Bergenhusen

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 54 ° 23 '  N , 9 ° 19'  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Schleswig-Flensburg
Office :	Kropp stacking bar
Height :	4 m above sea level NHN
Area :	18.22 km 2
Residents:	718 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	39 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	24861
Area code :	04885
License plate :	SL
Community key :	01 0 59 005
Office administration address:	Am Markt 10 24848 Kropp
Website :	www.bergenhusen.de
Mayor :	Helmut Schriever (AWgB)
Location of the municipality of Bergenhusen in the Schleswig-Flensburg district

Bergenhusen ( Danish Berringhuse ) is a municipality in the Schleswig-Flensburg district in Schleswig-Holstein . The community is known nationwide as a stork village, as one of the largest white stork colonies in Europe is located here .

geography

Bergenhusen lies on the Geestrücken Stapelholm in the Eider-Treene-Sorge lowland . Blumental, Brunsholm, Lüttensee and Osterfeld are in the municipality. The eastern border of the municipality forms the Alte Sorge , in the west the Treene flows and forms the transition to the district of North Friesland .

history

Bergenhusen was in 1304 for the first time as Beveringhusen (of , Bewer So beaver ) mentioned.

politics

Community representation

The municipal council consists of 14 seats (2020). Of these, 6 belong to the AWgB (Active Voters' Community Bergenhusen) , 6 to the CDU , 1 to the SPD and 1 to a non-party .

In 2008 the CDU won four out of a total of nine seats, the AWgB three and the SPD two. In the local elections on May 26, 2013, the CDU received 32.3% and three seats. The SPD had 15.7% and two seats. The AWgB came to 46.5% and four seats. A single applicant accounted for 5.5%. The turnout was 71.8%.

mayor

Helmut Schriever (AWgB) was elected mayor for the 2013–2018 and 2018–2023 election periods. He succeeded Helmut Mumm (CDU).

coat of arms

Blazon : "In green a naturally tinged stork whose right stand is raised and the left one covers two silver wavy threads ."

The wave threads represent the Treene and Sorge rivers.

Attractions

The baroque hall church built in 1712 and the pastorate built in 1735 , the Bruhn-Hof with its stork's nest on the roof and the Margaretha mill , which was in operation until 1957 and received new wings in 2005, are still striking features of the town today.

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

church

In 1712, a baroque hall church was built in place of a dilapidated chapel, which presumably dates back to the 13th century. It is decorated with paintings from different eras. The inventory, including a winged altar from 1613, is taken from the old church.

After a congregation merger, the church belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Church Congregation Stapelholm-Stapel (previously the parish Bergenhusen) from January 1, 2019 .

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  Church from 1712

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  View to the altar

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  Altar with essay from 1650

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  Pulpit from 1637

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  View to the west

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  Ceiling painting

Margaretha windmill

The predecessor of the Margaretha mill was a forced mill for the people of Stapelholm until 1680 . The current mill dates from 1891 and is a Dutch mill on yellow bricks. In 1957, the miller switched to electrical operation, only to cease milling operations three years later. Then the cap was removed and the hull was covered with sheet metal, but the old mill technology was largely restored. After a computer scientist from Hamburg had acquired the building in 1991, extensive renovation began, during which the bricks were largely replaced, the cap put back on and the wings of a sail gate fitted. A small apartment was built in the mill itself.

Storks

In the 1980s, i.e. before German reunification, more storks brooded in Bergenhusen than in any other municipality in the Federal Republic of Germany. Even today, up to 20 breeding pairs are one of the largest white stork colonies in Europe. They find food in five bows made from lakes in the Eider floodplain in the early 18th century .

The Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) maintains the Michael Otto Institute in the nature conservation center, an institute for meadows and wetlands in the center of Bergenhusen, which also offers guided tours and lectures. Among other things, the station coordinates the international white stork census, which counts the bird populations worldwide. A rescue station for sick and injured storks is maintained in the district of Lüttensee.

The partner community is Storchendorf Rühstädt in Brandenburg.

Web links

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

• Bergenhusen municipality

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. ↑ ^{a b} Church in the village - a 700-year tradition. In: storchendorf-bergenhusen.de, accessed on April 13, 2020.
3. ↑ Bergenhusen figures table. In: storchendorf-bergenhusen.de, accessed on April 12, 2020.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Political bodies. In: storchendorf-bergenhusen.de, accessed on April 13, 2020.
5. ↑ Bergenhusen municipality, Schleswig-Flensburg district in the Schleswig-Holstein municipal coat of arms .
6. ↑ Bergenhusen Church. Church leaders ( memento of September 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). In: kirche-bergenhusen.de, accessed on February 9, 2018.
7. ↑ Stacking spar stack. In: kirchenkreis-schleswig-flensburg.de, accessed on April 13, 2020.
8. ↑ msü: Church celebrates the merger. In: Schleswiger Nachrichten . February 5, 2019, p. 13 ( storchendorf-bergenhusen.de [PDF; 343 kB; accessed on April 12, 2020]).
9. ↑ ^{a b} "Margaretha" windmill in Bergenhusen. In: Monument! Journal for Monument Preservation in Schleswig-Holstein. Published by the Schleswig-Holstein State Office for Monument Preservation with the support of the Schleswig-Holstein Monument Fund e. V. Volume 14 (2007), ISSN  0946-4549 , p. 119.
10. ↑ Homepage. In: bergenhusen.nabu.de, accessed on February 9, 2018.
11. ↑ Aasbüttel – Bordesholm . In: Wolfgang Henze (ed.): Schleswig-Holstein topography. Cities and villages in the country . 1st edition. tape 1 . Flying-Kiwi-Verlag Junge, Flensburg 2001, ISBN 3-926055-58-8 , p. 284 .