Löwenstedt

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 54 ° 37 '  N , 9 ° 10'  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	North Friesland
Office :	Viöl
Height :	14 m above sea level NHN
Area :	19.62 km 2
Residents:	669 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	34 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	25864
Area code :	04843
License plate :	NF
Community key :	01 0 54 079
Office administration address:	Westerende 41 25884 Viöl
Website :	www.loewenstedt-gemeinde.de
Mayor :	Holger Jensen (WGL)
Location of the community of Löwenstedt in the district of North Friesland

Löwenstedt ( Danish : Lyngsted or Lyngsæd , North Frisian : Jöömst , Jutland : Lyngste ) is a municipality in the district of North Friesland in Schleswig-Holstein .

geography

Geographical location

The community is located on the Schleswig Geest . To the west of the municipality is the Löwenstedter Sandberge nature reserve , where the region's original heathland can be seen on around 16 hectares.

Community structure

In addition to the eponymous village , Ostenau and Allmoor are also located in the municipality.

Neighboring communities

The municipal area borders on the following neighboring municipal areas:

	Lindewitt
Joldelund , Kolkerheide		Jörl (OT Stieglund), Sollwitt (OT Pobüll)
	Norstedt , Haselund

history

The place name was first documented in writing in 1295 and refers to Heide (Danish lyng ). The name is a summary of lyng for heather and Old Danish sæt for branch meaning branch in / on the heather . Due to the opening from / y / to / ø /, the German has been reinterpreted to Leo. Furthermore, the basic word -sæt has been reinterpreted to -sted in German and partly in Danish (similar to Mildstedt ). The Jutland dialect in central Schleswig ( Viöler Danish ) has largely retained the earlier form ( Lyngste ).

Historically, the place belongs to the parish Viöl within the Nordergoesharde of the Duchy of Schleswig .

In 1926 Löwenstedt received a station on the Flensburg – Husum railway line and became a railway junction in 1928 when the line to Bredstedt was opened. Since the train stations were usually quite far from the town centers, the volume of traffic was lower than expected. The branch line Bredstedt – Löwenstedt was dismantled as early as 1942; the main line was closed in 1959 and then dismantled.

On April 1, 1934, the parish district of Viöl was dissolved. Many of their villages, village communities and farmers became independent communities / rural communities, including Löwenstedt. On December 1, 1934, Löwenstedt was merged with the neighboring community of Ostenau to form a new community of Löwenstedt.

The community gained national fame in 2018 after a villager developed an app with which the street lights in the town center can be switched on individually.

politics

Community representation

Of the nine seats in the municipal council, the WGL community of voters has three seats since the 2018 local elections, the OWGL community of voters has three and the AWGL community of voters also has three.

coat of arms

Blazon : "Under the four-fold blue head of a shield in gold, an obliquely left blue wavy bar pierced at the top left by a turned away narrow blue arch, accompanied at the top by a left-turning green heather branch with red flowers and at the bottom by a red peat wheelbarrow."

Economy and Infrastructure

General

The community is predominantly agricultural, mainly dairy farming. There are also a number of businesses in the municipality. In 2008 the former 66.5 hectare ammunition depot of the German Armed Forces was acquired by a Chinese fireworks merchant. Löwenstedt is the pilot community for BürgerBreitbandNetz GmbH & Co. KG, which was founded there on February 1, 2012. The aim of the company was the implementation of a fiber optic network in the whole of southern North Friesland . The fiber optic network went into operation in 2014.

traffic

The municipality is crossed by the Schleswig-Holstein state road  281. This connects the municipality to the east in the municipality of Haselund on the federal road 200 and to Goldebek on the state road 12.

Culture

Löwenstedt belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish Viöl. In the village itself there is a chapel which is used as a meeting place in addition to church purposes. The community also owns a riding club and the SV Blau-Weiß Löwenstedt sports club, which was founded in spring 1964. The community is also known for its Low German theater group "Junge Lüüd ut Löwenstedt", which was launched in 1985.

Web links

• Löwenstedt 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. ↑ NABU nature reserve "Löwenstedter Sandberge": Unique bear grape heather in Schleswig-Holstein. NABU , accessed November 16, 2008 . 
3. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein topography. Vol. 6: Kronprinzenkoog - Mühlenrade . 1st edition Flying-Kiwi-Verl. Junge, Flensburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-926055-85-9 , pp. 202 ( dnb.de [accessed July 26, 2020]).
4. ↑ relation Löwenstedt (1415324) on OpenStreetMap. Retrieved July 26, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Wolfgang Laur: Historisches Ortsnamelexikon von Schleswig-Holstein , 2nd edition, Neumünster 1992, p. 434
6. ↑ State Statistical Office Schleswig-Holstein (ed.): The population of the communities in Schleswig-Holstein 1867 - 1970 . State Statistical Office Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel 1972, p. 251 .
7. ^ Historical municipality register Schleswig-Holstein: Notes on the municipality Löwenstedt (footnote) . ( Digitized version ).
8. ↑ People from Löwenstedt switch on street lights by mobile phone , accessed on August 5, 2018
9. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms
10. ↑ Tackle conversion PDF page 12 ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at schleswig-holstein.de (PDF), accessed on December 21, 2015 
11. ↑ BürgerBreitbandNetz GmbH & Co. KG
12. ↑ Sealed: Broadband GmbH stands. (No longer available online.) Shz.de , February 3, 2012, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved March 20, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ↑ internetoffer.info: Nordfriesland is building its own fiber optic network , accessed on February 22, 2013 Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.