Lohheide (Schleswig)

The Lohheide ( Lohede ) in southern Schleswig / Southern Jutland

The capture of King Christoph II on the Lohheide in 1331 and his early death in 1332 ushered in the so-called kingless period in Denmark, during which almost the entire country was pledged to north German princes.

The Lohheide (also: Loheide , Danish Lohede ) is a heathland in southern Schleswig , located near the Ochsenweg between the Eider , the Sorge and the Danewerk and in what is now the municipality of Lohe-Föhrden .

In the Middle Ages, several military conflicts between German / Holstein princes and the Danish royal family took place on the Lohheide. As early as 1261 there was a meeting between Count Gerhard I of Holstein and Danish troops under their regent Margarete Sambiria . In 1331 the Danish King Christoph II was on the Lohheide by the Holstein Count Gerhard III. captured. The capture and death of the king a year later ushered in the so-called kingsless period of Denmark, in which almost the entire country was pledged to north German princes.

On June 29, 1261 was held at the Lohheide a major battle between the Danish regent Margaret Sambiria and later Duke of Schleswig Erich , of the Holstein Look burgers was close to ( Battle on the Lohheide ), held in the Margaret Sambiria initially suffered a defeat.

Some of the battles in the Great Northern War were fought in the Lohheide in 1712.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Andreas Ludwig Jakob Michelsen: North Friesland in the Middle Ages . Schleswig 1828, p. 86 .