Leck (North Friesland)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 54 ° 46 '  N , 8 ° 58'  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	North Friesland
Office :	Südtondern
Height :	6 m above sea level NHN
Area :	29.79 km 2
Residents:	7635 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	256 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	25917
Area code :	04662
License plate :	NF
Community key :	01 0 54 076
Office administration address:	Marktstrasse 12 25899 Niebüll
Website :	www.leck.de
Mayor :	Andreas Deidert ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Leck in the district of North Friesland

Leck ( Danish : Læk , North Frisian : Leek ) is a municipality in the north of the district of North Friesland . The community is a sub-center within the meaning of the regional planning plan for the state of Schleswig-Holstein .

geography

The municipality of Leck is located a few kilometers south of the Danish border, around 30 kilometers west of Flensburg and around 20 kilometers east of the North Sea coast . The place is on the western edge of the Schleswig Geestrücken . This location was decisive for the development of the place. It can be assumed that the Wadden Sea, and thus also the water of the North Sea, extended over centuries to the dike up to the Geestrand. The Lecker Au, today a small river no more than six meters wide and one meter deep in many places, was navigable with ships of earlier construction methods as far as Leck and beyond. A reference to the former port is the anchor in the coat of arms of the municipality of Leck.

The places Klintum and Oster-Schnatebüll (North Frisian Ååster-Snootebel , Danish Øster Snattebøl ) as well as the settlements and farms Hyholm (Danish Højholm ), Karlsmark ( Kjølsmark ), Leckeng ( Lækeng ), Leckfeld-Nord, Ründel ( Rønned , also Ryndel ) and Wielberg are in the municipality.

Neighboring communities

The municipality of Leck is surrounded by the municipalities of Achtrup , Tinningstedt , Süderlügum , Klixbüll , Risum-Lindholm , Enge-Sande , Stadum and Sprakebüll .

climate

With an average of 82 days below 0 ° C, Leck is one of the “coldest” places in Schleswig-Holstein.

Place names

The place name Leck possibly goes back to the old Danish lækky , which describes the estuary of a river. The name probably originally referred to the Lecker Au. The interpretation in Old Norse leka for lick, rinnen is also possible , according to which leak would mean a place at the water flowing past . The place name Schmörholm was first recorded in writing in 1466 and derives from Danish. smør for butter in the meaning of (soil) fertility, the name may also be associated with a pagan butter offering.

history

Delicious windmill around 1895

Leak is first mentioned in an old legend . According to this, around 1100, on the orders of the Duke of Schleswig Knud Laward, a knight Fleno from Leck settled at Flensburg , thirty kilometers away , which is why the city was named after him. The first documentary mention of Leck was in 1231 as a royal estate in medium size in the earth book of the Danish King Waldemar II. At that time, Leck belonged to the Duchy of Schleswig . On the basis of this certificate, the 750th anniversary of the town could be celebrated in 1981. Leck is the old main church, administrative and market place of the Karrharde , the area north and south of the community.

Archaeological finds date the Leckhuus Castle to the 11th century. It served a royal bailiff as a hostel and defense system to monitor the western ox route , which led via Ribe and Tondern in Denmark and via Leck in North Friesland and Husum to Wedel near Hamburg. In a painting by the painter Hans Peter Feddersen from Westerschnatebüll, the western ox path near Leck was documented in 1869 and 1894. Research suggests that in the middle of the 1st millennium, British travelers also set out from the port in Leck and reached the North Sea via the Lecker Au, past the islands of Föhr and Amrum . The port lost its importance in the 15th century due to siltation. Even so, trade increased steadily.

In 1689 , Christian Albrecht , the then duke in the Gottorfian shares in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein , granted market justice to the place. The craft and trading companies became more numerous and varied. Saddlers, blacksmiths and wheelwrighters, dyers, tailors and shoemakers, carpenters, turners and other professionals settled here. There was also a hospital, pharmacy, post office and school. With the development of the steam engine , a machine factory, a spinning mill and a cloth factory came to Leck.

