Meldorf

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Coat of arms of the city of Meldorf
Meldorf
Map of Germany, position of the city of Meldorf highlighted

Coordinates: 54 ° 6 '  N , 9 ° 4'  E

Basic data
State : Schleswig-Holstein
Circle : Dithmarschen
Office : Mitteldithmarschen
Height : 6 m above sea level NHN
Area : 21.25 km 2
Residents: 7247 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 341 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes : 25697-25704
Area code : 04832
License plate : HEI, MED
Community key : 01 0 51 074
LOCODE : DE MED
Office administration address: Hindenburgstrasse 18
25704 Meldorf
Website : www.meldorf-nordsee.de
Mayoress : Uta Bielfeldt ( SPD )
Location of the city of Meldorf in the Dithmarschen district
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Aerial photo (May 2012)

Meldorf ( Low German : Möldbod or Meldbod ) is a town in the Dithmarschen district in Schleswig-Holstein . Ammerswurth, Meldorfer Hafen, Hesel and Meldorfer Moor are in the city area.

geography

location

Meldorf is located on the Miele on a Geest island that originally extended into the Wadden Sea . Due to the land reclamation (most recently the Speichererkoog ) it is now more than six kilometers away from the coastline at the Meldorfer Bay .

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities are the communities Nordermeldorf , Epenwöhrden , Nordhastedt , Sarzbüttel , Bargenstedt , Nindorf , Wolmersdorf and Elpersbüttel (all in the Dithmarschen district), starting clockwise in the north . Meldorf borders the North Sea to the west.

"Mildorp" 1645 in the Atlas Maior von Blaeu

history

Numerous archaeological finds prove an early settlement in the region. The so-called Meldorf fibula , a robe clasp with four characters (letters) from the 1st century, which reading is uncertain has become known. Reading from right to left it could be the runic inscription hiwi , which in ancient Germanic language should mean for those belonging to the house , and thus one of the oldest runic finds ever, but from left to right it could also be a Latin inscription and Idin , the Germanic form for Ida, are called.

As early as 1076, Adam von Bremen mentioned that the mother church is the Dithmarscher in Meldorf. In 1265 Meldorf received city ​​rights . Meldorf was the capital of Dithmarschen in the Middle Ages (until it was moved to Heide ). In 1598 Meldorf lost its town charter again and became a town . In 1870 Meldorf was given city rights again. Meldorf was the district town of the Süderdithmarschen district until it was dissolved in 1970 . The former license plate of this district, MED, is derived from the name of the former district town.

May 25, 2008, the city gave its Amtsfreiheit and formed with the municipalities of offices Kirchspielslandgemeinde Albersdorf and Kirchspielslandgemeinde Meldorf-Land the Mitteldithmarschen .

Incorporations

On April 1, 1935, the municipality of Ammerswurth, which had become independent a year earlier (until then a part of the parish district of Südermeldorf-Marsch ), was incorporated. On January 1, 1971, a part of the Wolmersdorf community with then about 20 residents was incorporated.

politics

City council

Of the 19 seats in the city council, in the local elections on May 6, 2018, 6 seats went to the CDU , 5 seats to the SPD , 4 seats to the WMF voters and 2 seats to the FDP and DIE LINKE .

Town twinning

The city maintains partnerships with Gryfice (Greifenberg) in Poland and with Altentreptow in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In silver on a green hill through which a silver brook with five red stars meanders, a five-tower red pinnacle castle."

Sights and culture

Meldorfer Dom

The Meldorfer Dom St. Johannis in the city center is kept in the brick Gothic style .

The museums include the Dithmarscher Landesmuseum , the Dithmarscher farmhouse , the museum weaving mill in the old pastorate, the Schleswig-Holstein Agricultural Museum , next to which Gerda Nissen's collection of old roses and a garden with old apple varieties are maintained.

Historically valuable graves and monuments can be found on the Meldorfer Friedhof, laid out in 1811. A remarkable collection of different trees has been planted here over 200 years. The cemetery chapel on the old part of the cemetery was built in 1870, after its demolition in 1968 a new chapel was built on the expanded site based on a design by the architect Otto Andersen .

Stolperstein Friedrich Jansen, Meldorf, Südermarkt

Meldorf is considered the cultural capital of the Dithmarschen district. Numerous events such as the Meldorfer Videotage in the Ditmarsia cultural center or the Meldorf Summer Open Air inclusion festival have established themselves. There is a theater group, the Meldorfer Kino shows mainstream, Arthaus programs and documentaries. In Dom summer concerts. Actions are taking place as part of the Dithmarsch cultural project Kunstgriff . An episode of the television series Stahlnetz , Das Haus an der Stör , dealt with a local criminal case in the post-war period. Stumbling blocks are reminiscent of Johann Wilhelm Jasper in Marschstrasse. 37, Friedrich Jansen at Südermarkt 2, Antje Hinrichs at Grabenstraße 4 and Heinke Hofmann, Österstraße 6 (entrance Siegfried Lenz Weg).

See also: List of stumbling blocks in Meldorf

In 2000, the XI. European championships held in Boßeln . With around 2500 members, the TuRa Meldorf club is the largest sports club on the west coast of Schleswig-Holstein. In addition, there is a local branch of the DLRG , the Boßelverein Mielebund, the tennis club Meldorf, the sailing clubs SSV Meldorf and MSV.

The city has an indoor and outdoor swimming pool. The outdoor swimming pool has been run on a voluntary basis by the Meldorfer Freibad (FMF) association since it was threatened with closure in 1997.

  • Cafés on the Südermarkt

  • Typical houses for the region characterize the Meldorfer Südermarkt

  • Shield of the old district administration at today's district court

  • Dithmarscher State Museum

  • Cemetery, Ostlandkreuz with memorial stone

Economy and Infrastructure

Meldorf is connected to the federal highway 431 and the federal highway 5 . The next motorway exit is about 10 to 15 kilometers away on federal motorway 23 . Meldorf also has a train station on the Marschbahn that connects Hamburg to the island of Sylt via Elmshorn . Since the dike in the Dithmarschen warehouse , Meldorf has had a sailing port on the Miele Siel, the port on the outskirts has been filled in.

Big employers are the printing company Evers Druck , the Stiftung Mensch (workshop for people with disabilities), the window and door producer Aldra (company) , the sausage factory Binckebanck and a Stollenwerk canning factory. The main and ancillary construction trades with innovative companies are well developed; Schleswig-Holstein's first organic construction market was in Meldorf from 1991 to 2017.

Meldorf is currently in 50th place in the “Small Towns” competition category of the German Solar League . This is the best ranking of a small North German town.

As a former district seat , the city still houses the Meldorf District Court as a public institution , the administration of the Mitteldithmarschen District is predominantly located in Meldorf. In addition, it is always the "southern seat" of organizations that are still divided regionally like the church districts . Meldorf has a public library, an adult education center and the following public schools:
Number of pupils from the 2019/2020 school year

  • Astrid-Lindgren-Schule (mental development center), Eescher Weg, 258 students in 26 classes
  • Christian-Bütje-Schule (Support Center Süderdithmarschen), Büttelsweg, 93 students in 9 classes
  • Elementary school Meldorf, Rosenstrasse, 315 students in 13 classes
  • Community school Meldorf, Weiderbaum, 425 students in 19 classes
  • Meldorfer learned school (grammar school), at the facilities, 613 students in 25 classes
  • Regional Vocational Training Center (BBZ) Dithmarschen, Friedrichshöfer Straße, (public institution), 4066 students in 241 classes (with a branch in Heide)

The Protestant parish maintains a kindergarten, the workers welfare a kindergarten at Mielepark and a children's house in the march chamber.

In the course of structural change, the city wants to raise its profile as a place of sustainable and gentle tourism and has therefore joined the international city network Cittàslow .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Associated with Meldorf

Heinrich von Zütphen; in the background the Meldorfer Church

literature

  • Klaus Gille, Schrum Hansen: Meldorf, Pictures of an Old City , Verlag Boyens & Co., Heide 1995, ISBN 3-8042-0688-3 / 3-8042-0688-3
  • Nils Hansen: Meldorf 1900: on the change in everyday life and mentality in a small town in West Holstein under the influence of industrialization (1869-1914) (Volume 29 of Studies on Folklore and Cultural History of Schleswig-Holstein , Verlag K. Wachholtz, Kiel 1993)

Web links

Commons : Meldorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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 topography. Vol. 6: Kronprinzenkoog - Mühlenrade . 1st edition Flying-Kiwi-Verl. Junge, Flensburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-926055-85-9 , pp. 289 ( dnb.de [accessed July 29, 2020]).
  3. ↑ State Statistical Office Schleswig-Holstein (Ed.): The population of the communities in Schleswig-Holstein 1867-1970 . State Statistical Office Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel 1972, p. 49 .
  4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 181 .
  5. ↑ City representatives. Retrieved June 26, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms
  7. ^ Photo gallery of the Meldorf weaving mill at the Heide Citizens' Association and the surrounding area
  8. ↑ Gerda Nissen: Old roses . Ed .: Jutta Müller. Photos v. Melitta Kolberg. Boyens Buchverlag, Heide 2011, ISBN 978-3-8042-1335-7 , p. 135 .
  9. ↑ Meldorf cemetery with pdf overview map “Sights worth seeing in the cemetery” ( Memento of the original from September 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.friedhof-meldorf.de
  10. ^ Friedhof Meldorf: pictures and list of names at genealogy.net
  11. ↑ cemetery Meldorf: Tree diversity in the Meldorfer cemetery. (PDF) Retrieved January 24, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein: Directory of general education schools in Schleswig-Holstein 2019/2020
  13. ↑ Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein Directory of vocational schools in Schleswig-Holstein 2019/2020