Aukrug

This article deals with the community of Aukrug, which developed from the villages of Bargfeld, Böken, Bünzen, Innien and Homfeld. Aukrug is also the name of a district of Süderheistedt .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 54 ° 5 '  N , 9 ° 47'  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Rendsburg-Eckernförde
Office :	Mittelholstein
Height :	20 m above sea level NHN
Area :	49.91 km 2
Residents:	3861 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	77 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	24613
Area code :	04873
License plate :	RD, ECK
Community key :	01 0 58 009
Office administration address:	Am Markt 15 24594 Hohenwestedt
Website :	www.aukrug.de
Mayor :	Joachim Rehder ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Aukrug in the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district

Aukrug ( Low German Aukrog ) is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde in Schleswig-Holstein . The community was created on December 31, 1969 through the amalgamation of the previously independent communities Bargfeld (with the district Tönsheide), Böken, Bünzen, Homfeld (with the district Bucken) and Innien. It derives its name from an area designation.

geography

Location and geology

The community is a state-approved resort and is located in the heart of the 380 km² Aukrug nature park with meadows and fields, heather, moors, ponds and small rivers. However, due to the mining of peat and the subsequent production of peat charcoal , which is produced in a similar way to charcoal , the bog areas in the municipality have declined sharply. Today only the Viertshöher Moor , a raised moor in the Böken district, is preserved. The Bünzau and Höllenau flow through Aukrug . 351 hectares of the 1000 hectare Iloo forest belong to the municipality.

Aukrug is on the federal highway 430 and the Neumünster – Heide railway line , the so-called Westbahn. Today the line is operated by the nordbahn railway company .

The geographic coordinates for Aukrug are: latitude 54.0825 °, longitude 9.7842 °.

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  View from Boxberg in summer ...

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  ... and in winter over the Aukrug Nature Park

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  Information board on the A 7

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  Bünzau in Aukrug-Innien

Neighboring cities

Rendsburg 25 km	Nortorf 10 km	Bordesholm 19 km
Hohenwestedt 8 km		Neumünster 12 km
Itzehoe 26 km	Kellinghusen 16 km	Bad Bramstedt 19 km

climate

Due to its location in Central Europe , Aukrug has a humid, cool, temperate transitional climate that is neither very continental nor very maritime. The annual mean temperature is 8.2 ° C, with 793 millimeters of precipitation falling per year. The driest month is February with 46 millimeters of precipitation, the wettest month is August with 86 millimeters. The coldest month is January with an average of 0.2 ° C, the warmest month is July with an average of 16.6 ° C.

Climate table Aukrug Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 2.4 2.9 6.3 11.2 16.2 19.8 21.2 20.4 17.8 12.6 6.9 3.8 O 11.8 Min. Temperature (° C) −2.0 −2.1 0.0 2.9 6.7 10.0 12.1 11.7 8.9 5.8 2.2 −0.3 O 4.7 Temperature (° C) 0.2 0.4 3.1 7.0 11.4 14.9 16.6 16.0 13.3 9.2 4.5 1.7 O 8.2 Precipitation ( mm ) 65 46 50 48 55 68 81 86 73 68 77 76 Σ 793 T e m p e r a t u r 2.4 −2.0 2.9 −2.1 6.3 0.0 11.2 2.9 16.2 6.7 19.8 10.0 21.2 12.1 20.4 11.7 17.8 8.9 12.6 5.8 6.9 2.2 3.8 −0.3 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec N i e d e r s c h l a g 65 46 50 48 55 68 81 86 73 68 77 76   Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Source: Klima: Aukrug , climate-data.org, accessed on January 10, 2016

history

→ Main article : History of Aukrug

The name Aukrug was originally an area name and comes from the Low German name "in de Aukrögen" and means something like in the curvature of the floodplains . The exact name for the area around the five villages of Innien, Böken, Bünzen, Bargfeld and Homfeld was Nortorfer Aukrug , as there was also an Aukrug near Neumünster and Rendsburg . Innien, the oldest district, was mentioned as early as 1128.

From April 1, 1970 to December 31, 2011, the previously unofficial community belonged to the Aukrug district with its seat in Aukrug (district of Innien, where the community hall is today at Bargfelder Strasse 10). On January 1, 2012, the Aukrug office merged with the Mittelholstein office , with its seat in Hohenwestedt .

Postal history

→ Main article : Postal history of Aukrug

In 1881 a post office was opened in Innien . In 1908 a post office was built and the agency was converted into an independent post office .

