Kaaks

Kaaks is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig- Holstein. The municipality consists of the villages Eversdorf and Kaaksburg.

Geography and transport

Kaaks located north of Itzehoe. The Bekau that Mühlenau ( Stegau ), the Pöschendorfer ditch and the Krammbek flow through the community. The picnic area Kaaksburg the Federal Highway 23 is in the area of the municipality.

History

The ring wall of Kaaksburg is still preserved up to the division by a country road. It was excavated in 1930 by Hermann Hofmeister.

One of the four fish-belly bridges in Schleswig -Holstein is in Kaaks.

Policy

Of the nine seats in the municipal council has the voter community AAW since the local elections 2008 six seats and voters Community AWV three.

Coat of arms

Blazon: "By cutting shaft of silver and blue slightly lowered shared. Top with a three-leaf green oak branch (with black stems and petioles, black ) and including these below the red section through one of a Erdringwall surrounding space; below a silver bridge with block- walled, lateral foundations, concrete beam -assisted road and an existing iron lattice elements, held by four stone pillars railings. The roadway is additionally supported by the bottom rounded iron bars. "

In the upper half of the Kaaksburg is illustrated. The three leaves represent the original locations Eversdorf, Kaaksburg and Kaaks. The lower part shows the water of Bekau the fish belly bridge built in 1909, which is the only remaining intact in Schleswig -Holstein stock of a particular form of construction that comes from the early days of reinforced concrete construction and is made of concrete beams, the underside of circularly curved flat iron (fish belly ) is supported.

Pictures

Painted transformer box