Ilewitt

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Ilewitt ( Danish Ileved ) is a settlement on the Schwansen peninsula in Schleswig-Holstein . The place is about 4 km from the Baltic Sea and belongs to the municipality of Loose ( Rendsburg-Eckernförde district ), the main town of which is Loose, about 2 km southwest of Ilewitt.

Ilewitt was the Meierhof of the Saxtorf estate until 1799 . Three years after the owner's death (1863), the property was divided into New and Old Ilewitt by lot in 1866. The place name is composed of Ile for Danish. Igle ≈ leech (cf. Old Norse īgull ) and -witt for Danish. ved ≈ (cleared) forest together.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Laur: Historisches Ortsnamelexikon von Schleswig-Holstein , 2nd edition, Neumünster 1992, p. 357

Coordinates: 54 ° 32 '  N , 9 ° 55'  E