Battle of Stellau

In 1201, defeated Valdemar II, King of Denmark from 1202, together with his brother King Canute VI. of Denmark Count Adolf III. Schauenburg and Holstein in the Battle of Stellau.

Prehistory

In the reign of King Canute VI. ( 1170-1202 ) there were repeated clashes between the rulers in Denmark and the Counts of Schauenburg and Holstein. So it was after the return of Count Adolf III. from the crusade of Henry VI. in the years 1197 and 1198 conflicts around Rügen and in 1200 to the Reinoldsburg and Dithmar.

The Battle

In 1201, the decisive battle of Stellau ( a district of Wrist in the Official Kellinghusenstraße today ) took place in the Graf Adolf III. subject. He retired after the battle over Stade to Hamburg. There he was besieged by Valdemar II and finally captured.

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In 1203 Adolf renounced III. , As the price of his release, the county Holstein and retired to his regular county shows castle.

The winner of the Battle of Stellau, Waldemar II, because this battle became known as " the winner " and was after the death of his brother Knut 1202-1227 King of Denmark.

Only Count Adolf IV of Schauenburg could with the victory at the Battle of Bornhöved in 1227 to break the Danish expansionism and reconquer the county Holstein.

A Romanesque stone church ( Church Stellau ), built by the " Krummendieks " near the battlefield of Stellau, was consecrated in 1230 by Archbishop Gebhard II of Bremen.