Itzehoe

Itzehoe is a town inside the German country of Schleswig-Holstein. As the capital of the district Steinburg, Itzehoe is positioned at the Stor, a navigable tributary of the Elbe, fifty one km northwest of Hamburg and 24 km north of Glückstadt. The populace is ready 32,530. The church St. Laurentii and the building wherein the Holstein estates formerly met, are noteworthy. The town has a convent founded in 1256, many faculties, a hospital and other benevolent establishments. Itzehoe is a hectic commercial location. Itzehoe is the oldest metropolis in Holstein. Its nucleus was a citadel, constructed in 809 by Egbert, one in every of Charlemagne's counts, in opposition to the Danes.

The community which sprang up around it was variously known as Esseveldoburg, Eselsfleth and Ezeho. In 1201 the city was destroyed, however it become restored in 1224. The new town was granted the Lübeck rights by way of Adolphus IV in 1238, and the old metropolis in 1303. During the Thirty Years' War Itzehoe turned into two times destroyed by way of the Swedes, in 1644 and 1657, however was rebuilt on every occasion. It passed to Prussia in 1867, with the duchy of Schleswig-Holstein. Itzehoe is indexed as a garrison depot of the former Infanteriedivision 225. Which become implicated within the 1940 Vinkt Massacre in Belgium. Itzehoe is likewise the area of the Wenzel Hablik Museum.