Brekendorf

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 54 ° 25 '  N , 9 ° 38'  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Rendsburg-Eckernförde
Office :	Hüttener Mountains
Height :	46 m above sea level NHN
Area :	20.47 km 2
Residents:	1000 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	49 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	24811
Area code :	04336
License plate :	RD, ECK
Community key :	01 0 58 030
Office administration address:	Mühlenstrasse 8 24361 Groß Wittensee
Website :	www.brekendorf.de
Mayor :	Reiner Mertens (UWB)
Location of the community of Brekendorf in the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district

Brekendorf (Low German Brekendkörper , Danish Brekentorp ) is a municipality in the Hüttener Mountains in the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district in Schleswig-Holstein . Lehmberg, Tyrol, Saar, Grevensberg, Moor, Trollbek, Hammer, Nordholz, Westerholz, Lehmrade, Holzhof and Jettmark are in the municipality.

Geography and traffic

Brekendorf is about eleven kilometers south of Schleswig and fifteen kilometers north of Rendsburg on the A 7 , exit Owschlag / Brekendorf / Kropp.

Due to the glacial deposits of the Ice Age, the municipality is very stony, which has always made agricultural use difficult, but it also has some moors.

The Scheelsberg, which was also formed during the Ice Age, is 106 meters high and is the highest point in the Schleswig region. The Heidberg is protected as a natural monument because of its rare vegetation.

The Rammsee, located in the municipality, was also created as a dead ice hole in the Ice Age.

history

During excavations in the municipality, an ornamental disk made of bronze was found, which was probably around 800 BC. Was made.

Stones quarried in the municipality were used, among other things, to fortify the banks of the Kiel Canal and to build the Hindenburg dam , which connects Sylt with the mainland.

military

Brekendorf is a Bundeswehr location . In accordance with the deployment decisions of the Bundeswehr in October 2011, a part of the Luftwaffe's detached technical train 245 is stationed here and operates a phased array radar system of the type GM 406F for air defense.

Radar display of the Bundeswehr

politics

Community representation

Since the local elections in 2013 who CDU and the voter community UWB five seats and the SPD has a seat on the eleven seats in the municipal council.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Divided by gold and blue in a three-mountain cut. Above an ant, below a circular ornamented decorative disc in mixed up colors. "

The coat of arms was approved on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the municipality in 1996. The ant refers to the folk tale that the place was torn down due to an ant plague and rebuilt in another place, which should also explain the place name: afbreken is the Low German word for break off. The Dreiberg symbolizes the location of the place on the edge of the Hüttener Mountains. The decorative disk is a find during excavations in the municipality. The disk was probably around 800 BC. Manufactured. The tinging corresponds to the colors of the Schleswig region in which the municipality is located.

economy

In addition to agricultural use, tourism is an important source of income. There are also some gravel pits and a concrete plant. Many residents are commuters who work in Rendsburg , Schleswig or Eckernförde .

Web links

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

• Brekendorf 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. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein topography. Vol. 2: Boren - Ellerau . 1st edition Flying-Kiwi-Verl. Junge, Flensburg 2002, ISBN 978-3-926055-68-2 , p. 101 ( dnb.de [accessed June 11, 2020]).
3. ↑ BMVg - The stationing of the Bundeswehr in Germany (October 2011) (PDF 3.3MB)
4. ↑ Allocation of seats in local elections 2013 ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms