Holt (Schleswig)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 54 ° 49 '  N , 9 ° 9'  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Schleswig-Flensburg
Office :	Schafflund
Height :	18 m above sea level NHN
Area :	13.42 km 2
Residents:	168 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	13 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	24994
Area code :	04605
License plate :	SL
Community key :	01 0 59 124
Office administration address:	Tannenweg 1 24980 Schafflund
Website :	www.amt-schafflund.de
Mayor :	Gunter Hansen (WGH)
Location of the community Holt in the Schleswig-Flensburg district

Holt ( sønderjysk : Holjt ) is a municipality in the Schleswig-Flensburg district in Schleswig-Holstein .

Geography and traffic

Holt is about thirty kilometers west of Flensburg between the Danish border and the federal highway 199 to Niebüll . The localities Abro ( Danish : Åbro ), Holt and Horsbek ( Horsbæk ) are in the municipality.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1451 as to Holtte . The place name derives from the Old Norse obsolete ( germ. * Hulta , altdänisch Holti , mnd. Brings Dan. Obsolete ) from that originally represents a wooded hill and a wood. In South Jutland (Sønderjysk) it stands for forest. The place name suggests that the surrounding area was densely wooded.

In 1904 and 1912 there were major fires in the village that destroyed many buildings.

politics

Community representation

Since the 2013 local elections , the WGH voter community has all seven seats in the municipal council .

coat of arms

Blazon : "In gold a lowered, oblique, mutilated black oak branch, from which a branch consisting of three green leaves and two green acorns emerges on the right."

The sprouting oak branch reflects the place name, and it also symbolizes the living community. The number of oak leaves stands for the three districts of Holt, Horsbek and Abro; the acorns stand for further scattered settlements in the municipality.

economy

The community is predominantly agricultural .

Attractions

In the list of cultural monuments in Holt (Schleswig) are the cultural monuments entered in the list of monuments of Schleswig-Holstein.

Web links

Commons : Holt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Holt municipality at the Schafflund office

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. 1 ( dnb.de [accessed on July 18, 2020]).
3. ↑ Wolfgang Laur: Historisches Ortsnamelexikon von Schleswig-Holstein , 2nd edition, Neumünster 1992, p. 345
4. ↑ Johannes Kok: Det danske folkesprog i Sønderjylland , Volume 2, København 1867, p. 187
5. ^ Walter Baetke: Dictionary of Norse prose literature , 7th edition, Berlin 2005, p. 268
6. ↑ Johannes Kok: Det danske folkesprog i Sønderjylland , Volume 2, København 1867, p. 187
7. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms