Bedsted Sogn (Tønder Municipality)
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Bedsted ( German Bedstedt ) |
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 Denmark
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| Region : | Syddanmark | ||||
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Municipality (since 2007) : |
Tønder | ||||
| Municipality / Office : (until the end of 2006) |
Løgumkloster Kommune Sønderjyllands Amt |
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Harde / Amt: (until March 1970) |
Sønder Rangstrup Herred Åbenrå Office |
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| Coordinates : | 55 ° 3 ' N , 9 ° 6' E | ||||
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Population : (2020) |
773 | ||||
| Postal code : | 6240 Bedsted | ||||
| Website: | www.bedsted-kirke.dk | ||||
 Location of Bedsted Sogn parish in Tønder municipality |
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Bedsted Sogn (Tønder Kommune) ( German Bedstedt ) is a parish municipality ( Danish Sogn ) in North Schleswig , Denmark . It belonged to Harde Sønder Rangstrup Herred in what was then Åbenrå Amt until 1970 , then to Løgumkloster Kommune ( German Lügumkloster ) in what was then Sønderjyllands Amt , which was merged into the "new" Tønder Kommune in the Syddanmark region as part of the municipal reform on January 1, 2007 .
Municipal area
Bedsted Sogn is on the low Geest . The parish has 773 inhabitants, 459 of whom live in the village itself (as of January 1, 2020).
Neighboring communities are Løgumkloster and Nørre Løgum ( German Norderlügum ) in the west, Agerskov ( German Aggerschau ) in the north, Hellevad ( German Hellewatt ) in the east and Ravsted ( German Rapstedt ) and Øster Højst ( German Hoist ) in the south .
history
The sandy soils of the lower Geest left the residents of Bedstedt with little wealth for a long time. Parts of the community came into the possession of the nearby Cistercian monastery of Lügum in the late Middle Ages . The nobility, in turn, showed little interest in the area around Bedstedt. In the High Middle Ages Bedstedt belonged with the later divided Rangstrup harde to Barwitt syssel , whose southwest corner it marked. In the late Middle Ages, however, the Syssel lost its importance and completely disappeared from the administrative map. The Süderrangstrupharde had meanwhile become part of the Aabenraa office . After the Reformation , the Lügumkloster property was subordinated to the new Lügumkloster office, while the rest of the community remained with the Aabenraa office. When the state was divided into the Duchy of Schleswig (and Holstein ) in 1544, the former came to Duke Johann the Elder , while the latter fell to Gottorf . In 1581 the Gottorf family took over the office of the Lügumkloster. The Apenrad bailiff took over the office here, but the two offices were not combined. After King Friedrich IV confiscated the Gottorf possessions in Schleswig , nothing changed in the administrative division of the community. B. Church, school and poor system remained a unit. In 1864 the Duchy of Schleswig was conquered by Prussia and incorporated into it three years later. Bedstedt came completely to the new Aabenraa district, but was divided into several rural communities and in 1889 also subordinated to the Hellewatt district. In 1920 there was a clear Danish majority in the referendum on national affiliation. From then on, Bedstedt formed a unified parish community in the Aabenraa office. In 1970 Bedsted was merged with Øster Højst, Nørre Løgum and Flecken and Rural Municipality Løgumkloster to form the municipality Lügumkloster. This went on in 2007 in a municipality based in Tønder.
Economy and Transport
The main artery is the road from Løgumkloster to Aabenraa ( German Aabenraa ), which leads south past the most important places in the municipality. The connection between Tønder and Haderslev ( German Hadersleben ) also runs through the municipality.
A railway connection was guaranteed in 1901 by the Apenrader Kreisbahn . In addition to the main town of Bedstedt, Sieverkrug ( Sivkro in Danish ) also had a breakpoint. In 1926, this narrow-gauge railway was replaced by a full-gauge branch line, so that direct connections between Bredebro on the Marschbahn in the west and Rødekro ( German Rothenkrug ) on the Fredericia – Flensburg railway from Hamburg to Fredericia and Aabenraa became possible. However, this route was discontinued in 1936 because the infrastructure funding for the Danish part of the country, which had been back in 1920, had unilaterally focused on road traffic.
Culture and sights
The nave and choir of the Bedsteder church date from the Romanesque period. The gable tower is late Gothic, received volute gables in the Baroque period and was remodeled with simple stepped gables in 1928. In the cemetery, among other things, the grave of the painter Johan Thomas Lundbye is remarkable.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Statistics Banks -> Befolkning og valg -> KM1: Befolkningen January 1st, April 1st, July 1st and October 1st, so og folkekirkemedlemsskab (Danish)
- ↑ Statistics banks -> Befolkning og valg -> BY1: Folketal January 1st efter byområde, alder og køn (Danish)