A sunken medieval church is discovered under the sea in Germany aleteia.org

A joint scientific project has located the sunken church of Rungholt in the Wadden Sea in Germany. It is believed that the whole town, church included, was drowned in a storm surge in the mid-14th century.

The word wad, from which the Wadden Sea derives its name, is Frisian and Dutch for “mud flat.” The area consists of extensive tidal mud flats, deeper tidal trenches, and islands, continually contested by land and sea. In fact, the landscape was mainly formed by storm tides from the 10th to 14th centuries, overflowing and carrying away former peat land behind the coastal dunes – and even entire towns, as in the case of Rungholt.

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