Meddewade
Meddewade ( Low German Meddewaad ) is a municipality in the district Stormarn in Schleswig-Holstein.
- 4.1 Coat of Arms
Location
The village is 4 kilometers from Bad Oldesloe, 5 of Reinfeld, 15 and 47 of Lübeck from Hamburg. Meddewade is located in the heavily cropped hill site of a terminal moraine, which was formed by the Vistula glaciation and mostly consists of permanent pasture. Meddewade has since the end of the 18th century no more woods, the last in 1787 trees were felled to create fields. Its highest point is located in the south 51.5 meters, its deepest in the North 2.8 meters above sea level. In the north it is bounded by the Trave, on the south by the A 1 Meddewade borders on Bad Oldesloe, Rethwisch, Barnitz, Feldhorst and Reinfeld. About the county road 67, the village of Bad Oldesloe and Benstaben is tethered by their branches in the city, the county road 68 from which connects it with Rethwisch village and Steensrade.
Name
The interpretation of the name Meddewade is not secured, there are different interpretations him on medwoda ( " fresh " ), based on the river Trave, on which the village is located, traced, or as " swampy meadow " ( mede of English = meadow meadow; wade = swamp ) suggest on the basis of the often flooded Travelodge meadows. A common derivation of Midwalde ( " middle Walde" ), which is mentioned in a document of 1189 appears doubtful Otto stone bears the name of the Slavic place name Medvedy and similar place names in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern ( Medwege ), Poland and Russia on Mädwädj ( Slavic bear) back and assumed a local foundation by the turning.
History
The area lies in the Meddewade, was already inhabited 5,000 to 10,000 years ago. In the village the area you flint artifacts found remains of 14 Bronze Age barrows and Iron Age urn field. Direct settlement traces for the village area are detectable only from the 8th century, but it is not yet clear whether it was Germanic or Slavic tribes with the settlers.
A first mention of the name Midwalde in the certificate of incorporation of the monastery Reinfeld 1189 did not refer to the town, but on an unspecified localized forest near the monastery, the name was inserted in the 14th century into the document. The first certain mention of the village is located in the tithe register of the Lübeck Bishop Schele from the year 1433. Until 1582 Meddewade was among the lands of the monastery Reinfeld, after that it coincided with Reinfeld to the Duchy of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- Plön -Rethwisch. For the years 1640/41, two families are guaranteed in the village.
1671 fell Meddewade with the death of the Duke Joachim Ernst of Plön at the newly established Duchy of Holstein -Rethwisch and thus into the serfdom of Duke Joachim Ernst the Younger of Holstein- Rethwisch. Meddewade had to make during the serfdom Treidler to pull the barges on the river Trave, in the village there were only a few farms with land ownership, but a lot of skating, which included no land. After the death of Duke Friedrich Carl, who left no male heir, took over in 1761, the Danish King Frederick the Great the Duchy and thus the village.
1773 was Meddewade from " 6 half hooves, hooves 7/4, 3 Zwölftelhufen, 10 micro Insten and 5 property Kätnern. " ( National Archives Schleswig, department number 66 7543 )
As 1774 Vorwerk Rethwisch was disbanded due to lack of income, also ended serfdom for residents Meddewades, the lands were distributed to the subjects.
1825, the size of the area of Meddewade was given as 456 tons, this corresponded to an area of 287.6 hectares. The village then consisted of six half hooves, hooves six quarters, three Zwölftelhufen and 18 cottages.
1877 laid the District Office of the circle Stormarn in Wandsbek Meddewade the name of the place fixed after 450 years the different spellings were used. From 1889 Meddewade belonged to the district of Rethwisch.
After the end of World War II the church took 200 refugees from the East, 1949, in the village of 16 farms located (2003 a ). Of the 1949 nine thatched cottages existed in 2003 two.
Since 1948 Meddewade belongs to the Official Bad Oldesloe country.
The wholesale bakery as an important economic factor
1887 in Meddewade founded a cooperative dairy in order to facilitate the farmers to distribute their milk. As part of the nationalization of the Third Reich was closed down and distributed the milk sales to the surrounding larger dairies.
In the fall of 1954, the Berlin entrepreneur Eberhard Paech took over the building as a branch for his Paech - Brot GmbH and developed it generously. While working ten employees at two stone ovens in the first year, there were six years later, 140 In the years 1956 to 1980, the population Meddewades increased from 268 to over 140 per cent to 649 Up to 1967, the number of employees doubled again, the bakery was known throughout Schleswig -Holstein from 1800, supplying customers Meddewade. 1985 employed the Bakery 380 employees, of whom 22.6 percent Meddewader.
As part of the construction of the bakery and the infrastructure Meddewades has been improved and expanded. As of 1962, the local roads and the roads to Bad Oldesloe and Steensrade were expanded. In 1962 Meddewade urgent application for a connection to the water supply to the water procurement Association Reinfeld country, from 1972 to 1975 was the construction of a full sewage system with own treatment plant. The bakery Paech involved in the costs in the years 1972-1980 with a total of 480,000 German Marks. In 1975, the village was connected to the natural gas pipeline from Bad Oldesloe to Reinfeld.
After financial difficulties of the parent company, the bakery was taken over in 1986 by Horst short Schiesser, then the bakery spirals. 2000 took over the bakery Kamps the factory, all of the formerly 380 jobs were 220 left, which occupied only nine of Meddewadern. 2003, the bread factory was closed in the summer of 2008, the buildings were demolished, divided the land into parcels and prepared for sale to private buyers.
In October 2008, a memorial stone to mark the 575th anniversary of first documentary mention in 1433 was opened against the peace oak.
Policy
Of the eleven seats in the municipal council the Wählergemeinschaft TEAM ( tolerant, Committed, Active Meddewader ) since the local elections 2008, seven seats and the voter community WGM ( group of voters Meddewade ) four seats has stopped.
In the local elections in 2013 TEAM won 1357 votes ( 63.3 %) and WGM 786 votes ( 36.8 %). It could be awarded per voter six votes, the voter turnout was 55.2 %. The distribution of seats in the newly elected municipal council corresponds to that of the previous legislature, Mayor continues Marleen Wulff.
Coat of arms
Blazon: "In a blue green gold -filled gin. In the upper right corner a golden oak leaf, left a golden ear, below a silver wave beams. "
The capstan is the center Meddewades from which emanate the streets to Bad Oldesloe, Rethwisch and Benstaben. The Oak Leaf is the 1871 peace planted oak, the ear for the agricultural origin of the village. The silver wave bar symbolizes the River Trave.
The coat of arms was approved in August 2000.
Culture
After the Meddewader and Sehmsdorfer students had from 1731 to 1857 attended school in the neighboring village Benstaben, a new school building in the more central Meddewade was built from 1857 to 1858. The number of students was 94 in 1915, in 1949 there were 180 pupils from Meddewade, Benstaben and Sehmsdorf who were taught by four teachers. In the late 1960s the Association of Schools of the three communities was dissolved; the students were instructed to 1973 schools in Bad Oldesloe. Since then the school premises for the youth club was founded in 1975, were used from 1985 to 1995 from Meddewader kindergarten. Currently there community activities take place. Since 1999, the school was renovated to community charges, rebuilt and supplemented with showers and changing rooms for the sports club. For the 150th anniversary of the school in April 2008, the restoration work was completed.
The volunteer fire department of Meddewade was founded in 1889. In 1966, she received a plaque of the city of Lübeck for their assistance during Wakenitzrestaurant flood in 1965.
Furthermore, there is the sports club founded in 1977 SV Meddewade 1977 eV, gymnastics, table tennis and football teams and over 100 members (1980 ), founded in 1912 the Savings Club and Culture Club Edelweiss, a Skatclub and others.