Southern Jutland
Sønderjylland or Süderjutland geographically refers to the southern part of the Jutian peninsula . Historically, South Jutland is a Danish name for the area on which the former Duchy of Schleswig was located. This reached from the Eider border to the Königsau ( Danish Kongeå ). In the referendum held in Schleswig in 1920 , in which the residents of the region could vote on whether they wanted to belong to Denmark or Germany, the northern part of the duchy ( northern Schleswig ) fell to Denmark, the southern part ( southern Schleswig ) to Germany. Since then, Sønderjylland has mostly only been used to refer to the area from the German-Danish border in the heights of Flensburg to Königsau, even if the term basically covers the entire Schleswig region.
history
In the early Middle Ages, Jutland was divided into a northern ( north of the Königsau ) and a southern part of the country ( south of the Königsau ), both of which had their own lands . Southshore Jutland consisted of the three Sysseln Barved, Ellum and Idstedt his Thingstätte was in Urnehoved at Bjolderup.
Parallel to the name Süderjutland , the Schleswig version appeared as early as the 10th century : It can be found, for example, in the naming of the Mark Schleswig , located between Schlei and Eider , which was part of the tribal duchy of Saxony from 934 to 1025 and under Emperor Otto from 962 to 1025 I. , Otto II. , Otto III. , Heinrich II. And Konrad II. Formed the northern border of the Holy Roman Empire . In the 12th century, the last Jarl Knud Lavard assumed the title Duke (dux Jucie).
Until 1500, the terms Schleswig and Southern Jutland were used synonymously in German and Danish for around five hundred years, but since the rule of the Dukes of Schauenburg at the end of the 14th century , the duchy was mainly named after the royal seat of Schleswig and eventually became the more common expression in the early modern period. Only in the wake of the rise of nationalism in the 19th century was the term Sønderjylland / Süderjutland increasingly used again by the Danish side.
After the Danish defeat in the German-Danish War and the Peace of Vienna , the Danish fiefdom of Schleswig and Holstein fell to Prussia as the province of Schleswig-Holstein .
Schleswig and Jutland in 1920 after two separate referendums divided in the Danish North and the German Südschleswig: the South is a region of Schleswig today with Holstein the state of Schleswig-Holstein , in northern Schleswig lived in partly slightly different limits offices Tønder ( dt . : Tondern) , Sønderborg (dt .: Sonderburg ) Aabenraa (dt .: Aabenraa ) and Haderslev (dt .: Hadersleben ) up again in 1970 for Sønderjyllands Amt were merged and the new 2007 South Denmark aufgingen.
In 1997 the European region Sønderjylland-Schleswig was founded, in which the independent city of Flensburg and the districts of Schleswig-Flensburg and North Friesland are represented on the German side and the municipalities of Aabenraa , Sønderborg , Tønder and Haderslev in the Syddanmark region are represented on the Danish side . The south-eastern part of Schleswig around the town of Eckernförde is not yet represented in the European region of Sønderjylland-Schleswig.
Today, both the German and the Danish side continue to use the terms Schleswig and Sønderjylland in parallel, but mostly mean only part of the former duchy. Schleswig is usually the now German, southern part of the duchy and Sønderjylland is the former office, i.e. the northern, now Danish part of the duchy. Actually, both terms refer to the same geographic area.
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- ↑ Schleswig's timeline
- ^ Society for Schleswig-Holstein History, Herzog ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Carsten Porskrog Rasmussen: De slesvigske hertuger, Aabenraa 2005, page 13
- ^ Society for Schleswig-Holstein History - Sønderjylland ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- Robert Bohn : History of Schleswig-Holstein. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-406-50891-2 .
- Brandt, Otto and Klüver, Wilhelm: History of Schleswig-Holstein - A floor plan , 8th edition, Kiel 1981
Web links
Coordinates: 54 ° 51 ' N , 9 ° 22' E