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{{short description|Historical settlement in Schleswig}} {{Location map|Germany Schleswig-Holstein | caption = Location of Rungholt in present Schleswig-Holstein | coordinates = {{coord|54|28|N|8|43|E|display=title, inline}} }} [[File:UdlandeRungholt.png|thumb|North Frisian coastline before 1362]] [[File:StrandAfter1362.png|thumb|The island of [[Strand (island)|Strand]] after the [[Saint Marcellus' flood|Grote Mandrenke]] (Danish: ''Den Store Manddrukning'') with German and Danish place names]] [[File:Strand i Valdemarernes Tid.png|thumb|Rungholt and Strand in the Middle Ages, on a map from 1850]] '''Rungholt''' was a low-lying settlement in [[North Frisia]], in what was then the [[Denmark|Danish]] [[Duchy of Schleswig]]. The area today lies in Germany. Rungholt was flooded, with massive erosion, when a [[Storm tides of the North Sea|storm tide]] (known as ''[[Grote Mandrenke]]'' or ''Den Store Manddrukning'') hit the coast on 15 or 16 January 1362.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Wilken |first1=Dennis |last2=Hadler |first2=Hanna |last3=Wunderlich |first3=Tina |last4=Majchczack |first4=Bente |last5=Schwardt |first5=Michaela |last6=Fediuk |first6=Annika |last7=Fischer |first7=Peter |last8=Willershäuser |first8=Timo |last9=Klooß |first9=Stefanie |last10=Vött |first10=Andreas |last11=Rabbel |first11=Wolfgang |date=2022-04-04 |editor-last=De Smedt |editor-first=Philippe |title=Lost in the North Sea—Geophysical and geoarchaeological prospection of the Rungholt medieval dyke system (North Frisia, Germany) |journal=PLOS ONE |language=en |volume=17 |issue=4 |pages=e0265463 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0265463 |issn=1932-6203 |pmc=8979465 |pmid=35377888 |doi-access=free|bibcode=2022PLoSO..1765463W }}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last1=Wilken |first1=Dennis |last2=Hadler |first2=Hanna |last3=Majchczack |first3=Bente Sven |last4=Blankenfeldt |first4=Ruth |last5=Auge |first5=Oliver |last6=Bäumler |first6=Sarah |last7=Bienen-Scholt |first7=Dirk |last8=Ickerodt |first8=Ulf |last9=Klooß |first9=Stefanie |last10=Reiß |first10=Antonia |last11=Willershäuser |first11=Timo |last12=Rabbel |first12=Wolfgang |last13=Vött |first13=Andreas |date=2024-07-06 |title=The discovery of the church of Rungholt, a landmark for the drowned medieval landscapes of the Wadden Sea World Heritage |journal=Scientific Reports |language=en |volume=14 |issue=1 |page=15576 |doi=10.1038/s41598-024-66245-0 |issn=2045-2322 |pmc=11227575 |pmid=38971936 |doi-access=free|bibcode=2024NatSR..1415576W }}</ref>
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