Schashagen

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 54 ° 8 '  N , 10 ° 53'  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Ostholstein
Office :	Ostholstein-Mitte
Height :	30 m above sea level NHN
Area :	41.46 km 2
Residents:	2129 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	51 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	23730
Primaries :	04564, 04561, 04562
License plate :	OH
Community key :	01 0 55 037
Office administration address:	Am Ruhsal 2 23744 Schönwalde am Bungsberg
Website :	www.schashagen.de
Mayor :	Rainer Holtz ( CDU )
Location of the community of Schashagen in the Ostholstein district

Schashagen is a municipality in the Ostholstein district in Schleswig-Holstein .

Geography and traffic

Schashagen is located about 4 km northeast of Neustadt in Holstein on the Baltic Sea. To the west, the federal highway 1 runs from Lübeck in the direction of Fehmarn , to the east, the federal highway 501 from Neustadt to Fehmarn.

In the municipality are the places Albersdorf, Altenbek, Bentfeld , Beusloe, Bliesdorf, Brodau, Brodauer Mühle , Groß Schlamin, Hermannshof, Klein Schlamin, Krummbek, Logeberg , Moorkaten, Merkendorf , Marxdorf, Rampe, Sackhufe and Wohldmorgen.

history

The manor district of Brodau, on which some villages in Schashagen lie, was laid out in 1526 by Heinrich Rantzau († 1538) on Helmstorf . Other districts used to belong to the Johanniskloster in Lübeck and to Gut Mönchneversdorf , which today itself belongs to the neighboring community of Schönwalde am Bungsberg .

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  The old Brodau manor house

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  Gatehouse of Gut Brodau

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  Brodau manor house

Schashagen was vacant until 1970.

politics

Community representation

The 2018 election resulted in the following:

Municipal election Schashagen 2018

Turnout: 51.1%

 %

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

45.4%

31.2%

23.5%

CDU

SPD

FWG

Distribution of seats in the Schashagen municipal council since 2018

   

A total of 13 seats

• SPD : 4
• FWG : 3
• CDU : 6

coat of arms

Blazon : "In blue a golden windmill (gallery Dutch) over a silver lily in the base of the shield ."

The Brodauer Mühle - the gallery Dutch in the coat of arms - was the landmark of Brodau on the road to Grömitz. The grain mill, built in 1864, burned down on November 17th, 2005 for reasons that are still unknown.

economy

A commercial area near the A1 was developed in the community.

Personalities

• Detlev Siegfried von Ahlefeldt (1658–1714), royal district administrator and bailiff of Oldenburg and Fehmarn.
• Detlev Friedrich von Ahlefeldt (1686–1745) was the heir to Brodau and a Danish major general.
• Johann Friedrich Heinrich Timm (1866–1945), politician of the SPD, head of the Reich Center for Homeland Service, Bavarian Dept.

In 2007, the building contractor Gerhard Gollan was given honorary citizenship of the Schashagen community.

In 2008 Ernst-August Wittrock received the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Medal of the state of Schleswig-Holstein for his local political work as mayor from 1994 to 2008 .

Web links

Commons : Schashagen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Schashagen municipality

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. ^ Henning von Rumor: Palaces and mansions in Ostholstein. Verlag Weidlich / Flechsig Würzburg 1989, p. 386.
3. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms