Elkier
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Elkier
Ellekær Steinbergkirche parish
Coordinates: 54 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ N , 9 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ E
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| Incorporated into: | Cross | |
| Postal code : | 24972 | |
| Area code : | 04632 | |
Location of Elkier in Schleswig-Holstein |
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 Elkier district
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Elkier ( Danish : Ellekær , partly also Elkær ) is a district of the Steinbergkirche parish in the Schleswig-Holstein district of Schleswig-Flensburg .
geography
Elkier is not far from the Baltic Sea . Flensburg is a few kilometers to the north-west .
history
The place name is first documented in writing in 1661. It goes back to the Danish words for alder ( elle , cf. altnord. Elri , ǫlr ) and for Kratt, Bruchland, Gestrupp ( kær , cf. oldnord . Kjarr, kjǫrr ) and means accordingly “Bruchland where alders are”. He has homonyms in England: Ellerker (North Reading of Yorkshire , Alrecher 11th year, Alekirr in 1139) and in France: Orcher ( Normandy , Aurichier 12th year).
Until the German-Danish War in 1864, Elkier belonged to the parish Quern ( Kværn Sogn ) in the Nieharde in the Flensburg office in the Hzgt. Schleswig . Later, for decades, the place belonged to the municipality of Quern , which was merged into the municipality of Steinbergkirche on March 1, 2013 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Anders Bjerrum, Kristian Hald, Peter Jørgensen: Sydslesvigs stednavne. Volume 7, København 1979, p. 273.
- ^ Wolfgang Laur: Historical place-name dictionary of Schleswig-Holstein. 2nd Edition. Neumünster 1992, p. 233b
- ^ François de Beaurepaire: Les Noms des communes et anciennes paroisses de la Seine-Maritime. A & J Picard, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-7084-0040-1 , p. 164.