All Saints' Flood (1570)

[1] Even though the alleged casualty figures were mostly based on rough estimates and should be viewed with skepticism, up to 25,000 deaths can be assumed.

With a level of more than four meters above the mean high water, the flood was well above the height of the dikes existing at the time, which were also severely neglected.

For example, in the area around Antwerp, four villages disappeared under a thick layer of mud and in Zeeland the small island Wulpen was permanently lost to the sea.

A high tide mark at the church of Suurhusen, located north of Emden, showed + 4.40 m NN.

In the Protestant provinces of the Netherlands, it was understood as a call to rebel more vigorously against Spanish oppression, after the still unsuccessful uprising in 1568.