Sierksdorf

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	Coordinates: 54 ° 4 ′  N , 10 ° 46 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Ostholstein
Office :	Ostholstein-Mitte
Height :	6 m above sea level NHN
Area :	19.5 km 2
Residents:	1583 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	81 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	23730
Area code :	04563
License plate :	OH
Community key :	01 0 55 039
Address of the municipal administration:	Am Ruhsal 2 23744 Schönwalde am Bungsberg
Website :	www.sierksdorf.de
Mayor :	Udo Gosch (FWV / SPD)
Location of the community of Sierksdorf in the Ostholstein district

Sierksdorf is a municipality on the Bay of Lübeck in the Baltic Sea in the Ostholstein district in Schleswig-Holstein . The place used to be a fishing village and established itself as an important seaside resort, especially from the 1970s.

Geography and traffic

Location / neighboring places

The neighboring towns of Sierksdorf an der Neustädter Bucht are Neustadt in Holstein in the north, Haffkrug and Scharbeutz and Timmendorfer Strand in the south , and Süsel to the west .

traffic

To the west of Sierksdorf is the small Sierksdorf / Hof Altona airfield . In 1928 the last section of the Lübeck - Neustadt (Holstein) railway line from Haffkrug to Neustadt was opened. This also gave Sierksdorf a direct rail connection. As early as 1866 and until 1982, today's (since 1938) district of Oevelgönne was a railway station on the Eutin – Neustadt line . Today (2018) the trains commuting between Lübeck and Puttgarden and / or Neustadt in Holstein stop every hour at the Sierksdorf stop , as well as regional express trains from Hamburg to Puttgarden and intercity trains from Cologne to Fehmarn-Burg on weekends in the summer season. Sierksdorf will be affected by the planned fixed Fehmarnbelt crossing , as the construction of another route further west means that the old stop will only be on the branch line towards Neustadt . The seasonal regional express from Hamburg and the intercity traffic to Cologne will no longer serve Sierksdorf.

Community structure

The municipality of Sierksdorf includes Hof Altona, Stawedder, Wintershagen, Oevelgönne and Roge - as well as the smaller settlements Mariashagen and Siedenkamp.

history

In 1361 the place was first mentioned as Syrekestorpe and from 1649 or 1652 the name changed to Sirckesdorp and 1856 to Sierksdorf.

In 1926 a lawyer from Lübeck built the first summer house on the Kallmorgen site. In 1929 a summer residence was built for a family from Hamburg. In 1933 the community had 776 inhabitants and a fire brigade was founded. On April 1, 1938, the incorporation of the village of Roge, which in 1925 had 156 inhabitants.

Until 1954 there was a cemetery of honor for over a hundred victims of the sinking of the Cap Arcona next to the Seehof , before they were reburied for the dead of the Cap Arcona and Thielbek catastrophe . In 2010 a memorial stone was erected on the beach in Sierksdorf. At the end of 1949 it became known that the former mayor Detlef Ploen (CDU) had grown cabbage (oats) on his agricultural land, although from May to August 1945 89 dead from Cap Arcona were buried on the "Drei-Angel-Acker" with its box sledge . Ploen then resigned from his office.

Sierksdorf used to be very popular with artists at times. From 1951 to 1973, the expressionist painter Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (after whom Schmidt-Rottluff-Allee is named) spent every summer in Sierksdorf and painted here.

From 1953, the building next to the Seehof took place on an area of ​​around 10 hectares. At the end of the 1960s, a building boom began in the community in connection with the zone edge funding. From 1968, the Panoramic hotel complex with an integrated swimming pool was built on the Pfingstberg by Rüster KG from Hamburg for 150 million DM . The high-rise buildings include a 12-storey apartment hotel, an 18-storey tower hotel and a 9-storey terrace hotel with a cafeteria and a restaurant for 200 people. It was later converted into a residential complex with 400 condominiums.

In 1970 Sierksdorf came to the Neustadt-Land office .

Starting in 1972, the Sierksdorf holiday park was built near the bathing beach “Am Fahrenkrog” by the building contractor Hans Peter Ruster for around 200 million DM (102.3 million euros) and comprises around 800 holiday apartments. In addition, the “Legoland” amusement park was created by investor Hans-Peter Rüster from 1973 (Managing Director Carl M. Wenzel, Marketing Director Paul Bornscheuer). This only existed until the end of 1976 due to the high license fees paid to the Lego group and the moderate number of visitors. After the bankruptcy of the Rüster Group and the fiduciary takeover by the Kieler Landesbank and with new investors, the amusement and leisure park Hansaland , today's Hansa-Park , was opened on May 15, 1977 .

In 1999 the community recorded approx. 210,000 overnight stays.

In 2005, Sierksdorf came to the Ostholstein-Mitte district with 1566 inhabitants . In 2013, a new beach promenade was built in front of the holiday park for 1.8 million euros, of which the state of Schleswig-Holstein took over around 1.071 million euros.

politics

Community representation

The 2018 election resulted in the following:

Local election Sierksdorf 2018

 %

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

45.7%

27.3%

27.0%

CDU

FWV

SPD

Allocation of seats in the Sierksdorf municipal council since 2018

   

A total of 15 seats

• SPD : 4
• FWV : 4
• CDU : 7

coat of arms

Blazon : "In blue a golden sheaf consisting of eight ears between a silver flying seagull above and a silver fish below."

economy

The largest employers in the area are the Hansa-Park and the Zweckverband Ostholstein (ZVO) (natural gas supply, water supply, sewage disposal, waste management). Vacationers and tourists are of great economic importance, and numerous employees work directly or indirectly for tourist facilities and in the service sector. Sierksdorf, together with Neustadt, has an intermunicipal industrial area with an area of ​​15  hectares , of which 9.5 hectares can be built on. The business park is located near the motorway junction to the A1.

Worth seeing

→ Main article : List of cultural monuments in Sierksdorf

The place is known for the Hansa-Park , one of the five largest German amusement parks . It emerged in 1977 as Hansaland from Germany's first Legoland park, which existed from 1973 to 1976.

Up until a fire in November 2018, the private First German Banana Museum , founded in 1991, showed impressive and banal things about bananas .

photos

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  The beach of Sierksdorf

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  Sierksdorf, seen from Scharbeutz over the Neustädter Bucht

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  The former school and the fire station

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  The picture “Seehofallee in Sierksdorf” by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff on the information board on Schmidt-Rottluff-Allee

Personalities

• Günter Machemehl (1911–1970), painter and lived in Sierksdorf from 1946
• Armin Mueller-Stahl (* 1930), actor, musician, painter and writer who lives in Sierksdorf for about half of the year

Web links

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

Sierksdorf community at the Ostholstein-Mitte Tourist Service Office in Sierksdorf

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. ↑ https://www.anbombination-fbq.de/de/vor-ort/pfa-2.html
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Schleswig-Holstein topography. Vol. 9: Schönberg - Tielenhemme . 1st edition Flying-Kiwi-Verl. Junge, Flensburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-926055-91-0 , p. 107 ( dnb.de [accessed July 31, 2020]).
4. ↑ This year wheat . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1949 ( online ).
5. ↑ skin down . In: Der Spiegel . No. 34 , 1970 ( online ).
6. ↑ Emma dies . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1973 ( online ).
7. ↑ http://www.luebecker-bucht-regional.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=230
8. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms
9. ↑ The Armin Mueller-Stahl phenomenon . NDR website, accessed June 1, 2013