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Table 2. Some extracts from historical sources
Winter
Gulf of Gdansk, Southern
Baltic, Poland
Baltic Sea and Europe
Hanza
1407
Denmark: severe winter (11.11-
27.01 and from Mid. Of Feb.
to first week of Apr)
Passaae on Ice cover :
1 .Gothland-Oland
2. Norway-Jutland-Denmark
3. Rostock-Gedser
4.Skagerrak - frozen + wolfs
EuroDean rivers :
Danube River Ice bound along
Its whole Saara and Maas rivers
entirely frozen
1422
Wlsla Ice covered (4.12-
12.03)
Passaae on Ice cover:
Gdansk - Lubeck
Gdansk-Denmark
Baltic Sea : severe winter from
19.Nov.- till March
Ice cover on the Baltic Sea after
12 Jan.
Passaae on Ice cover:
.Meklemburgy-Denmark
.Pomeranla-Denmark
North Sea : Ice covered on larae
areas
Twer, Sofia, Russia : 3 months
of severe winter
1431
25.11-23.04
Lower Wlsla Ice covered
Passaae on Ice cover :
Sweden -Zeeland
Germany : severe winter
War between Hanze and Denmark
1434
Belaium -2 feet thick Ice cover
on the rivers;
Rhine Ice bound
• War between Hanze and
Denmark
• Resolution of the rule, that only
the townspeople born In any
League member -town may
enjoy the Hanseatic merchants’
privileges passed
1454
Severe winter, army
dismissal after 14.01
Gulf of Gdansk - Ice
cover (2.02-21.03);
Passaae on Ice cover :
• Economic blockade of Flanders
by Hanze was on
• War between Poland (supported
by Hanzeatlc towns) and the
Teutonic Knights occurred.
Gdansk-Hel from 2.02 till
21.03
1459
Silesia - frost and Ice till
21.03
Passaae on Ice cover :
Passaae on Ice cover : (some
War between Poland and the
Teutonic Knights
places from the end of Dec 6.02-
17.03, whole Baltic from 14 Feb
till 7 Mar.)
Lubela.Wlsmar, Rostock,
Stralsund - Denmark till 17
March
Livonia- Revel, Denmark,
Inflants - Sweden
Denmark - Sweden
Lubeck - Norway
public road and military track on
sea, military and goods
carriages travelled on Ice cover,
12- 16.03. Danube River was
frozen for 2 months
Gdansk-Hel; Ice extent -
more than 80 km from Hel
