Brim (stone castle)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 50 '  N , 9 ° 29'  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Stone castle
Office :	Krempermarsch
Height :	-1 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.39 km 2
Residents:	2357 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	695 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	25361
Area code :	04824
License plate :	IZ
Community key :	01 0 61 055
Office administration address:	Birkenweg 29 25361 Krempe
Website :	www.krempe.de
Mayor :	Volker Haack ( CDU )
Location of the town of Krempe in the Steinburg district

Krempe ( Low German Kremp ) is a town in the Steinburg district in Schleswig-Holstein . It is a rural central town in the Kremper Marsch and at the same time the administrative seat of the Krempermarsch Office . Buntenhof is located in the municipality.

geography

location

The community area extends centrally in the Kremper Marsch on the (historically navigable) Krempau , a tributary of the Stör .

Neighboring communities

The following municipalities are directly adjacent to Krempe:

Bahrenfleth		Neuenbrook
Borsfleth		Grevenkop
Krempdorf	Elskop	Süderau

history

The city is first mentioned in a document

"Crempe" 1645 in the Atlas Maior by Willem Blaeu

City map of Krempe in the New Country Description by Danckwerth and Mejer (1652)

Brim 1588

Krempe was settled early on. The first documentary mention took place around 1234, the granting of the city charter happened at the instigation of the knights of Barmstede . Since 1361 there was evidence of an infirmary for lepers west of the city . Dutch settlers were involved in the drainage of the city, which helped the city to a solid foundation in the Middle Ages . From 1535 Krempe was by the Danish King Christian III. Strongly fortified to protect the Holstein Elbe marshes. From 1595 - according to other information from 1607 - under Christian IV the extensions were expanded so that a complex with a moat, bastions and four gates was created, the moat was up to 25 meters wide and the wall up to 4.5 meters high. At this time the city was in its economic boom and was the second largest fortress in the Duchy of Holstein after Rendsburg . The Krempau was also used to trade with important cities such as Venice and Lisbon . The town hall of Krempe also served the merchants' guild as an administrative building.

The fortifications of the place proved inadequate during the Thirty Years' War and Krempe was captured by Wallenstein's troops on November 14, 1628 after a siege of several months . Due to war damage, the silting up of the formerly navigable Krempau and above all the founding of Glückstadt , Krempe increasingly lost its importance during the 17th century. In 1857 the Glückstadt-Elmshorn railway line was extended to the Stör. This gave the city a rail connection.

On January 26, 1984, the city was host city in a game played for the first time in the 127th episode of the television show Dalli Dalli .

politics

Council meeting

The council assembly of the city of Krempe consists of 2 councilors and 11 councilors. The individual candidate of the Free Voters Krempe (FWK) has joined the parliamentary group of the Bürgergemeinschaft Krempe (BGK). Thus, the BGK ultimately won 6 seats.

Political party	Number of seats
Citizens' Community Krempe (BGK)	5
We for Brim (WfK)	4th
SPD	3
Free Voter Brim (FWK)	1

(Status: local elections on May 6, 2018)

mayor

The mayor of the city of Krempe is Volker Haack (BGK). His deputies are Gerd Kilbienski (WfK) and Dennis Krause (SPD).

coat of arms

The design of the municipal coat of arms of the city of Krempe, in the form of coat of arms that was binding from 1957 to the present day, comes from the heraldist and graphic artist Alfred Brecht .

Blazon : “In gold above and below a narrow blue wavy bar, threeblue fish placedin three passages, with their heads turned towards each other. Between the top two a red -tongued black wolf's head . "

Justification of the coat of arms: The town of Krempe, as the main town of the Kremper Marsch, has a historical coat of arms that goes back to a medieval seal. The oldest town seal shows a bear's head as the main figure, which is borrowed from the coat of arms of the local noble family "von Barmstede" . In the 20th century this bear's head was probably misunderstood as a wolf's head. In any case, when the coat of arms was reworked in 1957, the wolf's head was established as the valid version and apparently no approval was required for it. The fish and the wave bar refer to the local Kremper Au with its abundance of fish at the time.

City partnerships and sponsorships

Krempe maintains partnerships with the communities of Gramzow in the Uckermark in northeast Brandenburg and Sankt Martin im Sulmtal in Styria ( Austria ), and Krempe maintains a sponsorship relationship with Reichenbach in Prussian Holland in East Prussia , now in Poland .

Culture and sights

Buildings

• The center of the city is the Renaissance town hall from 1570 . The house was formerly decorated with a stepped gable and has a small roof turret. Inside there are the Council Hall and the Great Hall , both of which are decorated with rich paintings, as well as a large warehouse on the north side of the building. The town hall was extensively restored in 1990 and is one of the most beautiful historical town halls in the country. Around the town hall is the market, which is almost completely surrounded by old buildings.
• The Kremper Church of St. Peter is located in the immediate vicinity of the market and town hall. The Kremper Church is at least the third building at this point, a first church is mentioned around 1239. This church received a new tower in 1506, which fell on the nave during a storm in 1648 and largely destroyed it. The successor building burned out in 1814 after Swedish troops had stored powder supplies here. Today's church is a classicist building from 1832, for which Christian Frederik Hansen provided the designs.
• The royal court was built as Nye Hus in 1543 and acquired by the Danish king in 1558. The half-timbered house was used by Christian III. as a residence when he was in a brim.
• On the Mühlenberg stands the former water tower from 1902 , which, with its height of about 36 meters, helps shape the city's silhouette.

Cultural monuments

→ Main article : List of cultural monuments in Brim

Regular events

• Big flea market in the city center every year on Ascension Day
• The Gildefest (a kind of rifle festival) takes place every year on the Monday after St. John's Day, and the flag wavingers who take part have become known nationwide

Picture gallery

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  The town hall of Krempe
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  St. Peter Church
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  The royal court
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  Wood-carved sea eagle at the Kremper moat

Economy and Infrastructure

General

The economic structure of Krempe is rural. The trade is largely branch-based. In Krempe, for example, there is still a REWE supermarket (formerly sky-market of coop eG ) and a drugstore of the Müller retail chain . In addition, a company from the steel construction sector is based on site.

traffic

The municipality is located off the federal trunk road network . The municipality is connected via the Schleswig-Holstein state roads L 119 and L 118.The former leads on its route between Blomesche Wildnis (connection to the federal highway 431 near Glückstadt ) and the municipal border area of Münsterdorf / Breitenburg-Nordoe (connection to the federal motorway 23 at Itzehoe) since 2002 by a bypass north around the city. The L 118 branches off in the Krempdorf area and initially leads through to the local area of ​​Krempe - then on via Süderau to the Elmshorn area .

In public transport , Krempe is reached via the station of the same name on the Marschbahn . All trains on the RB 61 and 71 lines from Hamburg Hbf or Hamburg-Altona to Itzehoe stop here . This route is currently being used by the nordbahn company.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Marcus Jordanus (1531–1595), professor of mathematics, cartographer and mayor 1568–1595
• Friedrich Heinrich Wiggers (1746–1811), botanist and doctor
• Andreas Blunck (1871–1933), politician ( FVP , DDP ), MdR , MdHB , Reich Minister of Justice
• Kurt Vorpahl (1905–1944), communist resistance fighter against National Socialism and victims of National Socialism
• Harald Bolten (1913–2002), registrar, city chronicler and author, freelancer for the Kremper newspaper, honorary citizen of the city of Krempe

People connected to the city

• Hermann von Kardorff († 1677), Danish officer and German court official, died in Krempe
• Leberecht Pankoken (around 1850), founder and namesake of the first Hamburg Pankokenkapelle , son of a clarinet player from Krempe

literature

• Marianne Hofmann: The beginnings of the cities of Itzehoe, Wilster and Krempe. In: ZSHG . 83, 1959, pp. 15-82 (Part I) and ZSHG. 84, 1960, pp. 15-92 (Part II).
• Andreas Rumler : Schleswig-Holstein - culture, history and landscape between the North and Baltic Seas, the Elbe and the Flensburg Fjord. DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 1997, ISBN 3-7701-3566-0 , pp. 287–288. ( Digitized reading excerpt from Google Books )
• Klaus-Joachim Lorenzen-Schmidt : An overview of the history of the city of Krempe. In: Kremper Chronik, Heide, 2009

Web links

Commons : Brim  - collection of images

• City of Krempe with six city history tours (including maps and images)
• Johann Friedrich Dörfer: Topography of Holstein in alphabetical order: A repertory to the map of the Duchy of Holstein, the areas of the imperial cities of Hamburg and Lübek, and the Diocese of Lübek. Verlag Röffs, 1807, "Crempe" page (98, 99) at digital collections ( MDZ )
• Crempa , early history and historical buildings with numerous images at Umweltundnatur.de
• Video: Gildefest in brim . Institute for Scientific Film (IWF) 1965, made available by the Technical Information Library (TIB), doi : 10.3203 / IWF / C-894 .
• Video: flag waving in the brim . Institute for Scientific Film (IWF) 1965, made available by the Technical Information Library (TIB), doi : 10.3203 / IWF / E-867 .

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. 339 ( dnb.de [accessed on July 20, 2020]).
3. ↑ see overview of the Society for Leprosy on the medieval leprosories in Schleswig-Holstein under: Archived copy. ( Memento of December 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) There are no current buildings or names derived from them.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Wilhelm Sager: Armies between the seas - Army and war history of Schleswig-Holstein. Husum printing and publishing company. Husum. 2003, ISBN 3-89876-113-4 , pp. 40-41.
5. ↑ Inner- city ​​Krempau finally filled in in 1964, piped and diverted to the south; since then with only symbolic bridge-like design of two cross streets instead of the former six crossings between Breitestrasse and Rathausstrasse.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Mayor and council assembly of the city of Krempe. In: Office Krempermarsch website. June 13, 2018, accessed April 24, 2019 . 
7. ^ ^{A b} Martin Reissmann: The coats of arms of the districts, offices, cities and communities in Schleswig-Holstein . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, Husum 1997, ISBN 3-88042-815-8 , p. 212 .
8. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms
9. ↑ Entry on city partnerships and sponsorships. In: Website of the city of Krempe. Accessed March 31, 2019.
10. ↑ Volker Mehmel: Without funding, Krempe would be a ruin today. In: Schleswig-Holstein newspaper publisher website . November 24, 2009. Retrieved April 24, 2019 .