* March 24 – The First Schleswig War begins () or Three Years ' War () a military conflict in southern Denmark and northern Germany rooted in the Schleswig-Holstein Question, contesting the issue of who should control the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein.

John, also known as Hans ; né Johannes ( 2 February 1455 – 20 February 1513 ) was King of Denmark ( 1481 – 1513 ), Norway ( 1483 – 1513 ) and as John II () of Sweden ( 1497 – 1501 ) in the Kalmar Union, and also Duke of Schleswig and Holstein.

Eutin () is the district capital of Eastern Holstein ( German: Ostholstein ) located in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein.

The Ruhleben barracks () is part of the German Naval establishment located in Plön, Holstein, Germany.

The First Schleswig War () or Three Years ' War () was the first round of military conflict in southern Denmark and northern Germany rooted in the Schleswig-Holstein Question, contesting the issue of who should control the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein.

The Schleswig-Holstein Question (; ) was a complex of diplomatic and other issues arising in the 19th century from the relations of two duchies, Schleswig () and Holstein (), to the Danish crown and to the German Confederation.

The Saxons were originally Ingvaeonic tribes, whose earliest known area of settlement is Northern Albingia, an area approximately that of modern Holstein.

After the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, victorious Prussia took control over all Schleswig and Holstein but was obliged by the Peace of Prague to hold a referendum in predominantly Danish-speaking Northern Schleswig, which it never did.

Holsteinisch is a Northern Low Saxon dialect spoken in Holstein, the southern part of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany.

The Saxon stem duchy covered the greater part of present-day Northern Germany, including the modern German states ( Länder ) of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt up to the Elbe and Saale rivers in the east, the city-states of Bremen and Hamburg, as well as the Westphalian part of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Holstein region ( Nordalbingia ) of Schleswig-Holstein.

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.

These earliest known tribal Saxons inhabited " Northern Albingia ", a region bordering the northern bank of the mouth of River Elbe in what is now Western Holstein.

Whereas at the west coast North Frisian prevailed, about the other half of the South Schleswigers used Low Saxon, which had developed from Middle Low German, as their mother tongue, also prevailing in Holstein.

Low wrote, " Of the precise extent of these early importations we are imperfectly informed, but that they exercised a great influence on the native stock appears from this circumstance, that the breed formed by the mixture became familiarly known as the Dutch or Holstein breed ".

Over centuries of development Germanic languages merged to form a Low German dialect, which became the language of all of Holstein.

The Low German language, rather than Danish, had become typical of Holstein and much of south Schleswig.

In his Low Saxon ( Low German, Plattdüütsch ) lyric and epic poems, which reflect the influence of Johann Peter Hebel, Groth gives poetic expression to the country life of his northern home ; and though his descriptions may not always reflect the peculiar characteristics of the peasantry of Holstein as faithfully as those of Fritz Reuter, yet Groth is a lyric poet of genuine inspiration.

The most famous line of the proclamation was that the Danish Duchy of Schleswig and the County of Holstein within the Holy Roman Empire, should now be, in the original Middle Low German language, Up Ewig Ungedeelt, or " Forever Undivided ".

The rest of Holstein was given to Obotrites, namely the Wagrians, and their Saxon population was deported to various areas of the empire.

The Saxon dukes, however, continued to rule central Holstein, and when Lothair of Supplinburg became duke of Saxony ( 1106 ), on the extinction of the Billung line, he enfeoofed Lord Adolphus of Schauenburg with the County of Holstein, as a Saxon subfief, becoming Adolphus I, Count of Holstein with the Saxon, later Lower Saxon dukes as liege lords.

At that time, the Holy Roman Empire expanded northwards and had set up the Schauenburg family as counts of Holstein, under German suzerainty, first located in Nordalbingia, the Saxon part of the region, in what now is western Holstein.

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.

On December 24, 1863, Saxon and Hanoverian troops marched into the German duchy of Holstein in the name of the German Confederation, and supported by their presence and by the loyalty of the Holsteiners the duke of Augustenburg assumed the government under the style of Duke Frederick VIII.

* the Saxon or Nordalbingen march between the Eider and Elbe rivers in modern Holstein, against the Obotrites ;

In response, on 24 December 1863, Saxon and Hanoverian troops marched into Holstein on behalf of the Confederation.

