Krummesse
Krummesse is a place southwest of Lubeck, in southeastern Schleswig-Holstein on the Elbe- Lübeck Canal.
About 7.2 km ² of the area include a district Krummesse for the district of St. Jürgen Lübeck, where about 1000 inhabitants. The rest of the 10.62 km ² area is one of the eleven municipalities of the Office Berkenthin in the north of the Duchy of Lauenburg. These areas are not separated but are often interlocked. The municipal boundaries in the worst case through your house. Krummesse is therefore considered as a community with the longest border town of Germany, when it relates to the total area.
In the community Krummesse live about 1700 inhabitants, so that the village has a total of around 2700 inhabitants. The village picture has widened in recent decades from a more agrarian, long-drawn street village by opening up many new areas, more and more. Krummesse in this case has a kindergarten, a private primary and community school, shopping, multiple doctors, volunteer fire department and a direct bus connections to the city of Lübeck. The center Krumm Esses is the intersection of the main road with both Weg to this intersection are grouped essentially the above facilities.
History
The village was mentioned for the first time in a document of the Bishop of Ratzeburg from the April 3, 1194. It was with the castle Krummesse seat of around 1200 immigrated to Nordelbien Knights of Crummesse.
Some family members of the Knights of Crummesse began in the mid -14th century to sell some of their possessions to the Council of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.
To date, the sale of half the village by Marquard of Crummesse to Lübeck merchant and alderman Segebodo ( II ) Crispin 1379/80 the reason for the separation of the village in a Lübeck and Lauenburg part with the complicated boundaries.
The Good Krummesse whose farm buildings were a bit off from the village on the left bank of the Stecknitz, possessed with Kronsforde and Niemark 1618-1759 members of the family of Brömbsen, most recently the Mayor of Lübeck Andreas Albrecht of Brömbsen. His heirs sold it to the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.
By announced in December 2005 land swap between the Hanseatic city of Lübeck and the municipality Krummesse, the first since 1937, the complicated boundaries were not eliminated, but there were at least approaches an understanding recognizable. Through the exchange of territory Lübeck also gained in the difference an area of 6,131 hectares of arable land to urban area, the community was needed Lauenburgische planning areas in the town center.
Policy
Of the 13 seats in the municipal council, the CDU and the voter community VCs have five seats, the SPD has two and the voter community KBI one seat
Coat of arms
Blazon: " left diagonally divided by silver and red. Above, a groundbreaking with the tip of the right Obereck blue arrow iron ( beam ), below, a silver horse's head. "
The iron arrow comes from the family coat of arms of local noble family of Krummesse and the horse's head from the arms of the Duchy of Lauenburg. The colors blue, silver and red indicates that the membership of the state of Schleswig -Holstein.
Buildings and monuments
In the list of cultural monuments in Krummesse are registered in the list of monuments of Schleswig- Holstein cultural monuments.
The inshave St. John's Church was built in 1230, it is one of the few two-aisled churches in Schleswig -Holstein. When a couple gets married there, the couple must separate because of the pillar in the transition to the altar.
The inshave canal bridge was built in 1900 and demolished in the summer of 2006 to build a new, higher bridge that allows for better navigation on the Elbe- Lübeck Canal. The new bridge was completed in 2008 is two lanes and was in its dimensions initially controversial.
The lock on the Elbe- Lübeck Canal from 1900 is operated according to the principle hotoppschen only by water power.
The Brömbsenmühle is a historic water mill.