Weddelbrook

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 54 '  N , 9 ° 50'  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Segeberg
Office :	Bad Bramstedt-Land
Height :	19 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.05 km 2
Residents:	1045 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	74 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes :	24576, 25563
Area code :	04192
License plate :	SE
Community key :	01 0 60 095
Office administration address:	König-Christian-Strasse 6 24576 Bad Bramstedt
Website :	www.weddelbrook.de
Mayor :	Stefan Gärtner (FWW)
Location of the community Weddelbrook in the Segeberg district

Weddelbrook is a municipality in the Segeberg district in Schleswig-Holstein . Crutches are in the municipality.

Geography and traffic

Weddelbrook is located directly southwest of Bad Bramstedt in a rural area. To the north, the federal highway 206 runs from Bad Bramstedt to Itzehoe , to the east, the federal highway 4 from Hamburg to Bad Bramstedt.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1322. The place name probably indicates a ford (old Saxon: weddel = to wade) in a river or wetland ( brook ).

The mill pond was laid out around 1770 for a Lohmühle , in the place of which a grain mill was built in 1868, which is now a listed building and is used as a residential building.

When Gut Bramstedt , to which the place had belonged, was dissolved in 1874, Weddelbrook became an independent municipality

In 1962 the place first took part in the competition Our village should become more beautiful and immediately won first place in the district competition and second in the state competition. In 1997 Weddelbrook was again district winner and in 1998 won the bronze medal in the national competition.

politics

Community representation

Of the eleven seats in the municipal council, the Free Voting Association Weddelbrook (FWW) has seven seats since the 2018 local elections, the CDU has four. The formerly active municipal voter association Weddelbrook (KWVW) did not nominate any candidates for the 2018 municipal election.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Divided by gold and blue diagonally lowered in a snake cut. Above four red half-timbered houses 2: 1: 1, below a silver millstone. "

economy

Mill pond

Weddelbrook has developed from a purely agricultural community to a residential community. There are also some larger businesses. There is a campsite near the mill pond.

Attractions

The list of cultural monuments in Weddelbrook includes the cultural monuments entered in the list of monuments of Schleswig-Holstein.

"The old Weddelbrooker"

A granite boulder weighing around 102 t rests in the parking lot in front of the village house on Heidmoorer Straße. A Weddelbrook farmer discovered the giant stone in 1997 while working on his field. The rescue work with heavy equipment turned out to be extremely difficult. After several unsuccessful attempts, the boulder was finally lifted onto a heavy-duty truck, transported to the village house and christened "Der Alte Weddelbrooker".

literature

• Jürgen Schüchler: Chronicle of Weddelbrook, Weddelbrook Municipality 2002, ISBN 3-89876-057-X .
• Helmut Trede: Die Großgemeinde Weddelbrook, in: From prison camp to world airport, self-published Bokel 2013, pp. 117–121. ISBN 978-3-00-044299-5 .

Web links

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

• Weddelbrook parish

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. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein topography. Vol. 10: Timmaspe - Ziethen . 1st edition Flying-Kiwi-Verl. Junge, Flensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-926055-92-7 , p. 177 ( dnb.de [accessed on August 9, 2020]).
3. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms