Sankt Annen

Sankt Annen is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen in Schleswig-Holstein ( Germany ). It lies on the L 156 between Friedrichstadt and Lunden and consists of the districts Neufeld, perineum and Österfeld. The urban area of St. Annen is adjacent to the Eider.

About the Eider performs a railway bridge built in 1916 and a road bridge in the district of North Friesland. The neighboring town of Frederick city is reachable by car in five minutes.

A point of interest is the Church of St. Anne. Saint Anne is also the namesake of the place.

History

The story of Sankt Annen as an independent settlement began in 1500 with the construction of the St. Anne's Church. Three families from the gender association of the Russian Bellingshausen men in the eastern parish Lunden had vowed to build a chapel, when they succeeded to the reclamation of a new polder, the Bosbüttelerkoogs. Until 1499 the children a trip with considering the flow of the Eider, the changing of the tides and storm surges may occur uncertain outcome were baptized in the church Schwabstedter.

The Dithmarsch as clever computer could send to Pope Julius II to successfully purchase a bull, with the effect that all patrons of the church building would be granted one hundred years of drain to Rome. When the church was built so successful, there were conflicts with the Lundener Kirchspielrat, who spoke out against a new church, and thus the power loss. The builders of Sankt Annen sent back to Pope Julius II and were successfully patronage rights over the church give. However, the settlement around Sankt Annen never gained full independence from Lunden. The church belongs to a later phase of Dithmarsch settlement history, as a new church buildings only had a narrow localized influence and not like before were centers of spatially extended parishes.

Sankt Annen was the residence of the "Farmer General " Claus Heim, who was an important leader of the country people's movement in the late 1920s. He pointed out several bomb attacks on representatives of the Weimar Republic and was. Following his arrest a symbolic figure of peasant resistance against democracy

On April 1, 1934, the municipalities Sankt Annen -Damm, Sankt Annen -Neufeld and Sankt Annen - Österfeld from part of the parish community land Lunden were formed and joined on July 1, 1936 to the municipality of Sankt Annen.

Policy

Since the local elections of 2013, the voters Community AWS has all nine seats in the municipal council.

Coat of arms

Blazon: " Argent, holding the golden haloed, dressed in a red dress and a green jacket St. Anne, an open book in her hands. In the blue Wellenschildfuß three silver crucian carp in position 2: 1, the left turned lower. "

Attractions

In the list of cultural monuments in Sankt Annen ( Dithmar ) are registered in the list of monuments of Schleswig- Holstein cultural monuments.