Ahrensbök

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Ahrensbök
Ahrensbök
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Ahrensbök highlighted

Coordinates: 54 ° 1 ′  N , 10 ° 34 ′  E

Basic data
State : Schleswig-Holstein
Circle : Ostholstein
Height : 57 m above sea level NHN
Area : 95.37 km 2
Residents: 8287 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 87 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 23623
Primaries : 04505, 04506, 04524, 04525, 04556
License plate : OH
Community key : 01 0 55 001
LOCODE : DE TWG
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Poststrasse 1
23623 Ahrensbök
Website : www.ahrensboek.de
Mayor : Andreas Zimmermann (independent)
Location of the municipality of Ahrensbök in the Ostholstein district
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Ahrensbök ( Low German Ahrensböök ) is after the two independent cities Lübeck and Kiel and the city of Fehmarn the fourth largest municipality in the state of Schleswig-Holstein in terms of area .

The large community of Ahrensbök, which belongs to the Ostholstein district, is due to its historical development the economic center of a larger rural area (rural central place). A good half of the community's residents live in Ahrensbök itself. The other half lives in the 19 villages of Vorwerk Ahrensbök, Barghorst, Böbs, Cashagen, Dakendorf, Dunkelsdorf , Gießelrade, Gnissau, Grebenhagen, Havekost, Hohenhorst, Holstendorf, Lebatz, Schwienkuhlen, Schwochel, Siblin, Spechserholz, Tankenrade and Vorwerk-Neuhof.

geography

The community is located in the hill country of Eastern Holstein and was shaped by terminal moraines during the Ice Age . The surrounding cities of Eutin (in the north), Lübeck (in the south) and Bad Segeberg (in the west) can each be reached in 15 minutes by car, as can the Baltic Sea ( Scharbeutz ).

Neighboring communities

Ahrensbök shares a border with the following municipalities (clockwise, starting in the north): Bosau , Süsel , Scharbeutz, Stockelsdorf (all Ostholstein district), Pronstorf , Wensin , Travenhorst , Seedorf and Glasau (all Segeberg district ).

history

Ahrensbök was founded in 1280 after a pilgrimage chapel was built. In 1328 the place was first mentioned in a document. In 1348 the plague raged in town. A Carthusian monastery ( Kartause ) was founded as early as 1397 with the Ahrensbök monastery . The growing importance of Ahrensböks strikes z. B. 1564 in the establishment of the office of Ahrensbök as a secular administrative district and the construction of a castle between 1593 and 1601 on the site of today's town hall in Ahrensbök. From 1623 to 1636 Ahrensbök was the residence of the small Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön . In 1746 the subjects were released from serfdom by Duke Friedrich Karl of Plön ; In 1765 the Ahrensböker Castle was demolished.

In 1791 a cattle and horse market was established, which has been replaced by a regular weekly market since 1832. In 1826 the Ahrensböker office building was built on the site of the former castle. In the German-Danish War of 1864 Ahrensbök came under Austrian , then Prussian rule for a short time . In 1867 a district court was set up. In the same year, after the Austro-Prussian War and the Peace of Prague in August 1866, the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg received the Ahrensbök office as compensation for inheritance claims on the now Prussian Holstein and thus became part of the Principality of Lübeck .

On September 3, 1872, 22 residential buildings and 10 outbuildings fell victim to a major fire in Ahrensbök. In 1879 the Ahrensbök office was dissolved in favor of the Eutin district and the area was divided into two communities, the Fleckengemeinde and the rural community Ahrensbök. The Pönitz – Ahrensbök railway was officially opened as early as 1886 . In 1912 Ahrensbök was given the status of "City II. Class". In 1928 the private school was built in Lindenstrasse (middle school / secondary school from 1950). In the same year the place celebrated its 600th anniversary. In 1933 Ahrensbök lost its town charter and transformed itself into a municipality with 19 villages within today's boundaries, the district court was dissolved. In 1937 the place was incorporated into the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein by the Greater Hamburg Act as part of the Oldenburg region of Lübeck .

