Rüstringen or Rustringen was an old Frisian

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, which lies between the modern district

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and the

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river in modern

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. Nowadays, only a small part of the original territory remains, namely the

Butjadingen Butjadingen is a peninsula and municipality in the Wesermarsch district, in Lower Saxony, Germany. Geography Butjadingen is situated on the German North Sea coast. It is bordered on the west and southwest by the Jade River and the east by the W ...

peninsula. The largest part of historical Rüstringen has been lost to the sea in the Middle Ages due to various

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s and now forms the

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bay.

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