During the Second World War, the Leck Air Base of the then Reich Air Force was built in Leck . In 1959 the municipality of Leck was again a garrison location . Due to the resulting strong population growth with young families with children, the community was faced with major local political challenges. The reconnaissance wing 52 with 44 reconnaissance aircraft of the type McDonnell RF-4E ("Phantom") stationed in leak was disbanded in 1993. The anti-aircraft missile group 39 then occupied the airfield at Leck with significantly reduced personnel. Anti-aircraft missile groups 11 and 39 were later combined to form anti-aircraft missile group 25 and stationed in Leck and Stadum . On December 11, 2012, anti-aircraft missile group 25 was disbanded with a final roll call.

With the signing of an urban development contract on March 13, 2017 between the three neighboring communities of Leck, Tinningstedt and Klixbüll on the one hand and the owner of the area, the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks (BIMA), the conversion of this former military area was promoted. As early as 2016, the three municipalities drew up zoning plans for the “Gewerbepark Südtondern” and “Airpark Südtondern” projects.

From 1889 to 1966, Leck was the seat of the district or office of the same name . With the dissolution of the office, Leck became an office-free municipality with its own full-time administration.

On January 1, 2008, the municipality together with the city of Niebüll and the municipalities of the offices of Bökingharde , Karrharde , Süderlügum and Wiedingharde formed the South Tondern office .

Religions

There are two Evangelical Lutheran congregations in Leck . On the one hand there is the German congregation belonging to the parish of North Friesland of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North Germany . This parish has the 800 year old St. Willehad Church in the center of the village. This has a two-winged altar ( retable ) from the workshop of Claus Berg . Second, there is the Danish parish belonging to Dansk Kirke i Sydslesvig , which has a small church in the village called Læk danske Kirke .

The Catholic parish is united with the Niebüller parish, but has its own small church available. Leck belongs to the Catholic Dean's Office Flensburg within the Archdiocese of Hamburg .

Incorporations

On January 1, 1974, the former communities of Klintum and Oster-Schnatebüll were incorporated.

politics

The town hall in Leck

Community representation

The local election on May 6, 2018 had a turnout of 42.8%. The distribution of seats for the community council was as follows: CDU : nine members, UWL : six members, SPD : five members, SSW : three members, AfD one member. The number of elected officials increases from 23 to 24.

In office since April 1, 2016: Mayor Sabine Detert and Mayor Andreas Deidert

Andreas Deidert ( CDU ) has been the mayor of the municipality of Leck since April 1, 2016 . For this he resigned from his office as mayor on March 30, 2016. As his successor, Sabine Detert (CDU) was elected by the municipal council on March 31, 2016.

The constituent meeting of the municipal council for the next five years will take place on June 28, 2018.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In Gold over blue wave beams in the sign a sechspfähliger black wattle fence, then two growing green symmetrical inclined towards linden trees, a red anchor bordering."

Partnerships

• Birštonas , Lithuania
• Skarszewy , Poland

Economy, education and infrastructure

The Clausen & Bosse printing company is one of the largest industrial companies in the region and one of the largest book manufacturers in Germany. Around 600 employees work here. The rise began in 1950 with paperback printing for Rowohlt Verlag .

The central tax office in North Friesland also has its headquarters in Leck.

There is a primary and a community school as well as a Danish community school in the village. The next grammar school is in the neighboring Niebüll , pupils of the Danish school can attend the Danish grammar school ( Duborg-Skolen ) in Flensburg.

The community maintains its own library with a media inventory of around 22,000 books and digital media. In addition, there are three stops for the library bus from the Danish Central Library for southern Schleswig .

In the Leck-Huus , a Geesthardenhof from 1856, cultural events are held. Leck is also the seat of the North Sea Academy , a state-sponsored educational institution of the German Border Association .

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  Driveway to the receiving department of Clausen & Bosse

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  The North Friesland tax office with its main office in Leck

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  Leak-Huus

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  North Sea Academy

traffic

Leak is on federal highway 199 . The distance to the North Sea is 20 km, to the Baltic Sea near Flensburg 30 km and to the Danish border 20 km. The express bus between Niebüll and Flensburg serves several stops in the local area of ​​Leck. In addition, Leck is connected to the Ladelund citizen bus, which runs to numerous stops as far as Klintum.

There are well-developed cycle paths on the B 199 to Flensburg and Klixbüll , from Klixbüll on on federal road 5 to Niebüll and to the Danish border, on the L 5 to Enge-Sande on the L 212 to Medelby . Otherwise there are other well-developed, lightly traveled paths that are suitable for bike tours.

The Northwest located Leck Air Base of the Air Force is no longer used for military flight operations.

Leak was still the most important intermediate station on the Flensburg-Weiche – Lindholm railway line , which was shut down in 1981. For strategic reasons ( NATO concept), the line was initially retained. Today these motivations have ceased; nevertheless the route is still passable. Recommissioning the railway line has already been considered several times, but never actually implemented. This is due, among other things, to the parallel bus line, which connects the towns, including Leck, better. You can, however, take a trolley from Leck to the east to Unaften .

Cultural monuments

The list of cultural monuments in Leck (North Friesland) includes the cultural monuments entered in the list of monuments of Schleswig-Holstein.

Sports

The men's gymnastics club , founded in 1889, offers 18 sports in 16 divisions.

Personalities

• Andreas Andersen (1799–1879), captain and local politician, born in Leck
• Ludolf Conrad Hannibal Bargum (1802–1866), President of the Schleswig-Holstein State Assembly and Mayor of Kiel , was born in Leck
• Eduard Juhl (1884–1975) was provost of the Southern Tondern provost from 1946 to 1954, based in Leck
• Heinrich Kasch (1889–1941), was provost of the provost of Südtondern from 1928 to 1933, based in Leck
• Roderich Cescotti (1919–2015), a former Air Force officer, was stationed in Leck
• Hans Egon Petersen (1921–1982) was provost of the Southern Tondern provost from 1960 to 1972, based in Leck
• Dieter Gollek (1932–2018) was managing director and general partner of Clausen & Bosse in Leck for 30 years
• Peter Aniol (1938–2015), former Air Force officer, member of the state parliament in Schleswig-Holstein (until 1992)
• Jochen Missfeldt (* 1941), former Air Force officer and writer, was stationed in Leck
• Gerhard Back (* 1944), a former Air Force officer, was stationed in Leck
• Karlheinz Viereck (* 1951), a former Air Force officer, was stationed in Leck
• Manfred Kohrs (* 1957), economist and artist, was stationed in Leck
• Michael Sturm (* 1963), director, was born in Leck.

Web links

Commons : Leak  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Leak 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. ^ Nordfriisk Instituut: Nordfriesland Karte, Bräist / Bredstedt 2011
3. ↑ Udvalg for folkemaal: Danske folkemaal , 1936, p. 64
4. ^ Housing directory Schleswig-Holstein 1987. (pdf) State Statistical Office Schleswig-Holstein, accessed on January 17, 2020 . 
5. ^ Wolfgang Laur: Historical place-name dictionary of Schleswig-Holstein. 2nd Edition. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1992, p. 425.
6. ^ Johannes Kok: Det Danske folkesprog i Sønderjylland. Volume 2, Copenhagen 1867, p. 264.
7. ^ Wolfgang Laur: Historical place-name dictionary of Schleswig-Holstein. 2nd Edition. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1992, p. 579.
8. ^ Johannes Kok: Det Danske folkesprog i Sønderjylland. Volume 2, Copenhagen 1867, p. 361.
9. ^ Horst Windmann: Schleswig as territory. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1954, Map II.
10. ↑ Description of the ox path at marschundfoerde.de
11. ↑ Conversion planning in Südtondern (WfG NF): Current information on conversion planning in Südtondern. Retrieved June 22, 2018 . 
12. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 182 .
13. ↑ Web editor: Results of the 2018 municipal elections in the South Tondern office. In: www.amt-suedtondern.de. Office Südtondern, accessed on June 22, 2018 . 
14. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms
15. ^ Community of Leck: Partnerships. , accessed April 25, 2019
16. ↑ Welcome to the Leck Library. Community of Leck, accessed on May 10, 2016 . 
17. ↑ leak. Dansk Centralbibliotek for Sydslesvig (Tur 20), accessed on December 3, 2015 . 
18. ↑ BürgerBus Ladelund e. V. | Citizens drive for citizens. Accessed June 22, 2018 (German). 
19. ↑ braunschweig.de Jochen Missfeldt, Prize Winner 2002
20. ↑ consilium.europa.eu (PDF) Biography: Lieutenant General Karlheinz Viereck, accessed on December 4, 2015