Steinberg (Schleswig)

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	Coordinates: 54 ° 45 '  N , 9 ° 47'  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Schleswig-Flensburg
Office :	Geltinger Bay
Height :	9 m above sea level NHN
Area :	16.24 km 2
Residents:	797 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	49 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	24972
Area code :	04632
License plate :	SL
Community key :	01 0 59 164
Office administration address:	Holmlück 2 24972 Steinbergkirche
Website :	www.steinberg-angeln.de
Mayor :	Roy Bonde ( CDU )
Location of the community Steinberg in the Schleswig-Flensburg district

Aerial photo of Steinberg on the Baltic Sea (2012)

Old enamelled official sign (2012)

Steinberg ( Danish : Stenbjerg , angeldän .: Stenbjerre ) is a municipality on the Baltic Sea coast in the Schleswig-Flensburg district in Schleswig-Holstein. The municipality has an area of ​​16.24 km²; With 830 inhabitants, that means 51 inhabitants per km², a slightly lower population density than in the entire district of Geltinger Bucht, to which Steinberg has belonged since 2008. Steinberg borders the Baltic Sea and its Geltinger Bay near the Flensburg Fjord for a length of 8 kilometers . The place is in the slightly hilly region of fishing and at an altitude between 0 and 27 m above sea level. The extension of the municipality is 6 kilometers in north-south direction and 4 kilometers in west-east.

history

Steinberg was first mentioned in 1352 as "campo Stenbiert", but it is certainly much older. Even after 1945, the village extended to a large extent from the municipality boundary in the west near Bredegatt to Flintholm in the east, in the south to Südsteinberg and in the north to Stürsholz. Steinbergholz has always been part of it as a district. Since the last community merger of Steinberg and Norgaardholz with Habernis and Steinberghaff in 1970, the community area has been defined according to cardinal directions in the north of Habernis and on the other hand to Südsteinberg (bordering the communities Esgrus and Niesgrau) and bordering the Steinberg Church in the west and to Steinberghaff in the east Adjacent to Ohrfeldhaff (municipality of Niesgrau). The district of Steinberggaard, once a hamlet and owned by King Christian I of Denmark from approx. 1450 to 1470 , became an officially registered district of Steinberg in 2010. Steinberggaard, whose residents were assigned to the Steinberg parish as early as 1854 , should therefore be the oldest district of Steinberg.

In earlier times, the so-called Harden were the lowest administrative units in Southern Jutland and in the Duchy of Schleswig . They also had jurisdiction. Steinberg belonged to the Nieharde (new Harde), which had been separated from the neighboring Harden in the early Middle Ages. It comprised the parishes of Sörup, Quern , Sterup, Esgrus, Steinberg and earlier also Gelting.

At the beginning of the 16th century, Quern and Steinberg fought over the Habernis peninsula , which was apparently settled late. The Steinberghaff was first mentioned by name in 1614. The ending "-haff" corresponds to the Danish Stenbjerg hav (= sea, lake). The name "Steinberghaff" originally referred to the entire stretch of beach from Lipping Au to Habernis (approx. 4 km). It was not until 1800 that the name Steinberghaff, with an approx. 300 m long and 100 m wide coastal strip between the Östergaard wood and Steinberger wood, was specifically related to the area at the east end of today's Fischerstraße.

In the late 18th century, the shipbuilder and former navigator Hans Ingermann began building ships and boats, with which Ingermann, who was born in the Danish town of Asserballe, founded the shipbuilding industry on the Haff (Sea) of today's Steinberg. The development was accompanied by a growing local trade in wood to be delivered. Hans Petersen succeeded Hans Ingermann, who died in Steinbergholz in 1807, as shipbuilder. In the 19th century, shipbuilding in Norgaardholz developed on a larger scale under the Diedrichsen shipbuilding family. Over 140 ships and boats up to a size of 200 GRT and a maximum volume of 500 cubic meters were built in the companies, which is not considered insignificant among the shipyards between Flensburg and Kappeln, but shipbuilding on the Steinberg Lagoon after more than a century did had to give up in competition with industrialized shipyards.

Former Landkrog Strasbourg in Südsteinberg

From 1806 to 1814 Denmark was allied with France, so French troops were quartered in the Duchy of Schleswig in the Angling region. It can therefore be assumed that the former Landkrog Strasbourg in Südsteinberg also served as accommodation for the French military between 1808 and 1813 and was thus given the name Strassburg , which still adorns the building as lettering above the entrance door of the former Landkrog.

After the German-Danish War of 1864, the duchies of Holstein and Schleswig formed the new Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein by proclamation on June 24, 1867 . With the Prussian rural community order of 1867, new communities were formed. In 1888/89, instead of the Harden, the administrative districts were created , which for the most part comprised the old parishes .

Water level mark of the flood disaster on November 13, 1872

In 1872 a flood disaster for Baltic Sea conditions hit the Flensburg Fjord in the worst possible way and caused serious damage in Steinberg. From the beginning of November 1872 sustained strong westerly winds pushed enormous water masses into the Baltic Sea, which from November 12th to 13th 1872 with a turning storm at hurricane strength from the northeast pushed the huge water masses westward and thus back to the German Baltic Sea coast, after which many of the catastrophic effects There were fatalities and great material damage. For the storm surge-like flood disaster, water levels of 3.20 to 3.45 m above sea level were determined for Flensburg, Schleimünde and Eckernförde. From this, Steinberg can deduce a flood level of more than 3 m above sea level from the disaster; The present Steinberg districts of Habernis were affected. Norgaardholz, Steinbergholz and Steinberghaff as well as the Fischerholz and Oestergaarder Wald. For the German Baltic Sea coast, these flood levels are still used as a benchmark for structural flood protection.

At the end of the Second World War , the so-called special area Mürwik with the last imperial government under Karl Dönitz was located in the Flensburg suburb of Mürwik, 24 kilometers away . After the partial surrender of the German troops in northern Germany, Denmark, Norway and the northern Netherlands on May 4th , more than 70  submarines were sunk in the Flensburg area in accordance with the rainbow order actually withdrawn by Dönitz . Most of them were sunk not far from Steinberg in the area of ​​the Geltinger Bay . Shortly after the subsequent unconditional surrender of the armed forces , the three sailors were there, Fritz Wehrmann , Alfred Gail and Martin Schilling for desertion sentenced to death and executed. On the beach of Norgaardholz there is a memorial stone with an attached plaque.

In 1949 the neighboring offices of Steinberg and Quern merged to form the common district of Quern-Steinberg with its seat in Steinbergkirche, a district of the then still independent municipality of Bredegatt.

After the municipalities of Habernis and Norgaardholz had already merged in 1966, the previously independent municipalities Steinberg, Norgaardholz and Steinberghaff merged in 1970 as a result of the regional reform to form a spa municipality of Steinberg with the functions of tourism, agriculture and housing assigned in the regional planning plan of Schleswig-Holstein together.

politics

Municipal area

The current municipality has existed since 1970. Habernis ( Havernæs ), Norgaardholz ( Nørregårdskov ), Steinbergholz ( Stenbjergskov ), Steinberghaff ( Stenbjerghav ), Oestergaard ( Østergård ) and Steinberggaard are located in the municipality. The municipality area also includes the Fischerholz or Oestergaardwald (Danish: Fiskerskov or Østergårdskov), a forest area of ​​over 20 hectares in the east of the municipality of Steinberg.

Since “Oestergaard” also has a varied history, it should be noted here that on May 17, 1872 the hamlet or the settlement of Oestergaarde officially received the status of a municipality. 37 years later, however, the registration of this former municipality of Oestergaard was changed to the municipality of Steinberghaff according to the decree of April 23, 1909 of the Royal Government of Schleswig , announced on May 11, 1909 at the instigation of the District President von Dolega-Kozierowski and on May 22, 1909 in Official journal of the Royal Government of Schleswig published.

