Reher

Reher is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig- Holstein.

Geography and transport

Reher is located about 15 km north of Itzehoe on the main road 430 between Schenefeld and Hohenwestedt. The Bekau and the Reher Au flowing through the community. The highest point is 37 meters above sea level. The municipality belongs to the district of cattle horn. From 1901 to 1957 Reher was station Rendsburgerstrasse circular path.

History

Through the field mark the back of the Land Schleswig -Holstein, which separates the Eider by the Fault runs. In the south, the water drain after Christinenthal and on to the sturgeon. In the north, it passes through the Osterstedter and Ostermühlener field mark after the Eider. The boundaries of the Reher Mark field in the south of the Thaler and Christine Peißener, in the east of the Jahrsdorfer and Wapelfelder, in the north of the Osterstedter and to the west by the pulser field marks. The field mark comprises an area of ​​approximately 1,530 hectares. It extends in a north-south direction about 5.60 km in east-west direction is about 4.40 km from.

The origin of the name Reher is not clarified properly. So Franz Michaelsen leads in his work " place and field names of the district of Steinburg ," the name Reher on Heron back. Another interpretation is Wolfgang Laur. In his article " The names of places in Schleswig -Holstein ," published in Volume VI of the Gottorfer headings 1960, it states, inter alia: " With a R suffix ( suffix ) is perhaps formed Reher - 1756 Reder - ( d intervokalisches become h ), perhaps as Rheide to thatch, reed belonging ". The family name Reher, Reher Brook, Rehrknöll or Rehder in Westphalia leads the author back to thatch or reed. In any case it is a term for a settlement historical old town. Laur goes on to say that all the old towns have designated by ancient place names and prehistoric finds of older periods, large rounded districts, such as Looft, Drage or Reher.

Also, the latest research results in the "Historical Place Names Lexicon of Schleswig -Holstein from 1967 " by Wolfgang Laur bring no final clarification. Here it is: " Reher 1576 Reder, 1592 Reher - Reder, Reher is in Low German place names, as well as in Westphalia, distributed, where since the 13th century forms such as R ( h) meet edere. The meaning and etymological origin is still uncertain. Maybe it is a formation with an r - suffix to Germanic perhaps RAIPO meaning " way, path Telle ," Comparisons modern English road, Old English rad - road. The shape Reher shows the failure of the intervocalic d "

Is 12 km north-west Hanerau -Hademarschen there is a larger wooded area called Rehers, in an ecclesiastical document in 1700 still written as " enclosure Rehas ".

Policy

Of the eleven seats in the municipal council voters Community AfWV since the municipal election 2008, seven seats and the voter community AAW four.

Coat of arms

Blazon: " Of gold and red in the ratio 2: 3 split. Top side by side three black rooted green junipers, down a golden trotting horse. "

The dominant figure of the municipality coat of arms of Reher, the horse is shown in rapid motion, to give the impression of Trabens the viewer coat of arms. The place is modern day Reher known because here for a long time race horses are bred to a considerable extent. The juniper bushes in the arms are representative of the nature reserve Reher Kratt, in which rare plants and woody species maintained.