Chronicle of Aukrugs

The "History of the Aukrugs" has already been written down several times in the book of the same name. The first edition was commissioned in 1907 and appeared in 1913; the author was Georg Reimer . The Aukruger Chronik is one of the oldest printed village chronicles in Schleswig-Holstein. New editions appeared in 1959 (revised new edition), 1978 (edition from 1959 with continuation) and 1995 (additions and supplements). The books have been available as online versions since 2020 and are updated in the Aukrug History Wiki .

Population development

Population development of Aukrug from 1803 to 2015

The history of the Aukrug shows the following population figures :

year	Bargfeld	Gusts	Coins	Homfeld	Innien	total
1803	108	193	193 *	125 *	78 *	504
1845	116	237	152 *	155 *	208 *	838
1860	187	307	235	256	239	1224
1875	131	250	197	273	220	1071
1880	141	305	205	253	262	1166
1885	124	309	188	283	280	1184
1890	125	309	188	284	328	1234
1895	166	296	206	275	384	1327
1900	132	296	210	266	472	1376
1910	110	350	225	275	607	1567
1925	107	362	223	287	699	1678
1933	196	329	222	268	621	1636
1939	236	321	244	300	657	1758
1946	532	709	512	565	1361	3679
September 13, 1950	504	660	466	467	1362	3459
September 25, 1956	385	443	329	344	1116	2617
1970						2500
1987						3020
1994						3300
June 30, 2005						3828
2011						3733
December 31, 2015						3770
December 31, 2017						3811
December 31, 2018						3803

(*) excluding the inhabitants of the monastic lands, which are only included in the statistics from 1860 onwards

Community structure

According to the official register of municipalities for the Federal Republic of Germany from 1957, the five former municipalities, which correspond to the current districts , had the following areas:

District	Area ( km² )	Residents	WGS84 - coordinates	Remarks
Bargfeld	6.45	...	...	including the district of Tönsheide
Gusts	13.03	...	...
Coins	9.73	...	...
Homfeld	14.20	...	...	including the Bucken district
Innien	6.48	...	...
Aukrug	49.89	...	54 ° 04 ′ 57.0 ″  N , 009 ° 47 ′ 03.1 ″  E

politics

Community representation

Allocation of seats in the Aukruger municipal council (municipal election 2018)

Of the 20 seats in the municipal council, the CDU has eight seats since the local elections in May 2018, the SPD six, the constituency AI ( Aukrug community ) three, the constituency EfA ( residents for Aukrug ) two seats and the FDP one seat.

mayor

• 1970–1985: Hans August Jensen ( CDU )
• 1985–1990: Eitel-Wolf Necker (CDU)
• 1990–1994: Reimer Reimers ( SPD )
• 1994–1998: Heinrich Hermann Behr ( FDP )
• 1998-2018: Nils Kuhnke (CDU)
• since 2018: Joachim Rehder (SPD)

coat of arms

Blazon : "In green over a silver wavy bar a silver wheel with four spokes (wheel cross), covered in the middle and at the four outer ends of the spokes with a total of five red rose petals with golden seed pods and golden sepals."

The green color symbolizes the natural location in the Aukrug Nature Park . The silver wave bar expresses the location on the Buckener Au , Mitbek and Bünzau rivers and refers to the location of the area in the "curvature of the floodplains".

The districts of Bargfeld, Böken, Bünzen, Homfeld and Innien are represented in the coat of arms by the five roses. The connecting wheel shows how these five formerly independent villages are growing together. The wheel also symbolizes the convenient location at the intersection of Landesstrasse 121 Kiel - Itzehoe and Lübschen Trade , today federal road 430 .

Partnerships

• Since 1989 municipal sponsorship with Warin in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
• An official friendship and partnership agreement with the village of Sien in Burkina Faso has existed since 1997 .

Attractions

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

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  Local museum "Dat ole Hus"

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  Historic watermill in Bünzen

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  “Kluesbarg” barrow in Aukrug-Homfeld

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  Water tower in the Böken district

The region is very well developed for tourism.

Local museum "Dat ole Hus"

Dat ole Hus is a local museum in the Bünzen district. The building was first built in 1700 and 1804 after a fire as thatched Kate rebuilt. A well-known travel destination is the “Museumskroog”, where freshly baked waffles with cherry groats are served on the old stove.

The Bünzer watermill

The Bünzer watermill is a well-preserved watermill that has probably been around since the Middle Ages. The mill is shown as a landmark on the tourist information board on federal motorway 7 .

Aukruger Church

The Evangelical Church of Aukrug is a cross-shaped hall church consecrated in 1893 in the neo-Gothic style. The design of the tower, which was only built in 1922, comes from the imperial building officer and church builder Jürgen Kröger , who lived in Innien in retirement.

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  Aukruger church and pastorate in the construction phase

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  Aukruger church after completion

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  Front view of the Aukruger Church before the tower is built

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  The Aukruger Church today (summer 2006)

Water tower in Aukrug-Böken

One of the smallest water towers in Schleswig-Holstein is in Böken. It is still used today to supply the community with water.

The Boxberg

With a height of 76.8 meters, the Boxberg is one of the highest peaks in the Aukrug Nature Park . From its top, the viewer has a wide view over the wooded landscape of the nature park.

Tower hill castle "Bori" in Bünzen

The early medieval Bori castle is located in Bünzen on the sports field . The plant belongs to the so-called moths , which were increasingly created from the 12th century. Another, albeit hardly recognizable, tower hill is located in Bargfeld .

Viertshöher Moor

On the road to Nortorf is the Viertshöher Moor , a rewetted high moor with a circular hiking trail. The ring-shaped mounds that are on the site are remains from the manufacture of peat charcoal, which was made similar to charcoal .

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  ERNA information board in Homfeld

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  Pond in Aukrug-Innien

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  Information sign at the Bori tower hill castle in Bünzen

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  The Kluesbarg grave mound in sunset

Kluesbarg megalithic grave in Homfeld

The Kluesbarg , a beech- covered barrow on Itzehoer Straße, is a Bronze Age grave complex in Aukrug.

Dithmarscher Mountains

The Dithmarscher Berge are three barrows from the Bronze Age on the road to Ehndorf , which are presumably so named as a reminder of the battle in Bünzen (1317). The burial mounds at Aukrug-Bargfeld are also located in the municipality.

"Lübsche Trade" to Meezen

The forest path from Aukrug-Homfeld to Meezen is an originally preserved section of the old Lübsche Trade route . There is a memorial stone at the confluence with federal highway 430.

Aurochs

Heck cattle have been kept in the nature park since 2002 to maintain some areas . Through their eating behavior, the cattle encourage the emergence of a diverse flora and fauna and make further maintenance of the pasture landscape superfluous. The two pastures are located west of the Bargfelder Moor on the Bünzau and in Aukrug-Homfeld in the spacious Buckener-Au lowland. In Homfeld you can observe the Heck cattle, resting and breeding birds from two observation towers without having to enter the area.

Tönsheider Forest nature reserve

On the 67 hectare site east of the specialist clinic, in the Tönsheider Forest nature reserve, there are larger, partly natural forest areas with interspersed heather areas.

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  Remains of the tower hill castle "Bori" in Bünzen

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  Memorial stone on the Lübschen Trade near Aukrug-Homfeld

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  Grinder in the Bünzer watermill

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  Heck cattle - the aurochs in the aukrug

Economy and Infrastructure

The local economic life is characterized by small businesses from handicrafts, trade and agriculture. The asparagus cultivation should be emphasized . The five local asparagus farmers cultivate around five percent of the asparagus growing area in Schleswig-Holstein (as of 2015). Aukrug is located on the asparagus road Schleswig-Holstein , and in 2005 the first asparagus queen for Schleswig-Holstein was crowned here. The recreational value of the municipal area makes tourism an important economic factor.

Public facilities

Old building of the specialist clinic Aukrug

The Fachklinik Aukrug is a traditional spa and rehabilitation clinic, which, like the Erlenhof, a residential and workshop of the Inner Mission for disabled people, is known nationwide.

education

In the village there is a family center with a kindergarten , crèche , forest kindergarten and daycare center as well as a primary school. The Tannenfelde Training Center, the business educational institution in Schleswig-Holstein, is located in Tönsheide.

Leisure and Tourism

In Aukrug there are signposted hiking trails u. a. the nature park path . They lead through forests and partly follow the course of the Bünzer Au . There is also a glider airfield, which can be used for guest flights for a donation, and is open from mid-March to mid-October.

In Innien there is an outdoor pool with a paddling pool and diving tower. Since May 2006 there has been a mobile home parking space at the outdoor pool . There is a barbecue area for everyone in the extensive sports and leisure facilities.

There is also a fitness trail on the Boxberg. There are also facilities in the community for golf and tennis players.

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  Typical geest landscape in Aukrug

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  Bünzau in a south-east direction from the bridge in Aukrug-Innien

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  View of the Buckener Au valley

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  Buckener Au near the road from Aukrug to Heinkenborstel

Associations and foundations

The cultural life in the Aukrug is organized and made possible by a large number of associations:

• ADAC local association Aukrug
• Aukruger senior club
• AWO workers welfare
• German Red Cross, local group Aukrug
• DGB local group Aukrug
• Friends of the Aukrug swimming pool
• Living History Society
• JafA - youth work for Aukrug
• Museum Association "Dat ole Hus"
• Aukrug-Sien partnership association
• SoVD Social Association Germany
• Tourist office Aukrug
• VFF - Association of Friends and Supporters of the Aukrug School
• VHHG - Association for craft, trade and commerce
• Aukrug Adult Education Center

Voluntary fire brigades

• Bargfeld volunteer fire department
• Innien volunteer fire department
• Volunteer fire brigade Böken
• Homfeld volunteer fire department
• Volunteer Fire Brigade Bünzen
• Aukrug youth fire brigade

Guilds and Village associations

• Boker guild
• Bargfeld village festival
• Bünzer Guild
• Homfeld Guild

Music, choir and theater groups

• Aukroger Speelkrink
• Aukrug men's choir
• Fire brigade music train Aukrug

Nature and local associations

• Country Women's Association
• Bünzau water and soil association
• Beekeeping Association Aukrug and the surrounding area
• Buckener Au water and soil association
• Hegering Aukrug
• ERNA extensive cattle husbandry in the Aukrug Nature Park
• Aukruger Bund
• Aukrug nature conservation ring
• Aukrug pigeon breeders' association
• Pond community Bünzen

sports clubs

• Rail sports club BSC Aukrug
• DLRG local association Aukrug
• MHGCA Mittelholsteinischer Golfclub Aukrug
• Equestrian community Heitkate
• Aukrug riding club
• Glider flight Aukrug
• Sport fishing club Aukrug
• TSV Aukrug
• Hiking group of the VHS

Foundations

• Climate Forest Foundation

Aukrug viewed from the glider

Personalities

Born in Aukrug

• Gerd Helbig (* 1939 in Innien) is a German journalist. He worked for ZDF from 1968 until his retirement in 2009.
• Heinrich Kaak (born January 18, 1891 in Böken, † 1975 in Itzehoe) was a German veterinarian, from 1948 to 1954 he was vice-president and from 1954 to 1957 president of the Schleswig-Holstein Chamber of Veterinarians
• Henning Rathjen (* 1948 in Homfeld) is a German trotting driver , horse trainer and breeder .
• Henning Ratjen (* 1793 in Homfeld, † 1880 in Kiel), was a German lawyer, professor and librarian at Kiel University Library .
• Herbert Diercks (* 1953 in Homfeld) is a German historian and archivist.

Associated with Aukrug

• Jürgen Friedrich Ahrens (born October 2, 1834 in Sarlhusen; † July 14, 1914 in Malente), director of the trade school in Kiel and local poet, born in Sarlhusen in 1834, spent his childhood and school days in Bünzen.
• Alwin Blaue (born September 6, 1896 in Hamburg , † November 28, 1958 in Kiel ) was a German sculptor and craftsman . He designed parts of the facade of the specialist clinic Aukrug as well as two sculptures at the entrance of the tuberculosis aftercare home Heidhof
• Detlef Breiholz (born October 24, 1864 in Vaasbüttel near Hohenwestedt; † December 1, 1929 in Neumünster), teacher and beekeeper, buried in Innien. During his presidency in 1925, the new German Beekeeping Association was formed from the union of German beekeeping associations .
• Fritz Bringmann (born February 9, 1918 in Lübeck ; † March 31, 2011) was a German, communist resistance fighter against National Socialism and recipient of the Federal Cross of Merit . He lived in Aukrug from 1966 until his death.
• Carl Emeis (born January 31, 1831 near Flensburg (Kluesries); † March 2, 1911 in Flensburg), was a German provincial forest director, pioneer of soil melioration and founder of the Heath Culture Association for Schleswig-Holstein. With his support, the First Schleswig-Holstein Forest Association was founded in Aukrug on March 25, 1874 . Through the work of the forest association, the forest area in the Aukrug has almost doubled from 490 ha (1874) to 930 ha (1906) in about 30 years. After the association was founded, Carl Emeis and his son came to the Aukrug every year for forest inspections and consultations.
• Uta Fölster (born February 9, 1956 in Itzehoe ), President of the Schleswig-Holstein Higher Regional Court since 2008 , grew up in Aukrug.
• Joachim Hein (born July 4, 1901 in Neisse in Upper Silesia; † May 5, 1987) was director of the Tönsheide hospital (today Aukrug specialist clinic ) and professor of internal medicine in Kiel from 1934 to 1966 .
• Joachim Hinz (* 1953 ) in Eutin , is a German documentary filmmaker and cameraman who lives in Aukrug. He produced the image film for the community.
• Jürgen Kröger (born November 16, 1856 in Haale; † February 27, 1928 in Aukrug), imperial building officer and church builder, lived in Aukrug from 1919 and was buried in Innia in 1928.
• Georg Reimer (born February 7, 1882 in Ekenis in fishing; † February 13, 1959 in Aukrug), teacher and local history researcher, founded the conception of the Aukrug as a closed settlement area with his "History of the Aukrugs"
• Johannes Tonnesen (1882–1971) was pastor in Innien from 1944 to 1953. He was one of the most noticeable pastors in Schleswig-Holstein's church history in the phase after the First World War and during the time of National Socialism .
• Johannes Tramsen (born August 1, 1877 in Gremmerup, fishing; † September 8, 1943 in Innien), pastor in Innien and head of the Brother Council of the Confessing Church in Schleswig-Holstein, in 1937 he was one of those who “The Declaration of 96 Protestant Church leaders against Alfred Rosenberg ”because of whose writing“ Protestant Rome Pilgrims ”signed.

Honorary citizen

• Heinz-Wilhelm 'Hajo' Fölster (born March 22, 1925 in Willenscharen ; † December 22, 2012 in Aukrug) was a member of the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament from 1967 to 1987 .
• Hans August Jensen (1916 - 1989) was mayor of the community of Aukrug from 1970 to 1985 and was appointed honorary mayor by the community council.
• Nils Kuhnke (* 1943), the Aukrug municipal council, decided on October 10, 2018 to award him the title of "Honorary Mayor of the Aukrug Municipality" "in recognition of his special services to the development of the Aukrug Municipality during his 20-year term as Mayor".

Former honorary citizens

• Friedrich Christiansen (* December 12, 1879 in Wyk auf Föhr; † December 3, 1972 in Aukrug), General der Flieger , commander of the Wehrmacht in the Netherlands and war criminal, became an honorary citizen of the municipality of Innien in 1933, spent his retirement in Aukrug and was here Buried in 1972. Although honorary citizenship formally ends with death, the municipal council decided in March 2016 to symbolically deny Friedrich Christiansen with a recorded resolution because of his participation in war crimes.

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  Gravestone of Jürgen Kröger

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  Portrait of Jürgen Kröger from the collection of the Hohenwestedt local history museum

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  Georg Reimer's grave

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  Detlef Breiholz's grave

See also

• Aukrug Nature Park
• Office Aukrug

literature

• Georg Reimer : The History of the Aukrugs. Published by Heinrich Bünger. 3rd expanded edition. Verlag Möller Sons, Rendsburg 1978.
• Georg Reimer: Parish Innien with Bucken and Meezen. In: Jürgen Kleen, Georg Reimer, Paul von Hedemann-Heespen (Ed.): Heimatbuch des Kreis Rendsburg . Möller, Rendsburg 1922, pp. 499-516.
• Ecumenical Yearbook , ed. by Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze , Max Niehans Verlag, Zurich 1939
• Heinrich Asmus, Werner Hauschildt, Peter Höhne: Update of "The History of Aukrugs" from 1978 and supplements, Aukrug 1995
• Jürgen Kleen, Georg Reimer, Paul von Hedemann-Heespen (Hrsg.): Heimatbuch des Kreis Rendsburg . Möller, Rendsburg 1922

Web links

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

• Aukrug community

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. ↑ Climate: Aukrug , climate-data.org, accessed on January 10, 2016
3. ↑ Georg Reimer: Geschichte des Aukrugs, 1978, p. 21
4. ↑ Daso de Ennigge, the peasant knight
5. ↑ Aukrug History Wiki
6. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p} Georg Reimer: Geschichte des Aukrugs, 1978, p. 290
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Federal Statistical Office Wiesbaden (ed.): Official municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany - 1957 edition (population and territorial status September 25, 1956, for Saarland December 31, 1956) . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1958, p. 142-143 ( digitized version ).
8. ↑ 1987 census
9. ↑ 2011 census
10. ↑ Results of the local elections in 2018 . amt-mittelholstein.de. Retrieved May 26, 2018.
11. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms
12. ^ Aukrug-Sien partnership association . www.aukrug-sien.de. Retrieved May 29, 2013.
13. ↑ Digging, pricking, filling: that's how strenuous the asparagus harvest is
14. ^ Working group asparagus Schleswig-Holstein e. V. ( Memento from January 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
15. ↑ Aukrug Family Center
16. ↑ Aukrug - 5-star location in the heart of Schleswig-Holstein
17. ↑ Honorary Mayor of the community of Aukrug