Eddelak

Eddelak is a municipality in the south of the district Dithmar in Schleswig -Holstein.

• 4.1 Structures

• 5.1 Education
• 5.2 traffic

Geography

Except Eddelak are also Behmhusen, Theeberg and Warferdonn in the municipality.

History

The earliest evidence of settlements of Eddelak go back to the Roman empire. In 1877 the village was southwest a Germanic settlement flat layer of approximately 6 ha found archaeologically. Numerous pottery ( shards and urns ) led temporarily to assumptions that the settlement of ceramic manufacture or salt boiling served, further the Siedelplatz in the context of tribal formation of the Saxons was discussed taking into account the Chauken in research.

The story Eddelaks is divided into the history of the parish Eddelak and the history of the modern community Eddelak.

In the settlement area Eddelak could be operated successfully in 1140 as agriculture, that the cathedral chapter Hamburg was awarded with this reasoning of the Tenth of Ethelekeswisch. By 1200, arose from the settlement area the parish Eddelak, the first written stepped through a contract with Hamburg in 1281 in appearance. The parish Eddelak (seal inscription: Eddelake ) and the country Dithmar secured the early Hanseatic a nationwide protection of the merchants, their vehicles and their goods to and promised well, although neither bordering the same as most of the other twelve participating Dithmarsch parishes, the traditional beach robbery abolished.

The parish Eddelak originally consisted of the five farming communities Averlak, Behmhusen, things Warfen and Wester constable since 1811 by eliminating Blangenmoor -Lehe of Averlak from now six peasantry with a common church in ( between Warfen and Behmhusen in half split ) parish seat Eddelak. After Schleswig-Holstein Municipal Code of 1892 occurred in 1893 Kirchspielslandgemeinde community Eddelak the place of administration of the parish.

The peasantry remained with changing responsibilities consist initially. Out of them, 1934, the same communities were formed. The municipality was created in 1953 by renaming Eddelak the community Warfen; the community Behmhusen gave 1966 its municipal independence by joining the community Eddelak on; the communities Averlak and things remained independent, the communities Wester constable and Blangenmoor -Lehe joined 1970 or 1972, the city Brunsbuttel to.

Policy

Municipal council

Of the 13 seats in the municipal council voters Community EEC has since the local elections in 2013 eight seats and the CDU five.

Coat of arms

Blazon: ". In green to a golden heraldic crown a silver dutch windmill with almost walk gallery "

Culture and sights

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

Structures

The baroque brick church of St. Mary was built in 1740 by master builder Johann Georg Schott on the foundation of its predecessor. It is designed as a simple hall building with high, arched windows on a rectangular plan. The interior is completed by a wooden trough vault under the east hipped gable roof. In the north and south protect the side entrances ever a boss, rectangular porch. Immediately before the west pediment stands on its own foundation in 1676 renewed the wooden bell tower.

Bell tower and church are thus the oldest buildings in the former parish Eddelak.

In Eddelak still is a native of 1865 Zwick parking Dutchman God with us, the model for the emblem motive was. The mill was partly built from the remains of an earlier mill that enabled Christian Harms, the brother of the theologian Claus Harms, 1802 Meldorf after Eddelak and had it converted by a ramming in a grain mill. 1976 a storm damaged the mill, whereupon Albert Müller Haalck stopped the Mühlbetrieb. The 1986 and 1990 listed first renovated mill is theoretically still fully functional, but turns just yet, however, no longer served. Today, she looks after the local mill club, also civil ceremonies can be performed here. The registry office Sankt Michaelisdonn counts about 25 to 30 such weddings annually.

Economy and infrastructure

Education

In the late 1960s a village community school was built in Eddelak. The communities Averlak, things and Eddelak funded the project jointly. Was not built on a greenfield site, but on a dune. Around the school building sites have been identified, created houses and it was followed by a kindergarten.

Traffic

The opened in 1878 by Swiss city Elmshorner Railway Company Eddelak station was decommissioned on 27 May 1988. The bus lines 2507 and 2509 ( Dithmarschenbus ) connect today almost exclusively in school transport Bahnhofstrasse in Eddelak with Brunsbuttel and Meldorf.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Traugott Tamm (1860-1938), writer