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	Coordinates: 54 ° 26 '  N , 9 ° 42'  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Rendsburg-Eckernförde
Office :	Hüttener Mountains
Height :	6 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.39 km 2
Residents:	974 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	94 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	24358
Area code :	04353
License plate :	RD, ECK
Community key :	01 0 58 008
Office administration address:	Mühlenstrasse 8 24361 Groß Wittensee
Website :	www.gemeinde-ascheffel.de
Mayor :	Jörg Harder (AKVA)
Location of the community of Ascheffel in the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district

Ascheffel ( Low German Aschepel , Danish : Askfelt ) is a municipality in the Hüttener Mountains in the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district . Ascheffel includes the districts of Langstücke, Sückenwatt and Ober- and Unterschoothorst.

Geography and traffic

The next towns in the area are Rendsburg , Eckernförde and Schleswig .

The federal highway 7 runs to the southwest from Rendsburg to Schleswig, to the southeast the federal highway 203 from Rendsburg to Eckernförde and to the north the federal highway 76 from Eckernförde to Schleswig.

Former train station in Ascheffel

From 1904 to 1954 the place had a train station on the Eckernförde – Owschlag railway line of the Eckernförde district railways. The Silberbergen / Baumgarten train station was also on the Ascheffel municipality on the same railway line.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1415. The place name is derived from an old grain measure and means the bushel on the Au .

In the 16th century there was a glassworks in the village, in the 17th century there was a paper mill.

politics

Community representation

Since the local elections in 2003, of the eleven seats in the municipal council, the AKVA electoral community had nine seats and the CDU two. In 2008 the seating ratio remained unchanged.

Since the municipal elections in 2013, the AKVA voter community has all eleven seats in the municipal council.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In blue a raised golden three-mountain, on it above a blue wavy bar a blue bushel measure accompanied by two awned blue ears of corn."

The bushel and the ears of wheat indicate the importance of Ascheffels as an important place for the regional trade in grain. The wave bar stands for the Rohau, which forms the eastern boundary of the municipality. The Dreiberg symbolizes the location in the Hüttener mountains. The colors show that it belongs to the Schleswig region. In particular, the three mountain in gold was chosen to represent the fertility of the soil and thus high harvest yields as well as lucrative tourism.

Worth seeing

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

Ascheffel is best known for the storks that nest there every year, as well as for the nearby 98-meter-high Aschberg with the Bismarck monument . The memorial stood on Knivsberg in Denmark before 1920 . It attracts many visitors every year because it is one of the only two Bismarck monuments of this size (the other is in Hamburg).

education

There are two primary schools in Ascheffel, the Hüttener Berge primary school and the Danish Askfelt Danske Skole . There is also a German and a Danish kindergarten .

Sports

In Ascheffel there is the Hüttener Berge sports club , which has existed as a registered club since 1948. This organizes a sports festival with a handball tournament every year. The handball division is the largest division of the sports club; women's gymnastics, children's gymnastics, table tennis, amateur play groups, dance and gymnastics groups are also offered.

The Rund um Ascheffel (formerly Rund in the Hüttener Berge Nature Park ) has been held every year since 1991 . This cycling event, in which around 800 athletes compete, has been the season opening race of the Schleswig-Holstein Cycling Association for several years.

Web links

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

• Ascheffel community. History. In: gemeinde-ascheffel.de. Retrieved September 17, 2017 . 

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. ↑ Aasbüttel - Bordesholm . In: Wolfgang Henze (ed.): Schleswig-Holstein topography: cities and villages of the country . 1st edition. tape 1 . Flying-Kiwi-Verl. Junge, Flensburg 2001, ISBN 3-926055-58-8 , p. 114 .
3. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms