Geschendorf

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 55 '  N , 10 ° 27'  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Segeberg
Office :	Trave land
Height :	51 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.7 km 2
Residents:	576 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	101 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	23815
Area code :	04553
License plate :	SE
Community key :	01 0 60 024
Office administration address:	Waldemar-von-Mohl-Strasse 10 23795 Bad Segeberg
Website :	www.geschendorf.de
Mayor :	Dirk Wacker (AGKW)
Location of the community of Geschendorf in the Segeberg district

Geschendorf is a municipality in the Segeberg district in Schleswig-Holstein . Geschendorf has no other districts.

geography

Geschendorf is located on the federal motorway 20 between the district town of Bad Segeberg and the Hanseatic city of Lübeck in the parish of Pronstorf . From 1916 to 1967 Geschendorf was the station of the Lübeck-Segeberger Railway .

history

Geschendorf was founded in the middle of the 12th century by Westphalian settlers. The place is mentioned for the first time in 1317 in the Lübeck Citizens' Roll Civilitates. Until the secularization , parts of the place were subject to the Segeberg Augustinian monastery.

politics

Community representation

Of the nine seats in the municipal council has the Wählergemeinschaft AGKW since the municipal election 2008, six seats and the voter community ABG three.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Divided by gold and silver by a blue sloping bar in a snake cut. Above a green linden leaf with fruit cluster, below three green cattails. "

Meaning:

The linden leaf represents the large number of linden trees within the village. In addition to the many trees, there is also the Lindenhof restaurant and Lindenstrasse.

The cattails represent the Geschendorfer Moor, in which peat was extracted early on.

The blue river that runs through the coat of arms represents the great water vein.

Economy and Infrastructure

After the Second World War, the rural structure of the place changed until then. Today there are a large number of commercial and service companies. Geschendorf is connected to Lübeck and Bad Segeberg via the A 20 federal motorway. The A 20 from Lübeck to Bad Segeberg has already been expanded. Geschendorf has its own entrance and exit with a small adjacent industrial park, which has a gas station and a car workshop.

literature

• Edgar Winter: Geschendorf: The chronicle of a Vagrian village in the Travebogen. Geschendorf community, 2000.

Web links

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

• Geschendorf municipality

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. 210 ( dnb.de [accessed on April 22, 2020]).
3. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein topography. Vol. 3: Ellerbek - Groß Rönnau . 1st edition Flying-Kiwi-Verl. Junge, Flensburg 2003, ISBN 978-3-926055-73-6 , p. 210 ( dnb.de [accessed on April 22, 2020]).
4. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms