Gönnebek

Gönnebek is a municipality in the district of Segeberg in Schleswig-Holstein.

Geography and transport

Gönnebek lies about 15 km east of Neumünster in a rural and lakeside environment. To the east runs the federal motorway 21 of Bad Segeberg to Kiel, north of State Road 430 from Neumünster to Plön. The nearest train station is in Rickling.

In Gönnebek is the source of Schwale. The municipal area is still an open grave mound in 1884, which is considered one of the most important Bronze Age sites in Schleswig -Holstein.

History

The applied as Rundling community was first documented around 1394.

Policy

Since the local elections of 2013, the voters Community AWG has all nine seats in the municipal council.

Coat of arms

Blazon: " increases from blue and green divided by a wide silver wave band, consisting of a half- wave trough, crest of a wave and a half- wave trough, including a golden bowl. "

Economy and infrastructure

The municipal area is predominantly agricultural.

In the 1960s was built on the border with neighboring Trappenkamp a so-called Gärtnersiedlung that is clearly separate from the old town center Gönnebeker. The companies who are specialized in the production of potted plants and used the good transport links via the main roads 205 and 404, the structural changes are now also felt here. So reported the Schleswig- Holstein magazine in reportage series village history that here already six had to file for bankruptcy by 21 growers. In addition, individual producers have converted your sales on direct marketing to retail and commercial customers. The Hamburg-based company B.A.U.M. Consult produced with two biogas plants and a wood chip boiler electricity for about 3280 homes. The waste heat use eleven horticulturists who have joined together in a heating plant association. The installation is fully in January 2011. The gardeners hope to save up to 50 percent in energy costs. The cogeneration units are powered by a biogas plant in neighboring Rendswühren.

Far beyond the region Gönnebek known by the Landgard eG, which markets the ornamental plants produced here and internationally.