Community representation

Of the eleven seats in the municipal council who since the local elections on May 6, 2018 Wählergemeinschaft WGStb and the CDU four and Wählergemeinschaft ABS three seats.

Since the resignation of the former mayor on June 17, 2020, Roy Bonde (CDU) has been elected mayor of the Steinberg community.

The municipal council meets after public announcement for public and private meetings; the citizen is entitled to participate as a listener at public meetings. According to the municipal statutes, the municipal council can form committees which, on the one hand, serve the tasks of the municipality and, on the other hand, relieve the members of the municipal council. According to the main statute for the municipality of Steinberg of January 6, 2014, there are five standing committees in the municipal council, namely a finance committee, a building and path committee, a village and tourism committee, a committee for planning and the environment, and an auditing committee

Coat of arms of the municipality of Steinberg (2012)

coat of arms

Blazon : “Above blue and silver waves obliquely left divided by blue and gold. Above next to each other a waning silver moon and an eight-pointed silver star, below a flying blue seagull. "

The municipality of Steinberg has had this coat of arms since 1979. The moon and the star can already be found in the old seal of the earlier Nieharde from 1499. The seagull and the waves are symbols for the location of Steinberg and the tourist attractions.

Infrastructure

police

The locally responsible police are located with their police station in the center of Steinbergkirche, two kilometers away.

Schools and kindergartens

Former school in Steinberg district Norgaardholz (2012)

With a historical look back it is noted that there was once a Steinbergholz school from 1749 to 1973. Then in 1802 a new building was built for a school in Norgaardholz, which was followed by a renovation and extension in 1952. Finally, in 1973, local school operations had to be stopped.

After the old school Norgaardholz no longer served the school purpose, the fate of the merger also overtook the formerly established Ev. Norgaardholz day care center , which means that Steinberg no longer has a kindergarten. Please refer to the offer of the Evangelical Kindergarten in the village of Steinbergkirche, 3 kilometers away.

The primary school responsible for Steinberg today is also in Steinbergkirche; there are additional schools in the area of ​​the Geltinger Bucht office, such as in Sterup, and supplemented by other external schools in Flensburg and Kappeln. In Sterup, the community school in the Geltinger Bucht office, the Heinrich-Andresen-Schule, offers an offer up to the acquisition of the secondary school leaving certificate (MSA). In Flensburg, the wide range of schools is supplemented by private schools such as the Baltic Sea School or the Free Waldorf School. In addition to the high school Klaus Harms school, there is also a community school on the Schlei in Kappeln.

For local members of the Danish minority in Schleswig-Holstein, there is a Danish kindergarten and a Danish primary school ( Hatlund-Langballe Danske Skole ) in the Steinbergkirche district of Hattlund .

Medical supplies

In the area of ​​Steinberg there is a family doctor's practice for medical care (outside of office hours, you are referred to the medical on-call service on telephone 116 117). Physiotherapeutic treatment options are also available on site. The next pharmacy is two kilometers away in Steinbergkirche.

Volunteer Fire Brigade and Rifle Club Steinberg (2012)

Volunteer firefighter

There are 26 volunteer fire brigades within the Geltinger Bucht office . There are two volunteer fire brigades in the village of Steinberg, on the one hand with the fire station on Süderstrasse and on the other hand with the modernized fire station in Steinbergholz. The fire brigades are on the one hand connected to the Cooperative Regional Control Center North in Harrislee and on the other hand belong to the Schleswig-Flensburg District Fire Brigade Association .

Memorial stone for the construction of the Nordstrasse (Bundesstrasse 199) after the closure of the Kappeln-Flensburg railway line

Former train station of the Flensburg District Railway, now a hospitality business (2020)

Former Flensburg district railway

From 1886 until its closure in 1952, Steinberg was opened to traffic with a railway line . The Flensburg circular railway led from Flensburg via Glücksburg southwards through fishing via Steinberg to Kappeln an der Schlei . The former station building between Süderstrasse and Nordstrasse is now used for the hotel and restaurant industry. After the rail link was closed, the track was dismantled so that parts of the route could be used for road construction.

Road connection

With the inclusion of parts of the route of the former Flensburg district railway, a new road route from Kappeln via Flensburg to Niebüll was planned as federal road 199 (B 199). The section from Kappeln to Flensburg was opened to traffic in 1954 after a construction period of 2½ years and thus opens up the Steinberg area in terms of road traffic in the immediate vicinity. From Kappeln to Flensburg, this federal highway is also called Nordstraße.

Public transportation

The municipality of Steinberg is well supplied with a bus service as a means of public transport . The bus route is set up on the federal highway 199 and leads from Kappeln via Steinberg to Flensburg (and vice versa); bus operation is ensured with line 1568 by Autokraft GmbH, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn AG (13 pairs of journeys on workdays and 2-hour intervals on Sundays, according to Autokraft). The region around Steinberg is easily accessible via eight bus routes via external transfer options.

Jetty with buoy field on the beach of Steinberghaff on the Geltinger Bay (2013)

Port operations

Steinberg is a touristic community in which a yacht club has also found its location. However, Steinberg does not currently have its own port with a considerable length adjacent to the Geltinger Bay ; once there was a shipyard for shipbuilding in Norgaardholz. For a current port operation, reference is made to the small port near Langballigau or to the sports boat harbor in Gelting-Mole . However, the Steinberghaff Yacht Club has a buoy field, where a limited number of guests can also find a water-side boat berth.

Seaside bathing establishment with buildings, outdoor facilities, beach and bathing jetty at the Geltinger Bay (2012)

Bathing establishment

There is a seaside resort within the municipality of Steinberg, located in the district of Norgaardholz on the Geltinger Bucht. The bathing establishment has an approx. 250 meter long beach with an additional sunbathing area close to the beach as well as a football field and volleyball field . The seaside resort has permanent structures on the one hand with changing rooms and a shower, on the other hand with public toilets. The facilities are not open all year round, but only at set times during the bathing season. Use of the seaside resort is free of charge; there is currently no beach fee or tourist tax. There are some free parking spaces close to the bathing establishment. The community does not have a full-time lifeguard; At the seaside resort, however, there is a temporarily (not all year round) manned guard station of the local DLRG association. The club members build a bathing bridge for the bathing season from the beach to the water of the Geltinger Bay. The DLRG Norgaardholz also conducts a so-called holiday swimming during the local (!) Summer holidays with sufficient participation, where children can learn to swim.

The "Bürgerhaus Alte Schule Norgaardholz" of the Steinberg community (2012)

Community center

In 1987, the community regained ownership of the old school in Norgaardholz, which had been privately owned from 1973 to 1987. With the statute of March 17, 1988 it was determined that the building was dedicated to the purpose of the community center of the Steinberg community and henceforth bears the name “community center old school Norgaardholz”. The community elections for political institutions also take place in the community center. The parish archive is also located there. Furthermore, the community center can be used for a fee under private law if there is an agreement with the municipal occupancy committee, provided that no priority occupancy is given.

Attractions

The list of cultural monuments in Steinberg (Schleswig) includes the cultural monuments entered in the monuments list of the state of Schleswig-Holstein.

Memorial stone for innocent victims of the Second World War in Norgaatdholz.

The worth seeing Gut Oestergaard is located in the southeastern municipality and got its name in the 16th century, the current manor house was only built in 1856. At the beginning of the 20th century the property was sold to the Prussian domain administration; the tenant Christian Lempelius bought it after the Second World War . Oestergaard comes from Danish and means eastern court . The fisherman's wood is also part of the estate .

