Research assistant

Academic Senior Councillor

RUNGHOLT - Combined geophysical, geoarchaeological and archaeological investigations in the Wadden Sea of North Frisia (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) in the environs of the medieval trade center Rungholt

DFG-funded research project in cooperation with Kiel University (CAU), the State Archaeology Department Schleswig-Holstein (ALSH), the Zentrum für Baltische und Skandinavische Archäologie (LEIZA-ZBSA) and the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence; funding period: 2020 - 2025

Principal Investigators: H. Hadler (leading), D. Wilken, R. Blankenfeldt, U. Ickerodt, A. Vött

Geoarchaeological investigations of harbors of the 12th and 13th cent. along the Hever Estuary (North Frisia) starting at the trading settlement of Rungholt - RUNGHOLT

Sub-project of the DFG Priority Program 1630 "Harbours from the Roman Period to the Middle Ages"; funding period: 2015 - 2020

Principal Investigators: H. Hadler (leading), J. Newig (+2015), A. Vött

Project-related publications

Exhibition "Rungholt - Enigmatic and contradictory"

May 29, 2016 - January 29, 2017,
NordseeMuseum Husum (Nissenhaus)
Homepage of the exhibition

Impressions from the mudflats

"The river port of Ostia" (2013-2015)

Sub-project of the DFG Priority Program 1630 "Ports from the Roman Imperial Period to the Middle Ages"

To the project homepage: SPP 1630 Ports - OSTIA

Project-related publications

Google Scholar

ORCID

Research Gate

For an overview of all publications up to 2018, please click here.

How researchers discovered traces of Rungholt
Report on the Rungholt project
3satNano, 09.07.2024

Archaeologists on the North Sea coast: Secrets in the silt
Print article on the RUNGHOLT project
Der Spiegel, 30.07.2023

Church discovered centuries later in the Wadden Sea
Print article on the church discovery
FAZ, 24.05.2023

TerraX: Unsolved Cases of Archaeology - Lost Worlds
TV report on the RUNGHOLT project, 6:45-12:00 min
ZDF, first broadcast 14.02.2021

NDR NORDSEEREPORT: Nature experiences
Report on the Rungholt project, NDR 2023, from 37 min

Researcher reconstructs the course of the Niedam dyke and harbor sites on the Heverstrom"
Coverage of the 12th Nordstrander Rungholt Days and the awarding of the "Seal of Rungholt"
Husumer Nachrichten, 25.08.2019

Rungholt: The fascination of the sinking
Coverage of the 1st Rungholt Conference
Husumer Nachrichten, 21.08.2019

Mudflats a rewarding field of research
Coverage of the 12th Nordstrander Rungholttage
Husumer Nachrichten, 28.08.2017

Schleswig-Holstein Magazin: Forscher untersuchen Rungholt
Norddeutscher Rundfunk, 8:45-12:20 min, first broadcast 17.09.2016.

Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz
Süwestdeutscher Rundfunkt, interview with Dr. Hanna Hadler about Rungholt. , 38:00-43:00 min, first broadcast 24.11.2016.

"Researchers in action - on the trail of the Rungholt myth"
Coverage of initial field work in the Rungholt mudflats (2013)
Husumer Nachrichten, 28.08.2013

Awarded by the Rungholtgesellschaft Nordstrand, 2019

Research grant for young female scholars in geography,
awarded by the Hanna Bremer Foundation, 2014

Dissertation prize of the German Working Group for Geomorphology, 2014

Lecture prize of the German Working Group for Geomorphology, 2012

Consultation hours:
By appointment by e-mail

Physical geography/geomorphology

Geoarchaeology

Natural risk research (tsunamis, storm surges)

Coastal geography

Wadden Sea research

Germany: North Sea coast (North and East Frisia, Wadden Sea)

Netherlands: North Sea coast (province of Groningen)

Italy: Ostia (Rome)

Greece: Ionian Islands (Kefalonia), western Peloponnese (Kyllini), Gulf of Corinth (Corinth/Lechaion)

Turkey: Patara (Lycia)

Hadler, H. (2014): "Ancient Greek harbors used as geoarchives for palaeotsunami research. Case studies from Krane (Cefalonia), Lechaion (Gulf of Corinth) and Kyllini (Peloponnese)."

About the dissertation: http://ubm.opus.hbz-nrw.de/volltexte/2014/3678/pdf/doc.pdf

Hadler, H. (2008): "Das Ziegeleiwesen im Raum Kehdingen und Hadeln (Niedersachsen) - Grundlagen, Geschichte und naturräumliche Auswirkungen einer früheren Industrie." (unpublished)

"Medieval overexploitation as trigger for large-scale drowning and permanent land loss in the Rungholt area (North Frisia, German Wadden Sea)?"
(KielConference, Kiel)

"Bringt dat Watt?"
(Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch, Oldenburg)

"Those who don't want to dike must give way"
(Heidelberg Geographical Society)

"Lost since 1362 AD"
(Annual conference of the working group 'Geoarchaeology', Wilhelmshaven)

"Between medieval land reclamation and storm surges"
(Annual conference of the working group 'Geography of Seas and Coasts', Heidelberg)

"Between medieval land reclamation and storm surges - reconstructing man-environment interactions in the Wadden Sea of North Frisia (Germany)"
(Key note for Session 159, INQUA, Rome)

"Moving into the wetlands"
(KielConference, Kiel)

"Heut' bin ich über Rungholt gefahren"
(6th Rhineland-Palatinate School Geographers' Day, Mainz)

"Rungholt and the Grote Mandrenke in 1362 AD - Reconstructing a drowned medieval landscape in the present-day Wadden Sea of North Frisia"
(Annual Conference of the German Working Group for Geomorphology, Kiel)

"Geoarchive Wadden Sea - Current and past studies on the landscape history of Rungholt"
(3rd Rungholt Conference, Nordstrand)

"Wadden Sea Geoarchaeology- Reconstructing a drowned coastal landscape around the medieval trading center Rungholt (North Frisia, Germany) by multi-proxy analyses"
(INQUA2019, Dublin)

"Geoarchaeological and geophysical investigations in the Rungholt-Watt (Hallig Südfall, North Frisian Wadden Sea)"
(Seminar Aktuelle Forschungsthemen, Institut für Geophysik, CAU Kiel, together with M. Schwardt)

"Current geoarchaeological research in the Wadden Sea"
(ALSH information event on the preservation and exploration of cultural traces in the North Frisian Wadden Sea, Nordfriesland Museum, Husum)

"The trading settlement Rungholt - In search of a late medieval harbor site in the Wadden Sea of North Frisia (Germany)"
(SPP 1630 International Conference "Harbours in Space and Time")

"The visible and the invisible: Geophysical, archaeological and geological investigations in Rungholtwatt, North Friesland district"
(Day of Archaeology Schleswig Holstein, Schleswig, together with S. Klooß (ALSH) and D. Wilken (CAU Kiel)

"News from the Rungholt mudflats: Current results of geoarchaeological investigations around Hallig Südfall"
(2nd Rungholt Conference, Nordstrand)

"In search of Rungholt: Geoarchaeology in the Wadden Sea"
(Farewell to the graduates of the Institute of Geography, Mainz)

"Geoarchaeology in the Wadden Sea - In search of the late medieval trading center Rungholt (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany"
(Annual Conference of the Geoarchaeology Working Group, Heidelberg)

"Heut' bin ich über Rungholt gefahren - In search of medieval cultural remains in the North Frisian Wadden Sea"
(Annual conference of the Arbeitskreis Geographie der Meere und Küsten, Braunschweig, together with J. Kohlus (LKN Schleswig-Holstein))

"Geoarchaeological investigations of 12th and 13th century harbors along the HEver (North Friesland) starting from the trading center Rungholt - First results of current work"
(SPP 1630 Plenary Meeting, Gottorf Castle, Schleswig)

"Geoarchaeological investigations in the vicinity of Hallig Südfall - current results from the RUNGHOLT project"
(1st Rungholt Conference, Nordstrand)

"Drowned by the Grote Mandrenke in 1362 AD - new geoarchaeological research on the late medieval trading center Rungholt (North Frisia)"
(Waddenland - Outstanding, Symposium on the History, Landscape and Cultural Heritage of the Wadden Sea Region, Husum)

"Geomorphological evidence of marshland destruction in North Frisia (German North Sea coast) by the Grote Mandrenke in 1362 AD"
(EX-AQUA 2016 - Palaeohydrological Extreme Events: Evidence and Archives, Padova, Italy)

"Geomorphological evidence of marshland destruction in the area of Rungholt, present-day Wadden Sea around Hallig Südfall (North Frisia, Germany), by the Grote Mandrenke in 1362 AD"
(Annual Conference of the Geomorphology Working Group, Jena)

"The ancient harbor of Kyllini (W-Peloponnese, Greece) as multi-proxy geoarchive for palaeo-tsunami research"
(Conférence MoMArch, Aix-en-Provence, France)

"Geoarchaeological investigations of harbors along the Hever (North Friesland): First results from the Südermarsch near Mildeburg"
(SPP 1630 plenary meeting, Bremerhaven)

"On the geoarchaeological exploration of the former settlement of Rungholt"
(Workshop: The Rungholt Legend, NordseeMuseum Husum)