Heart horn

This article describes the municipality of Herzhorn in Schleswig-Holstein. A part of the municipality of Reichenow-Möglin in Brandenburg also bears this name.

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	Coordinates: 53 ° 47 '  N , 9 ° 29'  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Stone castle
Office :	Horst-Herzhorn
Height :	1 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.43 km 2
Residents:	1127 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	91 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	25379
Primaries :	04124, 04128
License plate :	IZ
Community key :	01 0 61 037
Office administration address:	Elmshorner Strasse 27 25358 Horst
Website :	www.amt-horst-herzhorn.de
Mayor :	Wolfgang Glissmann (KWV)
Location of the municipality of Herzhorn in the Steinburg district

Herzhorn ( Low German : Hartshoorn ) is a municipality in the Steinburg district in Schleswig-Holstein . Gehlensiel, Moorhufen, Obendeich, Reichenreihe, Splethendamm, Mühlendeich and Mittelfeld are in the municipality.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1352. It consisted of buildings that stood on terps on the Elbe and that were destroyed around 1400 when the Elbe flooded . Until the entire area was dyed in 1615, the place was repeatedly destroyed by floods - and a few years after the dyke was built by the Thirty Years' War .
On the centrally located Kirchwarft, the fourth church building after 1520 is St. Anne's Church from 1954 (under monument protection since 2007).

Assignments

On January 1, 1974, a sub-area with then more than 200 inhabitants was assigned to the city of Glückstadt .

politics

Of the eleven seats in the municipal council has the Wählergemeinschaft KWV since the local elections on May 6, 2018 seven seats, the SPD has four seats.

economy

Herzhorn lies in the fertile marshland and is predominantly agricultural, with cattle farming being the dominant feature.

Personalities

• Karl Bruhn (* 1803 in Herzhorn, † 1877 in Altona), journalist and politician
• Thies Hinrich Engelbrecht (* 1853 in Obendeich ; † 1934 in Glückstadt ), founder of German agricultural geography, emigrated to the USA in 1880 and returned to his parents' farm in Herzhorn in 1885
• Ernst Engelbrecht-Greve (* 1916 in Neuendorf near Elmshorn , † 1990 in Glückstadt ), Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forestry from 1962 to 1975 and also Deputy Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein from 1971 to 1975 , was a member of the municipal council from 1951 to 1955 from Herzhorn on
• Ulrich Friedrich Graf von Güldenlöw-Laurvig (* 1638 in Bremen ; † 1704 in Hamburg ), acquired the Herzhorn rule on November 20, 1671 for 153,480 Reichstaler from King Christian V of Denmark and Norway and transferred it after the death of his only son as possible heirs returned to the Danish king on September 22, 1697
• Klaus Lange (* 1939 in Elskop ), long-time mayor and head of the municipality as well as handball player and trainer of the MTV Herzhorn
• Samuel Rosenbohm (* 1567 in Herzhorn, † 1624/25 probably in Elmshorn ), pastor and poet

traffic

The Herzhorn stop is located on the Marschbahn and is served by the RB 61 .

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Herzhorn with Gehlensiel
• Timeline for the Lower Elbe region

photos

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  "Hertshorn" 1645 in the Atlas Maior von Blaeu

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  Seal of the Herzhorn parish around 1552

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  St. Anne's Church from 1954

Web links

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

• Herzhorn community at the Horst-Herzhorn office
• Johann Friedrich Dörfer: Topography of Holstein in alphabetical order: A repertory to the map of the Duchy of Holstein, the areas of the imperial cities of Hamburg and Lübek, and the Diocese of Lübek , Verlag Röffs, 1807, "Herzhorn" S. (152-153) at digital collections ( MDZ )
• Chronicle of St. Anne's Church at Herzhorn parish .

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. 4: Groß Sarau - Holstenniendorf . 1st edition Flying-Kiwi-Verl. Junge, Flensburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-926055-75-0 , p. 270 ( dnb.de [accessed on May 3, 2020]).
3. ↑ Not to be confused visually with the syringe house (with hose tower), Am Deich / Grillchaussee .
4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 186 .