In the early 1930s, Wolfgang Saalfeldt , doctor and NSDAP district leader in Eutin , was a protagonist of the National Socialist Party in Ahrensbök. He represented the interests of the party in public and was active in recruiting. From October 3, 1933 to May 9, 1934, the wild Ahrensbök concentration camp was located on the site of today's Ahrensbök Memorial .

In April 1945, Jewish prisoners from the Auschwitz subcamp Fürstengrube were driven through Ahrensbök on the “ KZ Fürstengrube death march ”. After the Second World War , thousands of displaced persons and refugees were taken in. The population increased from 5,063 (1939) to 10,169 (1950).

Ahrensbök and the Eutin district became part of the Ostholstein district as a result of the regional reform in 1970 . In 1972 the primary and secondary school was inaugurated as a village community school, with the individual village schools being dissolved at the same time. In 1982 the central bus station was built in Lindenstrasse. Since March 1985, the municipal administration has its seat in the new town hall, near the place where the Ahrensböker castle and the office building (1826-1983) used to be. In 1988 the railway line was closed.

politics

Ahrensbök municipal election 2018
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
43.3%
32.0%
14.0%
10.7%
Allocation of seats since 2018 in the Ahrensbök municipal council
    
A total of 22 seats

Community representation

The election for municipal council on May 6, 2018 led to the result shown in the diagrams below:

Mayor

The mayor is Hans-Joachim Dockweiler (CDU).

Partner communities

The partner communities of Ahrensbök are the small community Grzmiąca / Gramenz located in Poland (since 1991), the French community Saint-Savinien (since 1992) and Grevesmühlen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (since 1990). In the Schleswig-Holstein topography, Nørre Alslev in Denmark is also called.

coat of arms

Blazon : "A green beech tree with roots in silver, covered with a gold shield, inside a torn, red-armored black eagle's head."

The historical development Ahrensböks is one of the holy Maria consecrated chapel back in the 12th or 13th century. According to tradition, a pilgrim here, while he was pulling the bumpy forest paths from Plön to Lübeck, saw the Virgin Mary appear in the top of a huge beech tree ("a miraculous picture in bright shine"). There is also said to have been an eagle's nest in the beech. The place of the apparition became a place of pilgrimage and the pilgrimage chapel was built here. The eagle in the beech gave Ahrensbök its name. The eagle can also be found in the beech tree in the municipality's coat of arms. The coat of arms of the municipality shows a green, rooted beech tree in silver, covered with a golden shield, inside a black, torn, red-armored eagle's head. The 19 roots of the beech trunk with the head of an eagle symbolize the 19 villages belonging to the municipality.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

The Globus Gummiwerke in Ahrensbök

The area of ​​the large municipality is predominantly characterized by agriculture. The only rubber factory in Schleswig-Holstein , Globus-Gummiwerke GmbH, is located in the construction area of ​​Ahrensbök . Globus-Gummiwerke was founded in 1906 and around 55 percent of production is currently exported abroad. Production is mainly focused on seals for aerosol spray cans, but materials for the automotive and textile industries are also manufactured here. In 2012 the factory was expanded and a large industrial hall was added. In 2012 the company had over 225 employees. From July 1, 2014 the rubber factory operated under the name Poppe Ahrensbök GmbH, since 2016 as Globus Gummiwerke GmbH .

traffic

Ahrensbök is on the B 432 from Hamburg via Bad Segeberg to Scharbeutz on the Bay of Lübeck .

On May 10, 1886, the station that has remained in Ahrensbök was built. This also opened the Pönitz – Ahrensbök railway line. On May 23, 1954, passenger traffic was stopped. On May 29, 1988 the railway line was shut down. In addition, the Pönitz – Ahrensbök railway had two other stops, including the train station in Holstendorf and the Brauner Hirsch stop, which was about 2.7 kilometers from Ahrensbök.

