Bekdorf

Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Stone castle
Office :	Itzehoe country
Height :	4 m above sea level NHN
Area :	1.7 km 2
Residents:	105 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density :	62 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	25554
Area code :	04823
License plate :	IZ
Community key :	01 0 61 008
LOCODE :	DE B8I
Office administration address:	Margarete-Steiff-Weg 3 ; 25524 Itzehoe
Website :	www.amt-itzehoe-land.de
Mayor :	Matthias Kelting
Location of the municipality of Bekdorf in the Steinburg district

Bekdorf ( Low German : Beekd Körper ) is a municipality in the Steinburg district in Schleswig-Holstein . Bekdorf is a very small municipality in terms of area and is in 92nd place in the list of the smallest municipalities in Germany . So the community only consists of the place Bekdorf.

Geography and traffic

The Bekau flows through Bekdorf . The place is on the federal highway 5 and the march railway between Wilster and Itzehoe . The Wilster and Itzehoe train stations are the closest railway stations. Bus routes operated by the Steinburg transport association connect Bekdorf with Itzehoe on weekdays.

history

Bekdorf is first mentioned in a document in 1247.

At the bridge over the Bekau there was a fight between the Danes and Swedes during the Swedish-Polish War in 1657 .

politics

coat of arms

The “coat of arms” of the community cannot be heraldically described and is therefore not a coat of arms in the actual sense, but rather to be assigned to the image seals. It was elected by the community after the Second World War in the absence of official seals that are free from National Socialist and Imperial symbols and is still used today.

The description in the main statute of the municipality reads: "The coat of arms of the municipality of Bekdorf shows three farmhouses, black and red, on a silver background, a silver nettle leaf in the blue water, above a green dike edge."