Wentorf near Hamburg

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 29 '  N , 10 ° 15'  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Duchy of Lauenburg
Height :	48 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.87 km 2
Residents:	13,439 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	1956 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	21465
Area code :	040
License plate :	RZ
Community key :	01 0 53 129
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 16 21465 Wentorf near Hamburg
Website :	www.wentorf.de
Mayor :	Dirk Petersen (non-party)
Location of the municipality of Wentorf near Hamburg in the Duchy of Lauenburg

Wentorf, "Old 16"

Wentorf bei Hamburg is a municipality in the Duchy of Lauenburg in the south of Schleswig-Holstein .

geography

The municipality of Wentorf near Hamburg is located in the south-western part of the Duchy of Lauenburg district . It borders Hamburg in the south and west , in the north on the town of Reinbek , which is part of the Stormarn district, on the other side of the Bille , and in the east on the communities of Wohltorf and Börnsen . The municipality covers 686.6 hectares. The Schulenbrooksbek rises near Wentorf .

history

The place was first mentioned in 1217 under the name Wenetdorp. The meaning of the name is obvious: "Wendendorf" was a village inhabited by Slavs . In the course of its eventful history, Wentorf has changed fundamentally. Connections between the distant past and the present can only be seen in isolated cases.

In the Middle Ages Wentorf belonged to the Reinbek monastery , after the Reformation it belonged to the ruling office of Schwarzenbek . After the administrative reforms of 1889, a structural change began in the old farming village. A residential area was built near the Bille and the train station. Craftsmen and workers settled in other districts. By 1910, the village of Wentorf with its beautiful landscape had developed into a suburb of Hamburg with 1200 inhabitants. Since the middle of the 19th century, the place was connected to the city of Hamburg by railways and country roads. As a result, Wentorf had moved closer to the economic and trading center of Hamburg and was given completely different opportunities to develop than most of the neighboring communities that kept their rural character.

Shortly before the beginning of the Second World War , barracks were built in Wentorf that housed over 3000 soldiers. After 1945 the facility was used for " displaced persons " and from 1952 to 1960 as a transit camp for refugees from the GDR .

From 1960 to the mid-1990s, Wentorf was the Bundeswehr base . A large part of the 16 Panzer Grenadier Brigade was stationed in the Bose Bergmann Barracks and the Bismarck Barracks .

religion

There is an Evangelical Lutheran parish in Wentorf, and the Martin Luther Church was built in 1952.

Since the merger of the Catholic parishes from Reinbek, Glinde and Trittau on January 1, 2006, the Catholic parish of Wentorf has belonged to the parish "Seliger Niels Stensen ", whose main church is the Sacred Heart Church in Reinbek. In May 2019 this again became part of the newly founded parish Heilige Elisabeth in the pastoral area Bille-Elbe-Sachsenwald. As part of this reorganization, the Catholic community in Wentorf was given the name "Holy Spirit".

politics

The municipality fulfills supraregional tasks for its interconnectedness and / or local area, in addition to sewage disposal, especially in the area of ​​education (elementary school, community school, high school, several day-care centers), but also in the areas of sport, culture, environmental protection. The town's land-use planning is geared towards a further continuous increase in the number of inhabitants up to a maximum of 14,000 inhabitants.

Community representation

Municipal election 2018

Turnout: 47.0%

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40

30th

20th

10

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37.1%

19.4%

34.1%

9.1%

CDU

SPD

Green

FDP

Since the local elections on May 6, 2018, the 23 seats in the municipal council have been distributed among the individual groups as follows:

• CDU : 8 seats
• SPD : 5 seats
• GREEN : 8 seats
• FDP : 2 seats

The mayor was Andreas Hein (1954–2019) CDU.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In gold, a six-spoke black wagon wheel under a green diamond wreath in the head of the shield."

The coat of arms colors gold, black and green were taken from the colors of the Ascanians, the dukes of Saxony-Lauenburg , who determined the history of the municipality of Wentorf near Hamburg for five centuries. The wagon wheel marks the importance that this invention had and still has for the economic development of Wentorf. It is reminiscent of the tensioning services that the Hufner had to perform for his master for centuries, of the farmers' timber industry and the trade and transit traffic on the former freight route between Lübeck and Hamburg, today's Bundesstraße 207 . The green diamond wreath in the main shield above the wagon wheel establishes a reference to the history of Wentorf and defines the uniqueness of the wheel as a symbol of the community. The green diamond wreath is also passed down from the coat of arms of the Ascanian ancestors. The dukes of Saxony-Lauenburg saw him as a symbol of the well-being of their country - and thus of their compatriots.

Attractions

The list of cultural monuments in Wentorf near Hamburg includes the cultural monuments entered in the monuments list of Schleswig-Holstein.

The former training area Wentorfer Lohe is now used as a local recreation area.

economy

Today Wentorf is a central place (outskirts core 2nd order) with over 12,500 inhabitants. There are many commuters among the employed residents who work mainly in Hamburg.

The economy is predominantly characterized by small businesses and handicrafts , and the European headquarters of Sanrio is also located in Wentorf.

Education

In Wentorf there is a primary school , a community school and a grammar school . The Wentorf Community School is an amalgamation of the Fritz Specht School ( secondary school ) and the Realschule . The merger took place in the school year 2010/2011, initially as a regional school. An additional offer of the community school is the open all-day school .

In Wentorf there was also the Landesförderzentrum Sprach (formerly the state boarding school for the language handicapped) until 2014, before it was moved to Schleswig to the Landesförderzentrum Hören.

Wentorf has eight kindergartens. The community library has around 19,000 volumes in stock that are primarily intended to appeal to children up to the age of 12.

traffic

The VHH bus line 235 gives Wentorf a connection to the Hamburg rapid transit network of the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (HVV). The buses run between the Reinbek S-Bahn station ( S-Bahn line S21 ), the Hamburg-Bergedorf S-Bahn and regional train station . Hamburg city center can be reached within 26 minutes from the Reinbek train station.

Wentorf also has a connection to the autokraft regional bus route 8810 . This connects within the HVV, coming from Bergedorf , the place with the neighboring villages Börnsen , Dassendorf , Schwarzenbek and ends finally in the Möllner ZOB.

Wentorf is crossed by the federal highway 207 , which leads to Hamburg-Bergedorf in one direction and to Mölln and Ratzeburg in the other direction.

Personalities

• Carl von Tiedemann (1878–1979), Lieutenant General
• Fritz Specht (1891–1975), Low German writer
• Christian Bruhn (* 1934), composer, arranger and lyricist
• Volker Schirrmacher (* 1943), cancer researcher and immunologist
• Achim Reichel (* 1944), musician, composer and producer
• Roger Willemsen (1955–2016), publicist and television presenter
• Ike Moriz (* 1972), South African pop star, singer, composer and actor
• Carina Witthöft (* 1995), German tennis player

literature

• Ralf Heese, Wolfgang Stabenow, William Boehart (eds.): From the south of Wentorf to Wentorf south. Viebranz-Verlag, autumn 2004, ISBN 3-921595-45-2
• Hildegard Ballerstedt, Wolfgang Blandow, William Boehart: Wentorf near Hamburg. Archive Pictures Series, Sutton-Verlag, February 2006, ISBN 978-3-89702-925-5

Web links

Commons : Wentorf bei Hamburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Community of Wentorf near Hamburg

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. ^ Founding parish letter of the Catholic parish Saint Elisabeth in the pastoral area of ​​Bille-Elbe-Sachsenwald. Retrieved May 28, 2019 . 
3. ↑ The new parish of Saint Elizabeth - what will change? Retrieved May 28, 2019 . 
4. ↑ http://ftp.wentorf.de/wahl/Gemeindewahl_2018.html
5. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms
6. ↑ Premature exit for speech therapy school? In: www.bergedorfer-zeitung.de. Retrieved October 6, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: The miracle from Wentorf. Retrieved August 17, 2020 . 
8. ↑ IOZK: Prof. Dr. Volker Schirrmacher publishes two groundbreaking reviews on immunotherapy. In: IOZK. March 16, 2020, accessed on August 17, 2020 (German). 
9. ↑ His birth was a guest appearance in Wentorf. August 16, 2020, accessed on August 16, 2020 (German). 
10. ↑ South African pop star visiting home. August 9, 2020, accessed on August 9, 2020 (German). 
11. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Carina Witthöft: The pressure rose "immeasurably". Retrieved August 16, 2020 .