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Hemmingstedt, Battle of
The Battle of Hemmingstedt takes place on February 17, 1500 south of the village of Hemmingstedt, near the present village of Epenwöhrden, in the western part of present-day Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
It is an attempt by king John of Denmark and his brother Duke Frederick, who are co-dukes of Schleswig and Holstein, to subdue the peasantry of Dithmarschen, who have established a peasants' republic on the coast of the North Sea.
John is at the time also king of the Kalmar Union.