All Saints' Day Flood of 1436

The All Saints Day Flood of 1436 (German: Allerheiligenflut) on All Saints' Day (1 November) in 1436 was a storm tide that hit the entire North Sea coast of the German Bight.

[1] In the North Frisian village of Tetenbüll alone 180 people died.

Eidum on the island of Sylt was destroyed, its inhabitants left and founded the village of Westerland as a result.

[2] List on Sylt was also abandoned after the floods and rebuilt further west.

The island of Pellworm was separated from neighbouring Nordstrand and only diked again in 1550.