Barlt

Barlt is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen in Schleswig-Holstein. The districts Barlterneuendeich and Barlteraltendeich lie in the municipality.

• 4.1 Sons and daughters of the town
• 4.2 Connected to Barlt

Geography

Barlt located in the marsh in southern Dithmar on the main road between 5 Meldorf and Marne. The municipal area extends from the North Sea to the Geestrand.

History

Originally Barlt was part of the parish Meldorf. In the period of peasant republic Dithmar the village was comparatively rich, such as the construction of the church Barlter 1428 shows. It was under the presumably advanced grounds that the Hovetkerke ( main church) in Meldorf was often unavailable due to the difficult weather and soil conditions, built - for Dithmarsch march farmers it part of everyday life, with frequent wet weather over sodden clothes soils and flooded drainage ditches to reach their goals need to.

The Barlter made ​​it into the episode to set up alone from village means a church, sometimes to pay two pastors and continue to pay their contributions to the parish Meldorf. The church building thus belongs to a later generation of church buildings, as they are no longer led to the establishment of regionally extensive parishes, but remained localized in their effects and in their construction.

Policy

Coat of arms

Blazon: " About shared with a tip provided without gable blue sign foot, in a silver wave beams of red and silver with a rounded sloping stage. Above, a silver wing cross a Dutch windmill, below a blue cross. "

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Frenssen Gustav (1863-1945), writer
• Toni Rothmund (1877-1956), poet, author and journalist

Connected to Barlt

• Walter Wiborg (* 1904 in Kronprinzenkoog; † 1969 Rendsburg ), Low German author; was here a few years Country Teacher

Attractions

In the list of cultural monuments in Barlt are registered in the list of monuments of Schleswig- Holstein cultural monuments.