Köthel, Stormarn

Köthel ( Low German Keuthel ) is a municipality in the east of the circle Stormarn at the Bille.

Geography

Köthel is located about ten kilometers east of Trittau.

The place is divided by the river Bille in a stormarn between Lauenburg and a part which each form independent communities.

History

Köthel was mentioned as " Cotle " in 1230 in Ratzeburg tithe register for the first time in a document.

To 1238, a Cistercian nunnery was settled by Köthel, which was laid in 1240 as a monastery Reinbek in the present town Reinbek. However Köthel remained until the dissolution of the monastery during the Reformation in 1529 in the possession of the monastery. In the subsequent division of the monastic estates Köthel was divided. The south of the Bille -lying part of the town came to the Duke of Lauenburg, the northern to the Official Reinbek.

1609 changed the stormarnische Köthel in the Office Trittau. In the Thirty Years' War the town was in 1621 quarters for Frederick V.

After the annexation of Schleswig-Holstein by Prussia Köthel was annexed to the newly formed Stormarn.

Policy

Since the local elections of 2008, the voters Community WGK all 13 seats in the municipal council. After the project for the establishment of a pig farm on the outskirts of Köthel had become known in the summer of 2010, massive protests and the citizens' initiative formed " No pig in Köthel " was founded. On 31 August 2010, the municipal council of Köthel failed for the second time their congregational agreement for the controversial pig project, against which a petition of the citizens' initiative so far 70 % of the households of Köthel have spoken. But the supervision of the circle Stormarn approved the preliminary construction of pig - applicant by replacing the communal consensus. The community representatives gave up a complaint against this decision, which caused great misunderstanding in the population. The citizens' initiative " No pig in Köthel " and the lawyers appointed by it will continue to try to stop the controversial project and to identify procedural and substantive shortcomings in the current building permit phase. In early February 2012, the planning application for the pig project was withdrawn by the applicant.

Coat of arms

Blazon: " Argent, a blue oblique wave beams, accompanied above by a green beech, down from a gabled red chapel with three Gothic windows and a steep gable roof, towering over a bell -supporting roof riders. "