Heidkate
Heidkate is a local recreation area in the northernmost part of the provost on the Baltic Sea . It consists of the large Heidkoppel campsite and weekend houses mainly in the adjacent forest. Heidkate belongs to the municipality of Wisch near Schönberg in the Plön district , Schleswig-Holstein . Heidkate is best reached via the B 502 from Kiel and the K 33 from Krokauer Mühle.
development
The Heidkate, which gave the area its name, is an old farmhouse, from which the agricultural use of the Kolberger Heide, the northernmost tip of the provost, started for centuries. The cottage has been restored worth seeing.
During the Second World War , the area around the Heidkate was part of the Reich War Port of Kiel, from which anti-aircraft batteries were supposed to protect Kiel and its war-important shipyards. Up until the 1970s, the bunkers in the gun emplacements 'adorned' the dike in the direction of the Wendtorf lock. The boundary stone that marked the end of the port area can still be found in front of the Deichterrassen restaurant on the new Baltic Sea dike.
A short time after the war, from 1946, Heidkate was primarily discovered by Kiel citizens as a bathing beach and camping site. At that time, as is customary in the provost's office, the land for this purpose was handed over by handshake by the Stoltenberg family, who owned the land around the Heidkate for centuries, on a long lease for 99 years.
The bathing beach has been operated by the municipality of Wisch since 1970, which has ensured safe swimming, good beach conditions and a parking lot behind the dike directly at the Heidkate lighthouse . The parking lot is frequented by windsurfers and kite surfers, as this stretch of beach allows unchecked westerly winds. In the course of the dike heightening between Wendtorf and Stakendorf in the years 1981 to 1988, huge T-shaped stone piers were created, which initiated a silting up of the Baltic Sea beach, which was previously quite stony in this area.
With the construction of the dyke and the necessary heavy goods traffic, Heidkate was also connected by the county road (K 33) with the federal road 502 (Krokauer Mühle). The campsite was regulated by new nature and landscape protection laws and nature in and around Heidkate was given the opportunity to relax appropriately in the winter months.
history
Archaeological finds show that the area of today's provost was inhabited by so-called Northmen as early as the Stone Age. They were followed by Germanic tribes , mainly belonging to the Saxons , who were expelled around 500 AD by the Slavs who advanced from Eastern Europe during the migration of peoples . These intruders, known as Wagrier or Wends, were commissioned by Duke of Saxony Lothar von Supplinburg from 1110 by Adolf III. pushed back by Schauenburg and driven out. For this he was made Count of Holstein.
In the course of Danish expansion efforts, Adolf III. give up Holstein in 1203. The southern Baltic coast up to Estonia was conquered by Woldemar II for Denmark. For a short time he called himself King of the Danes and Slavs. Woldemar II enfeoffed a relative, Count Albrecht von Orlamünde , with the conquered territory. This in turn enfeoffed a loyal man, the servant Marquardt von Steenwehr, in 1216 with the "forest and the meadow between Carzniz and Suarepouc" (Carzniz is the Hagener Au , Suarepouc later Swartepuc is probably the Köhner Mühlenau). The boundaries of the later provosts are precisely marked in the west and east by the two meadows; in the north the Baltic Sea was the natural border.
Marquardt's first task was to bring settlers into the country, so-called colonists. He himself laid out his homestead on a hill in the salt marshes, and so the still existing Hufe von Fernwisch - about one kilometer south of Heidkate - is possibly the starting point for the settlement of the provosts.
The Danish rule did not last long. In 1225 Adolf IV of Schauenburg and Holstein first defeated the Count of Orlamünde, and in 1227 also the Danish king Waldemar II (in the battle of Bornhöved ) and thus restored his family's rule over Holstein. The rest of the Baltic Sea coast also came back into German hands.
Adolf IV gave the fiefdom of Marquardt von Steenwehr to the Benedictine nunnery in Preetz. It thus became the monastic Preetz provost. The Preetz Monastery did not entrust the further settlement, as was customary at the time, to aristocratic courts, but left its property to free, taxable peasants, who could essentially determine their fate themselves, and who over the centuries brought it to reputation and prosperity.
Village chronicle
(The dates marked with an asterisk are taken from the Fernwisch family chronicle.)
