Lürschau

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 54 ° 32 '  N , 9 ° 30'  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Schleswig-Flensburg
Office :	Arensharde
Height :	33 m above sea level NHN
Area :	16.51 km 2
Residents:	1105 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	67 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	24850
Primaries :	04621, 04625
License plate :	SL
Community key :	01 0 59 057
Office administration address:	Hauptstrasse 41 24887 Silberstedt
Website :	www.luerschau.de
Mayor :	Hans Hermann Timm ( KWG )
Location of the municipality of Lürschau in the Schleswig-Flensburg district

Lürschau ( Danish : Lyrskov) is a municipality in the Schleswig-Flensburg district in Schleswig-Holstein .

Lürschau is located on the 0.8 km² Arenholz lake in a heather and moor landscape. Arenholz (Danish: Arnholt ), Hermannsort, Ruhekrug ( Hvilkro ) and Wilhelmslust are part of the municipality.

history

Ochsenweg in Lürschau

Lürschau is located on Ochsenweg , which in places in the municipality is still almost in its original state. The battle on the Lürschauer Heide took place here on September 28, 1043 , during which - according to the chronicler Adam von Bremen - 15,000 Wends were slain. The winner of the battle was King Magnus of Norway , who had previously been on a foray with his fleet on the Wenden coast. The Wenden prince Ratibor was killed in the battle . His eight sons raised an army that moved to Jutland via the ox path and there, in turn, made booty in Magnus' domain.

Magnus then landed in Haithabu and pulled about ten kilometers towards the loot-laden Wends on the Ochsenweg. He attacked her on the Lürschauer Heide and defeated her. Allegedly "the watercourses were so filled with corpses that the water stagnated and the Christians could walk through it with dry feet" (according to Hinrich Ewald Hoff in his Schleswig-Holstein home history from 1925). Obviously this is the point where the stream from Reethsee flows into Arenholzer See. Coming from the north, you first had to cross the stream and then climb the steep, southern bank, several meters high. This steep south bank was in the further course of the ox path far and wide the best strategic point to effectively prevent even a large superior force from advancing with a relatively small army, as the outcome of the battle proved.

The course of the Ochsenweg was only changed at this point in 1955, when the village road through Lürschau from Schuby to Wilhelmslust was paved and on the occasion of which it was straightened over a lakefront that had meanwhile been filled in. The expressway opened in 1967 (then B 76 or E 3, today Landesstraße  317) from Schleswig to Flensburg finally ensured that nothing was left of the old route at this point.

The former moated castle "Alt-Gottorp" (also Alt-Gottorf), which belonged to the respective Schleswig bishop, was located in the municipal area near Gut Falkenberg . After its destruction in 1161, it was replaced by the castle "Gottorf I", which is closer to the city of Schleswig. The latter was expanded into today 's Gottorf Castle over the centuries .

Monument on the village street

politics

Community representation

In the local elections in 2013 which has Wählergemeinschaft KWG won (as in the previous election in 2008) all eleven seats in the municipal council.

coat of arms

Blazon : “In blue a growing golden crosier, enclosed by a growing golden wooden gate.” The crosier and gate refer to Alt-Gottorp.

flag

Blazon : "In the middle of a yellow flag cloth, the municipal coat of arms in tincture appropriate for the flag, which covers a broad blue stripe, slightly shifted down from the center."

economy

The settlement structure of the community is not homogeneous, Arenholz is more agricultural, the district of Lürschau is more of a residential area.

The federal autobahn 7 Neumünster - Flensburg runs through the municipality ; the next junction is Schleswig - Schuby , two kilometers south of the town center. The Neumünster – Flensburg railway also affects the municipality; the next train stations are Schleswig and Jübek .

Attractions

The remains of a Stone Age megalithic grave known as the robber's cave are located in the Wilhelmslust district (accessible).

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

Gut Falkenberg

See: Falkenberg (Lürschau)

Web links

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

• Lürschau 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. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein topography. Vol. 6: Kronprinzenkoog - Mühlenrade . 1st edition Flying-Kiwi-Verl. Junge, Flensburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-926055-85-9 , pp. 225 ( dnb.de [accessed July 26, 2020]).
3. ↑ www.burgdaten.de "Alt-Gottorf" ; Accessed June 8, 2011
4. ↑ ^{a b} Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms