Rungholt
Ghost town · Germany
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 54.467, 8.717
Why it was abandoned
🌊 Flooded
Detected automatically from the text: Рунгхольт, как сообщается, был затоплен Северным морем, когда штормовой прилив обрушился на побережье с 15 по 16 января 1362 года.
History
Rungholt was a low-lying settlement in North Frisia, in what was then the Danish Duchy of Schleswig. The area today lies in Germany. Rungholt was flooded, with massive erosion, when a storm tide hit the coast on 15 or 16 January 1362.