Kegnæs

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Kegnæs Drej
Sønderby

Kegnæs ( German  Kekenis ; Sønderjysk or Alsisk : Kæjnes ; first mentioned in 1460 as Kekenisse ) is a peninsula at the southern end of the island of Alsen ( Danish Als ), Northern Schleswig , Denmark .

location and size

Kegnæs borders the Flensburg Outer Fjord in the south and the Höruphaff , a branch of the Flensburg Fjord , in the north . Only the approximately 700 m long Drejet spit connects the peninsula with Lysabild .

Kegnæs covers almost 17 square kilometers, 556 people live here (as of January 1, 2020), 150 years ago it was over 1000. The moraine land , which is up to 20 m above sea level. NHN rises, is quite fertile, but almost completely without forests.

The settlement is predominantly characterized by single farms and smaller groups of houses. Only Sønderby ( Eng .: Sonderby ) and Østerby ( Eng .: Osterby ) form closed villages.

history

The Kegnæs peninsula was densely populated in the Stone and Bronze Ages, but no traces of settlement can be found for the next 1500 years. As an uninhabited forest district, it was administered from the Kegnæsgård manor (German: Kekenis farm), first mentioned in 1373; This farm was of course not on the peninsula itself, but a little north near Skovby (German: Schauby ) in the parish of Lysabild Sogn . In the 16th century, the forest was largely destroyed by intensive pig fattening. At the beginning of the 17th century, Duke Johann the Younger , who ruled the former offices of Sønderborg and Norburg (including the island of Ærø ) and the area around Plön in Holstein , after he had bought up all of the aristocratic estates there, decided to clear and repopulate the peninsula.

Church in Sønderby

First, three villages were created, which were simply named Vester-, Sønder- and Østerby, depending on their location. Vesterby was soon dismantled in favor of the allodial estate Hjortholm. The first residents of Kegnæs consisted of the duke's forcibly relocated debtors. In 1615 Kegnæs was separated from Lysabild as a Protestant parish and received its own church at Sønderby. It is diagonally opposite the church of Neukirchen in fishing (today part of the municipality of Quern ), which was built almost at the same time and is very similar in structure .

When the lands of Duke Johann the Younger were divided, the southern Alsen and Kegnæs remained with the Sonderburg parent company. After its bankruptcy in 1667, it became royal. First were the two Kegnæser Lehnsdistrikte Hirschholm and Neuhof as Birk Kekenis exist, but they were soon with the other goods on Südalsen that do not gradually by the Duke of Augustenburg were bought, a descendant of Sonderburger Dukes, but royal stayed for Als Süder harde (Als Sønder Herred) summarized. As the only parish on Alsen besides Sønderborg , Kegnæs belonged to the diocese of Schleswig and not to the diocese of Odense .

In 1765/66 Kegnæs was linked and thus got the basic structure of scattered courtyards of various sizes that still exists today. In the war of 1848–1850 , all of Alsen remained under the control of Danish troops. In 1864 it was incorporated into Prussia . According to the Prussian municipal code, the rural community of Sönderby-Osterby belonged to the Sonderburg district until Northern Schleswig became Danish again in 1920. With the storm surge of November 13, 1872 , large parts of the peninsula were flooded and badly affected.

Sønderby and Østerby together form a district, while the northern part of Gemarkung Hjortholm (originally 1649 niederdt. Hartz Holm , dt .: Hirschholm ), the eastern to Gemarkung Nygaard (dt .: Neuhof belongs). The three districts formed independent rural communities from 1867 to 1920.

The peninsula has been part of Sønderborg Municipality since 2007 .

Attractions

  • Church in Sønderby, Duke John the Younger had it built in 1615 as a penance, as he had executed 10 farmers the previous winter, even though they were innocent.
Lighthouse on Kegnæs
South coast of Kegnæs
  • Lighthouse on Kegnæs , 18 m high, built in 1896. The tower can be visited and also climbed from May to September. There is also a meteorological station and an observation post for the Danish Navy. A tower built on the same spot in 1845 was later dismantled.
  • The Kajborg , an abandoned castle from the early Middle Ages , still visible in small remains, directly at the southern end of the Drej land bridge.

Economy and Transport

  • Tourism: there are several campsites and holiday home areas on the peninsula
  • Agriculture
  • a bit remote in terms of infrastructure

literature

  • Georg Andreasen, Hans Madsen, J. Slettebo: Kegnæs 1615-1965, træk af Kegnæs sogns historie, udgivet i anledning af sognets 350-årige confirm . Sønderborg 1965.
  • HE Sørensen: As . Skærbæk 1983, ISBN 87-87481-64-2 , p. 38-41 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Diederichsen: Alsiske stednavne . Ed .: Alsingergilden (=  Alsingergildets skrifter . Volume 13 ). 1994, ISBN 87-85174-32-7 (Danish).
  2. ↑ http://www.statistikbanken.dk/ → Table KM1 → Befolkningen January 1st, April 1st, July 1st and October 1st efter so og folkekirkemedlemsskab (Danish)

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Coordinates: 54 ° 52 '  N , 9 ° 56'  E