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100 unusual facts about Schleswig-Holstein


Almdorf

Almdorf is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Ammersbek

Ammersbek is a municipality in the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Bargfeld-Stegen

Bargfeld-Stegen is a municipality in the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Bargum

Bargum is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Bergewöhrden

Bergewöhrden is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Björklinge runestones

It has been suggested that, due to the assumed date of the inscription in the late eleventh or early twelfth century, that the actual city referred to may have been that of Schleswig.

Boostedt

Boostedt is a municipality in the district of Segeberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Borgdorf-Seedorf

Borgdorf-Seedorf is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Breklum

Breklum is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Brickeln

Brickeln is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Brügge

Brügge is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Brunsbek

Brunsbek is a municipality in the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Buchholz, Dithmarschen

Buchholz is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Busenwurth

Busenwurth is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Delingsdorf

Delingsdorf is a municipality in the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Delve

Delve is a municipality belonging to the Amt Kirchspielslandgemeinde ("collective municipality") Eider in the district Dithmarschen in Schleswig-Holstein, in northern Germany.

Diekhusen-Fahrstedt

Diekhusen-Fahrstedt is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Dingen

Dingen is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Ellerau

Ellerau is a municipality in the district of Segeberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Flintbek

Flintbek is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Fockbek

Fockbek (Danish: Fokbæk) is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Friedrichsgabekoog

Friedrichsgabekoog is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Goldelund

Goldelund is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Großensee

Großensee is a municipality in the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Gudendorf

Gudendorf is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Hammoor

Hammoor is a municipality in the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Hanerau-Hademarschen

Hanerau-Hademarschen is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Hoisdorf

Hoisdorf is a municipality in the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Itzstedt

Itzstedt is a municipality in the district of Segeberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Jevenstedt

Jevenstedt is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Joldelund

Joldelund is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Kabelhorst

Kabelhorst is a municipality in the district of Ostholstein, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Klein Wesenberg

Klein Wesenberg is a municipality in the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Köthel

Köthel is a village in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Kotzenbüll

Kotzenbüll is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Krempermoor

Krempermoor is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Kronsmoor

Kronsmoor is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Krummendiek

Krummendiek is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Kudensee

Kudensee is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Landrecht, Germany

Landrecht is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Leezen

Leezen is a municipality in the district of Segeberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Lockstedt

Lockstedt is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Lutzhorn

Lutzhorn is a small municipality, part of the district of Pinneberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany.

Manhagen

Manhagen is a municipality in the district of Ostholstein, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Mikhail Shultz

M. Shultz was a descendant of the German sculptor, the Danish royal medallist Anton Schultz (Anton Schultz — Schleswig-Holstein, Saxony, Hamburg, Denmark, XVII–XVIII cc.) who carried out orders the Russian Court as early as Copenhagen, and arrived at the service in Russia with Peter the Great.

Moorhusen

Moorhusen is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Mühlenbarbek

Mühlenbarbek is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Nahe

Nahe, Schleswig-Holstein, municipality in the district of Segeberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Neritz

Neritz is a municipality in the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Neukirchen, Ostholstein

Neukirchen is a municipality in the district of Ostholstein, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Nienwohld

Nienwohld is a municipality in the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Nindorf

Nindorf is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Nordermeldorf

Nordermeldorf is a borough in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Oesterwurth

Oesterwurth is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Offenbüttel

Offenbüttel is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Oldendorf, Schleswig-Holstein

Oldendorf is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Olderup

Olderup is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Osdorf

Osdorf, Schleswig-Holstein, a municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde

Ostenfeld, Nordfriesland

Ostenfeld is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Oststeinbek

Oststeinbek is a municipality in the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Ottenbüttel

Ottenbüttel is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Peter Rühmkorf

Peter Rühmkorf (Dortmund, 25 October 1929 – Roseburg, Schleswig-Holstein, 8 June 2008) was a German writer who significantly influenced German post-war literature.

Rehhorst

Rehhorst is a municipality in the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Riepsdorf

Riepsdorf is a municipality in the district of Ostholstein, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Sankt Margarethen, Germany

Sankt Margarethen is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Sarzbüttel

Sarzbüttel is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Schafstedt

Schafstedt is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Schashagen

Schashagen is a municipality in the district of Ostholstein, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Schenefeld, Steinburg

Schenefeld is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg

# The older line of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, founded by Duke Philip, who resided in Glücksburg Castle in Glücksburg.

Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön

The territorial centres of Schleswig-Holstein-Plön were the districts (Ämter) of Ahrensbök and Reinfeld established after the Reformation by the merging of the former abbeys at Ahrensbök and Reinfeld.

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The possessions were confiscated, and Plön's castles at Reinfeld, Ahrensbök and Rethwisch were demolished.

Schlichting, Germany

Schlichting is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Schlotfeld

Schlotfeld is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Schrum

Schrum is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Schülp, Dithmarschen

Schülp is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Schwentinental

Schwentinental is a town in the district of Plön, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Silzen

Silzen is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Stedesand

Stedesand is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Steinhorst

Steinhorst, Schleswig-Holstein, a municipality in the district of Lauenburg, Schleswig-Holstein

Steinhorst, Schleswig-Holstein

Steinhorst (which roughly translates as Stone Refuge) is a municipality in Kreis Herzogtum Lauenburg in Schleswig-Holstein.

Stördorf

Stördorf is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Störkathen

Störkathen is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Strübbel

Strübbel is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Tarbek

Tarbek is a municipality in the district of Segeberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Tating

Tating is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Tellingstedt

Tellingstedt is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Tramm

Tramm, Schleswig-Holstein, a municipality in the district of Lauenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Tremsbüttel

Tremsbüttel is a municipality in the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Vaalermoor

Vaalermoor is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Warringholz

Warringholz is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Wennbüttel

Wennbüttel is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Wenningstedt-Braderup

The term was coined when List, the northernmost village on the island, was part of the Danish realm.

Wentorf, Sandesneben

Wentorf (Amt Sandesneben) is a municipality in the district of Lauenburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Wesselburener Deichhausen

Wesselburener Deichhausen is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Westermoor

Westermoor is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Wewelsfleth

Wewelsfleth is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Windbergen

Windbergen is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Wittenbergen

Wittenbergen is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Wulfsmoor

Wulfsmoor is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.


1614 Low German Bible

The coat of arms of Adolf, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein also appears in the 1614 Bible on the back cover.

40.6 cm SK C/34 gun

The Schleswig Holstein Battery from Hel, (German unit MKB 2 / MAA 119) in France recalled as Battery Lindemann (German unit MKB 6 / MAA 244) saw considerable service, with the three guns emplaced singly in turrets, protected by massive concrete encasements in places four metres thick.

Andries Stockenström

# Anders Stockenström *6 January 1757 Filipstad in Värmland, Sweden x 1 June 1786 Maria Geertruyda Broeders (baptised 11 March 1764), daughter of Peter Caspar Brodersen (or Broders), from Rantrum, a North Frisian town in Schleswig, and Elsabe Cornelia Colijn.

Arkebek

Arkebek is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Bordelum

Bordelum (North Frisian: Boorlem) is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden

Augusta Maria of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf

Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff

Ever since the conclusion of the Great Northern War, Danish statesmen had been occupied in harvesting its fruits, namely, the Gottorp portions of Schleswig definitely annexed to Denmark in 1721 by the Treaty of Nystad, and endeavouring to bring about a definitive general understanding with the House of Gottorp as to their remaining possessions in Holstein.

County of Schaumburg

In 1110, Adolf I, Lord of Schauenburg was appointed by Lothair, Duke of Saxony to hold Holstein and Stormarn, including Hamburg, as fiefs.

Ferdinand Tönnies

Ferdinand Tönnies was born into a wealthy farmer's family in North Frisia, Schleswig (today Nordfriesland, Schleswig-Holstein), then under Danish rule.

Formula of Concord

The Formula of Concord was not accepted by Lutherans in Hesse, Zweibrücken, Anhalt, Pommeranian (Land), Holstein, Denmark, Sweden, Nürnberg, Strassburg, and Magdeburg, and the government of Queen Elizabeth I of England lobbied in its German embassies to prevent acceptance of it among the German estates.

Frederick Albert, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg

In Augustenburg on 4 June 1763 Frederick Albert married Louise Albertine (b. Plön, 21 July 1748 - d. Ballenstedt, 2 March 1769), daughter of Frederick Carl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön and a princess of Denmark by birth as a descendant in the male line of King Christian III.

Full Metal Village

Full Metal Village is a 2007 documentary film about the lives of the residents of a small village in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, Wacken, in a series of interviews and visual tableaux as it prepares for the annual Wacken Open Air Festival.

Hüon und Amande

It was published in "Flensburg, Schleswig and Leipzig" in 1789 (the same year as Seyler's death), and was dedicated to the actor Friedrich Ludwig Schröder, a long-time friend and collaborator of Seyler and her husband Abel Seyler, the founder of the Seyler theatrical company (see also Seyler family).

Ivan Monighetti

He also appeared with such musicians as Anner Bylsma, Nancy Argenta, Simon Standage, Ronald Brautigam, Wieland Kuijken, Alexei Lubimov and many others and on such American festivals as Ravinia and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festivals and German ones such as Schleswig-Holstein Musik and Berliner Festspiele.

Kolkerheide

Kolkerheide is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Mönkhagen

Mönkhagen is a municipality in the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Neville Lewis

He married Countess Rosa Cecilie Karoline-Mathilde Irene Sibylla Anna zu Solms-Baruth, daughter of Friedrich, 3rd Prince of Solms-Baruth and his wife Princess Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, on 3 November 1955 and settled on Rowan Street, Stellenbosch where their children Caroline and Frederick Henry Lewis attended school.

Ockholm

Ockholm is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Oeschebüttel

Oeschebüttel is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Osterhever

Osterhever is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Pahlen, Germany

Pahlen is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Philip Louis, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg

He married for the third time in Greiz on 28 July 1688 Christine Magdalene (1652–1697), daughter of Count Henry I of Reuss to Obergreiz.

Poyenberg

Poyenberg is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck

Dorothea married Georg Frederick Karl of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach, later Margrave of Bayreuth, on 17 April 1709 in Reinfeld.

Princess Louise of Schleswig-Holstein

Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1866-1952), daughter of Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, wife of Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia

Rantrum

Rantrum is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Rethwisch, Steinburg

Rethwisch is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Royal Flash

The story features Lola Montez, and Otto von Bismarck as major characters, and fictionalises elements of the Schleswig-Holstein Question, 1843, 1847 and 1848.

Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg

His domain included inter alia the territories of Sonderburg, Norburg, Ærø, Plön and Ahrensbök together with their assigned Ämter or administrative offices.

Silvius I Nimrod, Duke of Württemberg-Oels

Silvius was the son of Duke Julius Frederick of Württemberg-Weiltingen and Anna Sabina of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg.

SMS Schleswig-Holstein

Ernst Gunther, the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, gave the commissioning speech.

Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp

Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp (born: 5 December 1630 in Gottorp; died: 12 December 1680 in Coswig) was a daughter van Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp and Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony.

Süderau

Süderau is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Wesenberg, Schleswig-Holstein

Wesenberg is a municipality in the district of Stormarn, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Winseldorf

Winseldorf is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.