Ritzerau

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 40 ′  N , 10 ° 34 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Duchy of Lauenburg
Office :	Secondary sand nuts
Height :	38 m above sea level NHN
Area :	11.11 km 2
Residents:	295 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	27 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	23896
Area code :	04543
License plate :	RZ
Community key :	01 0 53 101
Office administration address:	Am Amtsgraben 4 23898 Sandesneben
Website :	ritzerau.de
Mayor :	Gerd Holz (ARB)
Location of the municipality of Ritzerau in the Duchy of Lauenburg

Ritzerau is a municipality in the Duchy of Lauenburg in Schleswig-Holstein, east of Hamburg .

history

The nobles of Ritzerau were first mentioned in 1222. The tithe register of the Ratzeburg bishop also mentions the place Ritzerau (Ritzerow) in 1230. In the 15th century the city of Lübeck acquired the knight's seat and the village. Ritzerau Castle has been the seat of the regional court since 1562. In 1747 the place was confirmed as Lübeck property by a comparison in Hanover . In 1772 the village burned down almost completely. In 1845 the castle was demolished and the district court was relocated in 1851. The Ritzerauer Hofscheune, built in 1547, was also demolished in 1923. The community belonged to the Hanseatic City of Lübeck as an exclave until the Greater Hamburg Act of 1937 and then came to the then Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein . However, the city of Lübeck remained the owner of Stadtgut (250 hectares, until 1990) and Forst Ritzerau (650 hectares ).

coat of arms

Blazon : "Under a silver shield head, inside a four-lipped red tournament collar, in blue a floating silver castle with three tin towers and an open gate."

economy

The Hof Ritzerau domain not far from the village has belonged to the entrepreneur and organic farmer Günther Fielmann since 1999 . Günther Fielmann has been promoting interdisciplinary scientific research on the farm since 2001.

Personalities

• Georg Franz Heinrich Stockmann , born January 14, 1825 in Ritzerau; † January 6, 1906 in Bad Kreuznach, businessman and founder of the Finnish department store chain Stockmann

Trivia

Peter Rühmkorf mentioned Ritzerau in his story Die Feuerfee as the residence of his protagonist Franz Brandmal .

Web links

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

• Ritzerau community
• Ritzerau municipality at the Sandesneben-Nusse 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. ↑ Hans Rathje Reimers: Lübeck's territorial development, part 2: The exclave Ritzerau. In: Lübeckische Blätter 2012 issue 4 ( digitized version ; PDF; 3.4 MB), p. 56f
3. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms
4. ↑ Organic farming on the Ritzerau farm. Institute for Nature and Resource Conservation, Landscape Ecology Department, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
5. ↑ From: Peter Rühmkorf: Der Hüter des Misthaufens , Rowohlt 1983