Klappholz

Klappholz (Danish: Klapholt ) is a municipality in the district of Schleswig -Flensburg, in Schleswig- Holstein. For Holm, Elmholz, Fenn, glass wood, Neubrückenstraße, Norder wood and Westscheide lie in the municipality.

Geography and transport

Klappholz located about 20 km north of Schleswig in the landscape fishing. West of the town, the Federal Highway 7 runs to Flensburg.

History

The territory has been inhabited since the Stone Age.

The village was mentioned for the first time in 1352 as a folding Holt ( wood, in which one collects leaves as fodder by knocking off the branches ).

Westscheide was colonized from 1763. A colonist's house from Westscheide is now at the open-air museum Molfsee.

Policy

Municipal council

In the municipal council has the voter community AWK since the municipal election 2013, all nine seats.

Coat of arms

Blazon: " From blue and green by a sheet of facing laying golden ears split for main shield. Up a golden front view of a colonists house, down a golden Lyngby - ax. "

The coat of arms shows in chief the gable end of a house settlers from the period of colonization to 1763rd It is therefore for the district Westscheide. The ears of corn row symbolizes the Rye Mountain, the highest elevation of Klappholz. The Rentiergeweihbeil in the sign represents the " Lyngby ax " from the younger Paleolithic represents, which was found in 1991 in the municipality.

Parish

Klappholz heard with Havetoftloit and Havetoft to church Havetoft, which has around 1,800 members.