Offenbüttel

Offenbüttel is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen in Schleswig-Holstein.

Geography

The place is located in the east Dithmarschens and the municipality is bounded on the south by the North Sea-Baltic Canal and east by Gieselau channel.

History

Settlement Historically, the place is one of the constable - towns. Offenbüttel is an old, independent peasantry, which is symbolized by the extant dated 1714 Bauer floor. The village is situated on the eastern edge of the Dithmarsch Geest.

Policy

Coat of arms

Blazon: " split in the shaft section of silver and green. Above a green bend harp, down a golden Bauer stick in the form of a octagonal forged, concluding with buttons tapered iron rod through the front end of a ring is pulled. "

The wave bar represents the - today in the North Sea-Baltic Canal largely disappeared - Gieselau and the other, the municipality almost surrounding waters. The buckling harp points to the located near town, stately number of these old agricultural purpose facilities that have been preserved only in a few copies. It reaffirms for landscape protection and, with the tribe of the old village, with the branches of the resulting only since the 18th century expulsions Hinrichshörn, dam Knöll, Eckhorst, Heinke Struck and North Heath represents the tincture takes the color of the bright sky and marked by wide marshes landscape.

Sports

In the village there is the football club FC Offenbüttel.