Gudow

Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Duchy of Lauenburg
Office :	Books
Height :	25 m above sea level NHN
Area :	42.26 km 2
Residents:	1672 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	40 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	23899
Area code :	04547
License plate :	RZ
Community key :	01 0 53 046
LOCODE :	DE 53Q
Office administration address:	Amtsplatz 1 ; 21514 Büchen
Website :	www.gemeinde-gudow.de
Mayoress :	Simone Kelling ( SPD )
Location of the community of Gudow in the Duchy of Lauenburg

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

geography

Gudow is located in the middle of the Lauenburg Lakes Nature Park, directly on Lake Gudower and on the Mecklenburg border. The municipality includes the main town of Gudow as well as the towns of Kehrsen, Segrahn, Sophienthal and the Aussiedlerhof Bannau.

history

The village was mentioned in a document for the first time in the Isfried partition contract in 1194. It was a church village and ecclesiastically belonged entirely to the diocese of Ratzeburg , but was secularly divided between the county of Ratzeburg and the eponymous monastery , the secular domain of the prince-bishops. According to the information in the Ratzeburg tithe register of 1230, Prince Bishop Gottschalk's feudal man was a Theodoricus Lupus, a knight from the Wulf family in Schwarzenbek . Gudow was then owned by the von Zecher, who also called themselves von Gudow, and belonged to the Züle family . On May 25, 1334 Duke Erich I finally sold Gudow to Marquard von Zecher, who belongs to a branch line of the von Züle family.

From the 14th century on there was a knightly estate in Gudow. The possession of this manor was connected with the dignity of the hereditary land marshal of the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg until 1882 , d. H. of the chairman of the knight and landscape . This connection made Gudow a political center of Lauenburg. The last change of ownership of this property took place in 1470. Detlev, Johann, Heine and Johann von Züle sold the estate to Werner and Friedrich von Bülow . The connection between estate and land marshal was confirmed. The duties of the Land Marshal also included the safekeeping of all important deeds and documents relating to the rights of the estates and their contracts with each other and with the sovereign. Today they are in the district archive in Ratzeburg. The old knight's seat was converted into a modern manor in the 15th and 16th centuries.

In 1889, when the lordly police authority was abolished, the district of Gudow was founded. After the Second World War, the municipality was the seat of the Gudow Office from 1948 to 2006, which in 1971 was merged with the Sterley Office to form the Gudow-Sterley Office . After its dissolution, the municipality joined the Büchen office in 2007 .

During the division of Germany , the Gudow / Zarrentin border crossing was nearby.

politics

Community representation

Of the 13 seats in the municipal council, the CDU has had four seats since the 2018 local elections, the SPD has three, the BWG and SKGG electoral groups have two seats each, and the Greens and the BISS electoral community have one seat each.

coat of arms

Blazon : "Under a golden pewter shield head, inside 4 oblique left green linden leaves, in blue a golden Madonna on the full moon and a naturally tinged black and gold oriole."

Attractions

The list of cultural monuments in Gudow includes the cultural monuments entered in the list of monuments of Schleswig-Holstein.

The village church of St. Marien , a 13th century field stone church, contains a " Madonna on the full moon ", which was created in Lübeck around 1430 , as well as a St. Mary's coronation altar, which was created around 1400 for the Lüne monastery and in 1655 , among other pieces of equipment that are well worth seeing was donated to the Church. The altar, originally a winged altar , was cut up and around 1680 was given a cartilage-style frame . In 2011 the altar was extensively restored.

The classicist mansion was built in 1826 by the Danish architect Joseph Christian Lillie for the von Bülow family .