History of Schleswig-Holstein

1866 military conflict between the Kingdom of Prussia and the Austrian Empire

(804-1260) duchy of Holy Roman Empire

a Danisch duchy, existing until 1864/1866 now divided between Germany and Denmark

Hedeby (, Old Norse: Heiðabýr, German: Haithabu) was an important Danish Viking Age (8th to the 11th centuries) trading settlement near the southern end of the Jutland Peninsula, now in the Schleswig-Flensburg district of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Around 965, chronicler Ibrahim ibn Yaqub visited Hedeby and described it as "a very large city at the very end of the world's ocean."

thumb|130px|Coat of arms of Holstein: a stylised nettle leaf; similar to the coat of arms of Schaumburg

The Danevirke or Danework (modern Danish spelling: Dannevirke; in Old Norse: Danavirki, in German: Danewerk, literally meaning earthwork of the Danes) is a system of Danish fortifications in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. This historically important linear defensive earthwork across the neck of the Cimbrian peninsula was initiated by the Danes in the Nordic Iron Age about AD 650. It was later expanded multiple times during Denmark's Viking Age and High Middle Ages. The Danevirke was last used for military purposes in 1864 during the Second War of Schleswig.

Bronze Age in Scandinavia

château in Schleswig, Germany

thumb|North Frisian coastline before 1362 thumb|The island of Strand (island)|Strand after the Grote Mandrenke (Danish: Den Store Manddrukning) with German and Danish place names thumb|Rungholt and Strand in the Middle Ages, on a map from 1850 Rungholt was a low-lying settlement in North Frisia, in what was then the Danish Duchy of Schleswig. The area today lies in Germany. Rungholt was flooded, with massive erosion, when a storm tide (known as Grote Mandrenke or Den Store Manddrukning) hit the coast on 15 or 16 January 1362.

storm tide that affected the Netherlands and Northern Germany on 14 December 1287

museum in Schleswig, Germany

1460 proclamation by King Christian I of Denmark

treaty

treaty

Storm in the Atlantic Ocean

sea flood in 1872

former German administrative division

Skamlingsbanken is a large hill located in Vejstrup Parish, Jutland, Denmark, between Kolding and Christiansfeld. With a peak rising to above sea level, it is the highest point in Southern Jutland.

castle in Kiel, Germany

military unit

aspect of history

journal about natural history and regional culture of Schleswig-Holstein (1891–)

Eidum or Eydum (, North Frisian: Eidem) was a historic place on the German (former: Danish) island of Sylt in the North Sea. It was several hundred metres west of the present coast line of the present-day village of Westerland.