Historic Cities
Explore Rungholt in 1361
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Historic Places, Rebuilt · City reconstruction
Rungholt, 1361
Rungholt is a prosperous marshland trading town on the island of Strand in the Duchy of Schleswig, at the height of its dyke-built agriculture and sea-borne commerce. The walk passes the outer sea dyke and wooden sluices, the small sielhafen with Hamburg beer and Flemish cloth, rows of grass-sod houses on warfts, the large parish church and the reclaimed fields grazed by cattle.
14 scenes, 9 streets, squares and views, 5 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Rungholt as it stood in 1361 (“Rungholt”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. View from the Wadden Sea
- 2. Outer Dyke and Sluice
- ↳ Reeve's Sod Hall · interior
- 3. Sielhafen Harbour
- 4. Quay and Storehouses
- ↳ Oak Cask Storehouse · interior
- 5. Market Warft
- ↳ Weighhouse Hall · interior
- 6. Main Church Warft
- ↳ Nave of the Apse · interior
- 7. Cloth Row and Weavers
- ↳ Upper Textile Loft · interior
- 8. Dyke-top Reclaimed Fen
- 9. High Warft Overlook