Osterhever

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	Coordinates: 54 ° 23 '  N , 8 ° 46'  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	North Friesland
Office :	Eiderstedt
Height :	2 m above sea level NHN
Area :	18.46 km 2
Residents:	204 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	11 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	25836
Area code :	04865
License plate :	NF
Community key :	01 0 54 100
Office administration address:	Welter Strasse 1 25836 Garding
Website :	www.amt-eiderstedt.de
Mayor :	Peter Theodor Hansen (WVO)
Location of the municipality of Osterhever in the district of North Friesland

Osterhever, St. Martin Church

Osterhever ( Danish : Østerhever) is a municipality in the district of North Friesland in Schleswig-Holstein .

Geography and traffic

Osterhever is located 16 kilometers northwest of Tönning and 12 kilometers northeast of St. Peter-Ording on the Eiderstedt peninsula . A few km south of the federal highway 202 and the railway line from Husum to St. Peter-Ording.

Augustenkoog is a district of Osterhever.

history

Archaeological holes on the mound Osterhever show that these from the Middle Ages bran has been aufgewarftet on, originated so by tailgating from the seabed entnommenem material as sturmflut safe survey. The Osterhever Koog was diked in the 12th century. In the late Middle Ages, the parish lost land in the north and west of the part of the North Sea known as the falling low due to storm surges. The mill dike of the Mimhusenkoog to the south was examined in 1991 by Dirk Meier. The excavations revealed a low core dike of the 12th / 13th centuries. Century, which was increased several times. All dyke constructions had sunk into the unstable subsoil.

In the Chronicon Eiderostadense vulgare, the Commons Eiderstedter chronicle which covers the period 1103 to 1547, Osterhever may have been first mentioned in records: 1113, the Boyensmänner hit her church Mr. Harmen Lütke (Garding) dead you was so her. Patronage right (right of proposal for the occupation of the parish). Then the following chapels (...) were built: (...) Osterhever (...).

On January 1, 2002, the Augustenkoog community gave up its independence and joined the Osterhever community.

politics

Community representation

Of the nine seats in the municipal council, the CDU has had four seats since the local elections in 2003, the WGO electoral community has three and the WVO electoral community two. In the local elections on May 26, 2013, the CDU received 31.5% of the votes cast and thus three seats. The WGO got 34.8% and three seats. As the third grouping, the WVO received 33.6% and thus also three seats. The turnout was 67.3 percent.

mayor

Peter Theodor Hansen (WVO) was elected as the new mayor for the 2013–2018 election period. He replaced Ove Becker Ketels, who had held the office for 23 years.

economy

The main sources of income for the municipality are agriculture and tourism .

Culture and sights

→ Main article : List of cultural monuments in Osterhever

The Osterhever'sche Kirche, the originally Romanesque St. Martin's Church on a mound, has a chapel built in 1113 as its predecessor. Probably around 200 years later, in the first half of the 13th century, the church that replaced the chapel or to which the chapel was extended was probably built in the Romanesque style. Two smaller windows of this church still exist in the current building, the portal of the north wall and part of the choir room. In 1565 the chancel was expanded to include the apse. Later further extensions and extensions were added, the ridge turret with the bells dates from 1908. The church has the carved altar Christ on the rest from 1520, a historical altar block, carved communion pews, which are dated 1753, and a late Gothic triumphal cross group with Mary and the disciple John, who stand under the cross.

An almost human-sized baptismal angel hangs down from the ceiling in front of the stalls. Presumably in 1822 an old baptismal font was replaced by a baptismal angel. In general, baptismal angels were attached to a rope that was connected to a counterweight via a pulley. As with our angel, an eyelet was attached in the belt region. With the help of a rod with a hook, the baptismal angel could then be pulled down from its elevated position for the act of baptism. So there was more space in the church for church services. Unfortunately, the baptismal bowl that was inserted into the wreath (which the angel holds in his hands) is missing. The baptismal angel was stored on the floor of the church until 2010 and was hung up again after a restoration.

In the list of cultural monuments in Osterhever are the cultural monuments entered in the monuments list of the state of Schleswig-Holstein. This also includes the Madonna on the crescent moon , which was brought back to the church in 2010 after over 100 years. The Madonna had been stored in the Flensburg Municipal Museum since 1902. It was there at the time through the furniture manufacturer Heinrich Sauermann, who had researched works of art in northern German churches that had been removed from churches (after the Reformation) at the beginning of the 19th century. Many of these treasures had already been destroyed because of their Catholic past, some lay unnoticed on the church floors - like this very Madonna.

Under the organ gallery is the Jakob Ulves tombstone depicting a warrior with a flag and a woman in Eiderstedt costume from Eiderstedt's cultural heyday.

The church is open daily for prayer, meditation and devotion as well as for sightseeing.

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  Interior with a late Gothic triumphal cross

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  Carved altar from 1520

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  Madonna from the 16th century

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  Baptism angel from 1822

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  Left Supper bench from 1753

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  Right Supper Bank from 1753

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  The Church from the East

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  West side

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  Late Gothic triumphal cross

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  Baptism angel from 1822

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  Entrance on the south side

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  Tomb from 1774

Sons and daughters of the church

• Hans-Alwin Ketels (1913–2017), farmer and politician (CDU)

literature

• Dirk Meier: The North Sea Coast: History of a Landscape. Heath 2006

Web links

Commons : Osterhever  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Osterhever community at the Eiderstedt office

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. 7: Munkbrarup - Pohnsdorf . 1st edition Flying-Kiwi-Verl. Junge, Flensburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-926055-88-0 , p. 284 ( dnb.de [accessed on July 22, 2020]).
3. ^ [1] , Repertory of the Historical Sources of the Middle Ages of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, accessed on November 1, 2013
4. ↑ Notice in the St. Martin Church in Osterhever
5. ↑ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2002
6. ↑ [2]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Announcement of the official election results by the Eiderstedt office on May 27, 2013, accessed on May 30, 2013  
7. ^ Secret election requested by Husumer Nachrichten dated July 2, 2013, accessed on July 3, 2013
8. ↑ Notice in the St. Martin Church in Osterhever
9. ↑ Notice in the St. Martin Church in Osterhever
10. ↑ Notice in the St. Martin Church in Osterhever
11. ↑ Notice in the St. Martin Church in Osterhever