The description Switzerland was common during the 19th century for landscapes with mountains, valleys and most significantly rocks, e. g., Saxon Switzerland, Märkisch Switzerland, Mecklenburg Switzerland and Holstein Switzerland.

According to very early traditions that are presumed to contain a good deal of historical truth, the edhilingui were the descendants of the Saxons who led the tribe out of Holstein and during the migrations of the sixth century.

The nettle leaf in the middle of the arms has become the heraldic symbol of Holstein, symbolising the historical connection between Holstein and Schaumburg.

Like Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, he placed his historical learning at the service of the estates of Schleswig and Holstein and composed the address of 1844, in which the estates protested against the claim of King Christian VIII of Denmark to alter the law of succession in the duchies, an issue diplomatically negotiated through the London Protocol of 1852, and ultimately resolved in a war between Denmark and allied forces from Austria and Prussia in the Second Schleswig War.

The town belongs to the ( historical ) region of Holstein, today in the state Schleswig-Holstein of Germany.

In German, the formal name is Oldenburg ( Oldenburg ) or Oldenburg ( Oldb ) ( spoken: Oldenburg in Oldenburg ) to distinguish it from the city of Oldenburg in Holstein.

Denmark's kings gave appanages in their twin-duchies of Schleswig-Holstein ( now three-fourths of them is part of Germany, but then the Holstein half of it was part of the Holy Roman Empire in personal union with Denmark proper ) to younger sons and / or their male-line descendants, with a specific though not sovereign title of Duke, e. g., Duke of Gottorp, Duke of Sonderburg, Duke of Augustenborg, Duke of Franzhagen, Duke of Beck, Duke of Glucksburg and Duke of Norburg.

Another type of black-and-white bicolor cat is nicknamed " cow cat " or " moo cat " ( for a perceived resemblance to Holstein cattle ) and includes the magpie, cap-and-saddle and mask-and-mantle patterns.

Others, however, claim that he was born at Oldesloe in the Duchy of Holstein, which at that time was a part of the Danish Monarchy ( but is now in Germany ).

In some parts of Holstein the last sheaf is dressed in women's clothes and called the Corn-mother.

The lakeland and the adjoining parts of the neighbouring district Ostholstein constitute the region called Holstein Switzerland, since this is a very hilly countryside.

The town, nestled as it is in the hilly, wooded lake district of Holstein Switzerland ( Holsteinische Schweiz ), also has importance in the tourism industry.

The district's name is derived from a medieval castle called Steinburg, where the reeves ruled by order of their lords, the dukes of Holstein.

The history of the district is connected with the history of Holstein.

A Wisconsin professor said that white markings on the head of Holstein cows are not unusual, though " the shape of a cross is unique ".

Holstein is a village in Adams County, Nebraska, United States.

Holstein is located at ( 40. 464769 ,-98. 649877 ).

Mount Calvary is in the New Holstein Public School District.

The district of Oldenburg ( German: Landkreis Oldenburg, not to confuse with the cities of Oldenburg and Oldenburg in Holstein ) is a district in the state of Lower Saxony, Germany.

The Holsten Gate (" Holstein Tor ", later " Holstentor ") is a city gate marking off the western boundary of the old center of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

A mediaeval limes is the Limes Saxoniae in Holstein.

His Irenicum vere christianum is directed against David Pareus ( 1548 – 1622 ), professor primarius at Heidelberg, who in Irenicum sive de unione et synodo Evangelicorum ( 1614 ) had pleaded for a reconciliation of Lutheranism and Calvinism ; his Calvinista aulopoliticus ( 1610 ) was written against the " damnable Calvinism " which was becoming prevalent in Holstein and Brandenburg.

The history of Holstein is closely intertwined with the history of the Danish Duchy of Schleswig ( Danish: Slesvig ).

The capital of Holstein is Kiel.

Today it is the border between Schleswig and Holstein, the northern and southern parts, respectively, of the modern German state of Schleswig-Holstein.

The Danish position can be exemplified with an inscription on a stone in the walls of the town of Rendsburg ( Danish: Rendsborg ) located on the border between Schleswig and Holstein: Eidora Terminus Imperii Romani (" The River Eider is the Border of the Holy Roman Empire ").