Kirchnüchel

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 54 ° 12 ′  N , 10 ° 40 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Plön
Office :	Luetjenburg
Height :	94 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.09 km 2
Residents:	190 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	19 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	23714, 24327
Primaries :	04381, 04528
License plate :	PLÖ
Community key :	01 0 57 034
Office administration address:	Neverstorfer Strasse 7 24321 Lütjenburg
Website :	www.amt-luetjenburg.de
Mayor :	Jörg Schöning (KWK)
Location of the municipality of Kirchnüchel in the Plön district

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

In addition to the village of Kirchnüchel, the municipality also includes the villages of Altharmhorst, Neuharmhorst and Kirchmühl.

Geography and traffic

Kirchnüchel is located southwest of the Bungsberg , at 168 meters the highest point in Schleswig-Holstein.

The Kirchnüchel community consists of the Grünhaus estate, an inn and St. Mary's Church with a rectory and cemetery.

In the St. Mary's Church, among other things, a small figure of Mary adorned with river pearls can be seen. The field stone church was an important place of pilgrimage to Mary in the pre-Reformation period . It is the highest church in Schleswig-Holstein (approx. 110 m above sea level). At the church there is a burial chapel, which was created for Cai Lorenz von Brockdorff based on the design of the Copenhagen- based Flemish sculptor Thomas Quellinus .

Kirchnüchel is on the road from Schönwalde to Lütjenburg . Not far from Kirchnüchel is the village of Nüchel with around four hundred inhabitants, which belongs to the municipality of Malente .

history

The area was inhabited from around 500 to 1100 AD by Wends who had immigrated from Mecklenburg .

The church was built in 1230.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In blue, a silver tip, like a Gothic arch, topped with a red heraldic rose with green sepals, from which three blue streams emanate fan-like and widening downwards."

Attractions

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

Famous sons of the village

• the Kiel university teacher and author of a work on garden art Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld (1742–1792) was born in Kirchnüchel
• the narrator and playwright Julius Stinde (1841–1905) was born in the rectory at Kirchnüchel
• Ludwig Benedict Trede (1731–1819), court official of the Principality of Lübeck in Eutin, was born on Grünhaus

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  Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld (1742–1792)

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  Pastor Kirchnüchel

Web links

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

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. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein topography. Vol. 5: Holt - Krokau . 1st edition Flying-Kiwi-Verl. Junge, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-926055-79-8 , pp. 223 ( dnb.de [accessed on July 20, 2020]).
3. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms