Pöschendorf

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 54 ° 2 ′  N , 9 ° 29 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Stone castle
Office :	Schenefeld
Height :	23 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.06 km 2
Residents:	266 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	44 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	25560
Area code :	04892
License plate :	IZ
Community key :	01 0 61 085
Office administration address:	Mühlenstrasse 2 25560 Schenefeld
Website :	www.poeschendorf.de
Mayor :	Norbert Graf (nuclear power plant)
Location of the community of Pöschendorf in the Steinburg district

Pöschendorf ( Low German Päschendörp ) is a municipality in the district of Steinburg in Schleswig-Holstein and belongs to the Hamburg metropolitan area .

Geography and traffic

Pöschendorf is about twelve kilometers north of Itzehoe and directly south of Schenefeld on the federal highway 430 . A few kilometers to the west is the Wacken exit of the west coast motorway ( federal motorway 23 from Hamburg to Heide ). The Pöschendorfer Graben flows through the village . The districts of Klint, Holzbaum, Hohenesch and Breitenfelde belong to the community.

history

People lived in the area of ​​what is now the municipality of Pöschendorf as early as the Stone Age . Evidence for this is the Krinkberg , a group of barrows , of which at least 29 were once detectable in the area.

As a typical Carolingian Hufendorf village , Pöschendorf probably received its place name around 811 AD from Frankish conquerors. Before that, people in the area lived on widely scattered individual farms. There is no evidence of a closed village settlement before the 9th century. The division of the fields into so-called Franconian hooves is characteristic of the establishment of localities in the early Middle Ages . These strictly defined long and relatively narrow agricultural areas can still be clearly seen today on satellite images of Pöschendorf.

Directly on the Krinkberg there was a traffic-geographically important crossroads of the western Ochsenweg until modern times . This central traffic point is said to have been a meeting point for the first Christians in Holstein at Easter . According to a theory from it, the place name is derived: The Christian Easter was in the northern German and Romance language formerly Paschen , Scandinavian Påske , Low German PÂÖschen ( diphthong ae, ao, AO). According to other theories, Pope Paschalis I gave the place name, but the derivation of Esch is also discussed . Until the 19th century are in the literature different spellings to find the place name: Paeschendorf , Pasche village , Päschendorf , Pöschendorf etc. Only since 1867, when Schleswig-Holstein Prussian province was, is the official spelling Pöschendorf .

In 1885, during excavations on the Krinkberg, valuable treasures from different eras were found. These included 91 coins from the 8th century as well as the gold-plated bronze mount of a sword pommel and other weapons. On the Pöschendorfer coat of arms , a green shield, a golden sword and two silver early medieval coins are depicted from this find. On the left coin is the inscription CAROLUS; on the right you can see the imprint DORSTAD. Carolus is Charlemagne , who in the 8th and 9th centuries also founded many settlements in the north and had a mint in Dorstad ( Dorestad ), the most important Frisian trading town at that time, near today's Utrecht. The curved dividing line in the head of the shield of the coat of arms represents the Krinkberg as a place of discovery and thus the connection between settlement in the Bronze Age and the founding of the village in the Carolingian Age .

politics

Community representation

Since the local elections in 2018, the AKW electoral community has all nine seats in the municipal council.

coat of arms

Blazon : "Under a silver shield head curved in the middle in green a growing golden sword between two silver early medieval coins, the right one with the inscription CAROLUS, the left one with the inscription DORSTAD."

Attractions

Pöschendorfer Memorial

Pöschendorfer Memorial

Double oak with a cenotaph

The Pöschendorfer memorial for the residents of both world wars who died abroad is located in the center of the village and consists of a small, well-tended complex with a double oak in the center . In the middle of the memorial is a large boulder with twelve names as a memorial stone for the fallen Pöschendorfer of the First World War; on the top is the plastic of an eagle on a ball. On both sides there is another large granite stone for the fallen and missing Pöschendorfer of the Second World War as well as for those who died while fleeing from the former German eastern areas , whose bereaved relatives found a new home in Pöschendorf. These two stones together have 38 names.

On Memorial Day and other occasions commemorations will be held on Memorial Pöschendorfer regularly.

The aforementioned double oak is considered a splendid specimen, as only in very rare cases do two young trees grow together in or on the ground to form a trunk and form a common crown. Similar to the double oak in Pinneberg , no second trunk can be seen at first glance. The Pöschendorfer oak, however, has a clear "scar" at the first fork, which is called Zwiesel in trees with two shoots .

Further

Popular excursion and hiking destinations are the archaeologically significant Krinkberg and the large mixed forest towards Looft .

Web links

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

• Pöschendorf 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. ^ Pöschendorf community Pöschendorf, accessed on August 1, 2019
3. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein topography. Vol. 8: Pölitz - Schönbek . 1st edition Flying-Kiwi-Verl. Junge, Flensburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-926055-89-7 , pp. 10 ( dnb.de [accessed on July 22, 2020]).
4. ^ Michael Bellmann: Pöschendorf. The primeval Christian village in Holstein? Itzehoe 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-047773-7 , pp. 36-39 .
5. ↑ ^{a b} Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms
6. ↑ Uwe Schärff: Online project Fallen Memorials: From genealogists for genealogists. Pöschendorf, Steinburg District, Schleswig-Holstein. In: denkmalprojekt.org. Online project Fallen Memorials (Thilo C. Agthe), April 2011, accessed on October 13, 2015 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b} community of Pöschendorf. The Pöschendorfer Memorial. In: poeschendorf.de. Municipality of Pöschendorf, accessed on October 13, 2015 .