Country churches on Fehmarn

Country churches City of Fehmarn Coordinates: 54 ° 27 ′ 2 ″  N , 11 ° 8 ′ 46 ″  E
Area :	145 km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 2003
Incorporated into:	City of Fehmarn
Postal code :	23769
Area code :	04371
Location of Landkirchen in Fehmarn
Memorial stone at the pond war target

Landkirchen is a village on the island of Fehmarn and a district of the city of Fehmarn in the Ostholstein district in Schleswig-Holstein .

history

Landkirchen is not yet recorded in the Waldemar-Erdbuch from 1230. The first written mention is from September 26, 1335.

The origin of the place is equated with the construction of the Church of St. Petri (probably between 1230 and 1250). That explains the relatively small village area. In de Landt Kercke , sometimes also called landeskrone , the most important east-west connection of the island crossed with the most important north-south road. The regional importance of the place is also documented as the repository of the so-called state block with all important documents of the Fehmarn landscape.

Over the centuries, craftsmen with little land ownership settled around the church and cemetery; a census from 1693 shows 40 homes. There were inns, carpenters, blacksmiths, glaziers, weavers and turners for the needs of the surrounding villages.

In the witch hunts of 1639 five cases of witchcraft and sorcery are documented. At least 3 people from rural churches were executed in the witch trials .

From 1847 to 1853, the writer Klaus Groth lived as a guest at the Landkirchen organist Leonhard Selle and wrote his collection of Low German poems, Quickborn , during this time .

House brands are the symbols that used to be used to identify the buildings, equipment, boundary stones and the like belonging to a particular house. Only free farmers had their own brands, but not day laborers or craftsmen. Originally over 200 different house brands were in use on Fehmarn. Some of them resembled Germanic runes or geometric figures. Today the house brands, which were also used as seals or as a substitute for a signature until the 17th century, are rarely seen. In country churches they can also be found on the prayer stools in the Petrikirche.

The village of Landkirchen gives its name to the Landkirchen office, which became part of the newly formed Fehmarn office on December 1, 1970 , and the Landkirchen municipality.

The name of the municipality Landkirchen was officially changed to Landkirchen auf Fehmarn on January 1, 1975 . On January 1, 1978 the Landkirchen office was dissolved and the neighboring municipality of Avendorf on Fehmarn , which had previously belonged to the office, was incorporated. Since January 1st, 2003 Landkirchen belongs to the city of Fehmarn. There is a local advisory board for Landkirchen auf Fehmarn , which represents the area of ​​the former municipality of Landkirchen in the city of Fehmarn.

Attractions

The north-east of the village on the road to Ostermark Elsdorf location memorial war target with the same pond is worth seeing. It commemorates a battle on Fehmarn during the Thirty Years' War on June 29, 1644.

The route of the Inselbahn through Landkirchen has been closed for passenger traffic since 1956 and for freight traffic since 1994. a. can still be seen in the area of ​​the Mühlenweg. A cycle path was laid out on the route.

Web links

Commons : Landkirchen auf Fehmarn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Katz, Michael: Fehmarn, p. 34. Erlangen 2009
2. ^ 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. 183 .
3. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003
4. ^ Local councils on the website of the city of Fehmarn
5. ^ Katz, Michael: Fehmarn, p. 130. Erlangen 2009