Schülp, Dithmarschen

Schülp is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen in Schleswig-Holstein. The municipality is located on a medieval mound near the Eider estuary into the North Sea. Agriculture and numerous garden plants shaped the history of the place.

Geography

Schülp lies to the east of the Office on the border between March and Geest. The large tuberous begonias growing area in the municipal boundaries is a popular destination for tourism.

The center is located on a Schülps built entirely of clay mound in the 12th century. This is elongated and divided into plots. On the river side of the Eider dikes are part of the nature reserve Dithmarsch Eider Watt, home to, inter alia, 92 animal species that are on the Red List. It was created in 1989 as the expansion of the 69- year-older area " Vogelfreinsel Schülper Neuensiel ".

Community structure

Schülperneuensiel, Schülperweide, Schülperaltensiel, Schülp and Schülperdeich

History

In Schülperaltensiel there is also the oldest dike in the region. At its core, it has existed since the early 12th century, today it has no practical function but more for coastal protection. The dike was part of the first dyke construction of Dithmarsch. The dikes allowed for the first time agriculture on a large scale. Before, it was limited to narrow areas around the older mounds around because of the flood and storm surge risk.

Until 1609, Schülper Wurt part of the sea dyke was towards the Eider. In Schülperaltensiel an Eider port, other embankments direction Eider was moved later in 1600 Schülperneuensiel arose. Especially cereal there was loaded, but now it only serves as a small pleasure port.

In 1964 on the promenade in Neuensiel a pumping station that 7,250 hectares of the communities around Schülp around drains into the Eider. During normal water level this works as a sluice, only at high water levels of the Eider the pumping station is switched on, the pump can transport up to 11,400 liters per second into the river.

Policy

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

Flower village Schülp

The community through the numerous nurseries and in particular the growing begonias became known, so that Schülp still refers to himself as " flower village ". The first begonias came in 1886 in the village, brought by the newly trained gardener Hans servant from Kiel. His descendants still carry one of the largest growing begonias companies in the world.

As in all Dithmar the Schülper 1900 began to discover the good suitability of the area for cabbage cultivation, so that the economy of the town is now based on flowers and vegetables. Occasionally cultivated plants there even in large numbers May flowers, gladioli, gloxinias, tulips and daffodils.

Up until the 1970s chose the village annually a tulip queen. The conversion to tulips setting machines did not survive the Schülper gardener economy. The farms were too small in increasing international trade, the furrows that have occurred in setting machines ensured that the tulips in the North Sea climate for days were in the water and their rotten onions.

There was, however, in the decades after the Second World War a dozen nurseries in Schülp, so are 2007, only six of which only the nursery servant also breeds begonias.