Wilster

This article deals with the town of Wilster in the Steinburg district, for the river in the Hadeln country, see Wilster (river) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 55 '  N , 9 ° 22'  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Stone castle
Management Community :	Wilstermarsch office
Height :	2 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.71 km 2
Residents:	4287 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	1582 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	25554
Area code :	04823
License plate :	IZ
Community key :	01 0 61 113
City administration address :	Kohlmarkt 25 25554 Wilster
Website :	www.wilster.de
Mayor :	Walter Schulz ( CDU )
Location of the city of Wilster in the Steinburg district

Wilster is a town in the Steinburg district in Schleswig-Holstein .

history

View of Wilster around 1895

Wilster forms the center of the Wilstermarsch , one of the largest cattle breeding areas in Germany ( Rotbuntes Niederungsrind ). As early as 1163 a St. Bartholomew's Church was mentioned for the first time, which was probably on the Wurt north of the Wilsterau and became the center of a settlement of Dutch colonists. In 1282 the settlement received Lübsches town charter and is one of the oldest towns in Schleswig-Holstein . A market was held at the crossing over the Au (“Op de Göten”), where the old town hall from 1585 has been preserved to this day. It bears witness to the great economic boom in Wilster in the 16th century, which arose from the delivery of grain to Hamburg and long-distance trade with our own ships to Scotland and Portugal .

The wars in the 17th and 18th centuries reduced Wilster's prosperity, but it experienced a second boom at the end of the 18th century. The St. Bartholomäus Church by Ernst Georg Sonnin (built 1775–1780) and elegant town houses, such as today's town hall (former Palais Doos , 1785/1786) and Haus Michaelsen (built 1788), date from this time only the garden house in Sonninstrasse has been preserved (the house was moved to Itzehoe by an Itzehoe merchant in 1826 ).

In 1878 Wilster got a railway connection , which also gave rise to industry on a smaller scale. As a result, and thanks to the demand for agricultural products at the time, the period up to the First World War was another heyday for Wilster. After the war it struggled with businesses dying and residents moving. The new construction of the Kasenorter lock (1925) ensured that the Wilsterau remained navigable.

Today Wilster serves as a sub-center for the surrounding areas. Since July 1, 2005, the city of Wilster has formed an administrative partnership with the Wilstermarsch office . Since then, the Wilstermarsch office has been running the city's administrative business.

Precipitation diagram

climate

The annual precipitation is 804 mm and is therefore comparatively normal, as it falls in the middle third of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at 64% of the measuring stations of the German Weather Service . The driest month is February, with the most rainfall in July. In July there is 2.3 times more rainfall than in February. Precipitation varies greatly. Higher seasonal fluctuations are registered at only 21% of the measuring stations.

politics

Council meeting

Since the local elections on May 6, 2018, the CDU has nine seats (including the mayor) and the SPD eight seats in the council. Mayor is Walter Schulz (CDU).

coat of arms

Blazon : “Divided by red and blue. Above a silver nettle leaf, covered with a small plate divided by silver and red, below a gold-finned, silver fish floating on silver waves. "

St. Bartholomew Church

Old Town Hall

New Town Hall
(Doos'sches Palais)

Attractions

• The old town hall from 1585 is a Renaissance building.
• The New Town Hall (Doos'sche Palais) was built in 1786.
• The late baroque St. Bartholomew's Church , which was built between 1775 and 1780.
• The Wilster Natural History Museum is a local history museum that has existed since 1982 in the historic warehouse next to the Old Town Hall.

For more sights see the list of cultural monuments in Wilster

traffic

The B 5 runs through the municipality to Itzehoe and Brunsbüttel and the B 431 towards Meldorf .

Wilster has a train station on the march from Hamburg-Altona to Westerland on Sylt . With the regional train line 62 there is an hourly connection to Heide (Holst) (via Burg , Sankt Michaelisdonn and Meldorf ) or to Itzehoe . There is a connection to regional express trains to Hamburg and Westerland or to ICs to Stuttgart , Frankfurt (Main) , Dresden or Karlsruhe .

Passenger traffic on the railway from Wilster to Brunsbüttel was discontinued on May 27, 1988, but numerous freight trains still run there today to the industrial companies there and to the Elbe port in Brunsbüttel.

With the lines 6601-6610 there is a bus service from Wilster u. a. to Kudensee , Sankt Margarethen , Brokdorf and Wewelsfleth . In addition, the 6606 bus runs through Wilster, which connects the lock town of Brunsbüttel with Itzehoe .

Schools and clubs

• schools
  • Wolfgang Ratke School (elementary school), land law, 194 students in 9 classes
  • Wilster Community School, Am Schulzentrum, 384 students in 16 classes

Student numbers from the school year 2019/2020

• societies
  • MTV Wilster
  • Citizens' Rifle Guild from 1380
  • Friends of Historic Town Halls in Wilster
  • Rural women's association Wilstermarsch
  • NABU Wilstermarsch eV
  • Leselust-Förderverein für Kunst, Kultur und Bildung eV

among others

Others

The place-name sign as it has been used as an example in the StVO after a revision since 1992.

Wilster in the Steinburg district owes its fame to the fact that this place has served as an example for the place-name sign (sign 310) since the introduction of a new road traffic regulation in 1971 .

The Wilster substation is named after the town , but it is located further west in the neighboring community of Nortorf .

Personalities

Honorary grave of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, the city of Wilster and the parish of Wilster for the composer Wilhelm Nagel in the cemetery

sons and daughters of the town

• 1571, October 18, Wolfgang Ratke , † April 27, 1635 in Erfurt, didactician and pedagogue
• 1572, November 22nd, Guilielmus Alardus † May 8th, 1645 Krempe (Steinburg), poet, author of sermon collections and hymn composer
• 1660, August 29, Reimar Peter von Rheder † February 14, 1711 in Glückstadt, ▭ March 6, 1711 in Lübeck, Lübeck canon and royal Danish councilor
• 1761, October 15, Peter Grönland , Danish lawyer, music critic, folk song collector and composer
• 1829, January 5, Johann Meyer , † October 16, 1904 in Kiel, local poet
• 1890, September 27, Minna Wilde , † July 31, 1975 in Uttingen near Bern, singer and educator
• 1905, September 24, Richard Eggers , † June 15, 1995, painter, representative of Post-Impressionism
• 1911, October 19, Kuno Callsen , † 17 May 2001 sturmbannführer was instrumental in the mass murders in Babi Yar involved
• 1938, November 5th Maren Piske , German politician (SPD), 1991–1998 MdHB (Hamburg)
• 1943, February 10, Gert Börnsen , † May 10, 2014 in Kiel, German politician ( SPD ), MdL ( Schleswig-Holstein )
• 1943, April 29, Klaus Grawe , † July 10, 2005 in Zurich, psychotherapy researcher and psychological psychotherapist
• 1965, February 7, Birge Schade , actress
• 1968, October 7th, Alex Behning , musician

Personalities who worked on site

• Albrecht Heinrich Matthias Cooking (1776–1847), Protestant theologian and clergyman, chief pastor from 1806 to 1816

literature

• Marianne Hofmann: The beginnings of the cities of Itzehoe, Wilster and Krempe , in: ZSHG 83 (1959), pp. 15–82 (Part I) and ZSHG 84 (1960), pp. 15–92 (Part II).
• Jutta Kürtz: 1282–1982, 700 years of the city of Wilster , Wilster 1982.
• R. Friedrichs u. H. Jacobs: 725 Years Wilster, Mirror Images of an Old City , 2007.

Web links

Commons : Wilster  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City of Wilster

Individual evidence

1. ↑ North Statistics Office - Population of the municipalities in Schleswig-Holstein 4th quarter 2019 (XLSX file) (update based on the 2011 census) ( help on this ).
2. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms
3. ↑ Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein: Directory of general education schools in Schleswig-Holstein 2019/2020
4. ↑ Bundesgesetzblatt , Volume 1970, No. 108, date of issue: Bonn, December 5, 1970, p. 1595.
5. ↑ Wilhelm Nagel would be 140 today