Büttel

Wolfenbüttel is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig- Holstein. In maps of the 17th and 18th centuries, the place appears as Dick constable / constable Dieck.

Geography and transport

Wolfenbüttel is located about seven kilometers east of Brunsbuttel directly on the dike, which here runs somewhat inland. The nature reserve of land in front of the dike at the shore is simply " outside the dikes " or called Low German " Butendiek ". In the outer dike is located with the " Boesch " an increase that formerly served as a pilot station. The castle - Kudensee channel flows through the community.

Constable had formerly a port with access to the same. Of these, today is only the old small büttel channel left, which is much too narrow for today's ships. The access to the same is closed. It only remembers the old sluice building on the former trading port.

The Federal Highway 5 passes through the community.

History

Constable was first mentioned in 1318, but the settlement probably dates already from the Frankish period. In a battle that the Holstein Count Gerhard III. delivered in 1331 with the Danish king, a büttel has saved the lives of citizens Gerhard, whereupon he freed the city constable of the tax liability. The canal was completed in 1765 after Kudensee, he served mainly the transport of peat, which was transhipped in Wolfenbüttel on Elbschiffe. The construction of the North Sea-Baltic Canal, the Port of constable but was quickly overtaken by the neighboring Brunsbuttel. The expansion of the Brunsbütteler Easter Moors to the location of the chemical industry had until 1979 750 büttel soft residents who were relocated. Of the more than 200 buildings are now in Wolfenbüttel only 17

Policy

Since the municipality has less than 70 inhabitants, it has a community meeting place of a municipal council; these belong to all citizens of the community.

Nature

The outer dike was marked in the years 1965-1975 through meadows with cows. Lapwings had their nests there that have not been trodden down by the cows. Storks were also encountered as many (Flour ) swallows that had their nests on the houses under the eaves. The ditches on dike foot in the outer dike were brown in the water fleas. Sticklebacks hundreds, tadpoles, marsh marigold, sorrel, as well as occasional lizards offered a variety, as it is no longer to be found since about 1980. The trenches now contain only brown algae that could survive in the eutrophic ditches.

At about 1970, increased by hydraulic filling of the western part of the outer dike (not the dike, but the country ). In the same was bathed in summer, either directly in the cold stream of water at high tide or directly behind the embankment of granite stones and a palisade wall. Located there flat, heated by the sunlight water was favorite swimming area for children and also young whereabouts of small fish.

Economy

The community was transformed from a small agricultural town, with a industrial and commercial settlements. On the boundaries of the municipality of 13 wind turbines were built.

The wind farm bailiff - Holsten dam consists of five wind turbines of the REpower 5M with 5 MW capacity, 126 m rotor diameter and 117 m hub height. The facilities were endgefertigt spot in a removable assembly hall, to avoid time-consuming transports the 400 -ton nacelles. Originally, the wind farm by the installer REpower should be operated directly, later the investor Allianz SE took over the operation.

Another wind turbine of the type REpower 5M, which was the prototype of these systems and the three feet higher than the in - constable Holsten dam, is located in nearby Brunsbuttel.

North of constable is located at the substation Büttel a converter station in construction, where the coming of the offshore wind farms under construction HVDC lines HelWin 1 and SylWin one end and is to be feeding into the 380 kV grid.

Personalities

• Elfriede Kaun (1914-2008), was a German track and field athlete