Atlantis of the North Sea

[James Kyllo]

Fascinating..  so that must be where The Pope's Rhinoceros begins?

J

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Rungholt
>
> Rungholt was a wealthy city in Nordfriesland, northern Germany. It
> sank beneath the waves when a storm tide (the first "Grote Mandrenke")
> in the North Sea tore through the area on January 16, 1362.
>
> 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,
> Nordstrand and Nordstrandischmoor are the only remaining fragments.
>
> 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.
>
> 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 fuenfhundert Jahren".
> (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.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rungholt
>
>
> Atlantis der Nordsee
>
> German documentation, ZDF, 19.09.2010
>
> http://terra-x.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/22/0,1872,8111926,00.html
>



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