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February flood of 1825
The February flood of 1825, also known in Germany as the Great Hallig Flood ("Große Halligflut"), was a devastating flood that occurred from 3 to 5 February 1825 on the North Sea coast, in which about 800 people were drowned.
Particularly affected was the German North Sea coast, with its islets, known as "Halligen", where many dykes had already been damaged in November of the year before by a severe storm surge. The village of Pellworm was completely flooded.
Pingjum
Pingjum () is a village in the municipality of Súdwest-Fryslân in Friesland, in the northern Netherlands and lies southwest of Harlingen. It had a population of around 595 in January 2017.
History.
During the February flood of 1825, Frisian seawalls broke. Pingjum was spared thanks to a dike around the village known as the Pingjumer Golden Collar (Pingjumer Gulden Halsband). In 1892 the province of Friesland decided to put an end to the Pingjumer Golden Collar coastal protection, although in several places the