Wewelsfleth

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 51 '  N , 9 ° 24'  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Stone castle
Office :	Wilstermarsch
Height :	1 m above sea level NHN
Area :	24.54 km 2
Residents:	1308 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	53 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	25599
Area code :	04829
License plate :	IZ
Community key :	01 0 61 110
Office administration address:	Kohlmarkt 25 25554 Wilster
Website :	www.wilster.de
Mayor :	Delf Bolten ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Wewelsfleth in the Steinburg district

Aerial photo (May 2012)

"Wevelflete" 1645 in the Atlas Maior by Willem Blaeu

Wewelsfleth ( Low German : Wewelsfleet ) is a municipality in the Steinburg district in Schleswig-Holstein .

Geography and traffic

Wewelsfleth lies on the Stör , which flows into the Elbe here . The Stör barrage is also in Wewelsfleth. The federal highway 431 runs through the municipality. The place is traversed by the Humsterdorfer weather .

The districts of Wewelsflether Uhrendorf, Kleinwisch, Humsterdorf, Beesen, Roßkopp, Großwisch, Hollerwetter , Dammducht and Außenendeich belong to the community .The Störort settlement , inhabited by many artists, was also located in the community and had to give way to the construction of the Stör barrage in 1975. In the main town of Wewelsfleth there was a ferry across the Stör until 1980. Today the western neighbor is sometimes used as a slipway . The jetty there allows a view of the Peters shipyard .

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  Map from 1893 with the ferry

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  Condition of the former ferry in 2017

history

The first recorded mention of the place can be found in a document from 1238, in which the place name is noted as Weuelesflethe . As with almost all words from this time, the spelling changed over the centuries, as can be seen from the following documents.

Place names with the ending - fleth are characteristic of the Elbmarschen. Fleete denoted the natural tributaries of the Elbe and its tributaries; However, these watercourses have largely disappeared due to the dike in the Middle Ages and only preserved in the place names. The former Wewelsfleth was located on such a watercourse.

The place names with the ending - fleth are composed of personal names or other nouns . The word Wewel can be traced back to the Saxon name Wibil , so that the Fleth at that time was the " Fleth des Wibil ". From Wibil of time is then over Wevel and Wewel become.

At the beginning of the 16th century, due to the constant threat of storm surges, the parish was relocated from its location directly on the Elbe below the mouth of the Stärm to the place of the village of Humsterdorf .

church

The church of Alt-Wewelsfleth was consecrated to the first Bremen bishop Willehad , who evangelized around 780 between the Lower Weser and Lower Elbe and probably also in northern Albingia. It was first mentioned in 1337.

After the site had been moved, the new church was consecrated to the Trinity around 1503 and called the Trinity Church .

politics

Community representation

Since the local elections in 2013, the SPD has four, the CDU five and the UWG electoral community four seats in the municipal council.

coat of arms

Blazon : “Divided by silver and blue. Above the red street front of a Wilstermarsch farmhouse with a silver gable boarded up in three steps and topped with a limping claw . Below is a single-masted silver sturgeon boat under full sail. "

economy

The Peters Werft is the largest company in the municipality with 110 employees. In November 1989 UWW (Umschalt Windstrom Wedel) built one of Germany's early 75 kW wind turbines in Wewelsfleth in response to the construction of the Brokdorf nuclear power plant . It was still in operation in 2012.

Culture

The Alfred Döblin House is a culturally rich building in Wewelsfleth . The house was built in 1698 as a parish bailiff by parish bailiff Peter Hellmann. In 1970 the writer Günter Grass bought the house and saved it from demolition. This is where u. a. his works The Flounder and Head Births , as well as many of his drawings and etchings. In 1985 Günter Grass donated the house to the State of Berlin as a place of work for Berlin authors (residency grants). Since then, young Berlin authors have been visiting Wewelsfleth regularly for a few months as part of a scholarship co-financed by the City of Berlin.

Günter Grass and Björn Engholm founded the Wewelsflether Talks in 1983 , at which since then personalities from politics, culture, science and business have met once a year to discuss current topics.

The Wewelsfleth Wind Orchestra, founded in 1955, is an important cultural sponsor and winner of the Steinburg District Culture Prize in 2009.

Personalities

• Heinrich Hudemann (~ 1595–1628), poet of late humanism , had been pastor in Wewelsfleth since 1620.
• Johann Hudemann (1606–1678), brother of the previous one, was born in Wewelsfleth and was pastor there from 1629–1644 and then pastor in Krempe and general superintendent of Schleswig and Holstein
• Heinrich Schmidt (1756-1846) was a German Evangelical Lutheran chief pastor in the Marienkirche, later provost in Süderdithmarschen and hymn poet.
• Carl Irminger (1802–1888), Danish Vice Admiral and Minister of the Navy
• Peter Dietrich (1938–2017), builder of the Altenwerder container terminal and Hamburg's HafenCity, had lived in the Alte Fährhaus with his family since 1973

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Wewelsfleth (with outer dike , Hollerwetter and Uhrendorf )
• Timeline for the Lower Elbe region
• Wilstermarsch

literature

• HA Becker: Die Stör Der Stör , Verlag BoD, 1970/2002, pp. 44-46 Wewelsfleth reading sample from Google Books
• Andreas Rumler : Schleswig-Holstein - culture, history and landscape between the North Sea and Baltic Sea, Elbe and Flensburg Fjord , DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern, 1997, p. 286 Wewelsfleth reading sample from Google Books

Web links

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

• Wewelsfleth community at the Wilstermarsch office
• Johann Friedrich Dörfer: Topography of Holstein in alphabetical order: A repertory to the map of the Duchy of Holstein, the areas of the imperial cities of Hamburg and Lübek, and the Diocese of Lübek , Verlag Röffs, 1807, "Wewelsfleth" page (292) at digital collections ( MDZ )
• Texts and historical views on Wewelsfleth at mein-wilster-de

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. 280 ( dnb.de [accessed on August 9, 2020]).
3. ↑ Hans Carstens: A barrage has been protecting the Elbmarschen since 1975. In: shz.de , February 15, 2012, accessed April 5, 2019.
4. ↑ Old ferry house and former ferry Wewelsfleth. In: Kultur-Landschaft Digital (KuLaDig, cooperative LVR database), accessed in April 2019.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Wolfgang Laur : Historisches Ortsnamelexikon von Schleswig-Holstein , 2nd edition, Neumünster 1992, p. 694.
6. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms
7. ^ SPD history workshop : Wewelsflether talks.