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Coordinates: 54 ° 14 '  N , 9 ° 35'  E

Basic data
State : Schleswig-Holstein
Circle : Rendsburg-Eckernförde
Office : Jevenstedt
Height : 9 m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.82 km 2
Residents: 54 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 6 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes : 24797, 24816
Area code : 04332
License plate : RD, ECK
Community key : 01 0 58 075
Office administration address: Meiereistraße 5
24808 Jevenstedt
Website : www.amt-jevenstedt.de
Mayor : Klaus Groenewold (AWH)
Location of the municipality of Hörsten in the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district
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Hörsten is a municipality on both sides of the Kiel Canal in the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district in Schleswig-Holstein . Luhnvie and Schachtholm are in the municipality.

Geography and traffic

Hörsten is about 11 km south of Rendsburg between the Eider and the federal road 77 from Rendsburg to Itzehoe . The village center is north of the Kiel Canal on the Eider. To the south of the canal is the Rendsburg-Schachtholm airfield , which is used by sport aircraft and for sightseeing flights.

politics

In the municipal council, the constituency of the AWH has had all seven seats since the local elections in 2008. Since 2013 the community no longer has a community council, but a community assembly.

economy

The municipality is predominantly agricultural. There are also several shipping companies in the municipality.

history

The community hit the headlines in November 2000 when the cattle disease BSE was first diagnosed in a cow born in Germany.

Web links

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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. 5: Holt - Krokau . 1st edition Flying-Kiwi-Verl. Junge, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-926055-79-8 , pp. 36 ( dnb.de [accessed on July 18, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Mark Masuch: Only 50 inhabitants, but with an airfield. shz.de, August 28, 2015, accessed on July 24, 2020 .
  4. ↑ " Hörsten: BSE shock in a 70-inhabitant village ". SPIEGEL online from November 27, 2000