Place-Wittenwurth

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Coat of arms of the community of Stelle-Wittenwurth
Place-Wittenwurth
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Coordinates: 54 ° 16 '  N , 9 ° 4'  E

Basic data
State : Schleswig-Holstein
Circle : Dithmarschen
Office : Parish Landgemeinde Heider Umland
Height : 1 m above sea level NHN
Area : 10.71 km 2
Residents: 413 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 39 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 25795
Area code : 04837
License plate : HEI, MED
Community key : 01 0 51 107
Office administration address: Kirchspielsweg 6
25746 Heide
Website : www.amt-heider-umland.de
Mayor : Michael Borchardt (ABBSW)
Location of the community of Stelle-Wittenwurth in the district of Dithmarschen
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View over the grain fields on the Geest

Stelle-Wittenwurth is a municipality in the Dithmarschen district in Schleswig-Holstein .

geography

Stelle is on a small Geest island, barely ten meters high, between the Weddingstedter Geest and the sand dune that extends between Wittenwurth and Dahrenwurth.

history

According to urn finds, there must have been a settlement at Stelle as early as the Stone Age. The village of Stelle appears in the inventory of the Neumünster-Bordesholm Monastery around 1200 (source: Dr. Walter Kühl “Traditions about the village of Stelle”). It is difficult to say where the name Stelle-Wittenwurth comes from. Around 1222, the places Stelle and Wittenwurth were traced back to the names Sybern de Stella and Boge and Ove Wittenstad. In 1329 the place was mentioned as Stella (according to the village chronicle 1559–1959 from: Dithmarscher Landeskunde 9th year, p. 8).

The peasantry point-Wittenwurth is one of the oldest in the country. The Stellerburg , which is located in Weddingstedter municipality, is a Saxon ring wall system , which dates from the time before Charlemagne and served at the strategically favorable point for defense against the Vikings . It was abandoned in the 10th century. It was first popularized in 1562. Today there are only three farms left in the village. Stelle-Wittenwurth is on the Hamburg-Westerland railway line . Until the early 1980s there was a stop in Wittenwurth.

On April 1, 1934 the parish of Weddingstedt was dissolved. All of their villages, village communities and farmers became independent communities / rural communities, including Stelle-Wittenwurth.

politics

Community representation

Of the nine seats in the municipal council, the ABBSW community of voters has four seats since the 2013 local elections, the AGWSt-W community has three and the UWSt-W community has two seats.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Square of green and silver with a curved dividing line; in interchanged colors covered above with a farmhouse (frontal view), below with two outward-facing, upright oak leaves that cross on the stems. "

The community lies on the edge of the Schleswig-Holstein marshland on the back of a chain of dunes, which, as the former shore zone of the North Sea, extends into southwestern Schleswig-Holstein. On this "white, sandy Wurth", the first settlers built their first dwellings, protected from the floods of the North Sea, which, like the surrounding marshland reclaimed from the sea, were shaped by agriculture over the centuries. The vertical division of the coat of arms with the double color change between silver and green symbolizes the geologically significant situation between the sea and the mainland. A gable-independent farmhouse typical of this region on a slight hill (Wurth) refers to the place name Wittenwurth. The crossed oak leaves indicate that there used to be extensive mixed oak forests on the edge of the marsh .

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Stelle-Wittenwurth  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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. ↑ State Statistical Office Schleswig-Holstein (Ed.): The population of the communities in Schleswig-Holstein 1867-1970 . State Statistical Office Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel 1972, p. 251 .
  3. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms