Schleswig and Holstein were thus once more united under the Danish king.

On March 30, 1863, as a result of this, a royal compact's proclamation was published at Copenhagen repudiating the compacts of 1852, and, by defining the separate position of Holstein in the Danish monarchy, negativing once for all the German claims upon Schleswig.

This border, which Denmark later considered to be its " natural border " is exemplified in a stone once set in the walls of Rendsburg (), a city on the border between Schleswig and Holstein.

The town and castle changed ownership for a period afterwards and were part of the Duchy of Saxony until 1192, of the County of Holstein until 1217 and part of Denmark until the Battle of Bornhöved in 1227.

Strategically located on a narrow isthmus between the lakes and the River Schwentine, Plön remained a centre of the County of Holstein until the Danish royal house fell in the 15th century.

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

The County of Holstein was ruled by the House of Schaumburg ; the first count was Adolf I, Count of Holstein.

* Gottorp ducal share in Holstein and Schleswig, partitioned from ducal Holstein in 1544, acquired half of Haderslev share in 1580 ( thus thereafter simply called ducal share ), merged into the royal share in 1773 with its ruler receiving in return the prior Danish-held County of Oldenburg.

* Royal share in Holstein and Schleswig, acquired half of Haderslev share in 1580, the County of Holstein-Pinneberg in 1640 and the Gottorp share in 1773, thus then comprising all of Holstein.

The County of Holstein-Pinneberg, which had remained a separately ruled territory in Holstein until its line was extinct in 1640, was merged into the then royal share of the Duchy of Holstein.

In 1773, they exchanged the County of Oldenburg for the Gottorp lands in Holstein, bringing all of Holstein under their control.

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.

Count Adolphus II, son of Adolphus I, succeeded and established the County of Holstein ( 1143 ) with about the borders it has had since then.

Christian's ascension in the County of Holstein-Rendsburg was the first succession in Holstein in female line.

In 1640 the Princes of Schauenburg were extinct in the male line and the County of Holstein-Pinneberg was merged into the royal share of the Duchy of Holstein.

New Holstein is a town in Calumet County in the U. S. state of Wisconsin.

* County of Holstein

In 1450 Christian became king of Norway and in 1457 king of Sweden ; in 1460 he inherited the Duchy of Schleswig and the County of Holstein, an event of high importance for the future history of Oldenburg.

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.

* 1340 – Niels Ebbesen kills Gerhard III of Holstein in his bedroom, ending the 1332-1340 interregnum in Denmark.

* Magnus of Livonia ( 1540 – 1583 ), also Duke of Holstein

** Reformation in Denmark – Norway and Holstein, the 16th century transition to Lutheranism in the realms ruled by the Copenhagen-based House of Oldenburg

* 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.

* July 8 – Adolf IV of Holstein, Count of Schauenburg

Generalsuperintendant von Schleswig und Holstein " (" Royal general superintendent of Schleswig and Holstein ") between 1760 and 1791, and his wife ( m. Berleburg, 8 May 1732 ) Maria Dorothea Carl ( Berleburg, 31 July 1716 – Schleswig, 31 December 1792 ), a respectable middle-class family that believed in religious tolerance.

* link = European route E47 –: Helsingborg … Helsingør – Copenhagen – Køge – Vordingborg – Farø – Rødby … Puttgarden – Oldenburg in Holstein – Lübeck ( See also E 06 below.

From his predecessor, he inherited the Livonian War, where he implemented his younger brother Magnus of Holstein, whom he considered troublesome, in the Bishopric of Ösel – Wiek.

* Holstein – Herring method

The conquerors – King Frederick II, Duke Adolf, and Duke John II the Elder – divided Dithmarschen into two parts: the south became a part of Holstein in personal union with Denmark while the north came into the possession of the other Duke of Holstein.

Also Duke of Schleswig and Holstein 1460 – 81.

# John ( 1455 – 1513 ), King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, Duke of Schleswig and Holstein

# Frederick ( 1471 – 1533 ), Duke of Schleswig and Holstein, in Gottorp, later also King of Denmark and Norway

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.

In 1474 Lauenburg's liege lord Emperor Frederick III elevated Christian I as Count of Holstein to Duke of Holstein, thus becoming an immediate imperial vassal ( see imperial immediacy ).

In 1474 Lauenburg's liege lord Emperor Frederick III elevated Christian I as Count of Holstein-Rendsburg to Duke of Holstein, thus becoming an immediate imperial ( reichsunmittelbar ) vassal ( see imperial immediacy ).

The kings of Denmark were granted Holstein as an imperial fief by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III from 1474.

On 22 July 1227 Albert I asserted as fellow victor in the Battle of Bornhöved, commanding the Holy Roman left flank, his earlier disputed rank as liege lord of the Counts of Schauenburg and Holstein, a privilege, however, lost by his successor John V in 1474.

In 1474 Emperor Frederick III elevated Christian as Count of Holstein-Rendsburg to Duke of Holstein, thus becoming an immediate imperial vassal ( see imperial immediacy ).

They were perhaps not named " Angles " at that time ; however, the territory of the Teutones probably included the Vorpommern and the region south to the Elbe ( mainly Holstein ), accounting for the implied larger range of the Angles in later sources.

* Friesian or Holstein ( cattle ), a widespread black-and-white breed of dairy cattle

As a result of the Peace of Prague ( 1866 ), the German Confederation was dissolved ; Prussia annexed Schleswig, Holstein, Frankfurt, Hanover, Hesse-Kassel ( or Hesse-Cassel ), and Nassau ; and Austria promised not to intervene in German affairs.

The Obotrites (, ), also commonly known as the Obodrites, Abotrites, or Abodrites, were a confederation of medieval West Slavic tribes within the territory of modern Mecklenburg and Holstein in northern Germany ( see Polabian Slavs ).

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

Though he was from Holstein ( now in Germany ), his first wife was a Finn and part of the Swedish community.

# Christian II ( 1481 – 1559 ), King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, Duke of Schleswig and Holstein

In 1778 he accepted a position in the civil service of Danish Holstein, and went to reside at Meldorf ( Ditmarsh ), where he died in 1815.

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.

Holstein was occupied by Denmark after the Battle of Stellau ( 1201 ), but was reconquered by the Count of Schauenburg and his allies in the Battle of Bornhöved ( 1227 ).