Reußenköge

Reußenköge 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, 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 and Reußenkoog . Additional polders are: Sophien-Magdalenen-Koog Desmerciereskoog Cecilienkoog Sönke-Nissen-Koog Beltringharder Koog The name of the municipality was created by combining both the first names, meaning literally in 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.