Wrist

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 56 '  N , 9 ° 45'  E
Basic data
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Circle :	Stone castle
Office :	Kellinghusen
Height :	2 m above sea level NHN
Area :	10.12 km 2
Residents:	2359 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	233 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	25563
Area code :	04822
License plate :	IZ
Community key :	01 0 61 116
Office administration address:	Am Markt 9 25548 Kellinghusen
Website :	www.wrist.de
Mayor :	Jörg Frers ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Wrist in the Steinburg district

Wrist is a municipality in the Steinburg district in Schleswig-Holstein .

Geography and traffic

Wrist station

Wrist and Wrist station are on the Hamburg-Altona-Kiel railway line between the Neumünster and Elmshorn stations . From 1889 to 1995, the Wrist – Itzehoe railway also ran from here

The federal highway 206 runs through the municipality.

A small river, the Bramau , flows through the village. In summer you can swim in the Bramau; Canoeists use the Bramau on their run between Bad Bramstedt and Kellinghusen in the Stör .

The districts of Dammhof, Freudental, Heidrehm, Stellau, Weidenhof, Wittenkamp and Wurth belong to the community.

Field stone church in Stellau

history

In the year 1201 in the battle of Stellau Waldemar II. (Together with his brother King Knuth VI. Of Denmark ) Count Adolf III. defeated by Schauenburg and Holstein .

In 1230, Archbishop Gebhard II of Bremen inaugurated a Romanesque stone church near this battlefield, namely the Stellau church, which has been preserved to this day (see picture).

The current municipality of Wrist was created in 1938 through the union of the municipalities of Stellau and Wrist.

politics

Community representation

Since the local elections in 2018, the CDU has eight, the SPD four and the WGW electoral community three seats in the municipal council.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In red over a silver corrugated beam, a silver field stone church of the 13th century in side view with entrance gate and three windows, without a tower."

Attractions

The landmark of the community is the Stellau Church from the 13th century, shown in the coat of arms in its original form as a field stone building.

Personalities

Born in Stellau:

• 1672 Johann Heinrich Feustking (1672–1713), evangelical theologian, professor and prorector of the University of Leucorea in Wittenberg , court preacher in Gotha , Schloss Friedenstein , author of numerous theological writings
• 1674 Sebastian Dethleff Feustking (1674–1722), tax and court commissioner at the prince. Saxon. Court of Duke Friedrich II (Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg) in Gotha , brother of Johann Heinrich Feustking
• 1678 Friedrich Christian Feustking (1678–1739), writer (including librettist from Handel's opera Almira ), teacher in Hamburg, pastor in Tolk , brother of Johann Heinrich Feustking

Web links

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

• Parish Wrist

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. 374 ( dnb.de [accessed on August 9, 2020]).
3. ↑ Wrist local election 2018 PDF. Retrieved May 18, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein's municipal coat of arms