Fleckeby

Fleckeby (Danish Flækkeby ) is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg -Eckernförde in Schleswig -Holstein. Fleckeby is the main town in Südschwansen.

Geography and transport

Fleckeby is located about halfway between Schleswig and Eckenförde on the Schlei. In the south the city borders on the Hüttener mountains. The Federal Highway 76 runs through the city.

History

The place was first in 1196 at the dissolution of the Schleswig Michaelis monastery mentioned as Fekabicol documented. The place name comes from the Danish and means about herb village ( feka ≈ swampweed ).

The church today Fleckeby was taken on February 12, 1974 by merging the municipalities Götheby -Holm and Fleckeby.

In Fleckeby is the Hardesvogtei. The building was the seat of the bailiff of the Hüttener Harde. Today, the house serves as a museum of Schleswig Harden. The Cross Church on Louisenlunder path is entered in the list of cultural monuments in Fleckeby.

Policy

Of the 15 seats in the municipal council has the voter community FWGF since the local elections in 2013 six seats, the SPD four, three, the CDU and the SSW two seats.

Coat of arms

Blazon: " By moving silvery wave divided by blue and red, covered with a rooted with two leaves again lined golden oak stump. The leaves close one with the pointed side forward -looking silver hammer one. "

The two oak leaves in the coat of arms symbolize as Doppeleiche the two districts Fleckeby and Götheby -Holm. The roots in the soil indicate that agriculture and the hammer on the craft and business. The waves are intended to identify the location of the municipality in the loop.