Kaaks

Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Stone castle
Office :	Itzehoe country
Height :	13 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.56 km 2
Residents:	441 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	52 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	25582
Area code :	04893
License plate :	IZ
Community key :	01 0 61 047
LOCODE :	DE 67S
Office administration address:	Margarete-Steiff-Weg 3 ; 25524 Itzehoe
Website :	www.kaaks.de
Mayor :	Klaus-Wilhelm Rohwedder (AAW)
Location of the municipality of Kaaks in the Steinburg district

Kaaks is a municipality in the Steinburg district in Schleswig-Holstein . The districts of Eversdorf and Kaaksburg belong to the community.

Geography and traffic

Kaaks is north of Itzehoe . The Bekau , the Mühlenau (Stegau) , the Pöschendorfer Graben and the Krammbek flow through the community. The Kaaksburg rest area on Autobahn 23 is in the area of the municipality.

history

The ring wall of the Kaaksburg is still preserved except for the division by a country road. It was excavated by Hermann Hofmeister around 1930 .

One of the four fish belly bridges in Schleswig-Holstein is in Kaaks.

politics

Community representation

Of the nine seats in the municipal council, the AAW community of voters has five seats since the 2018 local elections and the AWV community of voters four.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Divided slightly degraded by the wavy cut of silver and blue. Above under a three-leaved green oak branch (with a black stem and black petioles) and enclosing this below the red section through a place surrounded by a ring of earth; below a silver bridge with brick-walled, lateral foundations, a concrete beam-supported roadway and a railing consisting of iron lattice elements supported by four stone supports. The roadway is additionally held by iron struts rounded at the bottom. "

The Kaaksburg is shown in the upper half. The three sheets stand for the original places Eversdorf, Kaaksburg and Kaaks. The lower part shows the fish-bellied bridge from 1909 in the water of the Bekau, which is the only original of a special type of construction preserved in Schleswig-Holstein today, which comes from the beginnings of reinforced concrete construction and consists of concrete beams, the underside of circular curved flat iron (fish belly ) is supported.