Berkenthin

Berkenthin is a municipality in the district of Lauenburg in southeastern Schleswig -Holstein. Berke Thin is a rural administrative center and administrative headquarters of the Office of the same name.

• 4.1 Mary Magdalene Church

Geography and transport

Berkenthin is influenced by the Elbe- Lübeck Canal and is located southeast of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. The site consists of two districts, small Berkenthin west of the channel and wholesale Berkenthin on the eastern channel page. The two districts are connected by a railway steel bridge, this bridge carries the federal highway 208 in the southern area of ​​a pedestrian bridge crosses the canal and leads directly to the historic Mary Magdalene Church. The entire eastern part of the municipality is part of the Lauenburg Lakes Nature Park.

By Berkenthin leads the federal highway 208 of Ratzeburg to Bad Oldesloe. The new Baltic Sea motorway leads about eight kilometers to the north by the municipality. In twelve kilometers from the regional airport Luebeck- Blankensee is.

By 1962 Berkenthin possessed also has a station on the so-called Kaiserbahn of Hagenow about Ratzeburg to Bad Oldesloe. The track was removed in 1972, near the bridge over the Elbe- Lübeck Canal still existed until a few years ago.

History

The place was first mentioned in 1230 for the first time in Ratzeburg tithe register. From this time, the early Gothic Mary Magdalene church dates. 1264 gave the Bishop of Ratzeburg half the tithes of the village Parketin to a local noble family that owned the noble good and Prepared Small Berkenthin to 1681. 1900, the Elbe- Lübeck Canal was inaugurated. On 1 October 1938, the Lauenburg communities Kählstorf and Göldenitz and lübbische place Hollenbek were incorporated. Göldenitz was an independent municipality on April 1, 1951,. Hollenbek changed on 1 April 1954 in the town Behlendorf. In 1974 Berkenthin was classified as rural administrative center. In 1985, the community's approval to run their own coat of arms. In 1991, a sports center was built on the site of the former sawmill to promote sports activities. A turf sports fields, an artificial grass pitch, two tennis courts and a multipurpose room used since the surrounding communities as a focal point in sports.

Policy

Coat of arms

Blazon: "Divided. Divided up in red a silver studded with three shamrocks oblique strip, down from Black and Silver three times oblique. "

The Silver Bevel bar is from a seal of the local nobles Detlev von Parkentin from the 13th century.

Attractions

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

Built in 1900 lock on the Elbe- Lübeck Canal is operated according to the principle hotoppschen only by water power.

Mary Magdalene Church

The Mary Magdalene Church in Berkenthin was built around 1230. However, is mentioned a church in Berkenthin in a control list from the year 1194. The Mary Magdalene church has medieval and medieval modeled wall paintings from the 19th century, a late Baroque altar, a figure of Mary Magdalene from the 15th century, a tree trunk cross from the 14th century and a baptismal of 1734th The masonry suggests that the church was destroyed several times. But here About There are no records. Today's pointed steeple replaced in 1967 the previous construction with four gables and a small wooden tower. Since about 1530-1543, the church is Protestant.

About their names, there are several theories: is possible that the church in connection with the slaughter of Bornhöved ( 1227 ) was donated to the Danes. This battle took place ( 22 July) on Mary Magdalene day. As part of this battle Count Adolf IV had sworn with Schauenburg and Holstein, in case of victory to donate in his sphere of Mary Magdalene churches or monasteries. In temporal proximity the Castle Monastery ( 1227 ) was founded as St. Mary Magdalene Convent of the Dominicans in Lübeck, which goes back to the victorious battle Count Adolf IV at Bornhöved.

Another theory relies on the Stecknitzfahrer whose patron saint was Mary Magdalene. The boatmen on the Salzprähmen called themselves the Mary Magdalene Brotherhood of Stecknitzfahrer. The Berke Unterthiner church was one of Stecknitzfahrer churches (as well as Krummesse, Witzeeze and Seven Oaks ). Here the Stecknitzschiffer attended services, had their own pews and a private burial in the church cemetery in Berkenthin. Tombs of the Stecknitzfahrer are still preserved in the cemetery at the church.

To 1832, the church was dedicated to unofficial patron saint Peter, who is represented twice in the church. The church was originally nameless known as " Church in Berkenthin " until it was given the name " Mary Magdalene Church " in March 2008.

Pictures

Church seen from Berkenthin of the old pedestrian bridge over the canal from

Church tower from the entrance of the churchyard

Mary Magdalene Church