Ellhöft

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 54 ° 53 '  N , 8 ° 57'  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	North Friesland
Office :	Südtondern
Height :	6 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.82 km 2
Residents:	113 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density :	14 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	25923
Area code :	04663
License plate :	NF
Community key :	01 0 54 027
Office administration address:	Marktstrasse 12 25899 Niebüll
Website :	www.amt-suedtondern.de
Mayor :	Jörg Thomsen
Location of the community Ellhöft in the district of North Friesland

Ellhöft ( Danish : Ellehoved , sønderjysk Ælhoi , Low German : Ellhööft ) is a municipality in the district of North Friesland in Schleswig-Holstein .

geography

Geographical location

The municipality of Ellhöft is located at the transition from the Schleswig Geest to the North Frisian Marsh, which is shifting further east through the course of the Vidå . The course of the river forms the border between Germany and Denmark.

Community structure

The districts of Böglum (Danish Bøvlund ), Struxbüll ( Struksbøl ) and Ellhöftfeld are in the municipality.

Neighboring communities

The neighboring municipal areas of Ellhöft are:

	Tondern municipality (Denmark)
Humptrup		Westre
	Süderlügum

history

The municipality has been populated since the Stone Age. The place Ellhöft was first mentioned in writing in 1543. The place name is made up of Danish. El (le) for alder and -hoved (in German -höft ) for a head start together. Böglum was first mentioned in 1497 and can be in old Danish. boghi (curvature) or bōk (beech).

In 1935 Böglum was incorporated.

politics

In the course of the municipal elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 2018 on May 6, 2018, a new local council was also elected for Ellhöft. With a turnout of 64.8 percent, all seven places were repeatedly filled by candidates from the WGE electoral community .

In the election on May 26, 2013, the WGE won all seven seats of the municipal council. The turnout was 73.8 percent.

Economy and Infrastructure

Historically, the community has been shaped to a large extent by the primary economic sector ( primary production ). Due to the economic policy at the turn of the millennium in Germany in the course of the energy transition , there was subsequently a sector shift in the direction of energy generation in the field of renewable energies (especially wind energy). In 1995, a wind farm project company was founded in the municipality and the Ellhöft community wind farm was inaugurated in 2000 .

The traffic connection of the municipality is mainly done by motorized individual traffic via the federal highway 5 north of Süderlügum. This leads for about one kilometer through the western municipal area and at the border crossing Böglum on the border between Denmark and Germany directly into the Danish Primærrute  11 and further towards the Danish town of Tønder .

The main settlement center of Ellhöft, which gives its name, is to the east of the main road. North of the village center of Süderlügum, the state road 192 crosses the federal road and, as an explicitly titled border road, runs in an easterly direction past the eponymous main settlement and continues into the Harrislee area .

See also

• List of border towns in Germany

Web links

Commons : Ellhöft  - 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. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein topography. Vol. 3: Ellerbek - Groß Rönnau . 1st edition Flying-Kiwi-Verl. Junge, Flensburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-926055-73-6 , p. 11 ( dnb.de [accessed April 17, 2020]).
3. ↑ Wolfgang Laur: Historisches Ortsnamelexikon von Schleswig-Holstein , 2nd edition, Neumünster 1992, p. 234
4. ↑ Wolfgang Laur: Historisches Ortsnamelexikon von Schleswig-Holstein , 2nd edition, Neumünster 1992, p. 162
5. ↑ Web editor: Results of the municipal elections 2018 final results. In: www.amt-suedtondern.de. Office Südtondern, accessed on May 23, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Web editor: Results of the 2013 municipal elections in the South Tondern office. In: www.amt-suedtondern.de. Office Südtondern, accessed on June 22, 2013 .