Bimöhlen

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 56 '  N , 9 ° 57'  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Segeberg
Office :	Bad Bramstedt-Land
Height :	16 m above sea level NHN
Area :	17.23 km 2
Residents:	1011 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	59 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	24576
Area code :	04192
License plate :	SE
Community key :	01 0 60 009
Office administration address:	König-Christian-Strasse 6 24576 Bad Bramstedt
Website :	www.bimoehlen.de
Mayor :	Michael Schirrmacher ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Bimöhlen in the Segeberg district

Bimöhlen is a municipality in the Bad Bramstedt-Land district and is located in the Segeberg district in Schleswig-Holstein . The district of Hof Weide and part of the Eekholt wildlife park are located in the municipality. The community belongs to the Holstein Auenland .

Geography and traffic

Bimöhlen is about four kilometers east of Bad Bramstedt and twelve kilometers south of Neumünster in a rural area. The federal motorway 7 runs to the west from Hamburg to Flensburg .

The largely natural and popular with canoeists Osterau flows through the village and forms the core of the FFH area "Osterautal". The Hasenmoor in the south of the municipality is under nature protection. The soils in Bimöhlen are predominantly sandy or boggy.

history

Geological finds show that the municipality has been populated since the Neolithic Age. There are also some Bronze Age burial mounds .

It is unclear whether the place name is derived from "Boios Mühle" or "Mühle bei der Stromkkurven" (böge). Bimöhlen was first mentioned in a document in 1189. At that time there was a tower hill castle here , of which remains are still preserved today. The place itself was originally a Rundling . Turf iron stone was mined until the 13th century .

In the Hasenmoor peat was cut until 1973 and some of it was delivered to Neumünster as fuel .

On February 25, 2016, a Federal Police Eurocopter 135 crashed near Bimöhlen, killing two people and seriously injuring a third person.

politics

Community representation

Of the eleven seats in the municipal council, the CDU has had seven seats since the 2018 local elections and the Bimöhler voter community (BWG) four seats.

coat of arms

Blazon : "Above a green shield base, inside a golden peat cart loaded with golden peat load, in silver a red mill wheel with twelve spokes and shovels each, which covers a blue wave bar at the bottom."

economy

The municipality is predominantly agricultural.

literature

• Bimöhler Dörpslüd un life . A Bimöhl picture chronicle from days gone by. Compiled by Steffen Möller and Anneliese Roblick, Sommerland Verlag Bad Bramstedt, 1991

Web links

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

• Bimöhlen 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. ↑ 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. 316 .
3. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms