Reußenköge ( da, Reussenkog) is a sparsely populated municipality in the district of
Nordfriesland
Nordfriesland (; da, Nordfrisland; frr, Nordfraschlönj ), also known as North Frisia, is the northernmost district of Germany, part of the state of Schleswig-Holstein. It includes almost all of traditional North Frisia (with the exception o ...
, in
Schleswig-Holstein,
Germany. It is situated directly adjacent the shoreline of the
North Sea coast, in a driving distance of in between 15 up to 29 km northwest of the county-capital city of
Husum
Husum (, frr, Hüsem) is the capital of the ''Kreis'' (district) Nordfriesland in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The town was the birthplace of the novelist Theodor Storm, who coined the epithet "the grey town by the sea". It is also the home of ...
.
The municipality includes a number of six populated
polder
A polder () is a low-lying tract of land that forms an artificial hydrological entity, enclosed by embankments known as dikes. The three types of polder are:
# Land reclaimed from a body of water, such as a lake or the seabed
# Flood plains s ...
s (german: Koog, plural: Köge), two of which were financed by Count Heinrich XLIII of
Reuß-Schleiz-Köstritz and his wife Louise and thus bear the names ''Louisen-Reußen-Koog'' (const. 1799) and ''Reußenkoog'' (1789). Additional polders are:
* Sophien-Magdalenen-Koog (const. 1742)
* Desmerciereskoog (1767)
* Cecilienkoog (1905)
* Sönke-Nissen-Koog (1926)
* Beltringharder Koog (only unsettled northern part) (1987)
The name of the municipality was created by combining both the first names, meaning literally in en, polders of the Reußes. A further non-residential location within the municipality is the
Hamburger Hallig
Hamburger Hallig ( da, Hamborg hallig, North Frisian: ''Hamborjer Håli'') is an area on the westcoast of Nordfriesland district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, that is not protected by sea dikes. It is therefore counted among the Halligen islan ...
. In former times being a settled part of the island of
Alt-Nordstrand, it was split up from the rest by the
Burchardi Flood in the year 1634.
References
Nordfriesland
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