Danish Wahld

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The landscape Danish Wahld (Danish: Jernved ) is a peninsula between Eckernförder Bay and Kiel Fjord in Schleswig -Holstein. In the south of the Danish Wold is (today about the Kiel Canal) limited by the Levensau and the Eider. Capital of the historic landscape and a same office, which includes only a central part of the peninsula, is Gettorf.

The Danish Wold is situated mostly in Eckernförde of today Rendsburg -Eckernförde. Some places in the southeast ( Schilksee, Holtenau Friedrichsort ) belong since 1922 and 1959 respectively for the city of Kiel.

Landscape

The Danish Wold is part of Schleswig -Holstein hill country. This young moraine landscape was formed about 20,000 years ago with the melting of the Weichsel glaciation. Many knolls and hills cover the landscape. Today are vast grain, corn and canola fields behind the beaches and cliffs.

Name

The term " Danish Wahld " is on the former - once in royal demesne of the Danish king located - woodland Isarnho (iron wood ) due between Eckernförder Bay and Kiel Fjord. A native of the Low German term Wahld stands for Forest. Attribution of the iron forest can be found even today in the Danish name Jernved again, in the old Danish landscape was accordingly called Iarnwith and Old Saxon as Isarnhoe.

Colonization

Prehistory

As the earliest evidence of humans in Schleswig-Holstein the 13th millennium BC, will be on display. Sporadically used deposits of reindeer hunters followed 8,000-9,000 years ago, first transitions to become sedentary and rural economy of agriculture, animal husbandry and tillage. Many megalithic tombs found in the Danish Wold (for example, the numerous megalithic tombs at Birkenmoor ) are an expression of grown social fabric of the immigrant tribes of the Neolithic period.

Only in the 3rd millennium BC made ​​on schedule full clearing and installation of pasture, arable as housing estates. In contrast, larger settlement units and the development of craft and traders are to accept only from the 2nd millennium BC and mark the beginning of the Bronze Age. Numerous finds, among other things in Bornstein ( princely graves of Neudorf- Bornstein ) confirm the early settlement here. Since the 2nd century BC the Cimbri and Teutons Jutland are detectable.

Migration of the Peoples

The following are migration period since the end of the 3rd century AD, probably due to unfavorable living conditions, large-scale population movements occupied. The nth since the 2nd century BC occupied Saxony immigrated with Jutes and fishing 400 to about 500 increasingly in Britain and left north of the Elbe large settlement gaps. The Danish Wold was largely uninhabited.

Middle Ages

Since 811 Eider and Levensau were defined as an influence boundary between Danes and Saxons. North of the Windebyer Noor stretched the Osterwall of Danewerkes. To the east the Limes Saxoniae recognized an additional influence limit against the Slavs.

The intermediate area of the Danish Wohldes still consisted of contiguous forest, and was accordingly largely uninhabited, except for isolated settlements Jutland. Administratively part of the Danish Wold since about 1200 for Fræzlæt. The said order in 1231 as King fief of the Danish King Waldemar II area included geographically about the line Eckernförde / Windeby - Haby - Sehestedt to the west and south to the Eider and Levensau; Today, the North Sea-Baltic Canal, following roughly.

In 1260, the Danish Wold was finally pledged to the Holstein counts, which brought an influx of settlers coming south and a clearing of large parts of the Danish Wohldes with it. First settlement sites with livestock and agriculture followed farming villages and fortified manor houses. 1662 50 % of the area had already been cleared.

Village ups

Oldest founding of villages were

  • Gettorf ( 1259 ),
  • Holtsee ( 1272 ),
  • Schilksee ( 1273),
  • Dänischenhagen ( 1274),
  • Schinkel ( 1289 ),
  • Jellenbek ( 1300 ),
  • Old Bülk ( 1304)
  • Lindau ( 1307 ),
  • Felm ( 1310)
  • Warleberg ( 1316 ),
  • Rathsmannsdorf ( 1325 ),
  • Knoop (1322 ) and
  • Seekamp (1350 ).

In the late Middle Ages formed the Danish Wold, similar to Schwansen, large aristocratic landed estates with notable mansions or castles from. This landed estates exercised until the end of the 19th century from the jurisdiction. Even today, there are many of the farms, their rural surroundings are dominated Low German, in possession of the old families.

Administrative affiliation

Administratively formed coined by large estates Danish Wahld own goods within the district of the Duchy of Schleswig, which in turn accounted for a Danish fiefdom. At present, the country's divisions between royal and gottorf between the Danish Wold shares belonged together with other goods districts to jointly ruled shares. After 1853, the Danish Wold came to the newly created Eckernförder Harde. After the German -Danish War and the transition of the duchies to Prussia the Danish Wold came in 1867 to the newly created circuit Eckernförde, which in 1970 merged with the district of Rendsburg for the district of Rendsburg -Eckernförde. Some communities in the southeast of the Danish Wohldes 1922 and 1959 were incorporated in the independent city of Kiel.

Towns

  • Community Altenhof
  • Old wooden church
  • Community Dänischenhagen
  • Community Felm
  • Community Gettorf
  • Community Holtsee
  • Community Lindau
  • Community Neudorf- Bornstein
  • Community Neuwittenbek
  • Community Noer
  • Community Osdorf
  • Community Schinkel
  • Community Schwedeneck
  • Community Tüttendorf

Kiel Districts:

  • Schilksee
  • Pries
  • Friedrichsort
  • Holtenau
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