Juliusburg

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

History

The village is first mentioned in 1230 as Abenthorp records in Ratzeburg tithe register and was called to 1678 Abbendorf before it was renamed Julius castle. The village belonged to the Knights Wulf from Schwarzenbek. Klaus Wulf pledged in 1416 his rights to Abbendorf to Otto Schack. His son Hartig Schack pledged in 1423 Abbendorf with permission of Duke Erich V. Together with the villages Thömen and Krukow at the Marienkirche in Lübeck. Richardis, Hartig's widow, chose Duke Bernhard as guardians, and this brought in 1441 the three villages in his possession after he had ransomed them. Jürgen von der Kettenburg married the daughter of Joachim and Schack in 1570 invested with the Good Abbendorf. Franz Heinrich of the Kettenburg sold the estate in 1620 to the Duke of August. From 1633 to 1636 the Jägermeister Ernst von mountains Abbendorf had leased. The village suffered greatly during the Thirty Years War, when in 1637 the Swedes sailed under General Banner Artlenburg over the Elbe.

The Lauenburg Dukes had a summer residence in Abbendorf and could create a existing today dam across the moor to Lauenburg. Julius Heinrich gave Abbendorf the name Julius castle and put 1660 a zoo on. The retirees from all offices had to deliver a load of each bush. In the Hanoverian time they wanted to restore the very dilapidated zoo, this plan was on, however. The park was founded in 1704 leveled.

Policy

Since the local elections of 2013, the voters Community WGJ has all seven seats on the municipal council.

Attractions

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