Siebenbäumen

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

History

Siebenbäumen was first mentioned in 1286 and was part of the Bailiwick Mölln of the Dukes of Saxe- Lauenburg, and the later official Horst Stein. A part of the village belonged from 1401 to 1747 to Lübeck.

The village church on an oval mound in the center has been known since 1304 under the name of St. Mary's Church. The second detectable church will be built from 1640 to 1646. These were about a half-timbered building, which was laid down in 1864. It came charred remains of a previous building days, but this can not affect the church right before 1640, because the church is not burnt, that points to a fourth church. 1741/1742 of the tower by the Hanoverian court architect Jakob Heumann is renewed. The present church was built in the years 1864/1865 in the style of Tudor Gothic style and is probably the fourth on the site.

Policy

Of the nine seats in the municipal council, the SPD has since the municipal election 2008, four seats, the CDU and the three Wählergemeinschaft AWS has two seats.

Coat of arms

Blazon: " divided by silver and red. Up next to each other seven deciduous trees with black trunks, interlocking their green crowns the middle rising; below a slanting silver key with the beard at the bottom right. "

Attractions

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

• Church in the Tudor style of 1864/1865
• Gallery Dutch windmill from 1885

Pictures

Windmill