Hornbek

Hornbek is a municipality in the district of Lauenburg, in Schleswig- Holstein.

History

The village was mentioned in documents as " Horgenbece " in Ratzeburg tithe register of 1230. 1391 bought the Hanseatic city of Lübeck Hornbek to ensure the safety of the Old Salt Route. 1747 the village to the Duchy of Lauenburg was ceded. Since 1889 Hornbek part of the newly established Office width field.

As part of the construction of the autobahn Hamburg-Berlin a large urn field of the pre-Roman Iron Age and Roman Iron Age was excavated west of the village between 1938 and 1941. It contained about 900 urn, which were partially covered with different sized paving stones. The cemetery belongs to the group of large flat cemeteries Southeast Holsteins that were created towards the end of the older pre-Roman Iron Age and remained until the Roman Imperial period in use. The cemetery belongs to his older phase to Jastorf Culture, which is commonly regarded as those archaeological "culture", later mentioned in the written sources, German tribes to have emerged from the.

Traffic

Since 1982 there is the departure Hornbek the federal motorway 24

Attractions

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