The village of Steinberg is with the districts Habernis, Norgaardholz, Steinberg wood, Steinberghaff, Östergaard and Steinberggaard in 7,350 hectares of conservation area "Flensburg Fjord" which Glucksburg south to the Schlei in Maasholm enough. The "Habernisser Moor" should be mentioned as a sight in the municipality . Further within the landscape protection area “Flensburg Fjord” u. a. the beautiful nature reserves " Geltinger Birk " (773 hectares) and " Vogelfreistätte Oehe-Schleimendung " (374 hectares, of which 122 hectares are land and 252 hectares of water) with a distinctive beach wall landscape, sea bird protection station and Maasholm nature experience center.

Energy generation in the southeast of the village (2014)

economy

In addition to the residential structure that has grown over the years, the municipality also has an economically pronounced mixed structure of businesses in the craft, trade, service and agriculture sectors. For professional fisheries in the Baltic Sea, the STEI ship identification was officially granted for Steinberghaff; professional fishing in the Baltic Sea in the Geltinger Bucht off Steinberg is no longer profitable due to the drastic decline in fish stocks. Thanks to the beachfront location on the Geltinger Bay, the community also participates in tourism, to which the local and broad-based hotel and catering industry has adapted just as well as there is a wide range of well-kept holiday accommodation and good campsites for the same reason. These offers are not only used by automotive travelers, but also by cyclists who reach Steinberg close to the sea on the 430 kilometer long Baltic Sea Cycle Route from Lübeck to Flensburg.

In the late 18th century

religion

The majority of the population of Steinberg - if they belong to a religious community at all - belong to the Protestant denomination.

Ev.-luth. St. Martin Church, Steinberg Church

Memorial stone in Norgaardholz for the execution of three German marines on May 10, 1945

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Martin, which historically belongs to the municipality of Steinberg and which is of particular interest in this context, is now in the municipality of Steinbergkirche , which has been restructured in the region (note: Quern , historically) and incorporation of the settlement Bredegatt in 1963 . The well-known chronicler Dr. phil. Hans Nicolai Andreas Jensen in his book about the fishing region from 1844 , quote: “Steinberg is of course not a parish of very large size, but the church is uncomfortable, very close to the Querner border, only a few 100 paces away, hence the inhabitants in Steinbergholz have a fairly wide church path ”.

Catholic churches are outside the parish territory. Reference can therefore be made to the St. Mary's Church in Flensburg or in Kappeln.

societies

Historic memorial stone of the Steinberg parish (photo 2012)

The Kirchspielarchiv Steinberg eV has existed in the village for many years . Its aim is to research and preserve the historical and to make it visible for posterity. The association, which was founded in 1987 and now has 50 members, can also fall back on archival work since 1930 by the Agricultural Association Steinberg and the discussion group Kirchspielchronik Steinberg . The association maintains an extremely extensive archive and can refer to the publication of numerous writings and books with historical content, which counteracts the current rapid oblivion and enables general access to knowledge about local or regional history. The association's work is maintained on Wednesdays at regular meetings of the active in the old school of Norgaardholz, while the archive is also open to interested parties.

The DLRG Norgaardholz eV has existed since 1952. The local association is linked to an important goal; Beginner swimming training for children in the Heinrich-Andresen School in Sterup and lifeguard training in Flensburg can be offered. In addition, the Steinberg guard station in the Norgaardholz district on the Geltinger Bucht is supervised on a voluntary basis during specified summer periods. According to the structure of the DLRG, Norgaardholz eV belongs to the German Life-Rescue Society, Landesverband Schleswig-Holstein, Kreisverband Schleswig-Flensburg eV

The yacht club Steinberghaff eV is connected to water sports; the association was founded on July 1, 1966.

