Bay Of Sielmönken
The Bay of Sielmönken or Bight of Sielmönken ( or ''Sielmönker Bucht'') is a former bay on the territory of the present day municipality of Krummhörn in the west of East Frisia in Germany. The bight reached its greatest extent during the Carolingian transgression (geology), transgression of 800 to 950 A. D. After that it silted up heavily and was completely enclosed by koog, dykes between 1,000 A. D. and the 13th century. Location The Bay of Sielmönken was situated between the Dollart and the Leybucht on the terrain of the present-day municipality of Krummhörn, with a small portion on the territory of Hinte. In the Early Middle Ages it separated the historical regions of Emsigerland, Emsgau and Federgo, Federgau.Hans Homeier: ''Der Gestaltwandel der ostfriesischen Küste im Laufe der Jahrhunderte.'' Selbstverlag, Pewsum, 1969 (Ostfriesland im Schutze des Deiches, Vol. 2) The first settlers built their houses here on ''warfts'' in the as yet undyked mar ...
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