Hohwacht

Hohwacht ( Baltic Sea) is a municipality in the district of Plön, in Schleswig- Holstein. It consists of the villages Haßberg, Hohwacht, Neudorf, Lower mill and blacksmith village.

Geography

Hohwacht is the Wagria.

History

The name was first mentioned in 1557 as " High Guard ".

Its original meaning as a port has lost the end of the 19th century due to the newly built railway line Malente- Gremsmuehlen - Luetjenburg between Malente and six kilometers from Hohwacht remote Luetjenburg, but with the also first recreation seekers came from the cities, especially after Haßberg Hohwacht, where a first spa was built, but which has been shut down at the instigation of Neudorf good again. Immediately after the First World War Hohwacht became the target of artists around the painter Karl Schmidt- Rottluff and his biographer Rosa Schapire with Bernhard Hoetger, Curt Stoermer and Heinrich Vogeler. Schmidt- Rottluff held Hohwacht as holiday accommodation initially continued loyalty, but an artists' colony was not Hohwacht.

Towards the end of the Second World War was in the town center a concentration sub- command. This made ​​two hundred and concentration camp inmates and three hundred forced laborers from twelve nations under SS supervision control parts for the V2 rocket.

1976, passenger services were set on the branch line to Luetjenburg again ( Luetjenburg there were up to this time the nearest station ), now offers the nearest passenger railway stations in Oldenburg (Holstein ) and Malente.

1986 Hohwacht received the title of Baltic resort. 2012, the status in the Baltic Sea has changed.

Worth seeing, right in the village in the dunes, the beach huts anywhere else longer extant in its original form in Germany.

Policy

Coat of arms

Blazon: " Argent, under four juxtaposed with the tunnel downward facing red horseshoe increased, leveling off at the sides blue hill that is covered with a one-masted, sailing ship loose silver in the form of a historical figure seal. "

Good Neudorf

Good Neudorf shipped earlier from his crop of Alt-Hohwacht. The manor house and several buildings of the estate are owned by the family of Buchwaldt, still preserved and classified as a cultural monument.

Economy

Originally Hohwacht was dominated by agriculture and fishing, today tourism is the main source of income.

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