Drage (Steinburg)

Drage is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig- Holstein. The municipality consists of the villages Brömsenknöll, Dragerborn, Ellerbrook, Hansch, Sheep, Stammhof, Tiergarten and Wischhof.

Geography and transport

Drage is located 5 km southeast of Schenefeld. The streams Bekau, Schönbek, Nonnenbach and Rolloher Bek flow through the area of ​​the municipality.

History

The name of the community, this means narrow, criss-crossed by a stream valley. The Good Drage belonged since 1306 to various noble families, including the Krummendieks, the Sehestedts, the Ahlefeldts and Rantzaus. After the murder of Christian Detlev Rantzau in 1721, which was instigated by his brother Wilhelm Adolf Rantzau, which received this lifelong imprisonment, changed the estate in the possession of the Danish king.

Margrave Friedrich Ernst von Brandenburg- Kulmbach, the brother of the Danish king, received the estate as a legacy, and was built in 1745 Friedrichsruh the castle, nothing of the remains today, as it was canceled in 1787.

Policy

Coat of arms

Blazon: " Under a golden pinnacles divided by a narrow silver plate main shaft beam of green and blue. Top two fan-shaped Asked golden Haferrispen between three golden beech leaves, below a silver boat with side rudder. "

The silver boat in blue Wappenfuß points out that the church was once stack space. The silver band of Bekau separates the foot from the main field whose colors indicate gold and green agriculture.

Agriculture and forestry, which still dominate the town are represented by three golden beech leaves and two golden Haferrispen. The golden head of the shield recalls the castle Friedrichsruh in Drage, that worked formative despite its short history of the region. The three pinnacles which main field and main shield separated, point to the three districts sheep farm / village street, Hansch and Tiergarten, which have emerged from the former aristocratic estate Drage.

Personalities

  • Ernst Christian Trapp was born in 1745 on Good Friedrich rest and was the first German owner of a Chair of Education.
  • Called Otto Peltzer (1900-1970), also called " Otto the Strange ", was a German journalist, teacher, athlete and coach.
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