Reußenköge () is a sparsely populated municipality in the district of

Nordfriesland Nordfriesland (; ; Low German: Noordfreesland), also known as North Frisia, is the northernmost Districts of Germany, district of Germany, part of the state of Schleswig-Holstein. It includes almost all of traditional North Frisia (with the e ...

, in

Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein (; ; ; ; ; occasionally in English ''Sleswick-Holsatia'') is the Northern Germany, northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical Duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of S ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

. It is situated directly adjacent the shoreline of the

North Sea The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. A sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Se ...

coast, in a driving distance of in between 15 up to 29 km northwest of the county-capital city of

Husum Husum (, ) 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 annual i ...

. The municipality includes a number of six populated

polder A polder () is a low-lying tract of land that forms an artificial hydrology, hydrological entity, enclosed by embankments known as levee, dikes. The three types of polder are: # Land reclamation, Land reclaimed from a body of water, such as a ...

s (), 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 . A further non-residential location within the municipality is the

Hamburger Hallig Hamburger 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 islands. History The ...

. In former times being a settled part of the island of Alt-Nordstrand, it was split up from the rest by the

Burchardi Flood The Burchardi flood (also known as the second Grote Mandrenke) was a storm tide that struck the North Sea coast of North Frisia, Dithmarschen (in modern-day Germany) and southwest Jutland (in modern-day Denmark) on the night between 11 and 12 ...

in the year 1634.

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