Tinningstedt

Tinningstedt (Danish: Tinningsted, Frisian: Taningstää ) is a municipality in the Geest in the district of North Friesland Schleswig -Holstein.

Geography and transport

Tinningstedt is located about ten kilometers south of the German - Danish border, near the confluence of the federal highway 199 in the highway 5, the Green Coast road. The nearest train station is in Niebüll.

Policy

Municipal council

In the local elections on May 26, 2013 received the voter community Tinningstedt (WGT ), with a voter turnout of 56.6 percent, all nine seats.

Mayor

For the election period 2013-2018 Dirk Enewaldsen (WGT ) was re-elected mayor.

Coat of arms

Blazon: " Argent, a flight -ready, black reinforced Red Hawk, who wants to settle on a continuous, low red brick wall, this is with two golden on both sides decorated, each with a branching spiral wall anchors, and a blue wave beams in the sign. "

Personalities

The CDU politician Ludwig Claussen (1906-1974) was born in Tinningstedt.