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Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag ("Schleswig-Holstein Newspaper publisher"), sh:z, is a newspaper group based in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein. With 22 daily newspapers, the group is the largest daily publisher in the state. sh:z's publications have a circulation of over 150,000 with readership of about half a million people. The website ...
Feb 18, 2021 · 18 February 2021. The renewed relevance of the Schleswig-Holstein question. Europe has always had regions in which cultural and political spheres overlap, and finding lasting solutions for them has never been easy. By Brian Melican.
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Schleswig-Holstein (pronounced [ˌʃleːsvɪç ˈhɔlʃtaɪn] ⓘ; Danish: Slesvig-Holsten [ˌsle̝ːsvi ˈhʌlˌste̝ˀn]; Low German: Sleswig-Holsteen; North Frisian: Slaswik-Holstiinj; English: Sleswick-Holsatia) is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical Duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the ...
- Early History
- After The Dark Ages Migrations
- Nordalbingia and Wagria in 8th–9th Centuries
- Conquest of Nordalbingia by Obodrites and Franks
- Danes, Saxons, Franks Struggle For Control of Holstein
- Danes, Saxons, Angles Struggle For Control of Schleswig
- 12th Century
- 13th Century
- 14th Century
- 15th Century
The Jutland Peninsula is a peninsula in Northern Europe with modern-day Schleswig-Holstein at its base. Schleswig is also called Southern Jutland (Sønderjylland). The old Scandinavian sagas, perhaps dating back to the times of the Angles and Jutes give the impression that Jutland has been divided into a northern and a southern part with the border ...
After many Angles emigrated to the British Islands in the 5th century, the land of the Angles came in closer contact with the Danish islands — plausibly by partly immigration/occupation by the Danes. Later also the contacts increased between the Danes and the people on the northern half of the Jutishpeninsula. Judging by today's placenames, then th...
Apart from northern Holstein and Schleswig inhabited by Danes there were Nordalbingia and Wagriain respectively, Western and Eastern Holstein. Nordalbingia (German: Nordalbingien, i.e. land north of the Elbe river) was one of the four administrative regions of the medieval Duchy of Saxony, the others being Angria, Eastphalia, and Westphalia. Nordal...
In the Battle of Bornhöved (798)(German: Schlacht bei Bornhöved) on the field of Sventanafeld (Sventanapolje, Slavonic for "sacred field") near the village of Bornhöved near Neumünster in 798 the Obodrites, led by Drożko, allied with the Franks, defeated the Nordalbingian Saxons. Following the Nordalbingian defeat in the Battle of Bornhöved by comb...
As Charlemagne extended his realm in the late 8th century, he met a united Danish army which successfully defended Danevirke, a fortified defensive barrier across the south of the territory west of the Schlei. A border was established at the Eider Riverin 811. This strength was enabled by three factors: 1. the fishing, 2. the good soil giving good ...
The area of Schleswig (Southern Jutland) was first inhabited by the mingled West Germanic tribes Cimbri, Angles and Jutes, later also by the North Germanic Danes and West Germanic Frisians. Holstein was inhabited mainly by the West Germanic Saxons, aside Wends (such as Obotrites) and other Slavic peoples in the East. The Saxons were the last of the...
The Earl (jarl) Knud Lavard (known in English as Canute Lavard), son of a Danish king, became Duke of Jutland or Southern Jutland. His son ascended the Danish throne, and the main branch continued as Kings, and a cadet branch descended from Abel of Denmark received Southern Jutland (Slesvig) as their appanage. During the rule of the dynasty Souther...
Adolphus II (1128–1164), succeeded in re-conquering the Slavonic Wagri and founded the city and see of Lübeck to hold them in check. Adolphus III (d. 1225), his successor, received Dithmarschen in fee from the emperor Frederick I, but in 1203 the fortunes of war compelled him to surrender Holstein to Valdemar II of Denmark who mandated Albert of Or...
The connection between Schleswig and Holstein became closer during the 14th century as the ruling class and accompanying colonists intensely populated the Duchy Schleswig. Local lords of Schleswig had already early paid attention to keep Schleswig independent from the Kingdom of Denmark and to strengthen ties to Holstein within the Holy Roman Empir...
Gerhard VI died in 1404, and soon afterwards war broke out between his sons and Eric of Pomerania, Margaret's successor on the throne of Denmark, who claimed South Jutland as an integral part of the Danish monarchy, a claim formally recognised by the emperor Sigismund in 1424, it was not until 1440 that the struggle ended with the investiture of Co...
Zeitungsgeschichte Schleswig-Holsteins. In Schleswig-Holstein spiegelt sich ein wesentlicher Grundzug der deutschen Pressegeschichte: Selbst nachdem Berlin 1871 Hauptstadt geworden war, blieb es bei einer vor allem dezentralen Struktur der Presselandschaft. Anders als in Frankreich und Großbritannien bildete sich keine dominierende ...
Schleswig-Holstein - Profile of the German Federal State. Schleswig-Holstein facts: Official web sites of Schleswig-Holstein, links and information on Schleswig-Holstein's art, culture, geography, history, travel and tourism, cities, tourist boards and newspapers.
Schleswig-Holstein ( [/ˈʃleːsvɪç ˈhɔlʃtaɪ̯n/] ; amtlich Land Schleswig-Holstein; niederdeutsch Sleswig-Holsteen, dänisch Slesvig-Holsten, nordfriesisch Slaswik-Holstiinj, Abkürzung SH) ist eine parlamentarische Republik und ein teilsouveräner Gliedstaat ( Land) der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
