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Rungholt was a wealthy city in Nordfriesland, northern Germany. It sank beneath the waves when a storm tide (the first "grote Mandraenke") in the North Sea tore through the area on January 16, 1362. Image File history File links Rungholt_in_Germany. ... Image File history File links Rungholt_in_Germany. ... Nordfriesland (literally Northern Frisia) is a district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. ... A storm tide is a tide with a high flood period caused by a storm. ... The Grote Mandrenke (Dutch: Great Drowning of Men) was the name of a massive southwesterly Atlantic gale, (see also European windstorm), which swept across England, the Netherlands, northern Germany and Schleswig around January 16, 1362, causing at minimum 25,000 deaths. ... The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the coasts of Norway and Denmark in the east, the coast of the British Isles in the west, and the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts in the south. ... January 16 is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Centuries: 13th century - 14th century - 15th century Decades: 1310s 1320s 1330s 1340s 1350s - 1360s - 1370s 1380s 1390s 1400s 1410s Years: 1357 1358 1359 1360 1361 - 1362 - 1363 1364 1365 1366 1367 See also: 1362 state leaders Events Under Edward III, English replaces French as Englands national language, for the...

Rungholt was situated on the island of Strand, which was rent asunder by another storm tide in 1634, and of which the islets of Pellworm and Nordstrand are the only remaining fragments. Pellworm is one of the North Frisian Islands on the North Sea coast of Germany. ... Nordstrand is: A district of Oslo, Norway, see Nordstrand, Norway An island of Germany, see Nordstrand, Germany This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Relics of the city were being found in the Wadden Sea until the late 20th century, but shifting sediments have carried the last of these into the sea. In the 1920s and 1930s, some remains of the city were exposed; they suggest a population of at least 1500 to 2000, which is fairly large for that region and time, and it is likely that Rungholt was a major port. Legend has greatly exaggerated its size and wealth, however. The Wadden Sea (Wattenmeer in German, Waddenzee in Dutch, Waadsee in Frisian, Wattensee in Low Saxon, Vadehavet in Danish) is the name for a body of water and its associated coastal wetlands lying between a section of the coast of northwestern continental Europe and the North Sea. ...

Impressed by the fate of the city, the relics, and not least legend's excessive descriptions, the German poet Detlev von Liliencron wrote a poem about this lost city which starts with the words: "Heut bin ich über Rungholt gefahren, die Stadt ging unter vor sechshundert Jahren". (Today I travelled across Rungholt, the City went under six hundred years ago) Detlev von Liliencron (June 3, 1844 - July, 1909), German lyric poet and novelist, was born at Kiel. ...

See also: Lost cities. In the popular imagination lost cities are real, prosperous, well-populated areas of human habitation that have fallen into terminal decline and been lost to history. ...