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coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 56 '  N , 9 ° 27'  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Stone castle
Office :	Itzehoe country
Height :	1 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.9 km 2
Residents:	150 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	52 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	25524
Primaries :	04821, 04823
License plate :	IZ
Community key :	01 0 61 010
Office administration address:	Margarete-Steiff-Weg 3 25524 Itzehoe
Website :	www.amt-itzehoe-land.de
Mayor :	Klaus Kruger
Location of the municipality of Bekmünde in the Steinburg district

Bekmünde ( Low German : Beekmünn ) is a municipality in the Steinburg district in Schleswig-Holstein . The small community has no other districts.

Geography and traffic

Bekmünde is on federal highway 5 between Wilster and Itzehoe . The Bekau and the Stör flow through the area of ​​the municipality. Three plots of the municipality are located as exclaves in the area of ​​the municipality of Heiligenstedten .

history

The community was mentioned in a document in 1369, and in that year the lock bridge over the lower Bekau already existed. The name of the community probably means the mouth of the Bekau .

politics

coat of arms

Blazon : “Divided by green and blue raised by a fallen silver wavy head. Below the open silver gates of a lock, underneath a silver sturgeon . "

The Wellengöpel represents the mouth of the Bekau, as it can be derived from the name of the municipality. The sturgeon is intended to indicate the location of the community on the river of the same name and the formerly rich sturgeon catches. The two green fields represent agriculture . The lock gates are a reminder of the old lock that stood at the mouth of the Bekau.

photos

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  The Bekau in Bekmünde

Web links

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

• Municipality of Bekmünde at the Itzehoe-Land office
• Johann Friedrich Dörfer: Topography of Holstein in alphabetical order: A repertory to the map of the Duchy of Holstein, the areas of the imperial cities of Hamburg and Lübek, and the Diocese of Lübek , Verlag Röffs, 1807, "Bekmünde AG" (noble estate) p. (70 ), "Bekmünde D." (village) p. (71) at digital collections ( MDZ )

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. 266 .
3. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms