Løgumkloster Sogn
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Løgumkloster ( German Lügumkloster ) |
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 Denmark
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| Region : | Syddanmark | ||||
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Municipality (since 2007) : |
Tønder | ||||
| Municipality / Office : (until the end of 2006) |
Løgumkloster Kommune Sønderjyllands Amt |
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Harde / Amt: (until March 1970) |
Tønder, Højer og Lø Herred Tønder Amt |
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| Coordinates : | 55 ° 3 ' N , 8 ° 57' E | ||||
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Population : (2020) |
3,202 | ||||
| Postal code : | 6240 Løgumkloster | ||||
| Website: | www.loegumkloster-kirke.dk | ||||
 Location of the parish |
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Løgumkloster Sogn ( German Lügumkloster ) is a parish ( Danish Sogn ) in North Schleswig , Denmark . It is located northeast of the city of Tondern . Until 1970 the parish belonged to Harde Tønder, Højer og Lø Herred in what was then Tønder Amt . The patch of the same name and the parish with the neighboring parishes Bedsted ( German Bedstedt ), Højst ( German Hoist ), and Nørre Løgum ( German Norderlügum ) were combined to form the Løgumkloster Kommune in what was then Sønderjyllands Amt . As part of the local government reform on January 1, 2007, this was merged into the “new” Tønder municipality in the Syddanmark region.
Municipal area
The actual spot Løgumkloster covers an area of 17.53 km², the rural community Løgumkloster 40.85 km². The former had 3556 inhabitants on January 1, 2020, the rural community 3202.
The spot is in the northeast of the parish. In the north it borders on the parish of Nørre Løgum (Eng .: Norderlügum ). In the northeast the municipality of Bedsted (Eng .: Bedstedt ) joins, south of this borders Højst (Eng .: Hoist ). Southern neighbor is the church Abild (dt .: Abel ), in the West, the parish comes Løgumkloster to the community Brede .
history
The place has its origins in the Cistercian monastery , which was moved here from Seem in 1193 ( monastery Løgumkloster ). Through donations the monastery became soon considerable ownership and was by the bishops of Schleswig and Ripen ( Ribe ) and the Schleswig Cathedral Chapter the richest spiritual foundation in the Duchy of Schleswig . The monastery church, along with that of Sorø, is considered to be the most beautiful of the Danish Middle Ages.
Shortly after the Reformation , the monastery was closed. Due to the division of the country in 1544, the area came into the possession of Duke Johann the Elder , and in 1581 it finally came to Gottorf . Since the patch had grown considerably in the meantime, the monastery church was retained and became the parish church for the southern part of the previously very large parish of Norderlügum . The possessions of the monastery were converted into a secular office , which because of its small size soon had to share the bailiff with the Aabenraa office . The seat of the official administration was the "castle" attached to the monastery church. The parishes of Lügumkloster and Norderlügum formed a separate judicial district, the Birk Lügumkloster. The free float in other offices was grouped into six small bailiwicks. The church in neighboring Brede also belonged to the Lügumkloster office .
Of the localities in the rural community, only Ellum was a closed locality. In pre-Christian times, the place must have had a greater importance, because the Ellum syssel is named after it, that historical unit that comprised a fifth of the duchy founded around 1200 until the 14th century.
In 1713/21 the parts of the Gottorf region in the Duchy of Schleswig came back into royal Danish possession. However, this did not change the ownership structure in the Lügumkloster. In the 18th and early 19th centuries, the place next to Tondern was the center of bobbin lace production . In addition, Lügumkloster was important as a market place for a fairly wide area.
From 1850 the Apenrader was no longer responsible for the Lügumkloster office, but the Tonderan bailiff. After the conquest of Schleswig by Prussia, Lügumkloster came to the Tondern district , but retained its status as a patch. Ellum and Assith became their own rural communities, Dravit formed a forest estate district.
Industrialization largely bypassed the Lügumkloster as well as the former Tondern district . Lügumkloster remained important as a market place.
During the First World War , a camp for prisoners of war was set up south of the spot near the Draviter wood . In a typhus - epidemic in 1916, numerous Belgian and Russian soldiers were killed. After the war, a memorial was created in their honor.
In the referendum in Schleswig on February 10, 1920, 234 residents in the rural communities voted for Denmark and only 53 (including all five eligible voters in the Dravit forest estate) for Germany. In the stain itself, the result was much tighter at 542 to 516. From June 1920 the country parish formed a unified parish commune, while Lügumkloster was able to preserve the status of a patch, unknown in the rest of Denmark. Both municipalities were part of the Tondern office, whose borders had to be redrawn.
Attractions
- The Romanesque-Gothic monastery church is one of the most important cultural monuments in the region.
- The castle, formerly an office building, brick building from 1614, attached to the west of the church. Today it houses a department of the Education and Training Center of the Danish People's Church .
- Not far from the church is the largest carillon in Northern Europe with 49 bells. The free-standing 25 meter high tower was inaugurated in 1973. In addition to the six daily songs, there are concerts at regular intervals.
- Local history museum on Holmplatz with changing exhibitions
- The townscape of the old spot with the oversized market square has been very well preserved. Above all, Klostergade (Klosterstrasse) and Lillegade (Kleine Strasse) show closed ensembles of the wide, one-story brick buildings typical of the area with a crooked hipped roof and eaves facing the street.
- The neighboring village of Ellum to the west also has some very beautiful old buildings.
- The Draved Skov ( Dravit Forest ) to the south is developing as a primeval forest and is not managed.
- There are lovely walks through the valley of the Breder Au, which is located near to the west of Løgumkloster in the Hohe Geest .
Education and culture
- Ten-grade municipal school
- German school
- Danish and German kindergarten
- Music school that is the only one in Denmark to train bell ringer
- Hideaway
- Municipal library with postal service
economy
Løgumkloster is a shopping location for a fairly large area, but has lost numerous specialty shops in recent years. To the south of the town center there is a diverse industrial area, the most famous of which are the feed and candle factories. Nevertheless, the proportion of out-commuters is high. The cultural offerings (especially in the music sector), which is unusually large for a place of this size, is just like tourism a not unimportant economic factor.
traffic
Løgumkloster is connected to Tønder (German: Tondern ), Ribe (German: Ripen ), Kolding , Haderslev (German: Hadersleben ), Aabenraa (German: Apenrade ) and Tinglev (German: Tingleff ) by well-developed country roads .
Lügumkloster was connected to the Marschenbahn in 1888 by a branch line to Bredebro . Ellum also had a station on this branch line. In 1901 the Apenrader Kreisbahn was connected to the train station at Holmplatz. The latter was replaced by a full-gauge branch line in 1926/27 and connected to the western branch line. But already in 1936 the community lost its rail connection for good. The next stop is Bredebro, eight kilometers to the west. 30 km east is Rødekro , from where there are direct connections to Copenhagen , Aarhus and Hamburg .
The bus connections are only satisfactory to Tønder, while the lines to Kolding and Rødekro-Aabenraa are not very frequent.
Personalities
- Kevin Møller (* 1989), handball goalkeeper
- Martin Schwarz Lausten (* 1938), theologian and professor of church history
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Statistics Banks -> Befolkning og valg -> KM1: Befolkningen January 1st, April 1st, July 1st and October 1st, so og folkekirkemedlemsskab (Danish)
- ↑ Statistics banks -> Befolkning og valg -> BY1: Folketal January 1st efter byområde, alder og køn (Danish)