Horst (Holstein)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 49 '  N , 9 ° 37'  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Stone castle
Office :	Horst-Herzhorn
Height :	15 m above sea level NHN
Area :	29.07 km 2
Residents:	5731 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	197 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	25358
Primaries :	04121, 04126
License plate :	IZ
Community key :	01 0 61 044
Office administration address:	Elmshorner Strasse 27 25358 Horst (Holstein)
Website :	www.amt-horst-herzhorn.de
Mayor :	Jörn Plöger ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Horst (Holstein) in the Steinburg district

Horst (Holstein) is a municipality in the Steinburg district in Schleswig-Holstein . It is the administrative seat of the Horst-Herzhorn office .

Fiefhusen, Hackelshörn, Hahnenkamp, ​​Heisterende, Hinterm Holz, Horstheide, Horstmoor, Horstmühle, Horstzeile, Lindenkamp, ​​Lüningshof, Moordiek, Schloburg and Schönmoor are in the municipality.

Geography and traffic

Horst is on the federal highway 23 between Itzehoe and Elmshorn and on the Hamburg-Altona-Kiel railway line .

The Schwarzwasser and Horstgraben flow through the municipality. The green coastal road runs through the municipality.

history

The deed of foundation of the knight Heinrich II. Von Barmstede

The first written mention of the place comes from the time around 1234. At that time 23 stader bushels of winter wheat from Horst were donated to the newly founded Cistercian nunnery in Uetersen by the knight Heinrich II. Von Barmstede . In the following centuries, the monastery rounded off its Horster possessions through donations and acquisitions to such an extent that the entire village came under the jurisdiction of the monastery as a patrimonial property. It was not until the Prussian administrative reforms from 1867 that the place became a municipality in the Steinburg district and thus independent of the Uetersen monastery. At this point in time, the districts of Moordiek and Schönmoor, which had previously belonged to Itzehoe Monastery, were incorporated, the district of Klein Greenland was separated and added to the municipality of Greenland.

Horst was originally a purely agricultural area. The entire area of ​​the municipality is relatively large with almost 3000 hectares, so that in addition to the 14 full-hoofed and 16 half-hoofed, more than 70 kätner with land ownership could settle, so a total of over 100 farms. However, larger moor and heather areas were only conditionally suitable for agriculture.

By giving up parish land along the Elmshorn-Itzehoe road, a large settlement of Plincken, small houses with little garden land, where day laborers, traders and craftsmen lived and worked, arose as early as the 18th century. As a result, the population rose by 1850 to over 2000 and made Horst the fourth largest town in the Steinburg region at the time, after the towns of Itzehoe , Glückstadt and Wilster . The connection by the Altona-Kieler Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft to the Hamburg-Altona-Kiel railway line in 1844 also contributed to population growth and the settlement of new commercial and commercial enterprises. In spite of its relatively high labor potential, Horst only had a small share in the emerging industrialization at the end of the 19th century. Only the wool spinning mill founded by H. Ottens in 1864 managed to grow into a large industrial company with several hundred employees in the 1930s.

After the Second World War, the population almost doubled as a result of the immigration of refugees and displaced persons from around 2,600 inhabitants (1939) to initially over 5,000 (1950), only to level off at around 4,000 in the 1960s. After the designation of further residential areas in the last decades, the number of 5,000 inhabitants has now been exceeded again. The significantly improved transport links to Hamburg contributed to this. After the old Horster train station in the Hackelshörn district was closed in 1987, a new train station was opened in the Horstheide district in 2003. In addition, there has been a connection to the motorway network since 1981.

politics

Community representation

Since the local elections in 2018 which has Wählergemeinschaft HWG eight seats, the CDU five Bündis90 / The Greens four and the SPD three seats in the municipal council.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In green on a silver three-mountain top, covered with a red shield, inside a silver nettle leaf, three silver deciduous trees."

education

The primary school Op de Host and the community school Jacob-Struve-Schule are located in the municipality of Horst .

societies

The largest club in the community with around 1000 members is the MTV Horst der u. a. Offers fistball, handball, athletics and table tennis. The VfR Horst (Association for Lawn Sports Horst) has over 400 members and mainly operates youth and men's football. The first men's team has been playing in the association league since 2009.

On April 19, 2010, the handball team Horst / Kiebitzreihe (HSG Horst / Kiebitzreihe) was founded from the handball departments of MTV Horst von 1913 eV and Rot-Weiß Kiebitzreihe eV. In the 2016/2017 season, 15 youth teams and 5 senior teams take part in the game. On December 10, 2011, the shark became the heraldic animal of handball players. The home games of the first men now have the character of an event and are considered to be the spectator magnet in the region.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Joachim Friedrich Bolten (1718–1796), doctor and conchologist
• Jacob Struve (1755–1841), mathematician and philologist
• Johannes Clauß Voss (1858–1922), German-Canadian navigator, circumnavigator
• Robert Scharmer (1862–1940), administrative lawyer, ministerial official
• Werner Gilde (1920–1991), expert in welding technology
• Claus-Robert Kruse (* 1948), musician, arranger, composer and music producer

Connected to the community

• Uwe John (1950–2008), politician (SPD), lived in Horst and was a member of the local council.
• Isabel Gülck (* 1991), Miss Germany 2012, lives in Horst and attended school here.
• Ernst Otto Karl Grassmé († 1992), lived as a hermit for decades in Horster Torfmoor (film adaptation of his life in 2015)

literature

• Detlef Juhl: Horst in Holstein then and now . Horst 1931.
• various authors: Horst in Holstein then and now . Volume II. Horst 1982.
• Werner Gilde: "Life without a return ticket. Youth memories, Halle 1980, Husum 1983.
• Norbert Trojahn: Horst (Holstein). Pictures ... and a look back . Horb am Neckar 1990.
• Jürgen Marquardt: Old times are awakening. About the Horster community life . Horst 1995.
• AG Horster local archive: Horst Lexicon. From A – Z through history . Horst 2009.

Web links

Commons : Horst (Holstein)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Horst municipality (Holstein) at the Horst-Herzhorn 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. ↑ ^{a b c} Schleswig-Holstein topography. Vol. 5: Holt - Krokau . 1st edition Flying-Kiwi-Verl. Junge, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-926055-79-8 , pp. 30 ( dnb.de [accessed on July 18, 2020]).
3. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms
4. ↑ Christian Meurer: Hermit Documentary: The Moor Resident Comes Back . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 22, 2015, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed May 23, 2016]).