Kühsen

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

Geography

Districts are Hude, thunder lock ( in part) and Catharinenhof.

History

The founding of the town took place in 1230.

The village Kühsen on the road connecting Lübeck- Berke Thin Hamburg and later Mölln- stone Horst- old RST was first mentioned in 1230 for the first time.

On Kühsener area has four Stone Age settlement sites have been found. They are on the " sand Hochfelln " and the " Fourth ", but all on the slopes in front of the Stecknitzniederung. In addition, a number of single finds ( stone axes, scrapers, chisels ) are made ​​and have been found in Kühsener Award three grave mound. In the during the Great Migration has become empty land later from the east pushed a the turning. Even the name is Kühsen Wendish origin.

Kühsen came in 1889 to the newly formed District anchor and is since 1948 part of the Office nuts.

One of the outstanding events of the postwar period was undoubtedly the discovery of a bog body for drainage work in the immediate local vicinity on May 5, 1960.

Policy

Since the local elections of 2008, the voters Community AWK six and the SPD three seats in the municipal council.

Coat of arms

Blazon: "In a silver green farmhouse, occupied by seven questions in the circle red rectangles, including a broad silver wave beams, covered with an obliquely angled left red bar.