Blekendorf

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	Coordinates: 54 ° 17 '  N , 10 ° 39'  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Plön
Office :	Luetjenburg
Height :	19 m above sea level NHN
Area :	38.34 km 2
Residents:	1678 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	44 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	24327, 24321
Primaries :	04381, 04382
License plate :	PLÖ
Community key :	01 0 57 007
Office administration address:	Neverstorfer Strasse 7 24321 Lütjenburg
Website :	www.gemeinde-blekendorf.de
Mayor :	Andreas Köpke ( CDU )
Location of the community Blekendorf in the district of Plön

Blekendorf is a municipality in the Plön district in Schleswig-Holstein . The community consists of the villages Blekendorf, Friederikental , Futterkamp , Kaköhl , Nessendorf , Rathlau , Sechendorf and Sehlendorf . Blekendorf is the largest municipality in terms of area within the Lütjenburg district and, after the city of Lütjenburg, the municipality with the most inhabitants. There are landscape and nature reserves in the district of Sehlendorf. The almost four-kilometer-long Sehlendorfer Strand and various tourist facilities located there make the community known nationwide.

Geography and traffic

Blekendorf is located on the federal highway 202 about 4 km east of Lütjenburg on the Hohwachter Bay. Characterized by the terminal moraine landscape, the hills of the eight villages reach heights of up to 110 m above sea level. N. N.

history

The St. Claren Church in Blekendorf

Blekendorf was first mentioned in 1259 as Blegkendorpe (later documented spelling Bleckendorp ). The name probably comes from Middle Low German and means looking or shining village. Blekendorf has been the ecclesiastical center for the surrounding villages Futterkamp, ​​Friederikenthal, Sechendorf, Sehlendorf, Rathlau and Kaköhl since the 13th century. In 1855, 258 people lived in the village of Blekendorf itself.

Blekendorf has only existed as a political municipality since September 30, 1928. Until then, Blekendorf, like Friederikenthal, Sechendorf and Sehlendorf, belonged to the Futterkamp manor district . The numerous manor districts (which were free of office until 1867, i.e. were only subordinate to the sovereign and the respective landowner) only lost the function of the lowest administrative unit in Schleswig-Holstein in 1928. The communities Kaköhl and Nessendorf with Rathlau were incorporated into Blekendorf on October 1, 1938. At first, the name and seat of the new community, which was created by a decree of the chief president, was apparently controversial. Contrary to the requested name Kaköhl, the Upper President decided in favor of Blekendorf with the following reason: " I gave the new community the name Blekendorf because, from a local history point of view, it describes the Low German character of the landscape and its inhabitants as 'Kaköhl'. "

Since 1968 the community Blekendorf belongs together with 13 other communities to the office Lütjenburg-Land. On January 1, 2008, this office was renamed after the incorporation of the city of Lütjenburg into Amt Lütjenburg .

politics

Community representation

Of the 13 seats in the municipal council, the CDU has seven seats and the SPD six since the local elections in 2018 .

coat of arms

Blazon : “Divided upwards in an arc shape by blue and silver. Above a silver rope intertwined into a figure eight, below a red book with a silver cut and a silver lily cross nailed on. "

economy

Blekendorf's economy is dominated by agriculture, plus tourism with around 250,000 overnight stays per year. The Sehlendorfer Strand in the Hohwachter Bay , located in the municipality, is the center of local tourism.

Attractions

The list of cultural monuments in Blekendorf includes the cultural monuments entered in the monuments list of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, the most important of which is the St. Claren Church , built in the 13th century .

In the municipality are the long beds on the Ruserberg and the archaeological remains of the castles Kleiner Schlichtenberg , Großer Schlichtenberg and Hochborre . At Buschkate the megalithic graves are located near Kaköhl .

Personalities

• Adolph Valentiner (1803–1868) was a German-Danish farmer and agricultural reformer.
• His brother Wilhelm Heinrich Valentiner (* 1806 on Futterkamp; † 1856 in Kiel) was an anatomist and city physician in Kiel.
• Johann Hinrich Kardel (1797–1880), teacher, born in Futterkamp
• Karl Graf von Platen-Hallermund (1857–1922) was born on Gut Friederikenhof in Sehlendorf . From 1907 to 1922 he was governor of the province of Schleswig-Holstein.
• Oskar von Platen-Hallermund (1865–1957), Vice Admiral of the Imperial Navy and Court Marshal to Wilhelm II, also came from Friederikenhof .
• The honorary president of the German Fire Brigade Association Hans-Peter Kröger (* 1953) comes from the Kaköhl district.
• Major General Wolfgang Köpke (* 1953) comes from the Nessendorf district.

Web links

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

• Blekendorf community
• Health resort of the Blekendorf community

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. 327 .
3. ↑ Johannes von Schröder / Hermann Biernatzki: Topography of the Duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg, the Principality of Lübeck and the area of ​​the free and Hanseatic cities of Hamburg and Lübeck, 2nd edition , 1st volume, Oldenburg (Holstein) 1855, p. 224.
4. ^ The population of the municipalities of Schleswig-Holstein 1867-1970 (Historical municipality directory) , published by the Schleswig-Holstein State Statistical Office, Kiel 1972, p. 128
5. ^ The first years of the Blekendorf community .
6. ↑ [1] , there detailed data on local and municipal elections from 1966 to 2013
7. ↑ Municipality representative Blekendorf 2018. Accessed on October 3, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms