Stormarn

Stormarn is an old district north of the Elbe, stretching towards the Trave and Bille. Adam of Bremen described it in the eleventh century as the easternmost of the Saxon districts north of the Elbe, bordering the Slavic lands of Wagria. From 1111 the counts of Schauenburg ruled it together with Holstein. Their lands were later divided among several branches, and the territories of Stormarn gradually came under Danish rule by the eighteenth century.