Meldorf

Meldorf ( Low German: Möldörp or Meldörp ) is a city in Dithmarschen in Schleswig-Holstein.

  • 3.1 The Municipal Corporation
  • 3.2 Town twinning
  • 3.3 Coat of Arms
  • 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town
  • 6.2 Connected to Meldorf

Geography

Meldorf is located on the Miele on an original into the Wadden Sea reaching into Geest island. Through land reclamation ( the last Speicherkoog ) but if it is now more than six kilometers from the shoreline at the Meldorfer Bay.

History

Numerous archaeological finds evidence of early settlement in the region. Made famous is the so-called primer Meldorf, a cloak pin with four characters (letters) from the 1st century, the reading is uncertain. Read from right to left, it could be hiwi be the runic inscription, which should mean in ancient Germanic language for the house Related, and thus one of the oldest runic finds any, from left to right but it could also be a Latin inscription and Idin, the Germanic form for Ida, hot.

Already in 1076 was mentioned by Adam of Bremen, that the mother church of Dithmarsch in Meldorf is. 1265 Meldorf received its town charter. Meldorf was in the Middle Ages (until the relocation to Heide) Main place of Dithmar. 1598 Meldorf again lost its city charter and became the stains. 1870 Meldorf became a town again. Meldorf was up to resolution 1970 town of the district Süderdithmarschen. The former license plate of this circle, MED, is derived from the name of the former county town.

On the 25th May 2008, the city gave up their Amtsfreiheit and formed with the communities of offices Kirchspielslandgemeinde community Albers village and parish rural community Meldorf country the office of Central Dithmar.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1971, the area was part of the municipality Wolmersdorf was incorporated with at that time about 20 residents.

Policy

The Municipal Corporation

Of the 19 seats in the municipal council, the CDU and the SPD have since the local elections in 2013 six seats, the voter community WMF has five and the FDP two seats.

Twinning

The city has partnerships with Gryfice in Poland and with Altentreptow in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Coat of arms

Blazon: " Argent, on a green hill, through which a winding with five red stars occupied silver brook, a red five towers crenellated castle. "

Sights and culture

Special tourist attraction is the Meldorfer Cathedral in the city center. The cathedral is built in the style of Brick Gothic. Besides the cathedral, the city also has several museums: the Dithmarsch National Museum, the Dithmarsch farmhouse, the Museum weaving and the Schleswig -Holstein State Museum.

Meldorf is known for some years also popularly known as the cultural capital of the circle Dithmar. Numerous cultural events such as the video Meldorfer days at the Cultural Ditmarsia, the Meldorfer open-air cinema on the Südermarkt and the World Music Festival frequencies have established themselves there in the past few years. Likewise artifice in Meldorf find numerous activities held during the Dithmarsch cultural project. An episode of the television series steel mesh, The House on the sturgeon, treated a criminal case in Meldorf the postwar period. In Meldorf there are two stumbling blocks in memory of the victims of Nazism, namely for Johann Wilhelm Jasper in the Marschstr. 37 and for Friedrich Jansen on Südermarkt 2

In 2000, the XI in Meldorf. European Championships held in Boßeln. The association TuRa Meldorf is with about 2,500 members of the largest sports club on the west coast of Schleswig -Holstein. In addition, there is a local chapter of the DLRG and a tennis club.

The place has an indoor and outdoor pool. The outdoor pool is out since a threat of closure in 1997 by the Friends volunteer Meldorfer pool ( FMF).

For the region typical houses dot the Meldorfer Kirch, Market Square

Sign of the old district administration today, District Court

Dithmarsch Landesmuseum

Economy and infrastructure

Meldorf is connected to the national road 431 and State Road 5. The nearest motorway exit is about 10 to 15 kilometers away on the motorway 23 also features Meldorf on a station on the march railway, the railway line, connecting Hamburg / Elmshorn with the island of Sylt.

Large employers are the printing Evers pressure, the Stiftung Mensch ( workshop for people with disabilities) as well as the window and door producer Aldra (companies ).

Meldorf currently occupied in the Solarbundesliga in the competitive category of " small towns " 78th position. This is the best placement of a North German town.

As a former county seat, the city is home to some public institutions such as the district court Meldorf and the tax office of the circle Dithmar. In addition, there is always the " Südsitz " of organizations that are still split regionally as the church circles. Meldorf has a public library, an adult education center and seven public schools:

  • Astrid Lindgren School ( ALS)
  • Vocational Training Centre ( VTC ) Dithmar ( other locations: i H. Heath, Brunsbuttel )
  • Primary school Meldorf (GSM)
  • Community School (GMS ) Meldorf Secondary school Meldorf
  • Realschule Meldorf (previously Meldorfer middle school )

The Protestant church has a nursery.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Nicolaus Boie the Younger (1501-1542), Protestant theologian, reformer and hymn writer
  • Peter Wiben (? -1545 ), Landsknecht, robber and pirate
  • Daniel Frese (1540-1611), cartographer and painter
  • Theodor Glazer (? -1617 ), Author and council secretary in Lübeck
  • Heinrich Christian Boie (1744-1806), publicist
  • Friedrich Boie (1789-1870), lawyer, ornithologist and entomologist
  • Heinrich Boie (1794-1827), zoologist
  • Olaus Henrici (1840-1918), mathematician
  • Johann Wilhelm Jasper (1898-1934), a resistance fighter against National Socialism
  • Sönke Sönksen (* 1938), show jumper, Olympian 1976
  • Karin Mölling (* 1943), virologist and AIDS researcher
  • Helmut Allium (* 1956), actor
  • Volker Nielsen (born 1964 ), politician ( CDU)
  • Martin Borowski (born 1966 ), lawyer and university professor

Connected to Meldorf

  • Henry of Zutphen (1488-1524), reformer and Protestant martyr ( preached in Meldorf )
  • Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815), German mathematician, cartographer and explorer
  • Hans Reimer Claussen (1804-1894), German politician and United States Senator.
  • Martin Luserke (1880-1968), German writer and educational reformer
  • Ernst Mohr, (1895-1974), Evangelical- Lutheran pastor and dean
  • Martin Matthiessen (1901-1990), the perpetrators of the Holocaust
  • Detlev Karsten Rohwedder (1932-1991), Manager of the Trust Agency, went to school here
  • Lars Jessen (born 1969 in Kiel ), Director, went to school here
  • Fiona Erdmann (* 1988 Dudweiler ), German model, went to school here
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