Mehlbek

Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Stone castle
Office :	Itzehoe country
Height :	14 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.91 km 2
Residents:	438 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	49 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	25588
Area code :	04827
License plate :	IZ
Community key :	01 0 61 067
Office administration address:	Margarete-Steiff-Weg 3 ; 25524 Itzehoe
Website :	www.amt-itzehoe-land.de
Mayor :	Gerd Krause
Location of the community of Mehlbek in the Steinburg district

Mehlbek ( Low German : Meelbeek ) is a municipality in the Steinburg district in Schleswig-Holstein . The districts Gut Mehlbek, Hörsten, Mehlbek Siedlung, Muldsberg and Steinörtchen belong to the community.

Geography and traffic

Mehlbek is about 8 km north of Itzehoe . The federal highway 23 runs through the area of the municipality. Mühlenau (Stegau) and Pöschendorfer Graben flow through the community; The Muldsberg clay pit is located in the Muldsberg district .

history

Count Johann Rantzau received Mehlbeck in 1538 as a gift from Christian III. In the 16th century the village of Kaaks and part of Hohenaspe and Huje belonged to the Mehlbek estate .

politics

coat of arms

Blazon : “Divided lowered by silver and blue in a wavy cut. Above a red half-timbered barn, accompanied by a green star each in the right and left upper corners, below a silver mill wheel. "

According to the historical justification entered in the municipal coat of arms, the coat of arms shows the old barn of the Mehlbek estate and at the same time reminds of the agricultural character of the community. The mill wheel is said to be reminiscent of the place name "Möhlenbeke", which means "mill on the Bekau river ". The green stars stand for the lost home of the refugees, who found a new home in the place after the Second World War and helped to develop the community further.

However, this official reason for the coat of arms is not entirely correct: On the one hand, "Möhlenbek" does not mean "Mill on the river", but is the new Low German name for "Mühlenbach", so it does not refer to the mill, but to the stream; on the other hand, the mill was not on the “Bekau” river, but by the “Mühlenau” creek, which only flows into the Bekau, outside the municipality of Mehlbek. At all it is not certain whether the Middle Low German name form “Molenbeke”, which emerged in the early modern period, is not based on a folk etymological reinterpretation and whether the name originally had a different meaning.