Grabau (Stormarn)

Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Stormarn
Office :	Bad Oldesloe-Land
Height :	31 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.14 km 2
Residents:	791 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	87 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	23845
Area code :	04537
License plate :	OD
Community key :	01 0 62 019
Office administration address:	Louise-Zietz-Strasse 4 ; 23843 Bad Oldesloe
Website :	https://www.gemeinde-grabau.de
Mayor :	Hans-Joachim Wendt (WGG)
Location of the municipality of Grabau in the Stormarn district

Grabau is a municipality in the Stormarn district in Schleswig-Holstein . Hoherdamm is in the municipality.

history

Grabau was first mentioned in a document in 1433. Mesolithic finds indicate the first settlement of the area. The Grabauer grave field indicates a settlement in the Bronze Age . In the course of time it became the Meierhof of Gut Borstel . After the Borsteler Gut was sold in 1804, Grabau was separated and made a noble estate itself . In 1863 the place got its first own school. In 1907 Grabau received a railway connection from the Elmshorn-Barmstedt-Oldesloer Railway , which was shut down again in 1973. After the estate districts were dissolved, Grabau was merged with Neritz to form a rural community. In 1942 the unification of Grabau and Neritz was reversed and both villages became independent communities.

Grabau has belonged to the Bad Oldesloe-Land office since 1948 . Since then, the number of inhabitants has increased steadily through the settlement of lands belonging to the estate.

Manor house in Grabau

In 1905 the merchant Gustav Lahusen from Bremen bought the estate and built the Grabau mansion , which is now a listed building. Lahusen sold the estate in 1931 to the margarine manufacturer Friedrich Bölck , who soon had to hand it over to the state. In the Second World War , Grabau was used as an army breeding farm . From 1951 to 1966 the estate housed a country youth home until 1967 Dobimar von Kameke bought the estate.

In today's district of Hoherdamm , which is about 1.5 km from the manor on Grabauer See , there has been a mill since the 15th century. A grain mill was built around 1486, which was converted into a copper and brass factory with coin production since around 1593. Since the 16th century, a small settlement has formed around the mill, which forms the core of the current district.

First privately operated, brass and copper processing was carried out from 1795 to 1832 on behalf of the Danish Ministry of Finance. In 1832 the mill became the property of the Grabau estate , the owner of which had another grinder installed so that the mill could be used as a grain mill again. Metal processing was stopped in the 1850s and the grain mill operated until 1906. The mill building that exists today was built in 1876 and converted into an apartment building after the mill was closed.

religion

Grabau, which has been evangelical-Lutheran since the Reformation , is parish after Sülfeld .

politics

Municipal council and mayor

Since the local elections in 2008, the WGG electoral community has all eleven seats in the municipal council.

Mayor is Hans-Joachim Wendt (WGG).

coat of arms

Blazon : "In gold over a blue wave bar, a floating green hill, which is made up of six black-stemmed green deciduous trees."

Backhus

The Grabauer See in winter, seen from the south bank

Culture and sights

Buildings

View from the Klingberg to the Grabau burial ground

The manor house , built between 1906 and 1909, is now a listed building .
The old Backhus in the village square.
The Grabau burial ground, from which four burial mounds from the Neolithic Age have been preserved (five more have been plowed over in the last few centuries) has been a listed building since 1968 and is the oldest evidence of settlement in the region.

The list of cultural monuments in Grabau (Stormarn) includes the cultural monuments entered in the list of monuments of Schleswig-Holstein.