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2 unusual facts about Jade Bight


Jade Bight

David Blackbourn: Die Eroberung der Natur - Eine Geschichte der deutschen Landschaft.

SMS Seeadler

On 19 April 1917, her cargo exploded while she was moored in the Jade outside Wilhelmshaven.


Anthony I, Count of Oldenburg

With the assistance of farmers from Stadland and Butjadingen, which had father had conquered in 1514, he managed to gain a large amount of fertile territory by constructing levees around some wetlands in the Jade Bight.


see also

Weser Depression

The height of this peninsula, comprising Stadland and Butjadingen, lies between 0.8 metres under sea level (NN) and 1.2 metres above it (at a place on the 'neck' of the Jade Bight it reaches 2 metres).