Culture and sights

Folk festival parade on Lübecker Straße in Ahrensbök

The list of cultural monuments in Ahrensbök includes the cultural monuments entered in the monuments list of Schleswig-Holstein.

More Attractions

Memorial / death march over Ahrensbök

The Ahrensbök Memorial was created on the initiative of citizens. Since September 1, 1999, a working group has been working on the history of the camp. A permanent exhibition on the Fürstengrube death march from 1945 is shown. The building of the Ahrensböker memorial is a former administration building that was built in 1883. At the time it belonged to the manager of a sugar factory. In 1892 the building belonged to a chemical factory, then a stock company for chemical products from Berlin. In 1932, the factory owner rented the building to the government in Eutin. Unemployed young people who were active in the voluntary labor service should then be accommodated there. On October 3, 1933, the early concentration camp was set up in today's memorial.

Ahrensbök Castle

The Ahrensböker Castle was built from 1593 to 1601 by Johann Duke von Sonderburg . In 1765 it was demolished after the death of the last Duke of Sonderburg-Plön, Friedrich Karl. Today only the outline of the palace is known, but not its architecture. Around its place today is the town hall, surrounded by the castle meadow, also known as the official meadow.

education

The Arnesbokenschule, a primary and community school with a support center, is located in Ahrensbök . In the 2019/2020 school year 578 students were taught in 27 classes. In addition, the support center looked after 22 students. The oldest section of the school, in which the Realschule used to be, was formerly the Ahrensbök concentration camp

The training center of the Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein construction industry association is located on the northern outskirts. The companies in the Schleswig-Holstein construction industry send their trainees to Ahrensbök for the inter-company part of the training to become masons, concrete / reinforced concrete workers, sewer and road builders

religion

The Marienkirche in Ahrensbök

The oldest parts of the Protestant St. Mary's Church in Ahrensbök go back to the year 1328. The altar with the baroque crucifix from around 1680 became the model for corresponding designs in other churches in the then Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein-Plön towards the end of the 17th century .

In the 1950s, the Catholic church "Maria Königin" was built, which today belongs to the parish of Eutin. The church has since been abandoned, de-dedicated and sold to a local entrepreneur.

MTV Ahrensbök

The men's gymnastics club, or MTV for short, has been a registered club since 1861 . Today it is the largest sports club in East Holstein . In 2011 the association celebrated its 150th anniversary. It offers many different sports such as soccer , handball , athletics and Nordic walking .

Personalities

literature

  • PH [i. e. Peter Hanssen]: Brief, reliable news from the Holstein-Plönische Landen, with the story of the ... monasteries Arensböck and Reinfeld ... also being communicated. JC Wehrt, Plön 1759 Digitized , British Library
  • Norbert Fick: Ahrensbök in old views. European Library Publishing House, Zaltbommel 1978, ISBN 90-288-1052-8 .
  • Jürgen Brather: Ahrensbök in the Grand Ducal Oldenburg period 1867-1919 , Ahrensbök 1990, ISBN 3-9802518-2-9 .
  • Jürgen Brather: Ahrensbök in the period 1919–1945 , Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1998, ISBN 3-7950-0739-9 .

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. ↑ The Ahrensböker KZ In: National Socialism in Eutinian. A project from the advanced history course in grades 12 and 13 . Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Gymnasium, Eutin
  3. ↑ Sister cities. Retrieved July 29, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein topography. Vol. 1: Aasbüttel - Bordesholm . 1st edition Flying-Kiwi-Verl. Junge, Flensburg 2001, ISBN 978-3-926055-58-3 , p. 33 ( dnb.de [accessed on July 29, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms
  6. ↑ - Lord of the Rings; on January 27, 2012 in AKTIVonline ( Memento from December 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Globe rubber. , accessed on May 2, 2019
  8. ↑ Ahrensbök Memorial - History. Website of the Ahrensbök Memorial. Accessed November 9, 2017.
  9. ↑ Ahrensbök training center. Retrieved May 4, 2014 .

Web links

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