Kirchbarkau

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 54 ° 13 '  N , 10 ° 9'  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Plön
Office :	Preetz country
Height :	31 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.16 km 2
Residents:	782 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	362 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	24245
Area code :	04302
License plate :	PLÖ
Community key :	01 0 57 033
Office administration address:	Am Berg 2 24211 Schellhorn
Website :	www.amtpreetzland.de
Mayor :	Frank Jedicke (Kirchbarkau NWG)
Location of the municipality of Kirchbarkau in the Plön district

Kirchbarkau is a municipality in the Plön district in Schleswig-Holstein .

Geography and traffic

Kirchbarkau is located in the Barkauer Land region 17 km south of Kiel and 10 km west of Preetz on the federal highway 404 from Kiel to Bad Segeberg am Bothkamper See . The following bus lines of the transport companies Plön in Verkehrsverbund Region Kiel hold in Kirchbarkau: 410 (Kiel - Bornhöved - Trappenkamp - Bad Segeberg), 416 (Preetz - Kirchbarkau - Preetz), 424 (Kirchbarkau - mail box - Hohenhorst - Boksee ) and 427 ( Löptin - Nettelsee - Kirchbarkau).

The meanwhile closed small railway line from Kiel to Bad Segeberg led through the community.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In blue under a silver pinnacle bar, a golden late Gothic clover-leaf cross standing on a broken silver wheel."

economy

The municipality also supplies the surrounding area with services (craft businesses, doctor and dental practice). The only restaurant was closed in 2014 and converted into a residential building in 2016. The village shop ("Markttreff") had to close after the change of operator in 2015 and was to be modernized by the municipality in 2016 with EU funding in order to maintain the local retail trade.

Buildings worth seeing

The list of cultural monuments in Kirchbarkau includes the cultural monuments entered in the list of monuments of Schleswig-Holstein.

Kirchbarkau village church

The village church of St. Catherine , in place of a previous building from 1500 to 1695 as a church hall in brick built, it has a crypt cultivation of the 1734th

Friedrichsen Court

In the farmhouse built in 1813, five terracottas from the workshop of Statius von Düren (mid-16th century), which used to be located at the Rantzauschen renaissance castle, are embedded.

Honorary citizen

• Horst-Peter Schwarten, 25 years mayor of the community, holder of the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon, 13 years head of the Preetz-Land office, there co-developer of the administrative modernization that led to the inclusion in the network "Kommnunen der Zukunft" (awarded the Speyer Prize )

Web links

Commons : Kirchbarkau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kirchbarkau municipality at the Preetz-Land office
• Website of the Kirchbarkau community

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. ↑ https://www.vkp.de/de/fahrplaene
3. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms