Rungholt was a wealthy city in Nordfriesland, northern Germany. Nordfriesland, English " Northern Friesland " or " North Frisia " is a district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. 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. Storm surge or tidal surge is an offshore rise of water associated with a low pressure weather system typically a Tropical cyclone. The (1st Grote Mandrenke The North Sea is a marginal, Epeiric sea of the Atlantic Ocean on the European Continental shelf. Events 27 BC - The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate.
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 (Pelvorm North Frisian Pälweerm) is one of the North Frisian Islands on the North Sea coast of Germany. This article is about the peninsula and municipality in Germany
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. The Wadden Sea ( Vadehavet, Waddenzee, Wattenmeer, Low German: Wattensee, West Frisian: Waadsee 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.
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 fünfhundert Jahren". Detlev von Liliencron ( June 3, 1844 - July 1909 was a German Lyric poet and novelist from Kiel. (Today I travelled across Rungholt, the City went under five hundred years ago)
Local myth has it that one can still hear the church bells of Rungholt ringing when sailing through the area on a stormy night.
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