Leybucht
Bay in Germany
title: "Leybucht" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["bays-of-lower-saxony", "geography-of-east-frisia"] description: "Bay in Germany" topic_path: "geography" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leybucht" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Bay in Germany ::
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The Leybucht is the second largest bay in East Frisia in northwest Germany after the Dollart. The Jade Bight is larger than both, but belongs historically to Oldenburg.
Location
The Leybucht lies in western East Frisia between the port of Greetsiel and Norddeich, about 18 kilometres north of Emden and 25 kilometres west of the county town of Aurich. It has an area of about 19 km².
History
The Leybucht was formed after the first reliably recorded storm surge along the Dutch coast on 26 December 838. About 2,500 people died in the area of the coast affected by this natural disaster.{{citation|surname1=Gerd Ganteför|title=Klima - Der Weltuntergang findet nicht statt|edition=1|series=Erlebnis Wissenschaft|publisher=Wiley|location=Weinheim|at=p. 225|isbn=978-3-527-32671-6|date=2010|language=German|url=
To reinforce the dyke system the first preparations began in 1985 to build the New Störtebeker Dyke (Neue Störtebekerdeichesitungen) which was completed in 2000, and which was laid out in front of the old dyke, the salt marshes in front of it being largely saved.
Present situation
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The Leybucht lies in the Lower Saxon Wadden Sea National Park (Nationalpark Niedersächsisches Wattenmeer) and belongs to Zone I. It enjoys special protection, not least because of the fauna and flora of its salt marshes.
The Leybucht Polder was settled in the 1950s and is a village in the borough of Norden.
The most important tourist resort on the Leybucht is the Siel village of Greetsiel.
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