Schretstaken

Schretstaken is a municipality in the district of Lauenburg, in Schleswig- Holstein. The municipality consists of the villages large and small Schretstaken.

• 3.1 Structures

History

Schretstaken was founded in 1407 and belonged from 1452 to 1937 exclave of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Through the Greater Hamburg Act of 1937 Schretstaken came to the Duchy of Lauenburg. On April 1, 1939, the small community Schretstaken (then 94 inhabitants) incorporated.

However, the city of Lübeck remained the owner of about 215 acres of forest in two separate sections: Ohlenwegen, 85 ha, and Riepe wood, 130 ha Schretstaken formed until 1973 an independent forest district, but is now managed by the Forestry Department Lübeck Behlendorf. The forester's house Schretstaken on the road to Talkau burned down in February 1978 and was dismantled in 1980.

Policy

Coat of arms

Blazon: ". Add slanted left a gold blue wave bar, above a deciduous tree with black trunk, down a slight left Asked green boar spear, covered by a turned-over to the left bouncing black boar with silvery fangs "

The wave bar symbolizes towards the Schiebenitz, a stream of the place. The other motifs show the long hunting tradition of the place. The oak in the upper half coat of arms stands for the forests of the place, which also serve basic food and refuge for the wild boar. The Boar Spear shown, however, has only museum significance today.

Flag

Blazon: " On green, up and down close to the edge with narrow yellow stripes bunting provided the coat of arms of the center to the rod placed in flag just tincture. "

Attractions

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

Structures

• Lady Chapel from 1837 with organ of the Swedish organ builder Andreas Thulesius and bell by Friedrich Wilhelm Hirt

Personalities

The painter and graphic artist Paul A. Weber (1893-1980) died in Schretstaken.

Literary

Have in Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks the place is called as the home of a small deputies in the citizenship of Lübeck, who never opens his mouth, but during the revolution of 1848/ 49, the mood of the oppressed in a hall citizens with "I 'm not for tau are " expression, as despite adverse conditions, the session is to be opened.