the strongly Calvinist Ghent. The elders of Vremdijke asked for a new preacher; Lieven Koene was appointed. After 1590, when Prince Maurits had conquered Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
, the region became a sort of mission area. Vremdijke, Terneuzen
and Biervliet
together got a preacher. To get from Terneuzen to Biervliet he had to go behind round the Braakman
, via Philippine
. In 1592 the preacher was Johannes Bollius, a preacher trained in Ghent. He lived in Vremdijke. During a storm flood in the night of 25/26 November 1601 the Braakman broke anew through the dikes. Vremdijke flooded. Many inhabitants drowned. Pastor Bollius survived the night's catastrophe. He fled landwards to find a dry place. He came straight to the still new Mauritsfort. He built there a new church and organised the municipality of Hoek
.
|-
| Wevelswale
| Coastal village by the Westerschelde north of Hoek
in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
. St. Baaf's Abbey at Ghent
had a farm in Wevelswale. Wevelswale was named for the first time in 1170. It was protected by the Monniksdijk. Wevelswale was in the mouth of the present-day Braakman
, approximately where now the Braakmanhaven is, west of the Nieuw-Neuzenpolder. One rich farmer, a certain Arnoldus of Evergem
, could collect tax in Wevelswale about 1170. One problem was for Arnoldus to transport his collected tax, the tithes, to his far southerly farm by Evergem
. Thus he exchanged the right of tithe gathering in Wevelswale with the big landowners of St. Baaf's Abbey at Ghent. He got there in return a tithe by Evergem. Another farmer in Wevelswale was Dirk Cleyland. He owned there about 1268 a knight
s' hall place. Wevelswale drowned in 1375/1376 in the Braakman
.
|-
| Willemskerke
| Drowned village in the Braakman
.
|}>
Zeeland
|-
| Axel
| Flooded in 1606 and 1808, but directly rebuilt on the same place.
|-
| Herkesteyn
| Drowned and/or burnt down settlement with castle on Schouwen-Duiveland.
|-
| Pelkem
| A parish at IJzendijke
, not more closely localisable. (Records of Saint Janshospitaal in Bruges
).
|-
| Scaltheim
| Mysterious settlement from the 9th century. On the coast of Schouwen. Vanished in the sea through pulling back of the coast.
|-
| Sypenesse
| Suspected drowned manor by Tholen
. The coat of arms of Sypenesse comes on the armorial chart of M. Smallegange in his "Nieuwe Cronyck van Zeeland" [= "new chronicle
of Zeeland
"] (1696).
|-
| Tubendic
| Mentioned in 1025, when St. Peter's Abbey
obtained the hamlet of Tubendic in the neighbourhood of Oostburg
. Tubendic is the oldest dike name in west Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
.
|}>
Zeeland
|-
| Waterdunen
| Drowned in 1130
|-
| Wulpen
| Drowned in 1570
|-
| Koezand
| Drowned in 1570
|-
| Cadesant
| Drowned in 1570
|-
| Schoneveld
| Drowned in 1375
|-
| Stuivezant
| Drowned in 1570
|-
| Orisant
| Drowned in 1639
|}>
11 villages west of the Grote Hollandse Waard
|-
| Strienemonde
| The drowned Strienemonde was a settlement in the Striene
where the Count of Holland
levied a toll
.
|-
| Oud-Strijen
| A village suspected to be somewhere by the Zwanegat
. It drowned in 1288, and was partly moved to the present-day Strijen
, partly to Oosterhout
(Slotbosse Toren or house of Strijen).
|-
| Niervaart (now Groote Ketel)
| The village of Niervaart was between Klundert
and Zevenbergen. A farm named Groote Ketel is there now.
|-
| Overdrage
| The drowned Overdrage was somewhere east of Klundert
. It is not the same village as Niervaart.
|-
| Zonzeel
| Drowned village southeast of Langeweg. When Zonzeel drowned in 1421, a chapel
remained behind on the Markdijk. The name Zonzeel comes back in the Zonzeelse Polder, and in the daily traffic jam reports: the choke point Zonzeel.
|-
| Nieuwenbosch
| Drowned village north of Oudenbosch
.
|-
| Nieuw-Gastel
| Drowned village. Little else is known about it.
|-
| Valkenburg
| A drowned village south of Willemstad
(area around Helwijk)
|-
| Koeveringe
| Southwest of Steenbergen, in the region that now is known as De Kladde.
|-
| Polre
| South of the present-day bridge between West-Brabant
and Tholen
. Also named Heer Boudewijns Polder or Nieuw Schakerlo.
|-
| Friezenmoerdijk
| The settlement of Friezenmoerdijk lay in the drowned domain
of Friezenmoerdijk, in the region of Oud-Vossemeer
and Nieuw Vossemeer
|}>
|-
| Vijfhuizen
| A hamlet at the head of Bergen op Zoom
Harbour
|-
| Hildernisse
| West of Bergen op Zoom
, by the water tower, lies the drowned Hildernisse.
|-
| Kloosteroord
| location unknown
|-
| Oud-Ossendrecht
| The drowned Oud-Ossendrecht is called now De Aanwas.
|-
| Oud Berendrecht
| In the frontier region of the present-day Noord-Brabant and Belgium
lies the drowned Berendrecht. The village was later moved to the present-day Berendrecht
in Belgium.
|}>
9 villages on the south bank of the Maas, in Brabant
|-
| Weede
| A village drowned in 1421. Most westerly village in the Grote Waard. The inhabitants of Weede fled to the area around Cillaarshoek
, a little piece of dike north of Strijen
in the present-day Hoekse Waard. Their offspring live there still.
|-
| Wieldrecht
| A village drowned in 1421.
|-
| Twintighoeven
| A village drowned in 1421.
|-
| Dubbelmonde
| A village drowned in 1421.
|-
| Almonde
| A village drowned in 1421.
|-
| Drimmelen
| The oldest Drimmelen was entirely drowned in 1421. The second Drimmelen was abandoned quietly and is known as "Oud-Drimmelen". The third Drimmelen is the yacht harbour.
|-
| Standhazen
| A domain drowned in 1421 between Drimmelen
and Geertruidenberg
. Unclear if there was a village there.
|-
| Broek
| Drowned village on the southwest dike of the Grote Waard, approximately where now the Moerdijk
bridges are.
|-
| Achthoeven
| A village drowned in 1421.
|}>
|-
| Alloysen
| no information
|-
| Almstein
| no information
|-
| Almsvoet
| no information
|-
| Annekerke
| no information
|-
| Eemskerk
| no information
|-
| Eemstein
| no information
|-
| De Mijl
| no information
|-
| Gregenmonde
| no information
|-
| Heer Aartswaard
| no information
|-
| Hardeverd
| no information
|-
| Houwningen
| no information
|-
| Kraayenstein
| no information
|-
| Kruiskerke
| no information
|-
| Tiesselingskerke
| no information
|-
| Werken
| no information
|-
| Wolfbrantskerke
| no information
|}>
Drowned villages in the former Grote Hollandse Waard
|-
| Dordsmonde
| no information
|-
| Ledekerke
| no information
|-
| Merwede
| no information
|-
| Poelwijk
| no information
|}>
|-
| Schuring
| With the hamlet Capelle
near Zierikzee
, the hamlet Schuring near Numansdorp
in the Hoekse Waard shares the doubtful honour of being the most recent drowned village of the delta
. Schuring drowned during the water disaster of 1953
and was not rebuilt.
|}>
Drowned villages in the Haarlemmermeer
|-
| Beinsdorp
| Abandoned as the Haarlemmermeer spread. A new village in the Haarlemmermeerpolder was named after it.
|-
| Rijk
| Abandoned as the Haarlemmermeer
spread.
|-
| Vennep
| Abandoned as the Haarlemmermeer spread. Nieuw Vennep in the Haarlemmermeerpolder was named after it.
|-
| Vijfhuizen
| Abandoned as the Haarlemmermeer spread. A new village in the Haarlemmermeerpolder was named after it.
|}>
Drowned villages in waters round Wieringen
|-
| Unnamed farms &
woods in Wieringen
by River Marsdiep
(spelt Maresdeop)
| Given by one Gerwic of Friesland
. Probably drowned in Waddenzee in early Middle Ages in flood disasters which formed the Zuiderzee. Wieringen
& Texel
were likely much bigger than the modern islands and extended over much of what is now the west end of the Waddenzee, and the Marsdiep
(described as a fluvium = "river") flowed between them with banks of dry land. The exit of the old freshwater Lacus Flevo / Almere
was the Vlie
river, reaching the sea through what is now the Vliestroom between Vlieland
and Terschelling
; but the river Marsdiep
may have been a distributary
of the Vlie
, and `diep' in its name implies a big river.
|-
| Wictulfingafurt
| In Wieringen
. Given by one Geltrud. Farmland & woods, including meadow that produced 20 cart
loads of hay
each year. Probably drowned as in previous entry. The name means "ford
of the sons or people of Wichtwulf"
|-
| Brochenlar
| In Wieringen
. Given by one Isanbalt and his wife Sigibirn from Friesland
. Ploughland that needed 11 measures of seed to sow it. Probably drowned as in previous entry.
|-
| and other
unnamed lands
| The Fulda
list, and a possessions list dated 948 of St. Martin's church in Utrecht, list in Wieringen much more land than could fit into the modern island known as Wieringen.
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|-
| Emmeloord
| The most northern of the settlements on Schokland
. An old spelling is Emelwerth. Abandoned in 19th century because of continual attacks by sea floods. The modern town of Emmeloord
was named after it.
|-
| Gonsende or Gawijzend
| A village in the southern part of the Wieringermeerpolder. Drowned about 1350. Its remains have been found.
|-
| Middelbuurt
| A settlement on Schokland
. Abandoned in 19th century because of continual attacks by sea floods.
|-
| Molenbuurt
| A settlement on Schokland
. Abandoned in 19th century because of continual attacks by sea floods.
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Drowned villages in east and central Friesland
| Much land was lost when the Lauwerszee formed. It has been reclaimed since.
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Drowned villages in Groningen
| Reiderland
| Partly in Germany
. An area of land with 33 villages and the town Torum. Drowned when the Dollart
formed in 1277. Some of the villages may have drowned later. Before the flood, the river Ems looped north of the village of Nes
, which survived on an island which is now part of the north bank of the Ems. Some of the area has been empoldered
since.
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Dutch language
Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
, plus some additions from other sources.
"Oud-" is Dutch for "Old". If you cannot find a name, look for it under "Oud-".
Drowned villages and places in ZeelandZeelandZeeland , also called Zealand in English, is the westernmost province of the Netherlands. The province, located in the south-west of the country, consists of a number of islands and a strip bordering Belgium. Its capital is Middelburg. With a population of about 380,000, its area is about...
and West-BrabantNorth BrabantNorth Brabant , sometimes called Brabant, is a province of the Netherlands, located in the south of the country, bordered by Belgium in the south, the Meuse River in the north, Limburg in the east and Zeeland in the west.- History :...
| Aandijke (also Aendike)
| Drowned village in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeelandic Flanders is the southernmost region of the province of Zeeland in south-western Netherlands. It lies south of the Western Scheldt that separates the region from the remainder of Zeeland to the north...
. On the former island of Zaamslag.
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| Assenburg
| Small village on the former island Borssele
Borssele
Borssele is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Borsele, and lies about 12 km east of Vlissingen. Note that the municipality name is spelled with a single s while the name of the town is spelled with a double s.The town is the site of the Netherlands'...
. It drowned during the storm floods of 1530 and 1532.
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| Avenkerke (also Brielle)
| One of the 4 drowned villages on the island Wulpen
Wulpen (island)
Wulpen, once a sand-islet or eyot, is a now-submerged island in the estuary of the Scheldt on the coast of the Southern Netherlands. Flooded several times in its history, it eventually drowned in 1570 during the severe All Saints' Flood....
. This island was in the Middle Ages
Middle Ages
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off the coast of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeelandic Flanders is the southernmost region of the province of Zeeland in south-western Netherlands. It lies south of the Western Scheldt that separates the region from the remainder of Zeeland to the north...
. North of Wulpen was the island Koezand. Northwest was the island Schoneveld. Around 1570 Wulpen island went under. The last remains vanished by the end of the 17th century.
|-
| Baarzande
(also Bardesant, Burdasanda or Bersant)
| Northeast of the former island Cadzand
Cadzand
Cadzand is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is located in the municipality of Sluis, about 8 km northwest of Oostburg. The village contains 804 inhabitants . Better known to many visitors is the nearby beach at Cadzand-Bad....
. Drowned about 1500.
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| Bakendorp (also Badickedorp)
| Village south of Baarland
Baarland
Baarland is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Borsele, and lies about 21 km east of Middelburg.In 2001, the town of Baarland had 291 inhabitants...
. The storm flood of November 1530 destroyed Bakendorp. After re-diking it gradually vanished through dike collapses in the Westerschelde. A memory of Bakendorp is the gravestone of pastor Jan Lenaerts who died on 28 April 1518; that stone is now in the church of Hoedekenskerke
Hoedekenskerke
Hoedekenskerke is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Borsele, and lies about 22 km east of Middelburg.Hoedekenskerke was a separate municipality until 1970....
. Until the 19th century there was by Bakendorp a ferry to Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeelandic Flanders is the southernmost region of the province of Zeeland in south-western Netherlands. It lies south of the Western Scheldt that separates the region from the remainder of Zeeland to the north...
. The remains of Bakendorp could until 1957 be found in the landscape. Afterwards a radical redistribution of multiple allotments of land completed the work of the water and the last remains of Bakendorp vanished.
|-
| Beoostenblije
| Settlement near Axel
Axel (Netherlands)
Axel is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Terneuzen, and lies about 31 km southeast of Vlissingen. It received city rights in 1213.In 2001, the town of Axel had 7421 inhabitants...
. During the conquest of Axel by Prince Maurits in 1586 its inhabitants had to escape. They never came back.
|-
| Borrendamme
| South of Zierikzee
Zierikzee
Zierikzee is a small city, located on the former island of Schouwen in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Schouwen-Duiveland, and lies about 26 km southwest of Hellevoetsluis....
. Appears in 1297 for the first time in records. The storm floods of 1530 and 1532 nearly destroyed the village. In 1570 and in 1610 remains of the village were used to stop breaches in the southern dike of Schouwen-Duiveland. The foundations of the church remained visible up to 1822. The church lay 800 meters west of the mole of Zierikzee
Zierikzee
Zierikzee is a small city, located on the former island of Schouwen in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Schouwen-Duiveland, and lies about 26 km southwest of Hellevoetsluis....
.
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| Boterzande
| Drowned coastal village in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeelandic Flanders is the southernmost region of the province of Zeeland in south-western Netherlands. It lies south of the Western Scheldt that separates the region from the remainder of Zeeland to the north...
north of Biervliet
Biervliet
Biervliet is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Terneuzen, and lies about 16 km South of Vlissingen.Biervliet received city rights in 1183. It is originally a fishing village...
. Occurs in 990 in the files of Saint Peter's Abbey in Ghent
Ghent
Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...
. In 992 a farm with associated ground in "Boltreshanda" was given to the abbey. There must have lain there outside the dike considerable mud flat, which is listed in records as "outdike". Boterzande disappeared on 8 October 1375 in the waves of what now is called the Westerschelde.
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| Capelle
| Capelle
Capelle
Capelle is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located about 6 km west of Waalwijk.Capelle was a separate municipality until 1923, when it merged with Sprang and Vrijhoeve-Capelle. They formed the new municipality of Sprang-Capelle, which existed until 1997...
near Zierikzee
Zierikzee
Zierikzee is a small city, located on the former island of Schouwen in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Schouwen-Duiveland, and lies about 26 km southwest of Hellevoetsluis....
shares with Schuring in the Hoekse Waard the doubtful honour of being the most recently drowned village of the delta. Until 1 February 1953 Capelle was between Zierikzee and Nieuwerkerk. It was a sturdy hamlet, a street with a row of houses on both sides and a crossing point. The North Sea flood of 1953
North Sea flood of 1953
The 1953 North Sea flood was a major flood caused by a heavy storm, that occurred on the night of Saturday 31 January 1953 and morning of 1 February 1953. The floods struck the Netherlands, Belgium, England and Scotland.A combination of a high spring tide and a severe European windstorm caused a...
swept Capelle away and it was not rebuilt. In the area around is only farmland.
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| Coxyde
(also Beniardskerke, Bingaerstkerke, Bengerskerke)
| Village near Oostburg
Oostburg
Oostburg is a town in the south-western Netherlands. It is the largest town in the municipality of Sluis, in the province of Zeeland. As of 1 January 2005, its population is 5,008. It received city rights in 1237....
. It belonged to St. Baaf
BAAF
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's Abbey at Ghent
Ghent
Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...
. It suffered so much from floods. In 1583 Prince Maurits flooded the area around Sluis
Sluis
Sluis is the name of both a municipality and a town located in the west of Zeelandic Flanders, in the south-western part of the Netherlands....
to block the march of the Spanish commander Parma
Parma
Parma is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its ham, its cheese, its architecture and the fine countryside around it. This is the home of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world....
. The dikes by Coxyde were broken. The current scoured gullies out and sucked Coxyde away into the deep.
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| De Piet
(also Mude, Muiden)
| The name means swimming and sunbathing, for De Piet is now above all known as a recreation area at the south corner of the Veerse Meer
Veerse Meer
The Veerse Meer is a lagoon in the province of Zeeland, the Netherlands. It was separated from the North Sea in 1961 by the Delta Works dam system. It is 22 km long, and 1,500 m wide in places...
. Neat cultivation, neat creek and beach. The landscape there ever offers another bright panorama. But 700 years ago here on the western part of the former island of Wolphaartsdijk
Wolphaartsdijk
Wolphaartsdijk is a village in the Netherlands, located in the province Zeeland. Wolphaartsdijk is part of the municipality of Goes. In 2009 the village had 2109 inhabitants.-History:...
was the village of De Piet. The outline of the village was shown by the castle of Muiden
Muiden
Muiden is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It lies at the mouth of the Vecht and is in an area called the Vechtstreek.-Population centres :...
. The village went under in 1377. The ruin of the castle stood long as a landmark in the Veerse Gat
Veerse Gat
The Veerse Gat or Veeregat was the sea channel between Walcheren and Noord-Beveland islands in Zeeland in the Netherlands. In 1961 as part of the Delta Plan it was blocked off and made into an inland lake called Veerse Meer....
.
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| Elmare
| Drowned village in the frontier region of the present-day Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeelandic Flanders is the southernmost region of the province of Zeeland in south-western Netherlands. It lies south of the Western Scheldt that separates the region from the remainder of Zeeland to the north...
and Belgium
Belgium
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. Drowned in 1375. The village lay rather alone in an extensive wild peat bog region south of IJzendijke
IJzendijke
IJzendijke is a city in the municipality of Sluis, about 10 km east of Oostburg, in the Dutch province of Zeeland. Its population is 1,780 .The town received city rights in 1303....
. Graaf Diederik of the Elzas
Alsace
Alsace is the fifth-smallest of the 27 regions of France in land area , and the smallest in metropolitan France. It is also the seventh-most densely populated region in France and third most densely populated region in metropolitan France, with ca. 220 inhabitants per km²...
gave in 1134 and 1135 20 bunder (an area unit) of peat
Peat
Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation matter or histosol. Peat forms in wetland bogs, moors, muskegs, pocosins, mires, and peat swamp forests. Peat is harvested as an important source of fuel in certain parts of the world...
ground to St. Peter's Abbey
St. Peter's Abbey
St. Peter's Abbey may refer to:*St. Peter's Abbey on the Madron, former abbey at Flintsbach am Inn, Bavaria, Germany*St. Peter's Abbey in the Black Forest, former abbey at St. Peter im Schwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg, Germany...
in Ghent
Ghent
Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...
. The 20 bunder, 20 hectare, ground lay by a small stream called the Helmare. There was potential fuel, for there peat could be dug out. The monks built there a chapel to the honour of the Virgin Mary, a church dedicated to St. Nicholas, and also a mill. There was a monastery
Monastery
Monastery denotes the building, or complex of buildings, that houses a room reserved for prayer as well as the domestic quarters and workplace of monastics, whether monks or nuns, and whether living in community or alone .Monasteries may vary greatly in size – a small dwelling accommodating only...
with monks who were linked with the mother abbey in Ghent
Ghent
Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...
. They controlled the village. The inhabitants were serfs, but rather property of the monks. Under their leading they brought the surrounding wild ground into cultivation. Elmare became through a way linked with the area around, likewise the drowned Oostmanskerke. Elmare is above all known through a famous fairy story: the village was called repeatedly in the Dutch version of the old animal epic "Reynard the Fox".
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| Emersweert
| No information
|-
| Everswaard
(also Eversweerde)
| Drowned village and parish north of Bath
Reimerswaal
The name Reimerswaal can mean:*Reimerswaal A lost city in the Netherlands**Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal The now-drowned land around the city**Battle of Reimerswaal...
. The parish belonged to the bishopric of Utrecht
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht
The Archdiocese of Utrecht is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the Netherlands. The archdiocese is the metropolitan for 6 suffragans, the dioceses of Breda, Groningen-Leeuwarden, Haarlem-Amsterdam, Roermond, Rotterdam, and 's-Hertogenbosch....
. The church's patron saint was St. John the Evangelist. It vanished during the storm flood of 1530.
|-
| Ganuenta
| Drowned Roman
Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....
settlement in the Oosterschelde
Oosterschelde
The Oosterschelde is an estuary in Zeeland, Netherlands, between Schouwen-Duiveland and Tholen on the north and Noord-Beveland and Zuid-Beveland on the south.During the Roman Era it was the major mouth of the Scheldt River. Before the St...
in front of the coast of Colijnsplaat
Colijnsplaat
Colijnsplaat is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Noord-Beveland, and lies about 20 km northeast of Middelburg.In 2001, the town of Colijnsplaat had 1563 inhabitants...
.
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| Gaternesse
(also Gathernesse, Gaternisse)
| Village north of IJzendijke
IJzendijke
IJzendijke is a city in the municipality of Sluis, about 10 km east of Oostburg, in the Dutch province of Zeeland. Its population is 1,780 .The town received city rights in 1303....
. It existed in 1150. It had an extensive ground area. One of its pastors was Wouter Everard, a dynamic entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
, and likely vain. In 1357 he had a polder endiked and named it after himself. The Everardpolder was not allotted long life. Already the same year the dike broke and ran the fresh land reclamation under water. The village Gaternesse went under during storm floods in the 15th century. In 1660 inhabitants of IJzendijke
IJzendijke
IJzendijke is a city in the municipality of Sluis, about 10 km east of Oostburg, in the Dutch province of Zeeland. Its population is 1,780 .The town received city rights in 1303....
saw for the last time the foundations of Gaternesse.
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| Hannekenswerve
| Drowned village between Sluis
Sluis
Sluis is the name of both a municipality and a town located in the west of Zeelandic Flanders, in the south-western part of the Netherlands....
and Aardenburg
Aardenburg
Aardenburg is a small city close to the Dutch border with Belgium. It is part of the Sluis Municipality, located in the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands...
in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeelandic Flanders is the southernmost region of the province of Zeeland in south-western Netherlands. It lies south of the Western Scheldt that separates the region from the remainder of Zeeland to the north...
. A considerable village and there lived tidy religious people. In 1169 bishop Walter of Doornik approved that the pastor of Aardenburg and the curate of Hannekenswerve made mutual agreements over their service roster. Until then the pastor of Aardenburg
Aardenburg
Aardenburg is a small city close to the Dutch border with Belgium. It is part of the Sluis Municipality, located in the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands...
did the weddings, baptisms and burials of the village. Now the curate, with special powers, could do these himself. Quid pro quo? The man had to give a third of his income to the head church in Aardenburg. Excavations in 1964 unearthed the remains of the church, painted crypts and tombstones. In 1421 the region about Hannekenswerve went under water. In 1477 followed a flood. During the Eighty Years' War, in 1583, the inhabitants of Sluis
Sluis
Sluis is the name of both a municipality and a town located in the west of Zeelandic Flanders, in the south-western part of the Netherlands....
broke the dikes through. A text of 1666 says: "the place where formerly Hannekenswerve was, is flat". The village had vanished from the map through nature and war violence. Approximately on the place of Hannekenswerve now lies Draaibrug.
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| Roeselare
| A small town near Aardenburg
Aardenburg
Aardenburg is a small city close to the Dutch border with Belgium. It is part of the Sluis Municipality, located in the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands...
. It was described in 1404 as "lost to the endless days of the sea".
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| Hinkelenoord
| Drowned village northwest of Woensdrecht
Woensdrecht
Woensdrecht is a municipality and a town in the southern Netherlands.Woensdrecht is mainly known for Woensdrecht Air Base. In 1983 it was decided that the US would station 48 nuclear armed cruise missiles here, unless the USSR would reduce the number of SS-20 missiles to 378. Since the number was...
. It drowned during the storm flood of 1552
|-
| Hugevlet
| A town northwest of Biervliet
Biervliet
Biervliet is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Terneuzen, and lies about 16 km South of Vlissingen.Biervliet received city rights in 1183. It is originally a fishing village...
in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeelandic Flanders is the southernmost region of the province of Zeeland in south-western Netherlands. It lies south of the Western Scheldt that separates the region from the remainder of Zeeland to the north...
. Lodewijk van Male, count of Vlaanderen, gave Hugevlet town rights in the 13th century. The settlement existed in 1174. Hugevlet had its own weekly and yearly market, and its own harbour on the Westerschelde. In spite of privileges it never got the chance to become a proper town. In 1375/1376 the Westerschelde did a first attack on Hugevlet. It failed. In 1404 it was successful. Hugevlet vanished for all time in the waves.
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| Kadzand
| Island and settlement in the mouth of the Westerschelde. It was one of the many islands which in the Middle Ages
Middle Ages
The Middle Ages is a periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic, Medieval and Modern...
were in the mouth of the Westerschelde. It flooded in 1375. Kadzand was later attached to Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeelandic Flanders is the southernmost region of the province of Zeeland in south-western Netherlands. It lies south of the Western Scheldt that separates the region from the remainder of Zeeland to the north...
by diking. The settlement vanished.
|-
| Kalfsteert
| Hamlet by Perkpolder. In the 16th century a ferry went from Kalfsteert to Waarde
Waarde
Waarde is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is located in the municipality of Reimerswaal, about 4 km southeast of Kruiningen.Waarde was a separate municipality until 1970....
. The Nieuhoespolder where Kalfsteert lay, vanished in 1591 in the Westerschelde.
|-
| Koezand
| Island in the mouth of the Westerschelde. In the spring of 1344 the dike-builders arrived on the mudflats of Koezand. The endiking happened by instigation of 4 private investor
Investor
An investor is a party that makes an investment into one or more categories of assets --- equity, debt securities, real estate, currency, commodity, derivatives such as put and call options, etc...
s. Amongst them was an official of the town of Brugge
Brügge
Brügge is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.Its small church and market square are noted for their beauty....
. The height of the dike was 10 feet, somewhat more than 3 meter. The width at top was 7 foot, somewhat more than two meter. The charter describing the endiking of Koezand is, as far as is known, the first written piece which described the measurements of sea dikes. Also the organisation of the polder governing board was regulated in details. In the first years there were 28 tenants on Koezand. They did not prosper. Floods did all during the first years and much land was lost. Afterwards followed a hard fight to save the island. In 1276 the tenants could no more produce the costs of the dike. The rent value was halved. A sea arm called the Hedensee separated the islands Koezand and Wulpen
Wulpen (island)
Wulpen, once a sand-islet or eyot, is a now-submerged island in the estuary of the Scheldt on the coast of the Southern Netherlands. Flooded several times in its history, it eventually drowned in 1570 during the severe All Saints' Flood....
from each other. After the island flooded it was attached to the island of Wulpen by diking. It vanished in the waves during the All Saints' Flood (Allerheiligenvloed) of 1570.
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| Mare
Maire (Netherlands)
Maire is a former village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It was located northwest of the village of Rilland....
| Drowned village northwest of Rilland
Rilland
Rilland is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is located in the municipality of Reimerswaal.Rilland was a separate municipality until 1878, when it merged with Bath to create the new municipality of Rilland-Bath. Rilland is known for its various outdoor activities surrounding the area...
. It lay approximately on the site of the present-day Stationsbuurt. The village dates from the 13th century. Its name is first known from about 1280. The village drowned on Saturday 5 November 1530.
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| Michielsdorp
| No information
|-
| Moggershil
| Drowned settlement on a small island at the west of Tholen
Tholen
Tholen is a municipality in the southwest of the Netherlands. The municipality of Tholen has lent its name from the town of Tholen, which is the largest population center in the municipality....
. It was lost in 1570.
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| Monster
| Vanished village on the former island Borssele
Borssele
Borssele is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Borsele, and lies about 12 km east of Vlissingen. Note that the municipality name is spelled with a single s while the name of the town is spelled with a double s.The town is the site of the Netherlands'...
. The name Monster came from "Monasterium", which is Latin
Latin
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for "monastery
Monastery
Monastery denotes the building, or complex of buildings, that houses a room reserved for prayer as well as the domestic quarters and workplace of monastics, whether monks or nuns, and whether living in community or alone .Monasteries may vary greatly in size – a small dwelling accommodating only...
". It drowned during the storm floods of 1530 and 1532. The area has been re-empoldered
Polder
A polder is a low-lying tract of land enclosed by embankments known as dikes, that forms an artificial hydrological entity, meaning it has no connection with outside water other than through manually-operated devices...
since, and the modern village of Borssele
Borssele
Borssele is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Borsele, and lies about 12 km east of Vlissingen. Note that the municipality name is spelled with a single s while the name of the town is spelled with a double s.The town is the site of the Netherlands'...
is approximately on its site. (Distinguish from the village called Monster
Monster, Netherlands
Monster is a town in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Westland, and lies about 10 km south-west of The Hague.The village of "Monster" has a population of around 11,580....
in Zuidholland province.)
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| Nieuwkapelle
| Drowned village at the mouth of the Hinkelinge at the south of Kruiningen
Kruiningen
Kruiningen is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is located in the municipality of Reimerswaal, about 5 km south of the village of Yerseke.Kruiningen has a station on the railway line Bergen op Zoom - Vlissingen.-References:...
. The village lay in the Middenhinkelingepolder, which was endiked in 1327. The village was lost by floods in the 17th century.
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| Nieuwerkerk
| Drowned village in the west of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeelandic Flanders is the southernmost region of the province of Zeeland in south-western Netherlands. It lies south of the Western Scheldt that separates the region from the remainder of Zeeland to the north...
. It was between Oostburg
Oostburg
Oostburg is a town in the south-western Netherlands. It is the largest town in the municipality of Sluis, in the province of Zeeland. As of 1 January 2005, its population is 5,008. It received city rights in 1237....
and Groede
Groede
Groede is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is located about 5 km north of Oostburg in the municipality of Sluis.Groede was a separate municipality until 1970.-External links: Map of the former municipality in 1868....
at the Nieuwerkerk creek. It existed in 1197. It was damaged by the Allerheiligenvloed in 1570. It was flooded deliberately during the Eighty Years' War, and that washed Nieuwerkerk from the Earth's surface.
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| Nieuwerkerke
| Drowned village by Arnemuiden
Arnemuiden
Arnemuiden is a small city of around 5000 people in the municipality of Middelburg in the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands. It is located on the former island of Walcheren, about 3 km east of the city of Middelburg.It received city rights in 1574....
on Walcheren
Walcheren
thumb|right|250px|Campveer Tower in Veere, built in 1500Walcheren is a former island in the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands at the mouth of the Scheldt estuary. It lies between the Oosterschelde in the north and the Westerschelde in the south and is roughly the shape of a rhombus...
.
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| Nummer Zes
| Hamlet by a drainage sluice in the neighbourhood of Hoofdplaat
Hoofdplaat
Hoofdplaat is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is located on the Westerschelde, about 7 km east of Breskens, in the municipality of Sluis.Hoofdplaat was a separate municipality until 1970....
. Nummer Zes vanished in 1808 in the waves of the Westerschelde. Its name means "Number Six".
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| Onze Lief Vrouw aan Zee
| Former hamlet by Renesse
Renesse
Renesse is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Schouwen-Duiveland, and lies about 28 km west of Hellevoetsluis.Renesse is a popular tourist resort with zero-fare bus services in the area ....
. It was lost because of the advancing sea and being buried by dunes.
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| Oostkerke
| Drowned village on the former island of Borssele
Borssele
Borssele is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Borsele, and lies about 12 km east of Vlissingen. Note that the municipality name is spelled with a single s while the name of the town is spelled with a double s.The town is the site of the Netherlands'...
. It belonged to the bishopric of Utrecht
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht
The Archdiocese of Utrecht is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the Netherlands. The archdiocese is the metropolitan for 6 suffragans, the dioceses of Breda, Groningen-Leeuwarden, Haarlem-Amsterdam, Roermond, Rotterdam, and 's-Hertogenbosch....
. The village went under in 1530.
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| Oostmanskerke (also Ozemanskerke)
| Drowned village southeast of Schoondijke
Schoondijke
Schoondijke is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is located in the municipality of Sluis, about 5 km south of Breskens.Schoondijke was a separate municipality until 1970, when it was merged with Oostburg....
in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeelandic Flanders is the southernmost region of the province of Zeeland in south-western Netherlands. It lies south of the Western Scheldt that separates the region from the remainder of Zeeland to the north...
. Its church is mentioned in 1150. A sacred robe belonging to the church is mentioned in 1391.
|-
| Orisant
| Island in the Oosterschelde
Oosterschelde
The Oosterschelde is an estuary in Zeeland, Netherlands, between Schouwen-Duiveland and Tholen on the north and Noord-Beveland and Zuid-Beveland on the south.During the Roman Era it was the major mouth of the Scheldt River. Before the St...
. Empoldered in 1602, drowned in 1639. The village of Orisant was at the south corner of the island on the left bank of a dammed-off creek called the Vijsse.
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| Oud-Arnemuiden (2 uses)
| The village Arnemuiden
Arnemuiden
Arnemuiden is a small city of around 5000 people in the municipality of Middelburg in the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands. It is located on the former island of Walcheren, about 3 km east of the city of Middelburg.It received city rights in 1574....
occurs comes for the first in written sources in 1223. According to a record of 1288, Floris V wanted to give town rights to the village, but that never happened. Because the current of the Arne
Arne
In Greek mythology, Arne or Melanippe was a daughter of Aeolus and Melanippe , daughter of Chiron. She was born as a foal as her mother had been transformed into a horse as a disguise, but was returned to the human form and renamed Arne...
always moved more to the west, the village became threatened, and about 1440 was swallowed by the water. For about 20 years there was a second Arnemuiden. That vanished in the water as well. In 1462 arose the third and definitive Arnemuiden
Arnemuiden
Arnemuiden is a small city of around 5000 people in the municipality of Middelburg in the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands. It is located on the former island of Walcheren, about 3 km east of the city of Middelburg.It received city rights in 1574....
.
|-
| Oudeman
(also Waterland)
| Drowned village in the Oudemanspolder by the former municipality of IJzendijke
IJzendijke
IJzendijke is a city in the municipality of Sluis, about 10 km east of Oostburg, in the Dutch province of Zeeland. Its population is 1,780 .The town received city rights in 1303....
. Vanished about 1500.
|-
| Oud-Bath
| Some kilometers east of the present-day Bath
Reimerswaal
The name Reimerswaal can mean:*Reimerswaal A lost city in the Netherlands**Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal The now-drowned land around the city**Battle of Reimerswaal...
. It drowned in 1552.
|-
| Oud-Breskens
| In 1510 the Groot-Breskenspolder was endiked. There between 1515 and 1585 a settlement centre grew about a church dedicated to St. Barbara. In 1585 the first Breskens drowned in a flood caused by the inhabitants of the nearby Groede
Groede
Groede is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is located about 5 km north of Oostburg in the municipality of Sluis.Groede was a separate municipality until 1970.-External links: Map of the former municipality in 1868....
. In 1610 the present-day Breskens
Breskens
Breskens is a harbour town on the Westerschelde in the municipality of Sluis in the province of Zeeland, in the south-western Netherlands. Its population is 4,280 ....
developed.
|-
| Oud-Domburg
| Settlement somewhat west of the present-day Domburg
Domburg
Domburg is a seaside resort on the North Sea, on the northwest coast of Walcheren in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Veere, and lies about 11 km northwest of the city of Middelburg, the provincial capital.-Demographics:...
. Also called Romeins Domburg. Buried under moving sand dunes and partly in the sea.
|-
| Oud-Graauw
| In 1170 the village Graauw in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeelandic Flanders is the southernmost region of the province of Zeeland in south-western Netherlands. It lies south of the Western Scheldt that separates the region from the remainder of Zeeland to the north...
was property of the abbey of Ter Duinen in Vlaanderen. Vanished during floods in the 16th century. A new Graauw
Graauw
Graauw is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Hulst, and lies about 22 km southwest of Bergen op Zoom.In 2001, the town of Graauw had 513 inhabitants...
was built after the new Melopolder was made in 1682.
|-
| Oud-Kortgene
| This town was found in archives first in 1247. The storm floods of 1530 and 1532 were too much for Oud-Kortgene. In 1684 the region was re-diked and the present-day Kortgene
Kortgene
Kortgene is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Noord-Beveland, and lies about 15 km northeast of Middelburg.Kortgene received city rights in 1431...
arose.
|-
| Oud-Othene
| Small village east of Terneuzen
Terneuzen
Terneuzen is a city and municipality in the southwestern Netherlands, in the province of Zeeland, in the middle of Zeelandic Flanders. With over 55,000 inhabitants, it is the most populous municipality of Zeeland.-Population centres :...
. Mentioned first in 1160. The village went under in 1586.
|-
| Oud-Rilland
| The abbey
Abbey
An abbey is a Catholic monastery or convent, under the authority of an Abbot or an Abbess, who serves as the spiritual father or mother of the community.The term can also refer to an establishment which has long ceased to function as an abbey,...
of Nijvel owned settlements in Rilland in 980. Until the 13th century Rilland was an island. By Rilland at the bank of the Westerschelde was a toll
Tariff
A tariff may be either tax on imports or exports , or a list or schedule of prices for such things as rail service, bus routes, and electrical usage ....
collection point. Rilland went under in 1530. In the 18th century the present-day Rilland
Rilland
Rilland is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is located in the municipality of Reimerswaal.Rilland was a separate municipality until 1878, when it merged with Bath to create the new municipality of Rilland-Bath. Rilland is known for its various outdoor activities surrounding the area...
was founded.
|-
| Oud-Schoondijke
| In the west of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeelandic Flanders is the southernmost region of the province of Zeeland in south-western Netherlands. It lies south of the Western Scheldt that separates the region from the remainder of Zeeland to the north...
This village was mentioned first in 1246, as Sconendica. Between 1585 and 1587 this old Schoondijke through war operations came under water. The village would have been where the old churchyard is by the present-day Schoondijke
Schoondijke
Schoondijke is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is located in the municipality of Sluis, about 5 km south of Breskens.Schoondijke was a separate municipality until 1970, when it was merged with Oostburg....
, which was founded in 1652 with a strict geometric groundplan.
|-
| Oud-Stavenisse
| The parish Stavenisse was named in 1223. The church was dedicated to St. Martin
Martin of Tours
Martin of Tours was a Bishop of Tours whose shrine became a famous stopping-point for pilgrims on the road to Santiago de Compostela. Around his name much legendary material accrued, and he has become one of the most familiar and recognizable Christian saints...
. In 1304 Stavenisse was flooded. After re-diking the village vanished in 1509 again in the waves. This lasted until 1599 when a new inpoldering took place, and the present-day Stavenisse, entirely planned, was founded, at the west corner of Tholen. This new Stavenisse
Stavenisse
Stavenisse is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Tholen, and lies about 22 km west of Bergen op Zoom.In 2001, the town of Stavenisse had 1136 inhabitants...
is a Voorstraat village. Also in similar villages in Zeeland and West-Brabant
North Brabant
North Brabant , sometimes called Brabant, is a province of the Netherlands, located in the south of the country, bordered by Belgium in the south, the Meuse River in the north, Limburg in the east and Zeeland in the west.- History :...
the Voorstraat runs from the church to the harbour.
|-
| Oud-Westkapelle
| Drowned trading settlement which was submerged due to damage to the banks. In 1696 M. Smallegange wrote that the old Westkapelle had been in the sea for "several centuries" and that men "catch fish there daily". Historians say that the old Westkapelle flooded in 1368 and 1377. Its church had to be demolished in 1458 because the sea approached it foundations. By Westkapelle
Westkapelle (Netherlands)
Westkapelle is a small city in the municipality of Veere on the island Walcheren, in the province Zeeland of the Netherlands. On 1 January 2005, it had a population of 2,671...
men found in 1514 an altar dedicated both to the Germanic god Magusanus and to the Roman
Roman mythology
Roman mythology is the body of traditional stories pertaining to ancient Rome's legendary origins and religious system, as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans...
god Hercules
Hercules
Hercules is the Roman name for Greek demigod Heracles, son of Zeus , and the mortal Alcmene...
.
|-
| Remboudsdorpe
| One of the 4 drowned villages of the quite densely populated island of Wulpen
Wulpen (island)
Wulpen, once a sand-islet or eyot, is a now-submerged island in the estuary of the Scheldt on the coast of the Southern Netherlands. Flooded several times in its history, it eventually drowned in 1570 during the severe All Saints' Flood....
. Lost in 1345.
|-
| Risinge
| Hamlet on the former island of Borssele
Borssele
Borssele is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Borsele, and lies about 12 km east of Vlissingen. Note that the municipality name is spelled with a single s while the name of the town is spelled with a double s.The town is the site of the Netherlands'...
. Drowned during the storm floods of 1530 and 1532.
|-
| Rodee
| The hamlet lay some hundreds of meters west of the harbour mole of Zierikzee
Zierikzee
Zierikzee is a small city, located on the former island of Schouwen in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Schouwen-Duiveland, and lies about 26 km southwest of Hellevoetsluis....
. The last dwellings of Rodee were demolished in 1642. Shortly afterwards the water of the Oosterschelde
Oosterschelde
The Oosterschelde is an estuary in Zeeland, Netherlands, between Schouwen-Duiveland and Tholen on the north and Noord-Beveland and Zuid-Beveland on the south.During the Roman Era it was the major mouth of the Scheldt River. Before the St...
closed above this small village.
|-
| Runckendorp
| No information
|-
| Ruschevlet
(also Rusgefleta, Ruschflite)
| Vanished and drowned village southwest of Schoondijke
Schoondijke
Schoondijke is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is located in the municipality of Sluis, about 5 km south of Breskens.Schoondijke was a separate municipality until 1970, when it was merged with Oostburg....
. Around 1150 the small river Rusgefleta flowed in western Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeelandic Flanders is the southernmost region of the province of Zeeland in south-western Netherlands. It lies south of the Western Scheldt that separates the region from the remainder of Zeeland to the north...
in the region between Schoondijk and Oostburg
Oostburg
Oostburg is a town in the south-western Netherlands. It is the largest town in the municipality of Sluis, in the province of Zeeland. As of 1 January 2005, its population is 5,008. It received city rights in 1237....
. In those years the abbey
Abbey
An abbey is a Catholic monastery or convent, under the authority of an Abbot or an Abbess, who serves as the spiritual father or mother of the community.The term can also refer to an establishment which has long ceased to function as an abbey,...
of St. Peter at Ghent
Ghent
Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...
bought land along the Rusgefleta. It went around agricultural land and around fen land. The abbey organised there the church's governing board in a (proosdij?).
|-
| Schoneveld
(Sconeveld)
| In the mouth of the Westerschelde in the Middle Ages
Middle Ages
The Middle Ages is a periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic, Medieval and Modern...
were some islands. One of them was Schoneveld. When Gwijde of Dampierre
Dampierre
Dampierre is the name of several communes in France:*Dampierre, Aube, in the Aube département*Dampierre, Calvados, in the Calvados département*Dampierre, Haute-Marne, in the Haute-Marne département*Dampierre, Jura, in the Jura département...
was count of Vlaanderen, 1278–1305, there must have been a small village and even a country seat there. The storm flood of 1375 broke the dikes of Schoneveld. It flooded, and is not mentioned in source documents afterwards. The sandbank which is now on the place of the island, is still called the Schoneveldbank.
|-
| St. Catharina
(also St. Cathelijne)
| Drowned village by the present-day Oostburg
Oostburg
Oostburg is a town in the south-western Netherlands. It is the largest town in the municipality of Sluis, in the province of Zeeland. As of 1 January 2005, its population is 5,008. It received city rights in 1237....
, on the south side of the water that we now know as the Grote Gat. St. Peter's Abbey
St. Peter's Abbey
St. Peter's Abbey may refer to:*St. Peter's Abbey on the Madron, former abbey at Flintsbach am Inn, Bavaria, Germany*St. Peter's Abbey in the Black Forest, former abbey at St. Peter im Schwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg, Germany...
at Ghent
Ghent
Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...
owned a taxation right there. During the storm flood of 1375/1376 the village vanished under water. After repairs the village and the church were rebuilt in about 1400. The village vanished in 1583. The region where the village is, is now the Cathalijnepolder. In 1962 during building activities remains of the church and of houses were found in the ground.
|-
| St. Christoffelskapelle
| Small settlement in the Yevenpolder in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeelandic Flanders is the southernmost region of the province of Zeeland in south-western Netherlands. It lies south of the Western Scheldt that separates the region from the remainder of Zeeland to the north...
, in the neighbourhood of Gaternesse. The Yevenpolder drowned at the end of the 16th century; then St. Christoffelskapelle also vanished.
|-
| St. Janscapelle
| The village of St. Janscapelle was in about 1300 west of Sas van Gent. Excavations in 1979 showed that a prosperous community had been there. It vanished through flood in 1488.
|-
| St. Katherijnekerke
| Drowned village and parish on the former island of Borssele
Borssele
Borssele is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Borsele, and lies about 12 km east of Vlissingen. Note that the municipality name is spelled with a single s while the name of the town is spelled with a double s.The town is the site of the Netherlands'...
. The church stood there before 1275. The storm floods of 1530 and 1532 meant the loss of St. Katherijnekerke.
|-
| St. Kruispolder
| Drowned parish village by Aardenburg
Aardenburg
Aardenburg is a small city close to the Dutch border with Belgium. It is part of the Sluis Municipality, located in the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands...
. It went under the water in 1375/1376.
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| St. Lambert-Wulpen
| Village on the island of Wulpen
Wulpen (island)
Wulpen, once a sand-islet or eyot, is a now-submerged island in the estuary of the Scheldt on the coast of the Southern Netherlands. Flooded several times in its history, it eventually drowned in 1570 during the severe All Saints' Flood....
, which was in front of the coast of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen and had 4 villages. It had its own hospital. In 1292 it was listed as "Sancte Marie in Wlpis." Wulpen was constantly threatened by storms and floods. In 1516 St. Lambert-Wulpen was the last village of the island that was devastated by the sea.
|-
| St. Nicolaas in Varne
(Vaerne or Langaardenburg)
| A little place in the frontier region of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeelandic Flanders is the southernmost region of the province of Zeeland in south-western Netherlands. It lies south of the Western Scheldt that separates the region from the remainder of Zeeland to the north...
and Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
. In 1252 it even had its own "ship bank". Its inhabitants must have thought that they lived in the front porch of Hell
Hell
In many religious traditions, a hell is a place of suffering and punishment in the afterlife. Religions with a linear divine history often depict hells as endless. Religions with a cyclic history often depict a hell as an intermediary period between incarnations...
. Their village lay southwest of IJzendijke
IJzendijke
IJzendijke is a city in the municipality of Sluis, about 10 km east of Oostburg, in the Dutch province of Zeeland. Its population is 1,780 .The town received city rights in 1303....
in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen. It was a morass
Marsh
In geography, a marsh, or morass, is a type of wetland that is subject to frequent or continuous flood. Typically the water is shallow and features grasses, rushes, reeds, typhas, sedges, other herbaceous plants, and moss....
-ridden desolate wild region, the end of the land, though many saw it as the beginning of the underworld
Underworld
The Underworld is a region which is thought to be under the surface of the earth in some religions and in mythologies. It could be a place where the souls of the recently departed go, and in some traditions it is identified with Hell or the realm of death...
. Some say that "Varne" came from "Avernus
Avernus
Avernus was an ancient name for a crater near Cumae , Italy, in the Region of Campania west of Naples. It is approximately in circumference. Within the crater is Lake Avernus .-Role in ancient Roman society:...
", a lake in Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
where by tradition the underworld began. Other sources hold simply that "varne" came from "varnte", an old word for "weed
Weed
A weed in a general sense is a plant that is considered by the user of the term to be a nuisance, and normally applied to unwanted plants in human-controlled settings, especially farm fields and gardens, but also lawns, parks, woods, and other areas. More specifically, the term is often used to...
s". Anyway, the village with the beautiful name drowned in 1377 and left nothing behind except a name in official documents.
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| Slepeldamme
| Hamlet
Hamlet (place)
A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...
on former harbour mole
Mole (architecture)
A mole is a massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater, or a causeway between places separated by water. The word comes from Middle French mole and ultimately Latin mōlēs meaning a large mass, especially of rock and has the same root as molecule.Historically, the term "mole"...
of Aardenburg
Aardenburg
Aardenburg is a small city close to the Dutch border with Belgium. It is part of the Sluis Municipality, located in the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands...
. There was a sluice. Also there was a toll office for the shipping from and to Aardenburg. Via Slepeldamme much cattle and grain was transported from Holland and Zeeland. In 1280 Slepeldamme promoted its toll office to Damme
Damme
Damme is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders, six kilometres northeast of Brugge . The municipality comprises the city of Damme proper and the towns of Hoeke, Lapscheure, Moerkerke, Oostkerke, Sijsele, Vivenkapelle, and Sint-Rita. On 1 January 2006, the municipality had...
. The small village went through floods in 1583 and 1604 and was lost for good.
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| Stuivezand
| Drowned village and parish south of Baarland
Baarland
Baarland is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Borsele, and lies about 21 km east of Middelburg.In 2001, the town of Baarland had 291 inhabitants...
. Stuivezand was endiked between 1370 and 1375 by instruction of Count Willem V of Holland. Because the gullies of the Westerschelde (which was then still called the Honte), more and more pressed against the Beveland
Beveland
Beveland can refer to:*Noord-Beveland in the Netherlands*Zuid-Beveland in the Netherlands...
wall, Stuivezand had many dike breaks. In 1525 the Dierik, a current gully between Stuivezand and the mainland of Zuid-Beveland, was dammed off. The inhabitants of Stuivezand could now go on foot to the land of Borssele
Borssele
Borssele is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Borsele, and lies about 12 km east of Vlissingen. Note that the municipality name is spelled with a single s while the name of the town is spelled with a double s.The town is the site of the Netherlands'...
and Baarland
Baarland
Baarland is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Borsele, and lies about 21 km east of Middelburg.In 2001, the town of Baarland had 291 inhabitants...
. They did, and most did not come back, certainly not after the floods of 1532, 1552 and 1570. Floods always made the island smaller. The last little piece of Stuivezand definitively vanished under water in the beginning of the 17th century.
|-
| Ter Hamer
| Village between Biervliet
Biervliet
Biervliet is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Terneuzen, and lies about 16 km South of Vlissingen.Biervliet received city rights in 1183. It is originally a fishing village...
and IJzendijke
IJzendijke
IJzendijke is a city in the municipality of Sluis, about 10 km east of Oostburg, in the Dutch province of Zeeland. Its population is 1,780 .The town received city rights in 1303....
. The parish of Ter Hamer was mentioned for the first time in 1194. Much ground in the area round the village was property of Count Boudewijn IX of Vlaanderen. He loved warmer regions, took part in the 4th Crusade, and became Emperor
Emperor
An emperor is a monarch, usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress, the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife or a woman who rules in her own right...
of Constantinople
Constantinople
Constantinople was the capital of the Roman, Eastern Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman Empires. Throughout most of the Middle Ages, Constantinople was Europe's largest and wealthiest city.-Names:...
. On his return journey he was seized by the Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
ns. His brother Hendrik succeeded him. He used the inhabitants of Ter Hamer as property insurance. Walter van Monnickenwerve and the brothers Jacob and Boudewijn van IJzendijke farmed by Ter Hamer. They had ground in fief there. However, with it came obligations. The inhabitants of Ter Hamer had to watch properties of lord Hendrik. In case of necessity they were obliged to march as an armed village militia
Militia
The term militia is commonly used today to refer to a military force composed of ordinary citizens to provide defense, emergency law enforcement, or paramilitary service, in times of emergency without being paid a regular salary or committed to a fixed term of service. It is a polyseme with...
. The village did not get its own jurisdiction
Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction is the practical authority granted to a formally constituted legal body or to a political leader to deal with and make pronouncements on legal matters and, by implication, to administer justice within a defined area of responsibility...
in the form of a "ship-bank". The simple village Ter Hamer went under during the storm flood of 1375/1376.
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| Tewijk (also Tevewijc, Thevic, Tewic, Tevicambacht)
| Drowned village on the former island of Borssele
Borssele
Borssele is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Borsele, and lies about 12 km east of Vlissingen. Note that the municipality name is spelled with a single s while the name of the town is spelled with a double s.The town is the site of the Netherlands'...
, north of the village of Monster, which is the present Borssele
Borssele
Borssele is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Borsele, and lies about 12 km east of Vlissingen. Note that the municipality name is spelled with a single s while the name of the town is spelled with a double s.The town is the site of the Netherlands'...
. Tewijk became a parish in 1275. Its church was dedicated to Johannes de Doper. Vestiges of Tewijk are found on the border of Borsselepolder and the Nieuw-Westkraaijertpolder.
|-
| Triniteit
| Maria of Artois, the widow of count Jan of Namen, founded on 19 September 1336 the village of Triniteit south of Terneuzen
Terneuzen
Terneuzen is a city and municipality in the southwestern Netherlands, in the province of Zeeland, in the middle of Zeelandic Flanders. With over 55,000 inhabitants, it is the most populous municipality of Zeeland.-Population centres :...
. They promised to Jan van Diest
Diest
Diest is a city and municipality located in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant. Situated in the northeast of the Hageland region, Diest neighbours the provinces of Antwerp to its North, and Limburg to the East and is situated around 60km from Brussels. The municipality comprises the city of...
, the bishop of Utrecht
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht
The Archdiocese of Utrecht is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the Netherlands. The archdiocese is the metropolitan for 6 suffragans, the dioceses of Breda, Groningen-Leeuwarden, Haarlem-Amsterdam, Roermond, Rotterdam, and 's-Hertogenbosch....
, that three quarters of the place's tax income would go to the pastor; one quarter was intended for the installation and maintenance of a hospital
Hospital
A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Hospitals often, but not always, provide for inpatient care or longer-term patient stays....
. The bishop
Bishop
A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...
approved. He wanted the church inaugurated, however. The noble Maria then wanted to supply a contribution to building the church. Her son Willem had also a demand: he wanted for himself and his followers by law of inheritance
Inheritance
Inheritance is the practice of passing on property, titles, debts, rights and obligations upon the death of an individual. It has long played an important role in human societies...
to be able to appoint pastor
Pastor
The word pastor usually refers to an ordained leader of a Christian congregation. When used as an ecclesiastical styling or title, this role may be abbreviated to "Pr." or often "Ps"....
s. The bishop did this without difficulty. On 21 January 1340 a substitute of the bishop presented to the church in Maria of Namen its first pastor: Johannes Boudweijnsz. The new parish got still a particular attraction: whoever visited the church, in devotion ran around the churchyard
Churchyard
A churchyard is a patch of land adjoining or surrounding a church which is usually owned by the relevant church or local parish itself. In the Scots language or Northern English language this can also be known as a kirkyard or kirkyaird....
, and presented some alms
Alms
Alms or almsgiving is a religious rite which, in general, involves giving materially to another as an act of religious virtue.It exists in a number of religions. In Philippine Regions, alms are given as charity to benefit the poor. In Buddhism, alms are given by lay people to monks and nuns to...
to the church, could count on redemption of sin
Sin
In religion, sin is the violation or deviation of an eternal divine law or standard. The term sin may also refer to the state of having committed such a violation. Christians believe the moral code of conduct is decreed by God In religion, sin (also called peccancy) is the violation or deviation...
s: an indulgence
Indulgence
In Catholic theology, an indulgence is the full or partial remission of temporal punishment due for sins which have already been forgiven. The indulgence is granted by the Catholic Church after the sinner has confessed and received absolution...
of 40 days. During the Eighty Years' War Triniteit was a battlefield zone. The village vanished in 1584 and 1585 by an army flooding it. The church stood there then still. The Catholic
Catholic
The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
s then lost all their authority there. Lieven Coenen became circa 1580 the first Protestant priest of Triniteit
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| Valkenisse
| Southeast of Waarde
Waarde
Waarde is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is located in the municipality of Reimerswaal, about 4 km southeast of Kruiningen.Waarde was a separate municipality until 1970....
. The church of Valkenisse was in 1233 dedicated and belonged to the chapter of Oudmunster at Utrecht
Utrecht (city)
Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands with a population of 312,634 on 1 Jan 2011.Utrecht's ancient city centre features...
. Valkenisse vanished in 1682 in the Westerschelde.
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| Vinninge
| Drowned village south of Biezelinge
Biezelinge
Biezelinge is a village in the Dutch municipality of Kapelle . On January 1, 2009, it had 1605 inhabitants.The village is separated from Kapelle by a railroad. The two villages share a train station....
in the Westerschelde, on the former island Baarland
Baarland
Baarland is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Borsele, and lies about 21 km east of Middelburg.In 2001, the town of Baarland had 291 inhabitants...
. Its church was dedicated to the Holy Mary. Vinkenisse was known in Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
, for in 1216 it was mentioned in a papal document. Vinninge apparently went under in the flood of 1530.
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| Vulendike (also Volendike)
| no information
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| Waterdunen
| One of the most mysterious small towns in Zeeland
Zeeland
Zeeland , also called Zealand in English, is the westernmost province of the Netherlands. The province, located in the south-west of the country, consists of a number of islands and a strip bordering Belgium. Its capital is Middelburg. With a population of about 380,000, its area is about...
's history. It must have been on an island in the mouth of the Westerschelde, between the islands of Wulpen
Wulpen (island)
Wulpen, once a sand-islet or eyot, is a now-submerged island in the estuary of the Scheldt on the coast of the Southern Netherlands. Flooded several times in its history, it eventually drowned in 1570 during the severe All Saints' Flood....
and Koezand, in front of the coast of the present-day Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeelandic Flanders is the southernmost region of the province of Zeeland in south-western Netherlands. It lies south of the Western Scheldt that separates the region from the remainder of Zeeland to the north...
. Old tax records show clearly that Waterdunen was of rather big scope. Waterdunen paid more tax than IJzendijke
IJzendijke
IJzendijke is a city in the municipality of Sluis, about 10 km east of Oostburg, in the Dutch province of Zeeland. Its population is 1,780 .The town received city rights in 1303....
and Biervliet
Biervliet
Biervliet is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Terneuzen, and lies about 16 km South of Vlissingen.Biervliet received city rights in 1183. It is originally a fishing village...
. According to the annals Waterdunen in 1357 was swallowed by the sea. Afterwards, after re-diking, a new parish was founded on the island. This second Waterdunen vanished at the end of the 15th century in the waves of the North Sea
North Sea
In the southwest, beyond the Straits of Dover, the North Sea becomes the English Channel connecting to the Atlantic Ocean. In the east, it connects to the Baltic Sea via the Skagerrak and Kattegat, narrow straits that separate Denmark from Norway and Sweden respectively...
.
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| Weldamme
| Small village by Zierikzee
Zierikzee
Zierikzee is a small city, located on the former island of Schouwen in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Schouwen-Duiveland, and lies about 26 km southwest of Hellevoetsluis....
, after 1600 sunk in the Oosterschelde
Oosterschelde
The Oosterschelde is an estuary in Zeeland, Netherlands, between Schouwen-Duiveland and Tholen on the north and Noord-Beveland and Zuid-Beveland on the south.During the Roman Era it was the major mouth of the Scheldt River. Before the St...
.
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| Westende
| One of the 4 drowned villages on the island Wulpen
Wulpen (island)
Wulpen, once a sand-islet or eyot, is a now-submerged island in the estuary of the Scheldt on the coast of the Southern Netherlands. Flooded several times in its history, it eventually drowned in 1570 during the severe All Saints' Flood....
, vanished about 1570.
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| Westkerke (1)
(also Raaskerke)
| Drowned village on the former island of Borssele
Borssele
Borssele is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Borsele, and lies about 12 km east of Vlissingen. Note that the municipality name is spelled with a single s while the name of the town is spelled with a double s.The town is the site of the Netherlands'...
. Westkerke went under during the storm flood of 1530. It is in the Westerschelde southwest of Borssele
Borssele
Borssele is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Borsele, and lies about 12 km east of Vlissingen. Note that the municipality name is spelled with a single s while the name of the town is spelled with a double s.The town is the site of the Netherlands'...
.
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| Westkerke (2)
| Drowned village west of Oud-Sabbinge on the island Wolphaartsdijk
Wolphaartsdijk
Wolphaartsdijk is a village in the Netherlands, located in the province Zeeland. Wolphaartsdijk is part of the municipality of Goes. In 2009 the village had 2109 inhabitants.-History:...
that existed then. This Westkerke drowned on 16 November 1377. The region where the village lay, was re-endiked in 1665; the area was later named as the Westerlandpolder. In 1975 remains of Westkerke were found west of the farm of Hof Westkerke. The finds include coffin
Coffin
A coffin is a funerary box used in the display and containment of dead people – either for burial or cremation.Contemporary North American English makes a distinction between "coffin", which is generally understood to denote a funerary box having six sides in plan view, and "casket", which...
s, tombstones, gravestones, and wallwork of the former church.
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| Wiksdorp
| Vanished village north of Braasdorp in De Poel.
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| Wolfertsdorp
| Drowned village on the former island Borssele. The first mention of Wolfertsdorp dates from 1353. It was southeast of Monster, the present Borssele
Borssele
Borssele is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Borsele, and lies about 12 km east of Vlissingen. Note that the municipality name is spelled with a single s while the name of the town is spelled with a double s.The town is the site of the Netherlands'...
. Shortly after the storm flood of 1530 Wolfertsdorp was mentioned as "entirely swept away".
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Drowned villages and places in Noord-BevelandNoord-BevelandNoord-Beveland is a municipality in the southwestern Netherlands and a former island, now part of the Walcheren-Zuid-Beveland-Noord-Beveland peninsula....
| Campen
| It existed in 976. It drowned during the storm flood of 1530. After the re-diking of Noord-Beveland
Noord-Beveland
Noord-Beveland is a municipality in the southwestern Netherlands and a former island, now part of the Walcheren-Zuid-Beveland-Noord-Beveland peninsula....
the present-day Kamperland
Kamperland
Kamperland is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Noord-Beveland, and lies about 11 km northeast of Middelburg.In 2001, the town of Kamperland had 1342 inhabitants...
arose on the site of Campen.
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| Dyxhoecke
| Drowned village. Its parish belonged to the bishopric of Utrecht
Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands
The Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands; , is the mother church related to the Old Catholic Churches. It is sometimes called Ancient Catholic Church, Church of Utrecht or Dutch Roman Catholic Church of the Old Episcopal Order...
. It existed in 1329. It drowned in 1530. Vestiges of the village are still found in the neighbourhood of Wissenkerke
Wissenkerke
Wissenkerke is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Noord-Beveland, and lies about 20 km northeast of Middelburg.Wissenkerke was a separate municipality until 1995....
.
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| Edekinge
(also Ekingen)
| Drowned village. Sunk in 1530. (Perhaps the same as Oud-Hamerstee)
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| Emelisse
| Drowned village. First mentioned in 1216. A considerable number of people must have lived there: the records of the bishopric of Utrecht
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht
The Archdiocese of Utrecht is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the Netherlands. The archdiocese is the metropolitan for 6 suffragans, the dioceses of Breda, Groningen-Leeuwarden, Haarlem-Amsterdam, Roermond, Rotterdam, and 's-Hertogenbosch....
show that there were two pastor
Pastor
The word pastor usually refers to an ordained leader of a Christian congregation. When used as an ecclesiastical styling or title, this role may be abbreviated to "Pr." or often "Ps"....
s. In Emelisse stood further a guest house and a nunnery. During the storm floods of 1530 and 1532 Emelisse vanished.
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| Nyenvlet
| Hamlet northeast of Wissenkerke
Wissenkerke
Wissenkerke is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Noord-Beveland, and lies about 20 km northeast of Middelburg.Wissenkerke was a separate municipality until 1995....
. It went under during the storm flood of 1530.
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| Offlet
| Drowned village. It is in the archives from 1395 until 1460. Offlet is perhaps the same village as Grutersdijc. Where Grutersdijc was is not known.
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| Oostkerke
| Approximately where Wolphaartsdijk
Wolphaartsdijk
Wolphaartsdijk is a village in the Netherlands, located in the province Zeeland. Wolphaartsdijk is part of the municipality of Goes. In 2009 the village had 2109 inhabitants.-History:...
is, on the north coast of Zuid-Beveland
Zuid-Beveland
Zuid-Beveland is a part of the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands north of the Westerschelde and south of the Oosterschelde. It is a former island, now peninsula, crossed by the Canal through Zuid-Beveland on the west and the Scheldt-Rhine Canal on the east.It consists of four...
It drowned in 1334.
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| Oud-Geersdijk
| This village was in 1216 a separate parish. It vanished in the waves during the floods of 1530 and 1532. In the neighbourhood of the drowned village a new Geersdijk
Geersdijk
Geersdijk is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Noord-Beveland, and lies about 13 km northeast of Middelburg.In 2001, the town of Geersdijk had 204 inhabitants...
grew after the inpoldering of Noord-Beveland
Noord-Beveland
Noord-Beveland is a municipality in the southwestern Netherlands and a former island, now part of the Walcheren-Zuid-Beveland-Noord-Beveland peninsula....
in 1598.
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| Oud-Hamerstee (Its coat of arms occurs in Smallegange)
| Drowned village. North of the present-day Kats
Kats
Kats is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Noord-Beveland, and lies about 20 km east of Middelburg.In 2001, the town of Kats had 286 inhabitants...
. Its church was in 1304 left on the seaward side of the dike and vanished in the Oosterschelde
Oosterschelde
The Oosterschelde is an estuary in Zeeland, Netherlands, between Schouwen-Duiveland and Tholen on the north and Noord-Beveland and Zuid-Beveland on the south.During the Roman Era it was the major mouth of the Scheldt River. Before the St...
. Vestiges of Oud-Hamerstee can still be found on the mudflats north of Kats.
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| Oud-Kats
| Subburchdijk is an old name for the village that we now now as Kats
Kats
Kats is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Noord-Beveland, and lies about 20 km east of Middelburg.In 2001, the town of Kats had 286 inhabitants...
. In 1530 the village went under. It was so called because its church was answerable to the church of West-Souburg
West-Souburg
West-Souburg is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is part of the municipality of Vlissingen and now almost completely attached to suburbs of the city of Vlissingen...
. In 1598 by the re-diking of Noord-Beveland
Noord-Beveland
Noord-Beveland is a municipality in the southwestern Netherlands and a former island, now part of the Walcheren-Zuid-Beveland-Noord-Beveland peninsula....
the present-day Kats arose somewhat north of the drowned village. By redistribution of multiple allotments of land in 1971 remains of the old village of Subburchdijk came to the daylight.
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| Oud-Wissenkerke (I)
| Wissenkerke is mentioned as a separate parish in 1242. It must have been a considerable parish, for there lived enough people to need two pastors. Where the first Wissenkerke
Wissenkerke
Wissenkerke is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Noord-Beveland, and lies about 20 km northeast of Middelburg.Wissenkerke was a separate municipality until 1995....
precisely was is not known. After floods in 1352 the village moved to the north corner of the present-day Geersdijkpolder.
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| Oud-Wissenkerke (II)
| The second Wissenkerke's disappearance was caused by the water as well. It flooded during the storm flood of 1530. The tower of the old Wissenkerke stood a long time; in popular speech this remnant was called the Plompe Toren or Kamperlandse Toren. That is why the Torenpolder got its name. In 1755 the ruin was cleared away. In 1774 a memorial stone commemorating this was placed by the Torenhoeve.
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| Soetelingkercke
(also Soelekerke, Zoelenkerke, apparently also Soeke)
| Drowned village in the southwest of the old Noord-Beveland
Noord-Beveland
Noord-Beveland is a municipality in the southwestern Netherlands and a former island, now part of the Walcheren-Zuid-Beveland-Noord-Beveland peninsula....
. Its church dated from 1206. It drowned in 1530 and 1532. After re-diking the region of Soetelingkercke was joined to Wissenkerke
Wissenkerke
Wissenkerke is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Noord-Beveland, and lies about 20 km northeast of Middelburg.Wissenkerke was a separate municipality until 1995....
.
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| Vlete (also Nyenvlet)
| The small village Vlete was known as a place of fishermen. Vlete lay west of Wijtvlet. There stood a chapel to St. Catherina. According to Reygersbergh a castle also stood there. Vlete drowned in 1530.
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| Weele
| Drowned village, north of Wissenkerke
Wissenkerke
Wissenkerke is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Noord-Beveland, and lies about 20 km northeast of Middelburg.Wissenkerke was a separate municipality until 1995....
. It was mentioned the first time in 1395. Its church belonged to the chapter of St. Peter in Utrecht
Utrecht (city)
Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands with a population of 312,634 on 1 Jan 2011.Utrecht's ancient city centre features...
. The village went under during the storm flood of 1530. The region of the former Weele after re-diking was joined to Wissenkerke
Wissenkerke
Wissenkerke is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Noord-Beveland, and lies about 20 km northeast of Middelburg.Wissenkerke was a separate municipality until 1995....
and lies now in the Torenpolder.
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| Welle
| Drowned village. Its church was in 1162 in possession of the abbey of Middelburg
Middelburg
Middelburg is a municipality and a city in the south-western Netherlands and the capital of the province of Zeeland. It is situated in the Midden-Zeeland region. It has a population of about 48,000.- History of Middelburg :...
. Welle drowned in 1530. After the re-diking of Noord-Beveland in 1598 the region of Welle was joined to Colijnsplaat
Colijnsplaat
Colijnsplaat is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Noord-Beveland, and lies about 20 km northeast of Middelburg.In 2001, the town of Colijnsplaat had 1563 inhabitants...
.
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Drowned villages and places in Zuid-BevelandZuid-BevelandZuid-Beveland is a part of the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands north of the Westerschelde and south of the Oosterschelde. It is a former island, now peninsula, crossed by the Canal through Zuid-Beveland on the west and the Scheldt-Rhine Canal on the east.It consists of four...
| Coudorpe
| A small village, southwest of Driewegen
Driewegen
Driewegen is the name of two villages in the Netherlands:* Driewegen * Driewegen...
It existed in 1267. It was depopulated by floods. In 1572 the remains of the village were used as reinforcement in the Westerscheldedijk of Zuid-Beveland
Zuid-Beveland
Zuid-Beveland is a part of the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands north of the Westerschelde and south of the Oosterschelde. It is a former island, now peninsula, crossed by the Canal through Zuid-Beveland on the west and the Scheldt-Rhine Canal on the east.It consists of four...
. The refuge mount of Coudorpe exists, built in the 12th century.
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| Hongersdijk 1
| Drowned village, west of Wilhelminadorp. It went under in 1334 in a flood.
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| Hongersdijk 2
| In 1429 a new Hongersdijk arose. That settlement was not allotted long life either. The village drowned in 1551. A new endiking followed in 1708. In 1857 on the place of the second Hongersdijk still tombstones and remains of the village
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...
were found. The place of the finds lay somewhat north of the farm
Farm
A farm is an area of land, or, for aquaculture, lake, river or sea, including various structures, devoted primarily to the practice of producing and managing food , fibres and, increasingly, fuel. It is the basic production facility in food production. Farms may be owned and operated by a single...
of Hongersdijk.
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| Nieuw-Everinge
| Around 1500 the inhabitants of the drowned Oud-Everinge founded a new village on Zuid-Beveland
Zuid-Beveland
Zuid-Beveland is a part of the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands north of the Westerschelde and south of the Oosterschelde. It is a former island, now peninsula, crossed by the Canal through Zuid-Beveland on the west and the Scheldt-Rhine Canal on the east.It consists of four...
. That new village flooded in the storm flood of 1530 and had to be cleared. Around 1600 it vanished for good in the Westerschelde.
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| Oostende
| Drowned village northeast of Hoedekenskerke
Hoedekenskerke
Hoedekenskerke is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Borsele, and lies about 22 km east of Middelburg.Hoedekenskerke was a separate municipality until 1970....
on the southeast coast of Zuid-Beveland
Zuid-Beveland
Zuid-Beveland is a part of the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands north of the Westerschelde and south of the Oosterschelde. It is a former island, now peninsula, crossed by the Canal through Zuid-Beveland on the west and the Scheldt-Rhine Canal on the east.It consists of four...
. In the 15th century it put up a continuing fight against the advancing Honte (= Westerschelde). In the winter of 1520/1521 Oostende was abandoned and left on the seaward side of the dike. (Distinguish from "Oostende" as the Dutch
Dutch language
Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
name of Ostend
Ostend
Ostend is a Belgian city and municipality located in the Flemish province of West Flanders. It comprises the boroughs of Mariakerke , Stene and Zandvoorde, and the city of Ostend proper – the largest on the Belgian coast....
in Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
.)
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| Oud-Everinge
| Drowned village west of Ellewoutsdijk
Ellewoutsdijk
Ellewoutsdijk is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Borsele, and lies about 18 km east of Vlissingen.In 2001, the town of Ellewoutsdijk had 242 inhabitants...
(which is on the south corner of Zuid-Beveland
Zuid-Beveland
Zuid-Beveland is a part of the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands north of the Westerschelde and south of the Oosterschelde. It is a former island, now peninsula, crossed by the Canal through Zuid-Beveland on the west and the Scheldt-Rhine Canal on the east.It consists of four...
). Mentioned in 1288 in the accounts of the bishopric of Utrecht
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht
The Archdiocese of Utrecht is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the Netherlands. The archdiocese is the metropolitan for 6 suffragans, the dioceses of Breda, Groningen-Leeuwarden, Haarlem-Amsterdam, Roermond, Rotterdam, and 's-Hertogenbosch....
. The exact site is not known. It vanished between 1450 and 1500 in the Westerschelde.
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| Oud-Krabbendijke
| Hendrik of Schoten
Schoten
Schoten is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality only comprises the town of Schoten proper. On January 1, 2006 Schoten had a total population of 33,160. The total area is which gives a population density of 1,122 inhabitants per km². Schoten abuts the...
, lord of Breda
Breda
Breda is a municipality and a city in the southern part of the Netherlands. The name Breda derived from brede Aa and refers to the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa. As a fortified city, the city was of strategic military and political significance...
, in the 12th century owned land in the area. North of the present-day Krabbendijke
Krabbendijke
Krabbendijke is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is located in the municipality of Reimerswaal, about 6 km southeast of the town of Kruiningen.Krabbendijke has a station on the railway line Bergen op Zoom - Vlissingen.-References:...
on Zuid-Beveland
Zuid-Beveland
Zuid-Beveland is a part of the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands north of the Westerschelde and south of the Oosterschelde. It is a former island, now peninsula, crossed by the Canal through Zuid-Beveland on the west and the Scheldt-Rhine Canal on the east.It consists of four...
he owned a desolate mud flat. In 1187 he gave it as a generous gesture to the abbey of Ter Doest in Brugge
Brügge
Brügge is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.Its small church and market square are noted for their beauty....
. The monks, industrious people, endiked the mudbank and founded there two big farms. There grew a small village. The St. Felixvloed of 5 November 1530 was too powerful for the monks. Krabbendijke went under. In 1595 after re-diking a new Krabbendijke
Krabbendijke
Krabbendijke is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is located in the municipality of Reimerswaal, about 6 km southeast of the town of Kruiningen.Krabbendijke has a station on the railway line Bergen op Zoom - Vlissingen.-References:...
was founded.
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| St. Trooye
| Drowned settlement.
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| Vinkenisse
| Former village. It had a chapel dedicated to St. Cornelis. Vinkenisse was swallowed by the flood of 1 November 1530. It is in the Westerschelde south of the Zimmermanpolder by Waarde
Waarde
Waarde is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is located in the municipality of Reimerswaal, about 4 km southeast of Kruiningen.Waarde was a separate municipality until 1970....
.
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Drowned villages and places in the Verdronken land van Saeftinghe
| Auwersluis
| Hamlet
Hamlet (place)
A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...
in the former manor Saeftinghe
Saeftinghe
Saeftinghe was a city in eastern Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, Belgium, near Nieuw-Namen that existed until 1584. Nowadays the area is a swamp known as the Verdronken Land van Saeftinghe which is an official nature reserve area. The land is a crosspoint where the river Scheldt meets the salty waters of the...
.
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| Casuele
| Former village. The village lay at a creek called the Couveringe, in the middle of an extensive peat bog region. For the inhabitants that was somewhat as Slochteren
Slochteren
Slochteren is a municipality in the northeastern Netherlands.The municipality can be characterized as a chain of small villages dividing a mostly agricultural landscape. Having an agricultural background for at least a thousand years, the community houses for the most part commuters to nearby...
is now. They dug the peat
Peat
Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation matter or histosol. Peat forms in wetland bogs, moors, muskegs, pocosins, mires, and peat swamp forests. Peat is harvested as an important source of fuel in certain parts of the world...
out and sold this mediaeval fuel
Fuel
Fuel is any material that stores energy that can later be extracted to perform mechanical work in a controlled manner. Most fuels used by humans undergo combustion, a redox reaction in which a combustible substance releases energy after it ignites and reacts with the oxygen in the air...
.
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| Namen
| Drowned village. Namen went under in 1715. Its tower remained a long time as a landmark for shipping. Only its tower bell has survived to today. The bell, cast in 1664 in Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
, hangs now in the tower of Graauw
Graauw
Graauw is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Hulst, and lies about 22 km southwest of Bergen op Zoom.In 2001, the town of Graauw had 513 inhabitants...
. Nieuw-Namen
Nieuw-Namen
Nieuw-Namen is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Hulst, and lies about 24 km south of Bergen op Zoom.In 2001, the town of Nieuw-Namen had 770 inhabitants...
was built to the south, adjacent to the Belgian village of Kieldrecht. (Distinguish from "Namen" as the Dutch
Dutch language
Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
name of Namur
Namur (city)
Namur is a city and municipality in Wallonia, in southern Belgium. It is both the capital of the province of Namur and of Wallonia....
in Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
.)
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| Saeftinghe
Saeftinghe
Saeftinghe was a city in eastern Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, Belgium, near Nieuw-Namen that existed until 1584. Nowadays the area is a swamp known as the Verdronken Land van Saeftinghe which is an official nature reserve area. The land is a crosspoint where the river Scheldt meets the salty waters of the...
| The town of Saeftinghe was at the castle of Saeftinghe. It went completely under in 1214 by a high flood. The oldest mention of Saeftinghe is a charter of 821 of Louis the Pious
Louis the Pious
Louis the Pious , also called the Fair, and the Debonaire, was the King of Aquitaine from 781. He was also King of the Franks and co-Emperor with his father, Charlemagne, from 813...
of the Frankish Empire
Franks
The Franks were a confederation of Germanic tribes first attested in the third century AD as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River. From the third to fifth centuries some Franks raided Roman territory while other Franks joined the Roman troops in Gaul. Only the Salian Franks formed a...
. He confirms possession of these places. After a devastating flood in 1334 Saeftinghe was reduced to a village. The castle
Castle
A castle is a type of fortified structure built in Europe and the Middle East during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars debate the scope of the word castle, but usually consider it to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble...
of Saeftinghe was devastated by the men of Antwerp in the beginning of the 16th century. Around 1930 Gustaaf de Maaijer (Staf de Sterke) outwards from Nieuw-Namen saw the foundations of the castle still above water at ebb tide
Ebb Tide
"Ebb Tide" is a popular song, written in 1953 by the lyricist Carl Sigman and composer Robert Maxwell.-Recordings:* The best-known versions are by Frank Chacksfield & His Orchestra , Vic Damone , Roy Hamilton , Frank Sinatra , The Platters , Lenny Welch and the Righteous Brothers...
.
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| Stampaert
| Village.
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| Ter Hoole
| Hamlet, in the neighbourhood of the likewise drowned village Weele.
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Drowned villages in Schouwen (mostly in its drowned south part)
| Bommenede
Bommenede
Bommenede or Bommenee is a former island, village, and municipality in the Netherlands, located about 5 km east of the city of Brouwershaven.- The village of Bommenede :...
| At the north corner of Schouwen-Duiveland. It was listed in 1153 as property of the Cistercian monastery of Ter Duinen in Vlaanderen. The village survived two floods in 1530 and 1532 and a fire in 1540. In 1575 the Spanish commander Mondragon
Mondragon
-Places:* Mondragon, Vaucluse, a town and commune in France.* Mondragon, Northern Samar, a municipality in the Philippines.* Mondragón/Arrasate, a town and municipality in the Basque region of Spain, famous for its cooperative movement....
besieged it and shot the village to pieces. After that blow it was never rebuilt. The Grevelingen
Grevelingen
Grevelingen or Grevelingenmeer is a former Rhine-Meuse estuary on the border of the Dutch provinces of South Holland and Zeeland that has become a lake due to the Delta Works....
did the rest in the 17th century. The last occupants left in 1684. The remains of Bommenede still years later showed above water.
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| Brieskerke
(also Breiskerke or Brisselkerc)
| Village in the drowned south of Schouwen. Recorded for the first time in 1276. In 1542 Brieskerke was left on the seaward side of the dike, and the village vanished for ever in the Oosterschelde
Oosterschelde
The Oosterschelde is an estuary in Zeeland, Netherlands, between Schouwen-Duiveland and Tholen on the north and Noord-Beveland and Zuid-Beveland on the south.During the Roman Era it was the major mouth of the Scheldt River. Before the St...
.
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| Claeskerke
(also Clauskinderen and Oostkerke)
| Village in the former south of Schouwen, between Westenschouwen
Westenschouwen
Westenschouwen is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Schouwen-Duiveland, and lies about 21 km north of Middelburg.Westenschouwen was a separate municipality until 1816, when it was merged with Burgh....
and Coudekerke. We now can only see the church tower in the Oosterscheldedijk. Claeskerke, long-term threatened with floods, drowned in 1511 in the Oosterschelde
Oosterschelde
The Oosterschelde is an estuary in Zeeland, Netherlands, between Schouwen-Duiveland and Tholen on the north and Noord-Beveland and Zuid-Beveland on the south.During the Roman Era it was the major mouth of the Scheldt River. Before the St...
.
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| Coudekerk
| Village in the vanished south of Schouwen. It is one of the few drowned villages which are still very visible in the Zeeland landscape. Of the village remains still the tower, alone and without church with its foundation in the Oosterscheldedijk at the south coast of Schouwen-Duiveland. In 1475 the sea dike was still 3 kilometers from the village, but in 1583 the Oosterschelde had so far advanced that the church had to be demolished. Only the tower, also known as the Plompe Toren, remained, as landmark for shipping. In the tower is a freely accessible visitors' centre with an exhibition about the Zeeland floods.
|-
| 's Heer Arendshaven
| Drowned hamlet and small fishing harbour in the south of Schouwen-Duiveland. It lay in the neighbourhood of Coudekerk in the now drowned, but then through farming prosperous, southland.
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| Herkesteyn
| Drowned and/or burnt up settlement with castle on Schouwen-Duiveland.
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| Klaaskinderkerke (also Claeskinderkerke)
| Vanished and drowned village on Schouwen-Duiveland. Its oldest mention is of 14 January 1286. On that day Pieter Nobel and his brother paid an amount to Floris the V about the harbour and the village. Its church was dedicated to St. Nicolaas. The last pastor, in 1549, was Michael Bense. The Allerheiligenvloed submerged Klaaskinderkerke. The surviving inhabitants did not return. In 1959 archeologists found the churchyard
Churchyard
A churchyard is a patch of land adjoining or surrounding a church which is usually owned by the relevant church or local parish itself. In the Scots language or Northern English language this can also be known as a kirkyard or kirkyaird....
of the village.
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| Lookshaven
(also Laoxhaven)
| Drowned village on the south coast of Schouwen. Between 1500 and 1550 it was left on the seaward side of the dike and vanished in the Oosterschelde
Oosterschelde
The Oosterschelde is an estuary in Zeeland, Netherlands, between Schouwen-Duiveland and Tholen on the north and Noord-Beveland and Zuid-Beveland on the south.During the Roman Era it was the major mouth of the Scheldt River. Before the St...
.
|-
| Oud-Westenschouwen
| This village was originally called Paalvoetseinde. It was at a creek in an opening of the dunes on Schouwen. The protecting dune girdle became damaged. Oud-Westenschouwen vanished under the sea surface at the end of the 15th century.
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| Rengerskerke
| Vanished and drowned village in the south of Schouwen. By Rengerskerke was a monastery of the Regulieren van Bethlehem, founded in 1479, answerable to the congregation of Sion. Not long after, the Oosterschelde
Oosterschelde
The Oosterschelde is an estuary in Zeeland, Netherlands, between Schouwen-Duiveland and Tholen on the north and Noord-Beveland and Zuid-Beveland on the south.During the Roman Era it was the major mouth of the Scheldt River. Before the St...
advanced. In 1486 all the canons had to move to a new building. By 1662 the village had totally vanished.
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| Simonskerke
| Drowned village on the south coast of Schouwen. Lost before 1500.
|-
| St. Jacobskerke
| A village in the south of Schouwen. Lost in the Oosterschelde
Oosterschelde
The Oosterschelde is an estuary in Zeeland, Netherlands, between Schouwen-Duiveland and Tholen on the north and Noord-Beveland and Zuid-Beveland on the south.During the Roman Era it was the major mouth of the Scheldt River. Before the St...
before 1500.
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| Welland
| Settlement and castle by Noordwelle
Noordwelle
Noordwelle is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Schouwen-Duiveland, and lies about 5 km southwest of Scharendijke.Noordwelle was a separate municipality until 1961, when it was merged with Westerschouwen....
on Schouwen-Duiveland. Through floods in 1421 and 1424 destroyed and vanished.
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| Westkerke (3)
| Drowned village in the south of Schouwen, a long way south of Coudekerke, therefore south of the present-day Plompe Toren which stands in the Oosterscheldedijk.
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| Zuidkerke
| The most important village of Zuidland, the region at the south corner of Schouwen that at the end of the Middle Ages was eroded away by the aggressive Oosterschelde
Oosterschelde
The Oosterschelde is an estuary in Zeeland, Netherlands, between Schouwen-Duiveland and Tholen on the north and Noord-Beveland and Zuid-Beveland on the south.During the Roman Era it was the major mouth of the Scheldt River. Before the St...
. Zuidkerke was so named around 1250.
|}>
Drowned villages in the Drowned Land of ReimerswaalVerdronken Land van ReimerswaalThe Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal is an area of flood-covered land in Zeeland in the Netherlands between Noord Beveland and Bergen op Zoom. Some of it was lost in the St. Felix's Flood in 1530, and some of it in 1532. The Oosterschelde formerly flowed along its east and north edges...
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| Agger
| Drowned village. It went under in 1551.
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| Assemansbroek
| The village Assemansbroek existed apparently in the 13th century. It was opposite Bergen op Zoom
Bergen op Zoom
Bergen op Zoom is a municipality and a city located in the south of the Netherlands.-History:Bergen op Zoom was granted city status probably in 1266. In 1287 the city and its surroundings became a lordship as it was separated from the lordship of Breda. The lordship was elevated to a margraviate...
on the western bank of the Schelde. It drowned in 1530.
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| Broecke
| Village in the east part of the Drowned Land of Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal
Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal
The Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal is an area of flood-covered land in Zeeland in the Netherlands between Noord Beveland and Bergen op Zoom. Some of it was lost in the St. Felix's Flood in 1530, and some of it in 1532. The Oosterschelde formerly flowed along its east and north edges...
. It drowned in 1530-1532.
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| Couveringe
| Village.
|-
| Duvenee
| West of Reimerswaal
Reimerswaal (city)
Reimerswaal is a lost city in the Netherlands.The present-day municipality of Reimerswaal is named after this city, which was granted city rights in 1374. The city was destroyed by repeated floods, and the last citizens left in 1632. Nothing remains...
town. The name is first known from 1275. It went under during the storm floods of 1530 and 1532.
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| Kapeldorp
| Name first known from 1495. A chapel
Chapel
A chapel is a building used by Christians as a place of fellowship and worship. It may be part of a larger structure or complex, such as a church, college, hospital, palace, prison or funeral home, located on board a military or commercial ship, or it may be an entirely free-standing building,...
called the Ramskapel, to the honour of the Holy Virgin
Holy Virgin
"Holy Virgin" is the first single from the album 21st Century by German trance group Groove Coverage. It's based on the song Fata Morgana by EAV.-Remix list:#"Holy Virgin" – 3:50#"Holy Virgin" – 3:28...
and St. Quirinus stood there. Kapeldorp vanished during the floods of 1530 and 1532.
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| Kouwerve
| East of Yerseke
Yerseke
Yerseke is a village situated on the southern shore of the Oosterschelde estuary in the Dutch province of Zeeland. A separate municipality until 1970, it today forms part of the municipality of Reimerswaal. As of 2010 Yerseke had a recorded population of 6,570 inhabitants divided over 2590...
. The word "werve" means "artificially raised height". That could not save the village. Kouwerve went under during the storm floods of 1530 and 1532.
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| Kreke
| It lay west of Bergen op Zoom
Bergen op Zoom
Bergen op Zoom is a municipality and a city located in the south of the Netherlands.-History:Bergen op Zoom was granted city status probably in 1266. In 1287 the city and its surroundings became a lordship as it was separated from the lordship of Breda. The lordship was elevated to a margraviate...
on the left bank of the Schelde. Kreke went under during the storm floods of 1530 and 1532.
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| Lodijke
| Village with castle. It went under during the storm floods of 1530 and 1532, by mismanagement. Kervinck van Reimerswaal lord of Lodijke eagerly wanted a harbour by the village. He thought that a scouring gully which was arisen by a dike break would give him a harbour. The gully scoured away both the castle
Castle
A castle is a type of fortified structure built in Europe and the Middle East during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars debate the scope of the word castle, but usually consider it to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble...
and the village
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...
. The place in the water is now called the Gat van Lodijke. Divers
Underwater diving
Underwater diving is the practice of going underwater, either with breathing apparatus or by breath-holding .Recreational diving is a popular activity...
found remains of the castle some years ago there.
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| Looketers
| Hamlet by the village of Steelvlet. Lost in the floods of 1530 and 1532.
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| Miehole
| Hamlet.
|-
| Nieuwkerke
| It was mentioned as a parish in 1240. Its church was a splitting of the parish of Lodijke. Nieuwkerke went under in 1530. The tower long remained a landmark in the flooded land.
|-
| Nieuwlande
Nieuwlande (Zeeland)
Nieuwlande is a drowned village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It was located 500 metres from the dike of the present-day Zuid-Beveland, north of Krabbendijke....
| 500 meters from the dike of the present-day Zuid-Beveland
Zuid-Beveland
Zuid-Beveland is a part of the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands north of the Westerschelde and south of the Oosterschelde. It is a former island, now peninsula, crossed by the Canal through Zuid-Beveland on the west and the Scheldt-Rhine Canal on the east.It consists of four...
. It was mentioned in 1242 in Latin
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
as Terra Nova. It went under during the storm floods of 1530 and 1532. The inhabitants must have been known as pious people. As a result Nieuwland became a haven for treasure
Treasure
Treasure is a concentration of riches, often one which is considered lost or forgotten until being rediscovered...
diggers, who found 600 so-called pilgrim badges there, frequently rather suggestive ornaments with phallic symbols. These pilgrimage souvenirs were bought by the collector Van Beuningen. They are now in the Boymans-Van Beuningen museum. Rubble and foundations of Nieuwlande show above water at ebb tide. It is a forbidden region.
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| Ouderdinge
| Northeast of Rilland
Rilland-Bath
Rilland-Bath is a former municipality in the Dutch province of Zeeland.It was created from a merger of Rilland and Bath in 1878, and existed until it merged into the municipality Reimerswaal....
. Its name is recorded from 1288. Its church was dedicated to St. James and the Holy Virgin
Holy Virgin
"Holy Virgin" is the first single from the album 21st Century by German trance group Groove Coverage. It's based on the song Fata Morgana by EAV.-Remix list:#"Holy Virgin" – 3:50#"Holy Virgin" – 3:28...
. It drowned in 1530.
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| Poppendijke
| Hamlet.
|-
| Reimerswaal
| The drowned Reimerswaal
Reimerswaal (city)
Reimerswaal is a lost city in the Netherlands.The present-day municipality of Reimerswaal is named after this city, which was granted city rights in 1374. The city was destroyed by repeated floods, and the last citizens left in 1632. Nothing remains...
was the third town of Zeeland
Zeeland
Zeeland , also called Zealand in English, is the westernmost province of the Netherlands. The province, located in the south-west of the country, consists of a number of islands and a strip bordering Belgium. Its capital is Middelburg. With a population of about 380,000, its area is about...
. It was flooded in 1530 and went definitively under in 1634. Its name has recently been reused as the name of a new municipality
Reimerswaal (municipality)
Reimerswall is a municipality in the province of Zeeland in the southwestern Netherlands on Zuid-Beveland, named after the lost city. The municipality had 20,966 inhabitants in 2004, and has a surface area of 243.70 km² . The central town Yerseke is known for trade in mussels and oysters...
formed by amalgamating five villages in the east of Zuid-Beveland
Zuid-Beveland
Zuid-Beveland is a part of the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands north of the Westerschelde and south of the Oosterschelde. It is a former island, now peninsula, crossed by the Canal through Zuid-Beveland on the west and the Scheldt-Rhine Canal on the east.It consists of four...
.
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| Schoudee
| Village in the western part of the Drowned Land of Reimerswaal
Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal
The Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal is an area of flood-covered land in Zeeland in the Netherlands between Noord Beveland and Bergen op Zoom. Some of it was lost in the St. Felix's Flood in 1530, and some of it in 1532. The Oosterschelde formerly flowed along its east and north edges...
. It sank in 1530-1532.
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| St. Jooskapel
| Hamlet. It went under in 1530.
|-
| Steelvlet
| It went under in the floods of 1530 and 1532.
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| Tolsende
(also Tolseynde, Totelsende, Tholsende)
| It started in a 12th century endiking east of Yerseke
Yerseke
Yerseke is a village situated on the southern shore of the Oosterschelde estuary in the Dutch province of Zeeland. A separate municipality until 1970, it today forms part of the municipality of Reimerswaal. As of 2010 Yerseke had a recorded population of 6,570 inhabitants divided over 2590...
. Tolsende was first recorded in 1275. Storm floods happened regularly. In 1439 Tolsende became property in land of symbolic value. It was noted as a lost domain. After re-diking the village vanished definitively during the floods of 1530 and 1532. In 1656 and 1669 small pieces of the drowned Tolsende were re-diked and joined to Kruiningen
Kruiningen
Kruiningen is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is located in the municipality of Reimerswaal, about 5 km south of the village of Yerseke.Kruiningen has a station on the railway line Bergen op Zoom - Vlissingen.-References:...
and Yerseke
Yerseke
Yerseke is a village situated on the southern shore of the Oosterschelde estuary in the Dutch province of Zeeland. A separate municipality until 1970, it today forms part of the municipality of Reimerswaal. As of 2010 Yerseke had a recorded population of 6,570 inhabitants divided over 2590...
. The name survives still as the Olzendepolder south of Yerseke
Yerseke
Yerseke is a village situated on the southern shore of the Oosterschelde estuary in the Dutch province of Zeeland. A separate municipality until 1970, it today forms part of the municipality of Reimerswaal. As of 2010 Yerseke had a recorded population of 6,570 inhabitants divided over 2590...
.
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| Yersekeroord
| Settement in the Land of Reimerswaal
Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal
The Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal is an area of flood-covered land in Zeeland in the Netherlands between Noord Beveland and Bergen op Zoom. Some of it was lost in the St. Felix's Flood in 1530, and some of it in 1532. The Oosterschelde formerly flowed along its east and north edges...
. It is located where the Schelde (which then still flowed into the Oosterschelde
Oosterschelde
The Oosterschelde is an estuary in Zeeland, Netherlands, between Schouwen-Duiveland and Tholen on the north and Noord-Beveland and Zuid-Beveland on the south.During the Roman Era it was the major mouth of the Scheldt River. Before the St...
) turned west by the height of Bergen op Zoom
Bergen op Zoom
Bergen op Zoom is a municipality and a city located in the south of the Netherlands.-History:Bergen op Zoom was granted city status probably in 1266. In 1287 the city and its surroundings became a lordship as it was separated from the lordship of Breda. The lordship was elevated to a margraviate...
, stood the toll house
Toll house
A tollhouse or toll house is a building with accommodation for a toll collector, beside a tollgate on a toll road or canal. Many tollhouses were built by turnpike trusts in England, Wales and Scotland during the 18th and early 19th centuries...
of Yersekeroord. On old maps that is indicated as a stone fort. Yersekeroord drowned during the storm floods of 1530 and 1532.
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| Zwartewale
(also Swartewaal, Swartewiel)
| Hamlet in the Land of Reimerswaal
Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal
The Verdronken Land van Reimerswaal is an area of flood-covered land in Zeeland in the Netherlands between Noord Beveland and Bergen op Zoom. Some of it was lost in the St. Felix's Flood in 1530, and some of it in 1532. The Oosterschelde formerly flowed along its east and north edges...
, between Duvenee and Nieuwkerke. It drowned during the floods of 1530 and 1532.
|}
Drowned villages in the BraakmanBraakmanThe Braakman was a large tidal inlet in the middle of the Dutch region of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, on the south bank of the Westerschelde west of Terneuzen....
| Hughersluis (c.1500)
| Small town. It was a centre for transport of peat
Peat
Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation matter or histosol. Peat forms in wetland bogs, moors, muskegs, pocosins, mires, and peat swamp forests. Peat is harvested as an important source of fuel in certain parts of the world...
by ship
Ship
Since the end of the age of sail a ship has been any large buoyant marine vessel. Ships are generally distinguished from boats based on size and cargo or passenger capacity. Ships are used on lakes, seas, and rivers for a variety of activities, such as the transport of people or goods, fishing,...
.
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| Hertinge
| South of the Mauritsfort in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeelandic Flanders is the southernmost region of the province of Zeeland in south-western Netherlands. It lies south of the Western Scheldt that separates the region from the remainder of Zeeland to the north...
. Hertinghe counted 33 dwellings in 1469. In the 1488 flood it vanished from the map.
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| Koudekerke
| Village.
|-
| Moerkerke
| Moerkerk was a village along a road at the south of Biervliet
Biervliet
Biervliet is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Terneuzen, and lies about 16 km South of Vlissingen.Biervliet received city rights in 1183. It is originally a fishing village...
, a street with houses and farms on each side. The village drowned in 1488.
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| Niekerke (also Nieuw-Moerkerke or Nieuwerkerke)
| Its church lay between Mauritsfort and Sluiskil
Sluiskil
Sluiskil is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Terneuzen, and lies about 27 km southeast of Vlissingen.In 2001, the town of Sluiskil had 2366 inhabitants...
. In 1393 a storm flood submerged the village. The last mention of its name dates from 1404.
|-
| Oud-IJzendijke
| Oud-IJzendijke apperars in the archives in 1046. It got town rights in 1127. The first IJzendijke went under in 1404. In 1587 the Spanish
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
army commander Parma
Parma
Parma is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its ham, its cheese, its architecture and the fine countryside around it. This is the home of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world....
had a redoubt
Redoubt
A redoubt is a fort or fort system usually consisting of an enclosed defensive emplacement outside a larger fort, usually relying on earthworks, though others are constructed of stone or brick. It is meant to protect soldiers outside the main defensive line and can be a permanent structure or a...
with 4 bulwarks built two kilometers southwest of the old IJzendijke. That was the beginning of IJzendijke
IJzendijke
IJzendijke is a city in the municipality of Sluis, about 10 km east of Oostburg, in the Dutch province of Zeeland. Its population is 1,780 .The town received city rights in 1303....
such as we now know: it was thus founded by the Spanish
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
.
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| Pakinge
(also St. Laurenskerke)
| Village northwest of Hoek
Hoek
Hoek is the name of several villages in the Netherlands:*Hoek van Holland, near Rotterdam.*Hoek, Zeeland, near Terneuzen.*Hoek, Veghel*Hoek, Friesland*Hoek, Sint-Michielsgestel*Hoek, Limburg*Hoek, Gelderland*Hoek, Valkenswaard...
in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeelandic Flanders is the southernmost region of the province of Zeeland in south-western Netherlands. It lies south of the Western Scheldt that separates the region from the remainder of Zeeland to the north...
between two other drowned villages: Wevelswale and Vremdijke. Of Pakinge we know that there were, apart from houses or huts, also two sheepfolds. Pakinge went under in the waves of the Braakman
Braakman
The Braakman was a large tidal inlet in the middle of the Dutch region of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, on the south bank of the Westerschelde west of Terneuzen....
in 1214. After all this time Pakinge is only a memory in books.
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| Peerboom
| South of Sluiskil
Sluiskil
Sluiskil is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Terneuzen, and lies about 27 km southeast of Vlissingen.In 2001, the town of Sluiskil had 2366 inhabitants...
. First mentioned in 1250. The Flemish
Flanders
Flanders is the community of the Flemings but also one of the institutions in Belgium, and a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France and the Netherlands. "Flanders" can also refer to the northern part of Belgium that contains Brussels, Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp...
abbey
Abbey
An abbey is a Catholic monastery or convent, under the authority of an Abbot or an Abbess, who serves as the spiritual father or mother of the community.The term can also refer to an establishment which has long ceased to function as an abbey,...
of Ter Duinen had there in 1240 a grange and a big farm. To this grange also a hospital
Hospital
A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Hospitals often, but not always, provide for inpatient care or longer-term patient stays....
was linked. War violence sealed the fate of the village of Peerboom. In 1488 Maximiliaan of Oostenrijk started a war in the present-day Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeelandic Flanders is the southernmost region of the province of Zeeland in south-western Netherlands. It lies south of the Western Scheldt that separates the region from the remainder of Zeeland to the north...
. Peerboom had to become desolate because of floods. The storm flood of 1493 sealed the fate of Peerboom.
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| St. Laurenskerke
| Village.
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| Stardijk
| Drowned hamlet in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeelandic Flanders is the southernmost region of the province of Zeeland in south-western Netherlands. It lies south of the Western Scheldt that separates the region from the remainder of Zeeland to the north...
, lost about 1300. It was in the neighbourhood of Boterzande in the present-day Braakman
Braakman
The Braakman was a large tidal inlet in the middle of the Dutch region of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, on the south bank of the Westerschelde west of Terneuzen....
.
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| Steelant
| Village southwest of Terneuzen
Terneuzen
Terneuzen is a city and municipality in the southwestern Netherlands, in the province of Zeeland, in the middle of Zeelandic Flanders. With over 55,000 inhabitants, it is the most populous municipality of Zeeland.-Population centres :...
, in the direction of Sluiskil
Sluiskil
Sluiskil is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Terneuzen, and lies about 27 km southeast of Vlissingen.In 2001, the town of Sluiskil had 2366 inhabitants...
It was in 1199 a parish. The church belonged to the chapter of St. Salvator at Utrecht
Utrecht (city)
Utrecht city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, and is the fourth largest city of the Netherlands with a population of 312,634 on 1 Jan 2011.Utrecht's ancient city centre features...
. Steeland counted in 1469 95 dwellings. The village went under water in the 14th century and vanished in 1488 definitively in the advancing Braakman
Braakman
The Braakman was a large tidal inlet in the middle of the Dutch region of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, on the south bank of the Westerschelde west of Terneuzen....
.
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| Ter Piet
| Hamlet
Hamlet (place)
A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...
or village
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...
in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeelandic Flanders is the southernmost region of the province of Zeeland in south-western Netherlands. It lies south of the Western Scheldt that separates the region from the remainder of Zeeland to the north...
, north of Biervliet
Biervliet
Biervliet is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Terneuzen, and lies about 16 km South of Vlissingen.Biervliet received city rights in 1183. It is originally a fishing village...
. In 1242 the region about Ter Piet came into possession of St. Peter's Abbey
St. Peter's Abbey
St. Peter's Abbey may refer to:*St. Peter's Abbey on the Madron, former abbey at Flintsbach am Inn, Bavaria, Germany*St. Peter's Abbey in the Black Forest, former abbey at St. Peter im Schwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg, Germany...
. The inhabitants of Ter Piet were small farmer
Farmer
A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, who raises living organisms for food or raw materials, generally including livestock husbandry and growing crops, such as produce and grain...
s. They specialised in growing wheat
Wheat
Wheat is a cereal grain, originally from the Levant region of the Near East, but now cultivated worldwide. In 2007 world production of wheat was 607 million tons, making it the third most-produced cereal after maize and rice...
and madder
Madder
Rubia is a genus of the madder family Rubiaceae, which contains about 60 species of perennial scrambling or climbing herbs and sub-shrubs native to the Old World, Africa, temperate Asia and America...
. Each year they had to pay tax
Tax
To tax is to impose a financial charge or other levy upon a taxpayer by a state or the functional equivalent of a state such that failure to pay is punishable by law. Taxes are also imposed by many subnational entities...
, ground taxes, hauled off to the landowners in Ghent
Ghent
Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...
. One part of that payment was for the place's pastor
Pastor
The word pastor usually refers to an ordained leader of a Christian congregation. When used as an ecclesiastical styling or title, this role may be abbreviated to "Pr." or often "Ps"....
and his expenses. The archives show clearly that the farmers of Ter Piet did not always agree. Regularly they could not pay their ground taxes in full. The abbot of St. Peter's sent then immediately a messenger on horse to Biervliet. The mounted bailiff
Bailiff
A bailiff is a governor or custodian ; a legal officer to whom some degree of authority, care or jurisdiction is committed...
had to take care that the folk of Ter Piet paid to the last penny. Ter Piet vanished during the storm flood of 8 October 1375 in the Braakman
Braakman
The Braakman was a large tidal inlet in the middle of the Dutch region of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, on the south bank of the Westerschelde west of Terneuzen....
, which was then called the Zuudzee.
|-
| Vremdijke
(also Vroondijk, Vremdic, Frondic, Vrandic)
| In 1114 the abbey of St.Peter at Ghent
Ghent
Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...
owned all immovable property in Vremdijke. The church of Vremdijke was dedicated to St. Basilius. Through storm floods in the 14th and the 15th century much property in land vanished in the Braakman
Braakman
The Braakman was a large tidal inlet in the middle of the Dutch region of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, on the south bank of the Westerschelde west of Terneuzen....
. Vremdijke went under in 1488. Two years after a re-diking a new Vremdijke was founded, in 1515. In 1579 the pastor Michael Struv van Vremdijke converted to Protestantism
Protestantism
Protestantism is one of the three major groupings within Christianity. It is a movement that began in Germany in the early 16th century as a reaction against medieval Roman Catholic doctrines and practices, especially in regards to salvation, justification, and ecclesiology.The doctrines of the...
. That went not entirely smoothly. An enquiry showed that the ex-pastor was not good at home in the rituals of the new doctrine. He was steered to the strongly Calvinist Ghent. The elders of Vremdijke asked for a new preacher; Lieven Koene was appointed. After 1590, when Prince Maurits had conquered Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeelandic Flanders is the southernmost region of the province of Zeeland in south-western Netherlands. It lies south of the Western Scheldt that separates the region from the remainder of Zeeland to the north...
, the region became a sort of mission area. Vremdijke, Terneuzen
Terneuzen
Terneuzen is a city and municipality in the southwestern Netherlands, in the province of Zeeland, in the middle of Zeelandic Flanders. With over 55,000 inhabitants, it is the most populous municipality of Zeeland.-Population centres :...
and Biervliet
Biervliet
Biervliet is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Terneuzen, and lies about 16 km South of Vlissingen.Biervliet received city rights in 1183. It is originally a fishing village...
together got a preacher. To get from Terneuzen to Biervliet he had to go behind round the Braakman
Braakman
The Braakman was a large tidal inlet in the middle of the Dutch region of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, on the south bank of the Westerschelde west of Terneuzen....
, via Philippine
Philippine (Netherlands)
Philippine is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Terneuzen, and lies about 23 km southeast of Vlissingen. It is located close to the border with Belgium, 5 km southwest of the city of Terneuzen. It received city rights in 1506.Philippine has...
. In 1592 the preacher was Johannes Bollius, a preacher trained in Ghent. He lived in Vremdijke. During a storm flood in the night of 25/26 November 1601 the Braakman broke anew through the dikes. Vremdijke flooded. Many inhabitants drowned. Pastor Bollius survived the night's catastrophe. He fled landwards to find a dry place. He came straight to the still new Mauritsfort. He built there a new church and organised the municipality of Hoek
Hoek
Hoek is the name of several villages in the Netherlands:*Hoek van Holland, near Rotterdam.*Hoek, Zeeland, near Terneuzen.*Hoek, Veghel*Hoek, Friesland*Hoek, Sint-Michielsgestel*Hoek, Limburg*Hoek, Gelderland*Hoek, Valkenswaard...
.
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| Wevelswale
| Coastal village by the Westerschelde north of Hoek
Hoek
Hoek is the name of several villages in the Netherlands:*Hoek van Holland, near Rotterdam.*Hoek, Zeeland, near Terneuzen.*Hoek, Veghel*Hoek, Friesland*Hoek, Sint-Michielsgestel*Hoek, Limburg*Hoek, Gelderland*Hoek, Valkenswaard...
in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeelandic Flanders is the southernmost region of the province of Zeeland in south-western Netherlands. It lies south of the Western Scheldt that separates the region from the remainder of Zeeland to the north...
. St. Baaf's Abbey at Ghent
Ghent
Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of...
had a farm in Wevelswale. Wevelswale was named for the first time in 1170. It was protected by the Monniksdijk. Wevelswale was in the mouth of the present-day Braakman
Braakman
The Braakman was a large tidal inlet in the middle of the Dutch region of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, on the south bank of the Westerschelde west of Terneuzen....
, approximately where now the Braakmanhaven is, west of the Nieuw-Neuzenpolder. One rich farmer, a certain Arnoldus of Evergem
Evergem
Evergem is a municipality located in the Belgian province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the towns of Belzele, Doornzele, Ertvelde, Evergem proper, Kerkbrugge-Langerbrugge, Kluizen, Rieme, Sleidinge and Wippelgem. On January 1, 2006 Evergem had a total population of 32,244...
, could collect tax in Wevelswale about 1170. One problem was for Arnoldus to transport his collected tax, the tithes, to his far southerly farm by Evergem
Evergem
Evergem is a municipality located in the Belgian province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the towns of Belzele, Doornzele, Ertvelde, Evergem proper, Kerkbrugge-Langerbrugge, Kluizen, Rieme, Sleidinge and Wippelgem. On January 1, 2006 Evergem had a total population of 32,244...
. Thus he exchanged the right of tithe gathering in Wevelswale with the big landowners of St. Baaf's Abbey at Ghent. He got there in return a tithe by Evergem. Another farmer in Wevelswale was Dirk Cleyland. He owned there about 1268 a knight
Knight
A knight was a member of a class of lower nobility in the High Middle Ages.By the Late Middle Ages, the rank had become associated with the ideals of chivalry, a code of conduct for the perfect courtly Christian warrior....
s' hall place. Wevelswale drowned in 1375/1376 in the Braakman
Braakman
The Braakman was a large tidal inlet in the middle of the Dutch region of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, on the south bank of the Westerschelde west of Terneuzen....
.
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| Willemskerke
| Drowned village in the Braakman
Braakman
The Braakman was a large tidal inlet in the middle of the Dutch region of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, on the south bank of the Westerschelde west of Terneuzen....
.
|}>
ZeelandZeelandZeeland , also called Zealand in English, is the westernmost province of the Netherlands. The province, located in the south-west of the country, consists of a number of islands and a strip bordering Belgium. Its capital is Middelburg. With a population of about 380,000, its area is about...
and West BrabantNorth BrabantNorth Brabant , sometimes called Brabant, is a province of the Netherlands, located in the south of the country, bordered by Belgium in the south, the Meuse River in the north, Limburg in the east and Zeeland in the west.- History :...
: doubtful cases
| Axel
Axel (Netherlands)
Axel is a town in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Terneuzen, and lies about 31 km southeast of Vlissingen. It received city rights in 1213.In 2001, the town of Axel had 7421 inhabitants...
| Flooded in 1606 and 1808, but directly rebuilt on the same place.
|-
| Herkesteyn
| Drowned and/or burnt down settlement with castle on Schouwen-Duiveland.
|-
| Pelkem
| A parish at IJzendijke
IJzendijke
IJzendijke is a city in the municipality of Sluis, about 10 km east of Oostburg, in the Dutch province of Zeeland. Its population is 1,780 .The town received city rights in 1303....
, not more closely localisable. (Records of Saint Janshospitaal in Bruges
Bruges
Bruges is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located in the northwest of the country....
).
|-
| Scaltheim
| Mysterious settlement from the 9th century. On the coast of Schouwen. Vanished in the sea through pulling back of the coast.
|-
| Sypenesse
| Suspected drowned manor by Tholen
Tholen
Tholen is a municipality in the southwest of the Netherlands. The municipality of Tholen has lent its name from the town of Tholen, which is the largest population center in the municipality....
. The coat of arms of Sypenesse comes on the armorial chart of M. Smallegange in his "Nieuwe Cronyck van Zeeland" [= "new chronicle
Chronicle
Generally a chronicle is a historical account of facts and events ranged in chronological order, as in a time line. Typically, equal weight is given for historically important events and local events, the purpose being the recording of events that occurred, seen from the perspective of the...
of Zeeland
Zeeland
Zeeland , also called Zealand in English, is the westernmost province of the Netherlands. The province, located in the south-west of the country, consists of a number of islands and a strip bordering Belgium. Its capital is Middelburg. With a population of about 380,000, its area is about...
"] (1696).
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| Tubendic
| Mentioned in 1025, when St. Peter's Abbey
St. Peter's Abbey
St. Peter's Abbey may refer to:*St. Peter's Abbey on the Madron, former abbey at Flintsbach am Inn, Bavaria, Germany*St. Peter's Abbey in the Black Forest, former abbey at St. Peter im Schwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg, Germany...
obtained the hamlet of Tubendic in the neighbourhood of Oostburg
Oostburg
Oostburg is a town in the south-western Netherlands. It is the largest town in the municipality of Sluis, in the province of Zeeland. As of 1 January 2005, its population is 5,008. It received city rights in 1237....
. Tubendic is the oldest dike name in west Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Zeelandic Flanders is the southernmost region of the province of Zeeland in south-western Netherlands. It lies south of the Western Scheldt that separates the region from the remainder of Zeeland to the north...
.
|}>
ZeelandZeelandZeeland , also called Zealand in English, is the westernmost province of the Netherlands. The province, located in the south-west of the country, consists of a number of islands and a strip bordering Belgium. Its capital is Middelburg. With a population of about 380,000, its area is about...
and West BrabantNorth BrabantNorth Brabant , sometimes called Brabant, is a province of the Netherlands, located in the south of the country, bordered by Belgium in the south, the Meuse River in the north, Limburg in the east and Zeeland in the west.- History :...
: drowned islands in the deltaRiver deltaA delta is a landform that is formed at the mouth of a river where that river flows into an ocean, sea, estuary, lake, reservoir, flat arid area, or another river. Deltas are formed from the deposition of the sediment carried by the river as the flow leaves the mouth of the river...
region
| Waterdunen
| Drowned in 1130
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| Wulpen
| Drowned in 1570
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| Koezand
| Drowned in 1570
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| Cadesant
| Drowned in 1570
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| Schoneveld
| Drowned in 1375
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| Stuivezant
| Drowned in 1570
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| Orisant
| Drowned in 1639
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11 villages west of the Grote Hollandse WaardGrote Hollandse WaardThe Grote Waard or Zuid-Hollandse Waard was a farming region between Zuid-Holland and Brabant, that disappeared in the Sint-Elisabethsvloed . Parts of this polder are now separated by water: Hoekse Waard, Eiland van Dordrecht, the Biesbosch, and parts of Noord-Brabant...
, east of the current gully of De StrieneStrieneDe 'Striene was a water channel that ran between the Schelde near Tholen and the Maas rivers in Zeeland in the Netherlands. In the Sint-Elisabethsvloed the watercourses in the Maas and Rhine delta were drastically changed, and the Striene disappeared....
| Strienemonde
| The drowned Strienemonde was a settlement in the Striene
Striene
De 'Striene was a water channel that ran between the Schelde near Tholen and the Maas rivers in Zeeland in the Netherlands. In the Sint-Elisabethsvloed the watercourses in the Maas and Rhine delta were drastically changed, and the Striene disappeared....
where the Count of Holland
Count of Holland
The Counts of Holland ruled over the County of Holland in the Low Countries between the 10th and the 16th century.-House of Holland:The first count of Holland, Dirk I, was the son or foster-son of Gerolf, Count in Frisia...
levied a toll
Tariff
A tariff may be either tax on imports or exports , or a list or schedule of prices for such things as rail service, bus routes, and electrical usage ....
.
|-
| Oud-Strijen
| A village suspected to be somewhere by the Zwanegat
Zwanegat
Zwanegat is a hamlet in in the Dutch province of South Holland and is part of the municipality Binnenmaas. Zwanegat lies between Westmaas and Sint Anthoniepolder.-References:...
. It drowned in 1288, and was partly moved to the present-day Strijen
Strijen
Strijen is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality, covering an area of 57.72 km² , is located on the Hoeksche Waard island along the Hollands Diep estuary.Strijen hosts a public library, swimming pool, a small shopping centre and...
, partly to Oosterhout
Oosterhout
Oosterhout is a municipality and a city in the South of the Netherlands. At June, 2008, the city population was 54,015.-History:Oosterhout is mentioned for the first time in 1277, although archaeological excavations showed the existence of human settlements in the area in prehistoric times. The...
(Slotbosse Toren or house of Strijen).
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| Niervaart (now Groote Ketel)
| The village of Niervaart was between Klundert
Klundert
Klundert is a city in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located close to the Hollands Diep, about 3 km northwest of Zevenbergen. It received city rights in 1357....
and Zevenbergen. A farm named Groote Ketel is there now.
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| Overdrage
| The drowned Overdrage was somewhere east of Klundert
Klundert
Klundert is a city in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located close to the Hollands Diep, about 3 km northwest of Zevenbergen. It received city rights in 1357....
. It is not the same village as Niervaart.
|-
| Zonzeel
| Drowned village southeast of Langeweg. When Zonzeel drowned in 1421, a chapel
Chapel
A chapel is a building used by Christians as a place of fellowship and worship. It may be part of a larger structure or complex, such as a church, college, hospital, palace, prison or funeral home, located on board a military or commercial ship, or it may be an entirely free-standing building,...
remained behind on the Markdijk. The name Zonzeel comes back in the Zonzeelse Polder, and in the daily traffic jam reports: the choke point Zonzeel.
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| Nieuwenbosch
| Drowned village north of Oudenbosch
Oudenbosch
Oudenbosch is a village in the municipality Halderberge in the west of the Dutch province Noord-Brabant. Oudenbosch is well-known for its 'Basiliek' a catholic church that is a smaller copy of St...
.
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| Nieuw-Gastel
| Drowned village. Little else is known about it.
|-
| Valkenburg
| A drowned village south of Willemstad
Willemstad
Willemstad can refer to:*Willemstad, the capital of Curaçao*Willemstad , a town in Moerdijk, the Netherlands*Willemstad , a hamlet near Marum, the Netherlands*Willemstad , a hamlet in the Netherlands...
(area around Helwijk)
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| Koeveringe
| Southwest of Steenbergen, in the region that now is known as De Kladde.
|-
| Polre
| South of the present-day bridge between West-Brabant
North Brabant
North Brabant , sometimes called Brabant, is a province of the Netherlands, located in the south of the country, bordered by Belgium in the south, the Meuse River in the north, Limburg in the east and Zeeland in the west.- History :...
and Tholen
Tholen
Tholen is a municipality in the southwest of the Netherlands. The municipality of Tholen has lent its name from the town of Tholen, which is the largest population center in the municipality....
. Also named Heer Boudewijns Polder or Nieuw Schakerlo.
|-
| Friezenmoerdijk
| The settlement of Friezenmoerdijk lay in the drowned domain
Dominion
A dominion, often Dominion, refers to one of a group of autonomous polities that were nominally under British sovereignty, constituting the British Empire and British Commonwealth, beginning in the latter part of the 19th century. They have included Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland,...
of Friezenmoerdijk, in the region of Oud-Vossemeer
Oud-Vossemeer
Oud-Vossemeer is a village on the island of Tholen in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Tholen, and lies about 11 km northwest of Bergen op Zoom, close to the Eendracht, part of the Scheldt-Rhine Canal....
and Nieuw Vossemeer
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4 or 5 drowned villages east of the Schelde
| Vijfhuizen
| A hamlet at the head of Bergen op Zoom
Bergen op Zoom
Bergen op Zoom is a municipality and a city located in the south of the Netherlands.-History:Bergen op Zoom was granted city status probably in 1266. In 1287 the city and its surroundings became a lordship as it was separated from the lordship of Breda. The lordship was elevated to a margraviate...
Harbour
|-
| Hildernisse
| West of Bergen op Zoom
Bergen op Zoom
Bergen op Zoom is a municipality and a city located in the south of the Netherlands.-History:Bergen op Zoom was granted city status probably in 1266. In 1287 the city and its surroundings became a lordship as it was separated from the lordship of Breda. The lordship was elevated to a margraviate...
, by the water tower, lies the drowned Hildernisse.
|-
| Kloosteroord
| location unknown
|-
| Oud-Ossendrecht
| The drowned Oud-Ossendrecht is called now De Aanwas.
|-
| Oud Berendrecht
| In the frontier region of the present-day Noord-Brabant and Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
lies the drowned Berendrecht. The village was later moved to the present-day Berendrecht
Berendrecht
Berendrecht is a village in Antwerp province in Belgium. Its name means "dike of the bear", according to the area's dialect, or "dike of a man called Bear", or "passage by the marsh"...
in Belgium.
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9 villages on the south bank of the Maas, in BrabantNorth BrabantNorth Brabant , sometimes called Brabant, is a province of the Netherlands, located in the south of the country, bordered by Belgium in the south, the Meuse River in the north, Limburg in the east and Zeeland in the west.- History :...
and Zuid-Holland, in order from west to east
| Weede
| A village drowned in 1421. Most westerly village in the Grote Waard. The inhabitants of Weede fled to the area around Cillaarshoek
Cillaarshoek
Cillaarshoek is a village in the western Netherlands. It is located in Strijen, South Holland, about 15 km south of Rotterdam.Cillaarshoek was a separate municipality between 1817 and 1832, when it became part of Maasdam.-References:...
, a little piece of dike north of Strijen
Strijen
Strijen is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality, covering an area of 57.72 km² , is located on the Hoeksche Waard island along the Hollands Diep estuary.Strijen hosts a public library, swimming pool, a small shopping centre and...
in the present-day Hoekse Waard. Their offspring live there still.
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| Wieldrecht
| A village drowned in 1421.
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| Twintighoeven
| A village drowned in 1421.
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| Dubbelmonde
| A village drowned in 1421.
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| Almonde
| A village drowned in 1421.
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| Drimmelen
| The oldest Drimmelen was entirely drowned in 1421. The second Drimmelen was abandoned quietly and is known as "Oud-Drimmelen". The third Drimmelen is the yacht harbour.
|-
| Standhazen
| A domain drowned in 1421 between Drimmelen
Drimmelen
- Population centres :Towns:*Made *Terheijden *Lage Zwaluwe *Wagenberg *Hooge Zwaluwe *Drimmelen...
and Geertruidenberg
Geertruidenberg
Geertruidenberg is a city and municipality in the province North Brabant in the south of the Netherlands. The city, named after Saint Gertrude of Nivelles, received city rights in 1213 from the count of Holland. The fortified city prospered until the 15th century.Today, the municipality of...
. Unclear if there was a village there.
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| Broek
| Drowned village on the southwest dike of the Grote Waard, approximately where now the Moerdijk
Moerdijk
Moerdijk is a municipality and a town in the South of the Netherlands, in the province of North Brabant.- History :The municipality of Moerdijk was founded in 1997 following the merger of the municipalities of Fijnaart en Heijningen, Klundert, Standdaarbuiten, Willemstad and Zevenbergen. At that...
bridges are.
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| Achthoeven
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16 villages north of the Maas
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Drowned villages in the former Grote Hollandse WaardGrote Hollandse WaardThe Grote Waard or Zuid-Hollandse Waard was a farming region between Zuid-Holland and Brabant, that disappeared in the Sint-Elisabethsvloed . Parts of this polder are now separated by water: Hoekse Waard, Eiland van Dordrecht, the Biesbosch, and parts of Noord-Brabant...
alias Zuid-Hollandse Waard, whose locations are not known
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One drowned village in the Hoekse Waard
| Schuring
| With the hamlet Capelle
Capelle
Capelle is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located about 6 km west of Waalwijk.Capelle was a separate municipality until 1923, when it merged with Sprang and Vrijhoeve-Capelle. They formed the new municipality of Sprang-Capelle, which existed until 1997...
near Zierikzee
Zierikzee
Zierikzee is a small city, located on the former island of Schouwen in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Schouwen-Duiveland, and lies about 26 km southwest of Hellevoetsluis....
, the hamlet Schuring near Numansdorp
Numansdorp
Numansdorp is a village in the Municipal Cromstrijen in the province South Holland in the Netherlands.On the 31st December 2004 Numansdorp had 9910 residents according to the municipal website ....
in the Hoekse Waard shares the doubtful honour of being the most recent drowned village of the delta
River delta
A delta is a landform that is formed at the mouth of a river where that river flows into an ocean, sea, estuary, lake, reservoir, flat arid area, or another river. Deltas are formed from the deposition of the sediment carried by the river as the flow leaves the mouth of the river...
. Schuring drowned during the water disaster of 1953
North Sea flood of 1953
The 1953 North Sea flood was a major flood caused by a heavy storm, that occurred on the night of Saturday 31 January 1953 and morning of 1 February 1953. The floods struck the Netherlands, Belgium, England and Scotland.A combination of a high spring tide and a severe European windstorm caused a...
and was not rebuilt.
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Drowned villages in the HaarlemmermeerHaarlemmermeerHaarlemmermeer is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is a polder, consisting of land reclaimed from water, and the name Haarlemmermeer means Haarlem's Lake, still referring to the body of water from which the region was reclaimed in the 19th century.Its main...
and other inland lakes
| Beinsdorp
Beinsdorp
Beinsdorp is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Haarlemmermeer, and lies about 7 km southwest of Hoofddorp. Beinsdorp is named after a former island in the former Haarlemmermeer lake....
| Abandoned as the Haarlemmermeer spread. A new village in the Haarlemmermeerpolder was named after it.
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| Rijk
| Abandoned as the Haarlemmermeer
Haarlemmermeer
Haarlemmermeer is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is a polder, consisting of land reclaimed from water, and the name Haarlemmermeer means Haarlem's Lake, still referring to the body of water from which the region was reclaimed in the 19th century.Its main...
spread.
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| Vennep
| Abandoned as the Haarlemmermeer spread. Nieuw Vennep in the Haarlemmermeerpolder was named after it.
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| Vijfhuizen
Vijfhuizen
Vijfhuizen is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Haarlemmermeer, and lies about 4 km southeast of Haarlem....
| Abandoned as the Haarlemmermeer spread. A new village in the Haarlemmermeerpolder was named after it.
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Drowned villages in waters round WieringenWieringenWieringen is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It consists of a former island, also named Wieringen, and there are plans to make Wieringen an island again by widening the Amsteldiepkanaal into a lake called the Wieringerrandmeer.-Population centres :The...
, listed in records as property of FuldaFuldaFulda is a city in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the river Fulda and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district .- Early Middle Ages :...
Monastery, late 8th, early 9th century
| Unnamed farms &
woods in Wieringen
Wieringen
Wieringen is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It consists of a former island, also named Wieringen, and there are plans to make Wieringen an island again by widening the Amsteldiepkanaal into a lake called the Wieringerrandmeer.-Population centres :The...
by River Marsdiep
Marsdiep
The Marsdiep is a deep tide-race between Den Helder and Texel in the Netherlands, and running southwards between sandbanks. That gap connects the North Sea and the Waddenzee....
(spelt Maresdeop)
| Given by one Gerwic of Friesland
Friesland
Friesland is a province in the north of the Netherlands and part of the ancient region of Frisia.Until the end of 1996, the province bore Friesland as its official name. In 1997 this Dutch name lost its official status to the Frisian Fryslân...
. Probably drowned in Waddenzee in early Middle Ages in flood disasters which formed the Zuiderzee. Wieringen
Wieringen
Wieringen is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It consists of a former island, also named Wieringen, and there are plans to make Wieringen an island again by widening the Amsteldiepkanaal into a lake called the Wieringerrandmeer.-Population centres :The...
& Texel
Texel
Texel is a municipality and an island in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is the biggest and most populated of the Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea, and also the westernmost of this archipelago, which extends to Denmark...
were likely much bigger than the modern islands and extended over much of what is now the west end of the Waddenzee, and the Marsdiep
Marsdiep
The Marsdiep is a deep tide-race between Den Helder and Texel in the Netherlands, and running southwards between sandbanks. That gap connects the North Sea and the Waddenzee....
(described as a fluvium = "river") flowed between them with banks of dry land. The exit of the old freshwater Lacus Flevo / Almere
Almere
Almere is a planned city and municipality in the province of Flevoland, the Netherlands, bordering Lelystad and Zeewolde. The municipality of Almere comprises the districts Almere Stad, Almere Haven, Almere Buiten, Almere Hout, Almere Poort and Almere Pampus .Almere is the youngest city in the...
was the Vlie
Vlie
The Vlie or Vliestroom is the seaway between the Dutch islands of Vlieland, to its southwest, and Terschelling, to its northeast. The Vlie was the estuary of the river IJssel in medieval times...
river, reaching the sea through what is now the Vliestroom between Vlieland
Vlieland
Vlieland is a municipality in the northern Netherlands. The municipality of Vlieland has only one major town: Oost-Vlieland . It is the second-least densely populated municipality in the Netherlands ....
and Terschelling
Terschelling
Terschelling is a municipality and an island in the northern Netherlands, one of the West Frisian Islands.Waddenislanders are known for their resourcefulness in using anything and everything that washes ashore. With few trees to use for timber, most of the farms and barns are built with masts...
; but the river Marsdiep
Marsdiep
The Marsdiep is a deep tide-race between Den Helder and Texel in the Netherlands, and running southwards between sandbanks. That gap connects the North Sea and the Waddenzee....
may have been a distributary
Distributary
A distributary, or a distributary channel, is a stream that branches off and flows away from a main stream channel. They are a common feature of river deltas. The phenomenon is known as river bifurcation. The opposite of a distributary is a tributary...
of the Vlie
Vlie
The Vlie or Vliestroom is the seaway between the Dutch islands of Vlieland, to its southwest, and Terschelling, to its northeast. The Vlie was the estuary of the river IJssel in medieval times...
, and `diep' in its name implies a big river.
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| Wictulfingafurt
| In Wieringen
Wieringen
Wieringen is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It consists of a former island, also named Wieringen, and there are plans to make Wieringen an island again by widening the Amsteldiepkanaal into a lake called the Wieringerrandmeer.-Population centres :The...
. Given by one Geltrud. Farmland & woods, including meadow that produced 20 cart
Cart
A cart is a vehicle designed for transport, using two wheels and normally pulled by one or a pair of draught animals. A handcart is pulled or pushed by one or more people...
loads of hay
Hay
Hay is grass, legumes or other herbaceous plants that have been cut, dried, and stored for use as animal fodder, particularly for grazing livestock such as cattle, horses, goats, and sheep. Hay is also fed to pets such as rabbits and guinea pigs...
each year. Probably drowned as in previous entry. The name means "ford
Ford (crossing)
A ford is a shallow place with good footing where a river or stream may be crossed by wading or in a vehicle. A ford is mostly a natural phenomenon, in contrast to a low water crossing, which is an artificial bridge that allows crossing a river or stream when water is low.The names of many towns...
of the sons or people of Wichtwulf"
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| Brochenlar
| In Wieringen
Wieringen
Wieringen is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It consists of a former island, also named Wieringen, and there are plans to make Wieringen an island again by widening the Amsteldiepkanaal into a lake called the Wieringerrandmeer.-Population centres :The...
. Given by one Isanbalt and his wife Sigibirn from Friesland
Friesland
Friesland is a province in the north of the Netherlands and part of the ancient region of Frisia.Until the end of 1996, the province bore Friesland as its official name. In 1997 this Dutch name lost its official status to the Frisian Fryslân...
. Ploughland that needed 11 measures of seed to sow it. Probably drowned as in previous entry.
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unnamed lands
| The Fulda
Fulda
Fulda is a city in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the river Fulda and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district .- Early Middle Ages :...
list, and a possessions list dated 948 of St. Martin's church in Utrecht, list in Wieringen much more land than could fit into the modern island known as Wieringen.
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Other drowned or otherwise lost villages in the Zuiderzee
| Emmeloord
| The most northern of the settlements on Schokland
Schokland
Schokland is a former island in the Dutch Zuiderzee. Schokland lost its status as an island when the Noordoostpolder was reclaimed from the sea in 1942...
. An old spelling is Emelwerth. Abandoned in 19th century because of continual attacks by sea floods. The modern town of Emmeloord
Emmeloord
Emmeloord is the administrative center of the municipality of Noordoostpolder, Flevoland, Netherlands.At the heart of the Noordoostpolder, where the three main drainage canals intersect, is the city of Emmeloord . Emmeloord is in a polder: land reclaimed from the IJsselmeer, which earlier was part...
was named after it.
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| Gonsende or Gawijzend
| A village in the southern part of the Wieringermeerpolder. Drowned about 1350. Its remains have been found.
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| Middelbuurt
| A settlement on Schokland
Schokland
Schokland is a former island in the Dutch Zuiderzee. Schokland lost its status as an island when the Noordoostpolder was reclaimed from the sea in 1942...
. Abandoned in 19th century because of continual attacks by sea floods.
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| Molenbuurt
| A settlement on Schokland
Schokland
Schokland is a former island in the Dutch Zuiderzee. Schokland lost its status as an island when the Noordoostpolder was reclaimed from the sea in 1942...
. Abandoned in 19th century because of continual attacks by sea floods.
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Drowned villages in east and central FrieslandFrieslandFriesland is a province in the north of the Netherlands and part of the ancient region of Frisia.Until the end of 1996, the province bore Friesland as its official name. In 1997 this Dutch name lost its official status to the Frisian Fryslân...
and western GroningenGroningen (province)Groningen [] is the northeasternmost province of the Netherlands. In the east it borders the German state of Niedersachsen , in the south Drenthe, in the west Friesland and in the north the Wadden Sea...
provinceProvinceA province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state.-Etymology:The English word "province" is attested since about 1330 and derives from the 13th-century Old French "province," which itself comes from the Latin word "provincia," which referred to...
s
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Drowned villages in GroningenGroningen (province)Groningen [] is the northeasternmost province of the Netherlands. In the east it borders the German state of Niedersachsen , in the south Drenthe, in the west Friesland and in the north the Wadden Sea...
province
Reiderland
Reiderland is a former municipality in the province Groningen in the northeastern Netherlands, which was founded in 1990 during a large municipal reorganization. The former municipalities Finsterwolde and Bad Nieuweschans were abolished and added to Beerta. In 1992, the new municipality was given...
| Partly in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. An area of land with 33 villages and the town Torum. Drowned when the Dollart
Dollart
The Dollart is a bay between northern Netherlands and Germany, on the west side of the estuary of the Ems river. Most of it dries at low tide. Many water birds feed there.- Gaining from and losing to the sea :...
formed in 1277. Some of the villages may have drowned later. Before the flood, the river Ems looped north of the village of Nes
Nes
-Localities:In Norway:* Nes, Akershus, a municipality in the county of Akershus in Norway* Nes, Buskerud, a municipality in the county of Buskerud in Norway* Nes, Hedmark, a former municipality in the county of Hedmark in Norway...
, which survived on an island which is now part of the north bank of the Ems. Some of the area has been empoldered
Polder
A polder is a low-lying tract of land enclosed by embankments known as dikes, that forms an artificial hydrological entity, meaning it has no connection with outside water other than through manually-operated devices...
since.
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External links
- Orisant website page (in DutchDutch languageDutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
) - The Flood of 1953 in the Netherlands