Hemmingstedt

Hemmingstedt is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen in Schleswig-Holstein.

• 3.1 Coat of Arms

Geography

Hemmingstedt located in the center of the circle Dithmar between the cities of Heath and Meldorf on the main road 5 The North Sea can be reached by car in 20 minutes. Near the Motorway access Heide-Süd/Hemmingstedt is on the federal highway 23 in the direction of Hamburg. Hemmingstedt is on the march and train here has an operating station.

In addition to the localities Hemmingstedt Braaken, Dellweg, Hohenheide, Norder and Volker Wurth Wurth lie in the municipality.

History

The parish Hemmingstedt was first mentioned in 1323. In the battle of Hemmingstedt on February 17, 1500 Dithmarsch farmers beat led by Wulf Isebrand the Danish army under John, in personal union king of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and his brother Friedrich, Duke of Holstein. Numerically, they were inferior. However, they opened the sluices, flooded the country and used their spears to Klotstockspringen. Thus they were able to barely motile army to attack again and again and ultimately achieve victory.

Structures

In the village there is a church dating from the Renaissance period as well as a large windmill of 1858. St. Mary's Church was built in the 14th century with field and goats stones. The figure of the crucified Jesus Christ dates from the 15th century. The oldest surviving Protestant pulpit and the altar of the region provided with the Mannerist style elements come from 1560th The church is decorated with numerous mounted in the years 1578/79 family coats of arms.

In Hemmingstedt is also home to one of the tallest buildings in the west coast, the 175 meters measured chimney of refinery Hemmingstedt.

See also: List of Cultural Monuments in Hemmingstedt

Policy

Of the 17 seats in the municipal council has the voter community WGH since the local elections the seven seats in 2013, the CDU and the SPD and four voters Community FWH have three seats.

Coat of arms

Blazon: " Lowered divided. Up in silver, crossed growing and at an angle, broken at the crossing point, carrying the nettle leaf Holstein flag black lance and a black halberd, below in red a golden fire. "

Economy

In Hemmingstedt is an oil refinery. The Heide refinery is one of the largest employers in the county and reason that bombing raids were flown on Hemmingstedt one of the few Dithmarsch communities in the Second World War, with a corresponding impact on the cityscape. In the refinery, formerly of the DEA, who belonged shell and is held by U.S. investor A. Gary Klesch since 2010, about four million tons of crude oil processed in the year. Among other things, diesel fuel, heating oil, jet fuel and raw materials incurred for the chemical industry ( ethylene, benzene, ethylbenzene ).

Came the oil originally from the oil field between Hemmingstedt and heath, as later came through the port added Brunsbuttel imported oil. 1991 dried up the field at Hemmingstedt, but now comes about a third of the raw material from which is situated in the near- Watt Mittelplate oil field.

Attractions

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

Personalities

• Holger Christiansen ( born 1957 ), physician and university teacher