In 1216 , Count Albert von Orlamünde enfeoffed the nobleman Marquardt von Steenwehr with the "salt meadow and the adjacent forest". - Founding of Altwisch.
In 1226 Count Adolf IV. Marquardt withdrew the fief and gave it to the Preetz Monastery.
In 1286 the parish of Schönberg had eight monastic villages: Fiefbergen, Krokau, Schönberg, Krummbek, Osterwisch, Höhndorf, Stakendorf and Gödersdorf. The last village was bought by the monastery in 1281, while the first seven villages mentioned owe their existence to the provost Friedrich. Barsbek was still in the hands of nobles. Ratjendorf was acquired by the monastery in 1418 and Bendfeld in 1421. But the last two villages belonged to the church in Giekau until 1870.
In 1555 Peter Stoltenberg von Fernwisch, a preacher in Schönberg, died. He is said to have preached Luther's teaching here first. If this is correctly passed down, the Reformation was introduced here very early and it can then be assumed that Stoltenberg received his training in Wittenberg . Pastor Schmidt writes: "On the oldest church book it says, recorded by the hand of Blessed Pastor Chemnitz, that Peter Stoltenberg, the first Lutheran chief preacher in Schönberg, died in 1555".
1625 * the heath passed away. This remark doesn't say much, but it does say so much that the Kolberger Heide used to be significantly larger. Fishermen even claimed to be able to see former trenches in the sea. The trenches have of course filled with sand.
In 1627 * the emperor entered the country. This remark probably refers to the imperial. They invaded Holstein in 1627. In September of this year, Wallenstein stormed the Breitenburg . According to monastic documents, the provost was by no means spared the Thirty Years' War . In the nearby Barsbek , for example, a developed hoof, the 'Rönner Lag , was devastated. A woman from Laboe fled from the imperial family to Schallikendorf (near Stakendorf). The war also brought the plague , which still ruled Lutterbek in 1635.
In 1644, at the time of the Thirty Years' War, a sea battle took place on the Kolberger Heide . The Danish King Christian IV defeated the Swedish fleet here, which was far superior to the Danish in terms of number of ships. The 67-year-old king, who was personally in command, had his right eye torn out by a splinter of wood. In the Probsteier country, the legend goes that the Swedes threw the war chest overboard in an emergency. According to tradition, an owner of Fernwisch is said to have tried to take this treasure away from the sea.
1711 plague in Laboe . The village was cordoned off by soldiers. 13 people died, 9 of them were buried during the lock on a hill at the harbor, which bears the name "Grunensbarg" (mountain of horror).
In 1821 * the wipers made their dike.
1872 on November 13th was the great storm surge. Our village was badly damaged. One drove - it was a Wednesday - in the village with boats that had been brought over from Stoltenberg and Fahren. 80 sheep and 47 cattle drowned in the distance. Since the Barsbeker dike broke, the cattle went with the flow according to the Danish Wohld. The fish from our sweet waters drifted dead there too. The residents of the Heidkate, Hans Göttsch and Esther, took refuge with their belongings on the floor of the house and were in no small danger of their lives. The panels on the walls were chipped with water and the waves lashed through the house. California was washed away as early as 11 a.m. The residents saved themselves after the spar. The half-timbering of the destroyed house established itself in a field of the Wischler district. It was literally swarming with rats and mice that found refuge on it. This flood did not harm agriculture as the water disappeared very quickly. In the summer that followed, the grain grew very abundantly. A moderate salinity does not harm the soil. Experienced country people also believe that this flood has left behind rich North Sea mud. Since the wind was initially strong from the west, this view has a lot to offer.
The dike was built in 1880–1882 . It is around 12 km long and cost a good 335,000 marks. During this time the Verwellenberg disappeared when the earth was used to build dykes. Now a pond-like body of water, called the Verwellenloch, covers the legendary site.
literature
- K. Peters: Wisch and the surrounding area (northern provost). Schoenberg 1898.
- H.-J. Ammermann: Chronicle of our village Wisch with the district Heidkate. Wiper History and Wiper Stories 1216–2001. Municipality of Wisch (editor), 2001.
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Coordinates: 54 ° 26 ' N , 10 ° 20' E