One of these episodes centered its plot in Dithmarschen: the Low German in the dialogue was thought to be too difficult for a generic German audience to follow!

Frederick III elevated Christian as Count of Dithmarschen, Holstein-Rendsburg, and Stormarn to Duke of Holstein, thus elevating Holstein-Rendsburg, a Lower Saxon subfief to imperial immediacy.

After years of dispute, the Council of the 48, the elected governing body of the farmers ' republic of Ditmarsh, decided to found a Gallicanist kind of independent Catholic Church of Dithmarschen in August 1523, denying Hamburg's capitular jurisdiction in all of Dithmarschen.

Within the Bundesland Schleswig-Holstein, the area remained divided into the districts of Norderdithmarschen ( Northern Ditmarsh ) and Süderdithmarschen ( Southern Ditmarsh ) before they were united in 1970 as the district of Dithmarschen.

The Middle Ages in Dithmarschen are held to have continued into the 19th century, when the Kiel Canal was completed, fens began to be drained, and agricultural reforms took place.

In the Middle Ages the church was the venue of the repsentatives of the political parishes of Dithmarschen.

This legend is found in two sources, Hans Svaning's History of King Hans from 1558 – 1559 and Johan Rantzau's History about the Last Dithmarschen War, from 1569.

Sources from Dithmarschen, written shortly after the battle of 1500, do mention banners, including the Royal banner, being captured from the Danes, but there is no mention of Dannebrog or the " original " flag.

It includes almost all of traditional North Frisia along with adjacent areas to the east and south and is bounded by ( from the east and clockwise ) the districts of Schleswig-Flensburg and Dithmarschen, the North Sea and the Danish county of South Jutland.

Part of the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park is in Dithmarschen.

In Northern Germany Dithmarschen is well known for its Dithmarscher beer from the brewery Karl Hintz in Marne.

In 2003, 205, 382 tourists spent 1, 173, 205 nights in Dithmarschen, most of them in Büsum ( 756, 630 nights ), which is ranked before Friedrichskoog ( 75, 654 ) and Büsumer Deichhausen ( 33, 811 ).

The tourism industry in Dithmarschen is trying to diversify tourist attractions.

In the east of Dithmarschen, ecological travel by canoe or kayak along the Eider is promoted.

It is the capital of the Kreis ( district ) Dithmarschen.

The exact foundation date is now unknown, but by 1447 Heide was already the main village of Dithmarschen.

There is a twinning between Kreis Dithmarschen and Restormel Borough Council.

It is bounded by ( from the south and clockwise ) the districts of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Dithmarschen and Nordfriesland, the Region Syddanmark in Denmark, the city of Flensburg and the Baltic Sea.

It is bounded by ( from the east and clockwise ) the city of Kiel, the district of Plön, the city of Neumünster, the districts of Segeberg, Steinburg, Dithmarschen and Schleswig-Flensburg, and the Baltic Sea.

It is bounded by ( from the west and clockwise ) the districts of Dithmarschen, Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Segeberg and Pinneberg, and by the Elbe River ( and the district of Stade beyond ).

Carsten Niebuhr or Karsten Niebuhr ( March 17, 1733 Lüdingworth – April 26, 1815 Meldorf, Dithmarschen ) a German mathematician, cartographer, and explorer in the service of Denmark, is renowned for his travels on the Arabian peninsula.

Today it is spoken in Dithmarschen, around Neumünster, Rendsburg, Kiel and Lübeck.

In the north, between the Danish border and the peninsula of Eiderstedt is the North Frisian part ; on the south coast of Eiderstedt up to the Elbe estuary is the Dithmarschen part.

Restormel is twinned by oath, which can be viewed in the council offices in St Austell, with Kreis Dithmarschen.

Brunsbüttel is a town in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany that lies on the mouth of the Elbe river, near the North Sea.

It is primarily played along the coast and borders of North Germany, such as in Ostfriesland, Oldenburg, Butjadingen, Dithmarschen, Nordfriesland, Emsland, and Grafschaft Bentheim.

* Linden, Schleswig-Holstein, a municipality in the district Dithmarschen, Schleswig-Holstein

* Rehm-Flehde-Bargen, in the Dithmarschen district, Schleswig-Holstein

* Buchholz, Dithmarschen in the district of Dithmarschen, Schleswig-Holstein

* in Russia, before the imperial unification from Muscovy ; sometimes even as vassal, tributary to a Tartar Khan ; later, in Peter the Great's autocratic empire, the russification gertsog was used as the Russian rendering of the German ducal title Herzog, especially as ( the last ) part of the full official style of the Russian Emperor: Gertsog Shlesvig-Golstinskiy, Stormarnskiy, Ditmarsenskiy i Oldenburgskiy i prochaya, i prochaya, i prochaya " Duke of Schleswig-Holstein above, Stormarn, Dithmarschen and Oldenburg, and of other lands ", in chief of German and Danish territories to which the Tsar was dynastically linked.

Vegetable farming in Dithmarschen produces the highest yields in Schleswig-Holstein.

Two years later, following the Austro-Prussian War, Dithmarschen became part of the Kingdom of Prussia, which annexed Holstein and Schleswig making them subsequently the Province of Schleswig-Holstein.

In 1500, John made a fatal attempt at conquering Dithmarschen ( in today's Schleswig-Holstein ), an area which the kings of Denmark had long viewed as belonging to their realm, but which was in reality an independent peasant republic under the loose overlordship of the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen.

According to tradition, the original flag from the Battle of Lyndanisse was used in the small campaign of 1500 when King Hans tried to conquer Dithmarschen ( in western Holstein in north Germany ).

Through the Dithmarschen ships, Raeder planned to greatly extend the length of time that Kriegsmarine raiders could spent on the high seas before being required to return to Germany.

To get around the problem of the lack of bases outside of Germany and the shortage of Dithmarschen ships, Raeder had the Foreign Office in late 1939 negotiate secret agreements with Japan, Spain and the Soviet Union allowing German ships and submarines to use the ports of those nations to resupply, refuel and rearm.

On leaving Wittenberg he spent four and a half years as a superintendent of a Lutheran church in Meldorf, Dithmarschen, near the mouth of the River Elbe in the north of Germany.

Other such rural communes developed in the Grisons, in the French Alps ( Briançon ), in the Pyrenees, in northern France ( Forêt de Roumare ), in northern Germany ( Frisia and Dithmarschen ), and also in Sweden and Norway.

In 1559, King Frederik II recaptured it during his own Dithmarschen campaign.

A priest and historian from Dithmarschen, Neocorus, wrote in 1598 that the banner captured in 1500, was brought to the church in Wöhrden and hung there for the next 59 years, until it was returned to the Danes as part of the peace settlement in 1559.

* 1500 – Duke Friedrich and Duke Johann attempt to subdue the peasantry of Dithmarschen, Denmark, in the Battle of Hemmingstedt.

Brahms's father, Johann Jakob Brahms ( 1806 – 72 ), came to Hamburg from Dithmarschen, seeking a career as a town musician.

* February 17 – Battle of Hemmingstedt: The Danish army fails to conquer the peasants ' republic of Dithmarschen.

The captains of the Dithmarschen class ships and Kriegsmarine warships and submarines were trained in transferring goods and fuel from the Dithmarschen ships to the warships / submarines at open sea, a most difficult operation that required considerable practice.

Five Dithmarschen ships were built between 1937 and 1940 and two, the Altmark and the Westerwald were at sea at the start of the war.

Hansen wrote that the Dithmarschen ships were Raeder's most enduring legacy as their provided the basis for the modern support ship ; after the war, the United States Navy took over the Dithmarschen and renamed it the USS Conech.

Despite his belief that the attack on Poland would cause only a local war, on 15 August 1939 Raeder took the precaution of ordering two Panzerschife the Admiral Graf von Spee and the Deutschland, a number of U-boats and the Dithmarschen ships Altmark and Westerwald to the Atlantic in case Britain should go to war.

This was especially the case because in early 1941, the Royal Navy used intelligence from Ultra to sink all of the Dithmarschen ships and other supply ships that the Kriegsmarine used to supply U-boats and surface raiders on the high seas.

Shortly after his succession he won his first victory by the conquest of Dithmarschen in the summer of 1559.

Nordfriesland includes the coastal section between Dithmarschen and Denmark.

Land reclamation, however, has almost doubled the size of Dithmarschen as land has been wrested from the sea.

From west to east Dithmarschen consists of the Wadden Sea, marsh, bog, and the Geestland.

Since about the 8th century, the people of Dithmarschen have been living on warfts for protection from the sea.