Reußenköge Reussenkog | |
Image Coa: | DEU Reußenköge COA.svg |
Coordinates: | 54.6092°N 8.9044°W |
Image Plan: | Reussenkoege in NF.PNG |
State: | Schleswig-Holstein |
District: | Nordfriesland |
Elevation: | 1 |
Area: | 45.91 |
Postal Code: | 25821 |
Area Code: | 04671, 04674, 04842 |
Licence: | NF |
Gemeindeschlüssel: | 01 0 54 108 |
Website: | www.reussenkoege.de |
Mayor: | Dirk Albrecht |
Reußenköge (Danish: Reussenkog) is a sparsely populated municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, 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.
The municipality includes a number of six populated polders (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:
The name of the municipality was created by combining both the first names, meaning literally in English: polders of the Reußes. A further non-residential location within the municipality is the Hamburger Hallig. 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.