Sahms

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

Geography

The village is located about 5 km north-east of the river Schwarzenbek Steinau.

History

The village was mentioned in 1230 in Ratzeburg tithe register for the first time in a document.

The name originates from the original designating Sahms Sabenize ( from the Slavic, means: Frog Bach). As demonstrated by Stone Age finds there were already at earlier times settlements.

The village is part of the Good Sahms flanks. If then pledged by its owner with the villages Elmenhorst and Great Pampau to the Duke of Holstein and thus belongs 1459-1736 to the Official Trittau. After that, the villages are coming back to the Duchy of Lauenburg.

Traffic Technically Sahms was to connect Mölln - Schwarzenbek important because here the ford led by the Steinau.

1876 ​​loses the nobility jurisdiction and there is the division into administrative districts. Sahms then belongs to the district of Wotersen.

On April 1, 1939, the inclusion of large Pampau after Sahms was. Great Pampau was independent again after the war. Since 1948, the community is part of the Office Schwarzenbek country.

Policy

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

Coat of arms

Blazon: " divided by gold and silver by a wide blue wave beams. Above, a green frog, lying below a red key with the handle to the left and the beard down. "

Attractions

In the list of cultural monuments in Sahms are registered in the list of monuments of Schleswig- Holstein cultural monuments.

Personalities

1944 Friedrich Karl Waechter fled, who wrote the Anti- Struwwelpeter, among other things, as a child with his family across the Baltic Sea to Warnemünde and then Sahms, where he lived until 1952.