Grabau (Lauenburg)

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 31 '  N , 10 ° 31'  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Duchy of Lauenburg
Office :	Schwarzenbek country
Height :	38 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.1 km 2
Residents:	349 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	85 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	21493
Area code :	04151
License plate :	RZ
Community key :	01 0 53 036
Office administration address:	Gülzower Strasse 1 21493 Schwarzenbek
Website :	www.amt-schwarzenbek-land.de
Mayor :	Bernd Granzow (AAGW)
Location of the municipality of Grabau in the Duchy of Lauenburg

Grabau is a municipality in the Duchy of Lauenburg in Schleswig-Holstein . Rülau is in the municipality.

geography

The place is about 3 km northeast of Schwarzenbek.

history

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1230.

The current name of the place Grabau can be traced back to the earlier designation of the place as Grabowe (1230) or Grabow (1460). The name comes from the old Slavic grave for hornbeam or hornbeam and ending -ov that a possessive is so that the name as much as settlement in the hornbeam or White Paper village means.

Since 1948 the community has belonged to the Schwarzenbek office, which in 1962 merged with the Basthorst office to form today's Schwarzenbek-Land office .

politics

Community representation

Of the nine seats in the municipal council, the AAGW community of voters has six seats since the 2008 local elections and the FWG three.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Divided by a flattened black arched beam consisting of a half, a whole and a half arch to the head of the shield. In gold above three green hornbeam leaves with black stems, below a red half-timbered house with two golden windows. "

Web links

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

• Grabau municipality at the Schwarzenbek-Land office

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. 277 ( dnb.de [accessed on April 26, 2020]).
3. ^ Hanswilhelm Haefs: Place names and local histories in Schleswig-Holstein, page 114
4. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms