Epenwöhrden
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Coordinates: 54 ° 7 ' N , 9 ° 3' E |
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Basic data | ||
State : | Schleswig-Holstein | |
Circle : | Dithmarschen | |
Office : | Mitteldithmarschen | |
Height : | 0 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 13.52 km 2 | |
Residents: | 766 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 57 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 25704 | |
Area code : | 04832 | |
License plate : | HEI, MED | |
Community key : | 01 0 51 028 | |
Office administration address: | Hindenburgstrasse 18 25704 Meldorf |
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Mayor : | Henning Staack (ABEWG) | |
Location of the municipality of Epenwöhrden in the district of Dithmarschen | ||
Epenwöhrden ( Low German : Epenweuhern / Epenweuern ) is a municipality in the Dithmarschen district in Schleswig-Holstein .
geography
location
The municipality of Epenwöhrden is located in the marshland between Meldorf and Heide (Holstein) on both sides of federal highway 5 , with the town center being west of the federal highway. The land registry office Meldorf has determined that Epenwöhrden (more precisely the Epenwöhrdenermoor) is the center of the Dithmarsch mainland.
Districts
The community is made up of the districts Dehling, Epenwöhrden, Epenwöhrdenerfeld and Epenwöhrdenermoor.
Neighboring communities
Neighboring communities are the communities of Hemmingstedt and Nordhastedt , the city of Meldorf and the community of Nordermeldorf (all in the Dithmarschen district), starting clockwise in the north .
history
On April 1, 1934, the parish of Nordermeldorf was dissolved. All of their village communities, village communities and farmers became independent communities / rural communities, including Epenwöhrden.
politics
Community representation
All eleven seats has the Wählergemeinschaft ABEWG (General Civil Epenwöhrdener Wählergemeinschaft).
coat of arms
Blazon : "In green above a silver shield base that is broadly tinned at the top, a floating silver stone parapet, above it on two silver pillars a silver boulder on a black plate, on the right and left each accompanied by a golden ear."
flag
Blazon : "The figures of the municipal coat of arms in tincture appropriate for the flag on a green flag cloth."
Attractions
Dusenddüwelwarf
In 1500 the Dithmarsch farmers defended their freedom in the battle of Hemmingstedt against the numerically far superior troops of the Danish King Johann I and his brother Duke Friedrich I of Holstein with the battle cry "Wahr di, Garr, de Buer de kumt" ( Pay attention , the farmer is coming). A memorial stone that was erected in Epenwöhrden on Dusenddüwelswarf for the 400th anniversary in 1900 commemorates this victory.
literature
- Sabine Drüke-Carstensen; Municipality of Epenwöhrden (ed.): History of the municipality of Epenwöhrden . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Epenwöhrden 2010.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ North Statistics Office - Population of the municipalities in Schleswig-Holstein 4th quarter 2019 (XLSX file) (update based on the 2011 census) ( help on this ).
- ↑ Epenwöhrden: The center of Dithmarschen ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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.
- ↑ State Statistical Office Schleswig-Holstein (Ed.): The population of the communities in Schleswig-Holstein 1867-1970 . State Statistical Office Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel 1972, p. 250 .
- ↑ a b Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms