King's Hill (Selk)
The Königshügel ( Danish : Kongshøj ) is an approximately 42.0 m high natural elevation with a burial mound on Selker Noor on Brekendorfer Landstrasse in Selk in northern Schleswig-Holstein .
The survey was already called Cuningis-Ho by the chronicler Helmold von Bosau at the end of the 12th century and probably reflects the old Danish Kunungshøgh . The name is made up of König ( old Danish: Kunung , Low German : Köhn , New Danish: Konge ) and -hügel (Middle Danish: hy ). According to the Danish chronicler Saxo Grammaticus , a Siwardus is said to have died here in a battle, a legend speaks of King Sigurd (Danish: Sigtryg ), who is said to be buried here. Near the ford between the Haddebyer and the Selker Noor, the Sigtryggstein ( Sigtrygsten ) was one of the rune stones from Haithabu , the rune stone is now exhibited in the Haithabu Museum . The name may otherwise indicate a royal court or a royal high seat, which may have been associated with the nearby Haithabu ( Hedeby ). In 872 a battle between Viking kings is said to have taken place on King's Hill. In addition to the Königshügel, there are a number of other barrows and barrows in the Selk area.
In 1864, a memorial to the fallen Austrian soldiers in the German-Danish War was built on Königshügel . In the area there are other monuments to fallen soldiers from the two Schleswig Wars , such as a Danish memorial column at the Busdorf pond .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Laur: Historisches Ortsnamelexikon von Schleswig-Holstein , 2nd edition, Neumünster 1992, p. 400.
- ↑ Gerd Stolz and Heyo Wulf: Danish, German and Austrian war graves from 1848/1851 and 1864 in Schleswig-Holstein , Husum 2004, p. 182 ff.
Coordinates: 54 ° 28 ′ 38.5 ″ N , 9 ° 33 ′ 50 ″ E