The Schützenverein Steinberg von 1974 eV, on the other hand, devotes itself to other interests, for which the club's goal is derived from the name.

Events

Small medieval market in Norgaardholz

Since 2011 the "Small Medieval Market in Norgaardholz" has been held annually in Norgaardholz. This event takes place on a weekend in the summer months on the playground and sports field in front of the Nordstern campsite.

Pictures from Steinberg / Baltic Sea

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  Flintholm: a thatched roof house (2013)

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  House in the center of Steinberg (2013)

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  Hofgut von 1824 Chapulin Stud (2013)

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  Norgaardholz (2014)

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  Oestergaard: Manor with mansion (2014)

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  District Steinberggaard (2020)

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  Aerial view of Steinberghaff at Geltinger Bucht (2012)

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  Steinbergholz (2013)

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  Stürholz in Steinberg (2020)

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  Habernis Lindenhof (2020)

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  Habernis Bay in the municipality of Steinberg (2020)

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  Südsteinberg (2020)

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Peter Bischoff (1655–1721), Mayor St. Marien in Flensburg
• Johann Boysen (1723–1799), Hardesvogt in the Nieharde (Nye Harde)
• Hermann Theodor Brinckmann (1839?), Doctor of medicine from Kiel and Wandsbek
• Johannes Niemann (1891–1973), Mayor of Steinberg
• Henry Gruber (* 1899 in Steinberghaff, † 1959 in Bremen), yacht designer

Associated with Steinberg

• Peter Holst (1708–1768), pastor (initiator of church tower construction)
• Hans Ingermann (born October 16, 1726 in Asserballe, † December 6, 1807 in Steinbergholz), navigator and master shipbuilder
• Friedrich Rumohr (1728-1790), Landrath , heritage and sellers Good Oestergaard
• Boye Cornelus Knutz (1787–1870), teacher at Kalleby , sexton at Steinberg
• Hans Nicolai Andreas Jensen , (1802–1850), pastor and regional chronicler
• Cornelius Kiesbye (born August 10, 1816 - June 2, 1906), farmer and benefactor Norgaardholz
• Jakob Marquardsen (1848–1932), head of the Steinberg district
• Karl Heinz Lietzow (1917-2004), fisherman in Steinberg-Norgaardholz

literature

• Bernhard Asmussen (ed.): Chronicle of the parish Steinberg. 2 volumes (3 parts). Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 1986–1995.
  • Volume 1: Descriptive Part . 1986. ISBN 3-88042-342-3 .
  • Volume 2: House and family history 1: Steinberg, Baltic Sea . 1995. ISBN 3-88042-752-6 .
  • Volume 2: House and family history 2: Steinbergkirche . 1995. ISBN 3-88042-752-6 .
• Hans Nicolai Andreas Jensen , Dr.phil, as a chronicler and author of fishing first historically described for the anglers , 1844 published by Christ. Andersen

Web links

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

Wikivoyage: Steinberg (Schleswig)  - travel guide

• Steinberg community
• Private website about Steinberghaff

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. ↑ Wolfgang Laur: Historisches Ortsnamelexikon von Schleswig-Holstein , 2nd edition, Neumünster 1992, p. 617
3. ↑ Johannes Kok: Det danske folkesprog i Sønderjylland , Volume 2, København 1867, p. 374
4. ↑ Steinberggaard since 2010 district of Steinberg . SHZ website accessed on February 9, 2020
5. ↑ max. Water levels at different levels , Bau.Uni-Siegen, accessed March 3, 2020
6. ^ Oestergaard was renamed Steinberghaff as published on May 22, 1909 in the Official Gazette of the Royal Government of Schleswig
7. ↑ Result of the municipal election 2018 - Steinberg , accessed on May 31, 2018
8. ^ Amt Geltinger Bucht Community Steinberg Local law Official main statute available as PDF , website accessed on February 9, 2020
9. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms
10. ↑ Hatlund-Langballe Danske Skole