Breitenfelde

Width field is a municipality in the district of Lauenburg, in Schleswig- Holstein.

Geography

Width of the field is in the middle of the Duchy of Lauenburg on the Elbe- Lübeck Canal.

History

The village was mentioned in Ratzeburg Domkapitelverzeichnis 1194 for the first time as a parish in documents. Width field was located on the historic Old Salt Road from Lüneburg to Lübeck. In the 15th century it belonged to one half of the city of Lübeck and the monastery Marie Wohlde. The Office width field created in 1889 by order of the Prussian Minister of the Interior, after taking possession of the Duchy of Lauenburg by Prussia.

From November 1944 to April 1945 a satellite camp of Neuengamme concentration camp was located in the width field. It included 20 prisoners who were forced to do hard labor for the SS Construction Office Mölln in the sawmill of Karl Gülzow.

Policy

Coat of arms

Blazon: " divided by black and silver. Above, a silver horse's head, down six Asked closely together, narrowing upward, growing alternately blue and red stakes. "

The division of the emblem symbolizes the centuries- long division of the community into a part of Lübeck deposit rule and one belonging to the monastery Marie Wohlde part. In the upper part of the Prussian variant of the coat of arms of the Duchy of Lauenburg is shown. The tincture of the lower part symbolizes the membership of Schleswig -Holstein. Furthermore, it provides the same broad fields in the literal sense of the place name dar.

Flag

Blazon: " On white, top and bottom limited by a broad red stripes bunting the municipal coat of arms, slightly shifted from the center to the rod back. "

Attractions

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

The Romanesque in the origins width fields village church from the 12th century is an early Gothic church of the 13th century. The three-nave structure is built of field and bricks. At the three-bay nave, a choir box closes with three windows in the east end wall. The neo-Gothic bell tower dates from the year 1866. Likewise in the 19th century neo-Gothic vestry was added to the choir room.

The decorative paintings of the early Gothic vaults. The mean of the three windows in the east wall of the chancel dates from the same time. The glazing of the other two windows were made in the course of the renovation work through 1867 by Carl Julius Milde.

Traffic

Width field is connected via the federal highway 207 to the Federal Highway 24. The nearest train station is in Mölln on the railway line Lübeck- Lüneburg. Airports are in Lübeck (Regional Airport ) and Hamburg (remote airport).