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5 unusual facts about Slesvig


Augusta of Denmark

When in 1610 John Adolf fired the Lutheran vicar Jacob Fabricius the Elder, general provost for Holstein and Schleswig ducal share, and replaced him with a Calvinist, Philipp Caesar, as the official vicar of the ducal court in 1614, Augusta refused to attend service and went by foot to the Lutheran church in Slesvig.

Haderslevhus

When Hans the Elder was proclaimed duke of Slesvig and Holstein (today Southern Jutland and Northern Germany), he took up residence in Haderslevhus, which now, in 1544, was an old, and worn-out building.

Ingeborg of Kalundborg

Ingeborg Esbensdatter of Kalundborg (died in Slesvig 1267) was an influential Danish landlord and vassal.

Scandinavian Collectors Club

The Scandinavian Collectors Club is a United States-based philatelic society dedicated to the collection and study of the postage stamps and postal history of the Scandinavia region, including the geographical regions of Åland, Aunus, the Danish West Indies, Denmark, the Faroes, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Karelia, North Ingermanland, Norway, Slesvig, and Sweden.

Slesvig

A former name for Hedeby, a Viking Age trading center, originally the largest town in the Nordic countries


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Schleswig Plebiscites

Since a Danish majority in this zone was produced in only three small villages on the island of Föhr, none of which were aligned with the coming border, the Commission Internationale de Surveillance du Plébiscite au Slesvig decided on a line almost identical to the border between the two zones.


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