Hochdonn

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

Geography and transport

The municipality is located on the North Sea-Baltic Canal. The municipality's area is a 42 -meter-high, double-track railway bridge located over the channel. The railway line ( " marching train "), which in 1920 was transferred to this route, was the first connection of the village on the German long-distance network; the nearest railway station is located in Burg (Dithmarschen ). But you also get there on channel loading and unloading space as well as one of the five channel ferries between Brunsbuttel and Rendsburg, where even cars and pedestrians can cross the channel. The ferry is now part of the course of the road L 327 (formerly Federal Road 431).

History

The village was founded in the mid 19th century on the high moor thunder as part of the peasantry Eggstedt. He belonged until 1934 to the municipality Kirchspielslandgemeinde community Süderhastedt. First coined exclusively on agriculture, he received since 1887 by the construction of the Kaiser- Wilhelm- channel new economic fundamentals. The people selling land, found additional work and worried accommodation and food for the adventitious foreign workers. The expansion of the canal from 1907 preserved the new sources of income, as well as the construction of the high bridge from 1913.

Policy

Of the 11 seats in the municipal council, the CDU, the SPD has since the local elections in 2013 six seats, four and the Left one seat

Coat of arms

Blazon: " divided by silver and green. Up, Mid, which rests on two foundation blocks blue railway bridge Hochdonn, down two on the stems intersecting, each consisting of a leaf and an acorn silver oak branches; between a single -stalked silver acorn. "

The coat of arms shown in high thunder railroad bridge that shapes the landscape in the long run, in 1920 brought connecting the community to the rail network. The settlement is located on a chain Hochdonn shallow inland dunes, which may have been forested in prehistoric times. To that and to the planting in the area of ​​" high thunder mountain " refers to the oak branch. The shield color green indicates that agriculture for the place not only in the past but still largely is the most important livelihoods.