Hjordkær parish

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Hjordkær Sogn (German Jordkirch ) is a country parish church (Danish: Sogn ) in Northern Schleswig in southern Denmark. It is located 7 km west of the city of Aabenraa (German Aabenraa ) and, since the municipal reform on 1 January 2007, of the eponymous Aabenraa municipality in Region Syddanmark the. By 1970 the parish to Harde Rise Herred in the former Aabenraa - Sønderborg office belonged then to the Rødekro in the former South Jutland office.

Municipality

The community Hjordkær contains 33 square kilometers and is approximately one in west-east direction elongated, flat rectangle. On 1 January 2013 here lived 2070 people, including 1677 in Kirchdorf, which has now grown together with Nübel. ( :; 1921 785 O.: 1085 inhabitants in 1860.. ), Which is especially favored by the convenient location and proximity to Aabenraa Unlike many other rural communities in the region is the number of inhabitants in the 20th century has grown continuously.

Neighboring municipalities are (clockwise): Aabenraa in the east, in the south Ensted (German Enstedt ) Bjolderup and Ravsted (German Rapstedt ), in the west Hellevad (German Light Watt) and in the north Egvad (German Ekwatt ) and Rise ( dt. Ries ).

History

For the first time in 1196 Hjordkær was mentioned as Hiortteker, Söderup as Suddathorp even over a hundred years earlier. The numerous places with the ending -lev/-leben are very old.

The name Hjordkær is interpreted as a swampy area ( Kær ) with Stags ( Hjort ). In the recent German name that is first documented in 1684, is drawn to the church. The same phenomenon is found in Raven Churches / Ravnkær in fishing, otherwise Kær was the Germans kjer most.

Hjordkær one of the few parish communities in the region, whose boundaries have changed considerably in the early modern period. While the debate about the Duchy of Schleswig, had belongs to which Hjordkær since its inception, in 1411 the church was destroyed in Southshore life. Apparently, she was initially not rebuilt, residents talked to the neighboring churches. Only in the 1520s, the present church was rebuilt on the northern edge of Hjordkær. Here, the parish received a new blank: The largest part of Norder life stayed with Rise, but came to the west by the parish Kassö Hellevad and Tagholm from the parish Ravsted added, which explains the unusual shape of the community.

In the Middle Ages had the Schleswiger Michaeliskloster that Løgumkloster (German Løgumkloster ), which at times noble goods Bolderslev (German Boller life ), and Karlswraa Tørning (German Törning ) and the Schleswig Bishop possessions in the community. Most were re gorgeous country before the Reformation. The bishop in possession Hjordkær and Arsleben was finally secularised in 1586, but he belonged until 1702 to a special bailiwick Kolstrup which united the former bishop's possession in space Aabenraa.

Through the village runs from north to south of the Ox Trail. In the courtyard Toldsted (German Tollstedt ) near the village Nübel there was an important customs office for well into the 19th century, significant Ochs trade.

The parish was part of the legal district of the Ries Harde, and since the late Middle Ages to the then district Aabenraa. However Tagholm belonged to Schluxharde and thus the circle Tønder.

After the annexation of the Duchy of Schleswig into Prussia in 1867 Hjordkær was divided into seven rural communities: Kassö ( with Tagholm ), Southshore life ( Sønder Ønlev ) Jordkirch ( Hjordkær ) Söderup, Großalsleben ( Alslev ) Nübel ( Nybøl ) and Arsleben ( Årslev ). The area belonged to the circle Aabenraa, since 1889 formed the District Bjolderup an intermediary.

On February 10, 1920 voted in the referendum on the German - Danish border 510 citizens of Denmark and 154 for Germany. After the incorporation of North Schleswig in the Danish state Hjordkær was combined into a single parish rural community. Since 1970, however, it is limited to their Lutheran church function. At that time Hjordkær part of Rødekro that worked in turn in 2007 in the new Aabenraa Kommune.

Economy and Transport

As Geest community not equipped with rich soils, Hjordkær was never particularly wealthy. Long was the cultivation of rye and barley most important branch of agriculture.

However, numerous workshops and an engine factory gave the community its character long. The proportion of commuters, however, is high, and many work in the neighboring towns Boller life, Roth jug and Aabenraa.

Through the community, the E 45 motorway runs, but are the nearest interchanges outside the community. In Arsleben is a highway rest stop. Through the community itself also attracts well -developed highway Tønder Aabenraa.

Already in the 1860s Hjordkær received a railway station, around which soon formed a large settlement, the old village Hjordkær and Nübel connects today. How many stations on the railway line Flensburg- Fredericia station Hjordkær 1974 was shut down, the reception building demolished in 1996. The nearest train station is five kilometers north in Rødekro.

Attractions

The small late-Gothic church is located at the northern edge of the village Hjordkær. The brick and stone building consists only of a nave and chancel, but looks very reason despite the comparatively young age unadulterated.