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Old wood is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg -Eckernförde in Schleswig -Holstein. The municipality is located on the peninsula Danish Wahld near Kiel.
Geography and transport
The community area includes more than 1800 hectares of forest and agricultural areas that benefit the recreation seekers. In addition to the North Sea-Baltic Canal especially the Eider Canal and the forests around Knoop, Projensdorf and Friedrichshof be mentioned.
The community of Old Wood consists of the districts and settlements Klaus village, pen, Knoop, Postkamp, Kubitzberg, Dehnhöft and Friedrichshof.
History
The name Old wood goes to the previously existing forests back, hence the crest with the oak, because this is the symbol of strength and old age.
The community was originally named Klaus village and belonged from 1889 to the District Knoop. 1928 resolved estate districts Knoop, Projensdorf and pen were integrated into the community. 1930 the municipalities were reorganized in a circle Eckernförde and the community came to the district of Schilksee, from 1948, the Office Dänischenhagen was formed. In 1933 the municipality, which is free office 1963, renamed the old wood.
The earlier purely rural community Old Wood is now a city edge community with small-town character. Despite a degree of urban development in the districts of Klaus village and pin the more rural character of the other districts has been preserved.
Policy
Of the 23 seats in the municipal council, the CDU has been the local elections in 2013 seven seats, the voter community AWG has six, seven, the SPD, the Greens and the FDP a two.
Coat of arms
Blazon: "In gold a rooted green oak, the trunk covered with a silver shield, in a leaping black wolf. "
Partner communities
Partner community of Old Wood is Château Renard in France. Friendly contacts are maintained with Paldiski in Estonia.
The Danish partner community Aabybro the partnership has been terminated on 1 January 2007, as the community then fused in the wake of the Danish structural and administrative reform with three neighboring municipalities Jammerbugt municipality.
Attractions
In the list of cultural monuments in old wood are registered in the list of monuments of Schleswig- Holstein cultural monuments.
Facilities
Old wood has, among other things, four schools ( an elementary school with two locations, a regional school and a high school). Next you will find a community college, three shopping malls and an active social life (TSV old wood).
Since 1975, Old Wood is the seat of the University of Applied Sciences for Administration and service. Is also based in the Old Wood is the data port ipc ( end of 2003: Data Center Schleswig -Holstein), which central service provider for information technology for the carrier states of Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, Schleswig -Holstein and the communal " IT network Schleswig -Holstein " is.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Theodor Feddersen (1839-1908), member of the Reichstag, born in pin
- Annie Baudissin (1868-1915), German writer, born in Friedrichshof