Hjordkær Sogn
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 Denmark
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| Region : | Syddanmark | ||||
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Municipality (since 2007) : |
Aabenraa | ||||
| Coordinates : | 55 ° 2 ′ N , 9 ° 18 ′ E | ||||
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Population : (2020) |
1.963 | ||||
| Area : | 33 km² | ||||
| Population density : | 59 inhabitants per km² | ||||
| Postal code : | 6230 Rødekro | ||||
| Website: | www.hjordkaerkirke.dk | ||||
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Hjordkær Sogn ( dt. Jordkirch ) is a parish ( Danish : Sogn ) in North Schleswig in southern Denmark . It is located 7 km west of the city of Aabenraa (Eng. Aabenraa ) and has been part of the Aabenraa municipality of the same name in the Syddanmark region since the municipal reform on January 1, 2007 . Until 1970 the parish belonged to Harde Rise Herred in what was then Aabenraa-Sønderborg Amt , then to Rødekro Kommune in Sønderjyllands Amt .
Municipal area
Hjordkær Sogn covers 33 km². On January 1, 2020, 1963 people lived here, 1606 of them in the main town of Hjordkær . The small late Gothic church in the north of Hjordkær is a brick and field stone building.
history
Hjordkær is one of the few parishes in the region whose borders have changed significantly in the early modern period. During the dispute over the Duchy of Schleswig , to which Hjordkær had belonged since its foundation, around 1411 the church in Süderenleben was destroyed. Apparently it was not rebuilt at first, the residents stuck to the neighboring churches. It was not until the 1520s that today's church was rebuilt on the northern edge of Hjordkær. The parish was given a new layout: Most of Norderenleben remained with Rise, but Kassö from the parish of Hellevad and Tagholm from the parish of Ravsted were added to the west, which explains the unusual layout of the parish.
In the Middle Ages, the Michaeliskloster in Schleswig , the Løgumkloster (German Lügumkloster ), the at times noble estates Bolderslev (German Bollersleben ), Karlswraa and Tørning (German Törning ) and the Schleswig Bishop owned properties in the municipality. Most of them became sovereign again before the Reformation. The bishopric in Hjordkær and Arsleben was finally secularized in 1586, but until 1702 it belonged to a special bailiwick of Kolstrup, which united the former bishopric in the Aabenraa area.
The parish belonged to the legal district of Ries harde and since the late Middle Ages to what was then Aabenraa . Tagholm, however, belonged to the Schluxharde and thus to the Tondern district .
After the annexation of the Duchy of Schleswig by Prussia in 1867, Hjordkær was divided into seven rural communities: Kassö (with Tagholm), Süderenleben (Sønder Ønlev), Jordkirch (Hjordkær), Söderup, Alsleben (Alslev), Nübel (Nybøl) and Arsleben (Årslev). The area belonged to the Aabenraa district , since 1889 the Bjolderup district formed an intermediate instance.
On February 10, 1920, 510 citizens voted for Denmark and 154 for Germany in the referendum on the German-Danish border . After the incorporation of North Schleswig into the Danish state, Hjordkær was combined into a single parish land municipality. However, since 1970 it has been limited to its Evangelical Lutheran church function. At that time, Hjordkær became part of Rødekro Municipality , which in turn became part of the new Aabenraa Municipality in 2007.
literature
- JP Trap: Danmark - Aabenraa-Sønderborg amter . 5th edition. GEC Gads Forlag, Copenhagen 1967.
- Sønderjyske Stednavne. 7. delivery. 1935.
Web links
- Website of the municipality (Danish)
- Entry in the Sogneportalen (Danish)
- Fil med information about the so-called and municipal authorities
