HEIDE

heide, a town of germany, in the prussian province of schleswig-holstein, on a small plateau which stands between the marshes and moors bordering the north sea, 35 m. n.n.w. of gluckstadt, at the junction of the railways elmshorn-hvidding and neumunster-tonning. pop. (1905), 8758. it has an evangelical and a roman catholic church, a high-grade school, and tobacco and cigar manufactories and breweries. heide in 1447 became the capital of the ditmarsh peasant republic, but on the 13th of june 1559 it was the scene of the complete defeat of the peasant forces by the danes.