Pöschendorf

Pöschendorf is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig- Holstein and belongs to the metropolitan region of Hamburg.

Geography and transport

Pöschendorf is located about 12 km north of Itzehoe and just south of Schenefeld on the main road 430 few kilometers west runs the Federal Highway 23 from Itzehoe to heather. Due to the location of Pöschendorfer ditch flows. The municipality consists of the villages of Klint, wooden boom, Hohenesch and width of the field.

History

As early as the Stone Age people lived in the area of ​​today's community Pöschendorf. Testimony of this are tumuli, which once at least 29 grave mounds were detectable. Amateur archaeologists who in 1983 founded an association and prepared two of these tumuli again. The Foundation Krinkberg eV has set itself the objective to maintain the system as an archaeological monument. What is the purpose of Krinkberg except its function fulfilled as grave mounds of the Bronze Age later, is still controversial. The term Krinkberg derives from the Low German Krinkbark ( Kreisberg, Ringberg ).

In 1885 valuable treasures were found from different eras during excavations at Krinkberg. Among them were 91 coins dating from the 8th century and the gilded bronze fittings of a sword pommel and other weapons. On the crest Pöschendorfer a green shield, a golden sword and two silver early medieval coins are pictured in this Fund. On the left coin is the inscription CAROLUS; on the right you can see the embossing DORSTAD. Carolus is Charlemagne, who had in the 8th and 9th century founded many settlements in the north and in Dorstad ( Dorestad ), the most important Frisian trading town at that time, near present-day Utrecht, a mint. The curved dividing line in chief of the emblem represents the Krinkberg as locality and thus the connection between settlements in the Bronze Age and of a permanent settlement since the Carolingian period dar.

As a typical Carolingian Hufendorf Pöschendorf has probably retained its place names around 814 AD by the Frankish conquerors. Before that, people lived in the area at widely scattered hamlets lying. A closed village settlement before the ninth century is not detectable. Characteristic for local start-ups in the early Middle Ages is the division of the fields in the so-called Franconian hooves. This strictly defined long and relatively narrow agricultural land can be clearly seen today on satellite images of Pöschendorf. Immediately on Krinkberg was until modern times a verkehrsgeografisch important crossroads of Western Oxen Trail. This central traffic point to have been in Holstein for Easter gathering place of the first Christians. Of these, the name comes from.

The Christian feast of Easter was in the north for centuries Middle High German Paschen, Scandinavian Påske, Middle Low German PÄÂschen, in Low German ( Low German ) PÂÖschen. Was spoken and is partly still in Pöschendorf Low German. Since there is no short "a " in the Low German pronunciation, Paschen is always pronounced here with an umlaut ( diphthong ae, ao, AO ). Until the 19th century can be found in the literature, the high German spelling Pasche village and / or the Low German name Pöschendorf. Only since 1867, when Schleswig -Holstein became a Prussian province, is the official spelling Pöschendorf.

Attractions

Day trip and hiking destinations include the archaeologically significant Krinkberg, the large mixed forest as well as the direction Looft Pöschendorfer double oak. It is considered a fine specimen, as two young trees to a tribe grow together only in very rare cases already in or on the ground and form a common crown. Similar to the double oak in Pinneberg be seen at first sight no second base. The Pöschendorfer oak has, however, called at the first fork a significant " scar " that in trees of two drives Zwiesel ( Botany).

Policy

Since the local elections of 2008, the voters Community AKW all nine seats occupied in the municipal council.