Niendorf an der Stecknitz

Niendorf ad St. (sometimes Niendorf / Stecknitz ) is a municipality in the district of Lauenburg, in Schleswig- Holstein.

History

The village was first mentioned in Isfriedschen partition treaty of 1194 for the first time. Niendorf was long manor. Landlords were the Scharpenbergs ( 1640 ), the Barons of Albedyll and last, Maximilian Theodor Metzener, who sold the estate in 1928 to the county. 1928 also saw the union of the rural community with the Gutsbezirk.

Policy

Of the nine seats in the municipal council voters Community AAEFNW since the local elections in 2013 five seats and voters Community DNBN four.

Coat of arms

Blazon: "In two red upright crossed silver swords. In the angle between the blades of a silver, the broken figure of a heraldic lily exhibiting monogram. "

The Crest is the family crest of the last family owners of the local manor. The swords symbolize, even though they are from the arms of a branch line of the last already bourgeois family owners, the self has no connection with the place, as a sign of jurisdiction, which was exercised by a distant -reaching chain of noble rulers of the estate. A possible interpretation for the lily is a monogram the the first letter of each owner's family since 1653 (from waver from Erlenkamp of Scheell of Albedyll, of Pigeon, Lamprecht and Metzener ).

Flag

Blazon: ". On a white, upper and lower bounded by a broad blue stripes bunting the municipal coat of arms in the flag just Tincture between two horizontal red stripes on the length of one-third the length of the bunting "

Attractions

In the list of cultural monuments in St. Niendorf ad are registered in the list of monuments of Schleswig- Holstein cultural monuments.

• Mansion in Brick ( 1780 ), on the rear side portico with Doric columns. From 1930 until his death in residence Counselor Walther von Hollander.
• St. Anne's Church (built in 1581)

Personalities

• Henry Burmester (* 1839, † 1889), writers Low German dialect
• Mathilde block (* 1850, † 1932), painter