Westensee (municipality)

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Westensee (municipality)
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Coordinates: 54 ° 17 '  N , 9 ° 54'  E

Basic data
State : Schleswig-Holstein
Circle : Rendsburg-Eckernförde
Office : Backguard
Height : 19 m above sea level NHN
Area : 36.91 km 2
Residents: 1553 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 42 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 24259
Area code : 04305
License plate : RD, ECK
Community key : 01 0 58 171
Office administration address: Inspektor-Weimar-Weg 17
24239 Achterwehr
Website : www.gemeinde-westensee.de
Mayor : Adolf Dibbern ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Westensee in the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district
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Westensee is a municipality near Kiel in the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district in Schleswig-Holstein .

Geography and traffic

The Westensee in Westensee

The municipality of Westensee is located directly on the lake of the same name in the Westensee Nature Park . The place name means "west of the lake"; it was later transferred to the lake itself. Bossee, Brux, Deutsch-Nienhof, Josephinenhof, Westensee and Wrohe are in the municipality.

The highest point at 88 meters is the Tüteberg , on which, according to legend, there was a pagan cult site.

To the north, the federal highway 210 runs from Rendsburg to Kiel , to the southwest the federal highway 7 from Hamburg to Rendsburg and to the southeast the federal highway 215 from Neumünster to Kiel.

history

Several megalithic tombs and finds of Stone Age tools and Bronze Age urns suggest that the area was settled from the Neolithic . In the Iron Age the population migrated. Adam von Bremen describes in his chronicle today's Mittelholstein as a deserted primeval forest, the so-called Isarnho (= iron forest). The area was only repopulated again under Adolf II von Schauenburg . The St. Catharinen Church was founded as a branch of the Neumünster Monastery and dates from shortly after the settlement of the country in the Middle Ages.

In 1159, Emcko, the first of the Knights of Westensee from the Overboden family Marcrad I , who were vassals of the Counts of Schauenburg , was named. His name has been preserved in the neighboring village of Emkendorf . The domain of the Knights of Westensee extended to Kiel and Eckernförde and at times also included the lien over Rendsburg . The heraldic animal was the squirrel . In 1322 they sold Grömitz to the Cismar monastery . They controlled the shipping traffic on the Eider , which flows through the Westensee, by means of two castles , the Läkeburg on the island (today a peninsula between the Westensee and the Bossee ) Lohburg and the Hohburg on the Börner. These castles were destroyed in 1346/48 by Holstein counts and the city of Lübeck , because the Westenseer knights are said to have shifted from protecting the trade routes to robbery barracking. Marquard von Westensee came to court in Lübeck, swore original feud , but was slain in Lübeck area after the conviction.

Church of St.Catharinen, in front the former burial chapel of the Reventlow-Criminil family from Gut Emkendorf

The village of Westensee was first mentioned in the middle of the 13th century. After the plague had exterminated almost the entire population, including the knightly family, in the 14th century , the property passed to the Ahlefeldt family . Unlike the knights, the new masters ran agriculture themselves, founded the Westensee, Bossee and Nienhof estates for this purpose , and reclaimed the land that had fallen desolate after the depopulation of the Black Death. The peasants increasingly fell into serfdom . In the 16th century the Rantzau family owned the village and estates, then other nobles and state officials.

During the Thirty Years' War Westensee was devastated twice: in 1626/1627 Tilly's troops camped in the village and in 1645 Swedish troops marauded. The plague also hit the area twice at the beginning of the 17th century, which led to the impoverishment of the peasants and an increase in the power of noble estates .

The coupling in the 18th century and the liberation of the peasants in 1803, two years before the law came into force, led to an increase in the population, as the demand for labor on the goods attracted day laborers and artisans.

After the Second World War, part of the estates was divided up for settlement. There are now only a few farms left.

In 1928 the Gutsgemeinden were converted into political communities. Instead of the landowner, the municipality was now headed by a self-elected mayor .

The municipality of Westensee has been part of the Achterwehr office since 1970 .

Cow house of Gut Bossee from 1709 with the initials of Heinrich Jasper Rantzau and Friederike Margarete Rantzau

Gut Bossee

After the destruction of the medieval castles and the extinction of the Westensee knightly family, the Lords of Ahlefeld relocated their residence to the site of the Bossee estate. 1470 Bossee is mentioned for the first time as the mansion of the von Ahlefeld family. This makes it the oldest property in the community. From a building from the 15th century, the cellar vault under the present manor house is still preserved. A first mansion was built in the 16th century. Under the Rantzau family, the farm received the large farm buildings that still exist today. After several changes of ownership, the estate is now owned by the Bülow family . Detlev von Bülow had the former gatehouse replaced by a water tower around 1900 , which supplied the courtyard with water well into the 20th century. The mansion was redesigned in 1897.

Manor house on Gut Deutsch-Nienhof

Gut Deutsch-Nienhof

The former aristocratic Gut Deutsch-Nienhof was first mentioned in 1472. At the beginning of the 16th century it was owned by the Rantzau family, who built a three-wing moated castle , which is shown on the Rantzau plaque . The most famous owner was the general Daniel Rantzau . In 1630 it came to Otto Blome , son of Abel Rantzau.

Today's manor house, built at the end of the 18th century, stands on the foundations of the old castle. The gatehouse designed by Georg Greggenhofer as part of the construction work was not realized at the time, but only built 200 years later in the Molfsee open-air museum .

Gut Deutsch-Nienhof, acquired by the von Hedemann-Heespen family in 1776 , has been a family fideikommiss since the 18th century . From 1907 to 1909 Paul von Hedemann-Heespen had the interior of the manor house redesigned.

There are two cup stones in the area .

Wrohe (Wrau)

The place name is now Wrohe, formerly Wrau, in the 17th century Wra. The meaning is corner, angle, secluded place.

Wrohe near Kiel was described in 1845 as "a village belonging to the Westensee parish, 21 H [withstand] 126 inhabitants, Kingdom of Denmark, Duchy of Holstein, patrimonial court of the German Nienhof estate, Holsteinsches Obergericht or Oberconsistorium Glückstadt. The village of Wrohe (Wrau) south At the Westensee occupy consists of 5 half-hooves, 3 catheters and 7 intern positions with a school and an inn. At the Schierenseer Scheide the owl jug is an intern position. "

"For example, in the very romantic village of Wrohe, which belongs to Gut Deutschneuhof and is situated on the Westensee, a young school teacher named Baar is employed ...", on whose 50th anniversary in office a foundation was established on June 9, 1865: The "Bahr ' Sche foundation for the best of the students of the school in Wrohe, im nobility. Good German Nienhof, parish Westensee ”. In 1837, 95 children from the catchment area Deutsch-Nienhof with Josephinenhof, Eckhöft and Wrohe attended this school.

Incorporations

Parts of the municipality Deutsch-Nienhof (with Gut Deutsch-Nienhof and Wrohe), which was incorporated into the neighboring municipality of Langwedel on October 1, 1975 , were reclassified to the municipality of Westensee on August 1, 1976.

politics

Community representation

Of the 13 seats in the municipal council, the SPD and CDU each had four seats since the local elections in 2003, the KWG electoral community three and the LD electoral community two.

Of the 13 seats in the municipal council, the CDU has had five seats since the local elections in 2008, the SPD has four and the KWG and LD electoral communities have two seats each.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Divided diagonally by silver and blue. Above a sitting red squirrel with a black nut in its front paws, below five silver wavy threads. ”The squirrel was the heraldic animal of the Knights of Westensee.

Attractions

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

The nature park path , which connects the five nature parks in Schleswig-Holstein for hikers, runs through Westensee . See also: Langwedel dolmen

Personalities

literature

  • Paul von Hedemann-Heespen: The older history of the church to Westensee. Kiel 1889.
  • Wilhelm Ricker: Westensee. Chronicle of a noble church village. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1994².
  • Harry Schmidt: Three castles on the Westensee. 3rd edition, Christians, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-7672-1180-7 .

Web links

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

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 c d Schleswig-Holstein topography. Vol. 10: Timmaspe - Ziethen . 1st edition Flying-Kiwi-Verl. Junge, Flensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-926055-92-7 , p. 238 ( dnb.de [accessed on August 9, 2020]).
  3. ^ Wilhelm Ricker: Westensee. Chronicle of a noble church village. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1994², p. 12 ff.
  4. ^ Wilhelm Ricker: Westensee. Chronicle of a noble church village. P. 23
  5. ^ Wilhelm Ricker: Westensee. Chronicle of a noble church village. P. 65
  6. ↑ History of Gut Bossee ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bossee.de
  7. ^ Nienhof Castle (at the bottom) on the Rantzau board
  8. ↑ Deutsch-Nienhof  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.deutsch-nienhof.de  
  9. ^ Pamphlets on place names: History of the field names collection in the Duchy of Braunschweig. 1912 In: Vol. 1 of Pamphlets on place names: 1881-1935, p. 313
  10. ^ Johann Friedrich Kratzsch: Complete topographical-judicial manual of the entire German federal states , second division, second volume. E. Zimmermann, 1845
  11. ^ Friedrich J. Meyer: Representations from North Germany , Hoffmann u. Campe (1816), 249
  12. ^ Confirmation patent and statutes in ordinance sheet for Schleswig-Holstein and Lauenburg , 1865, page 157
  13. ↑ Johann Heinrich Bernhard Lübkert : attempt at a church statistics Holstein, A contribution to Vaterlandskunde . Glückstadt 1837, p. 457
  14. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 184 .
  15. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms