Breitenfelde

This article describes the municipality of Breitenfelde in the Duchy of Lauenburg; for further meanings see Breitenfelde (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 36 '  N , 10 ° 38'  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Duchy of Lauenburg
Office :	Breitenfelde
Height :	38 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.54 km 2
Residents:	1953 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	156 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	23881
Area code :	04542
License plate :	RZ
Community key :	01 0 53 014
Office administration address:	Wasserkrüger Weg 16 23879 Mölln
Website :	www.breitenfelde.de
Mayor :	Anne Fröhlich (BWG)
Location of the municipality of Breitenfelde in the Duchy of Lauenburg

Breitenfelde is a municipality in the Duchy of Lauenburg in Schleswig-Holstein . It is the seat of the Breitenfelde office . Neuenlande is located in the municipality.

geography

Breitenfelde is located in the middle of the Herzogtum Lauenburg district, about 5 km south of Mölln on the Elbe-Lübeck Canal .

history

The village was first mentioned as a parish in the Ratzeburg cathedral chapter directory in 1194 . Breitenfelde was on the historic Old Salt Road from Lüneburg to Lübeck . In the 15th century it belonged to the city of Lübeck and half to the Marienwohlde monastery . The Breitenfelde office was created in 1889 by order of the Prussian Minister of the Interior after Prussia took possession of the Duchy of Lauenburg.

From November 1944 to April 1945, an external command of the Neuengamme concentration camp was housed in Breitenfelde . It comprised 20 prisoners who had to do forced labor for the SS construction management in Mölln in the sawmill of the Karl Gülzow company.

politics

Community representation

Anne Fröhlich has been mayor of the municipality since 2008. Since the municipal council elections in 2013, their parliamentary group, the Breitenfeld voter community (BWG), has provided 8 of the 13 municipal representatives. Your deputy as mayor is Dietmar Griese (CDU), his parliamentary group has 3 members. The SPD provides 2 community representatives.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Divided by black and silver. Above a silver horse's head, below six closely spaced, narrowing towards the top, growing alternating blue and red posts. "

The division of the coat of arms symbolizes the centuries-long division of the community into a part of Lübeck's lien and a part belonging to the Marienwohlde monastery . The Prussian variant of the coat of arms of the Duchy of Lauenburg is shown in the upper part. The tinging of the lower part symbolizes the affiliation to Schleswig-Holstein. Furthermore, it represents the place name in the literal sense through the equally wide fields.

Municipality flag

flag

Blazon : "On a white flag, bordered by a wide red stripe at the top and bottom, the municipal coat of arms, slightly shifted from the center towards the pole."

Attractions

Breitenfelde village church

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

The originally Romanesque Breitenfeld village church from the 12th century is an early Gothic hall church from the 13th century. The three-aisled building is made of field and brick. A box choir with three windows in the eastern end wall connects to the three-bay nave. The neo-Gothic church tower dates from 1866. The neo-Gothic sacristy was also added to the chancel in the 19th century.

The paintings in the vaults are early Gothic. The middle of the three stained glass windows in the east wall of the choir dates from the same time. The glazing of the two other windows was carried out in the course of the renovation work in 1867 by Carl Julius Milde .

Culture

The Low German theater group Breitenfelde is supported by the local adult education center .

traffic

Breitenfelde is connected to the federal highway 24 via the federal highway 207 . The next train station is in Mölln on the Lübeck – Lüneburg railway line . There are airports in Lübeck (regional airport) and Hamburg (long-distance airport).

Web links

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

• Breitenfelde 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. ↑ Holger Schwartz: Breitenfeld's mayor Bruhn resigned. In: LN-Online. Verlagsgesellschaft Madsack GmbH & Co. KG, September 1, 2018, accessed on October 17, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein topography. Vol. 2: Boren - Ellerau . 1st edition Flying-Kiwi-Verl. Junge, Flensburg 2002, ISBN 978-3-926055-68-2 , p. 98 ( dnb.de [accessed June 11, 2020]).
4. ↑ Breitenfelde subcamp near Mölln. Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, accessed on October 17, 2018 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms
6. ^ Carl Julius Milde: Glass paintings in the church at Breitenfelde. In: Archives of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg Society "for patriotic history f. 21 (1869), pp 283 -285; Hartwig Beseler: (ed.) Art topography Schleswig-Holstein. Neumünster 1974, pp 325 et seq .; From the 14th century: why these stained glass windows are a real treasure