Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hadler, Hanna
• Wilken, Dennis
• Wunderlich, Tina
• Fediuk, Annika
• Fischer, Peter
• Schwardt, Michaela
• Willershäuser, Timo
• Rabbel, Wolfgang
• Vött, Andreas
• Meindert Schroor
• Linde Egberts
• Egberts, Linde
• Schroor, Meindert

Titel

Drowned by the Grote Mandrenke in 1362: New geo-archaeological research on the late medieval trading centre of Rungholt (North Frisia)

Ist Teil von

• Waddenland Outstanding, 2018, p.239-252

Ort / Verlag

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Like no other coastal landscape worldwide, the tidal flats of North Frisia — part of the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park — are a result of anthropogenic impacts and natural disasters since medieval times. In North Frisia, the medieval trading centre Rungholt became a symbol for the many settlements at the interface between land and sea that were destroyed by the impact of storm surges. Throughout the late Holocene, the area of the present-day Wadden Sea appeared as an amphibian landscape with brackish to freshwater environments with abundant reed, low-lying marshland and intersecting tidal creeks (Bantelmann 1966). From the twelfth century onwards,