Sörup

Sörup (Danish: Sørup ) is a municipality in the district of Schleswig -Flensburg, in Schleswig- Holstein. In the municipality the districts Barg ( Bjerg ), Dingholz, Flatzby are ( Fladsby ) Gammelby, Hardesby ( Harresby ) Hollehitt ( Hollehit ) Löstrup ( Løstrup ), Moss Watt ( Mosevad ), mill wood ( Mølleskov ) Schwensby ( Svendsby ) Sörupholz ( Sørupskov ) Sörupmühle ( Sørup Mill ), Südensee ( Søndersø ) and Winderatt ( Venderød ).

Sörup was several times in the competition Our village has a future excellent.

• 4.1 St. Mary's Church
• 4.2 Fruit Museum
• 4.3 Sport
• 4.4 Tourism

• 5.1 Renewable Energy

• 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

The Südschleswigscher community Sörup is a rural central place in fishing. It lies in a moraine at Winderatter lake and Südensee.

History

Sörup 1338 was first mentioned as Sodorp, so lakeside village. However, it is much older, mainly the imposing church of the 12th century occupied. The other villages in the church today, the scope of exactly the medieval equivalent (now Lutheran ) parish Sörup, are partly very old.

Sörup belonged to the field of Nieharde and was the westernmost Kirchdorf. Many possessions in the municipality belonged in the Middle Ages the Schleswig cathedral chapter, the other southeastern monastery Mohrkirch. Südensee formed an independent noble estate, and also some neighboring estates had some possessions in the community.

Sörup is traditionally one of the main villages of the countryside fishing. A significant upturn took the village when in 1881 the Kiel- Flensburg railway was built. With the construction of the Flensburg circular path route from Satrup after Rundhof Sörup was a key railway junction in fishing. Also Winderatt had its own railway station on the Flensburg- Kiel railway, as well as Möllmark, Südensee and mill wood (municipality Südensee ) on the circle track.

In imperial times was the great parish Sörup, which also formed a separate administrative district from 1889 divided into eleven rural communities and the Gutsbezirk Südensee. The individual communities were Barg, Flatzby, Gammelby, Hardesby, Löstrup, Möllmark, Schwensby, Sörup, Sörupholz, Südensee and Winderatt. 1928 was the Gutsbezirk Südensee the same rural community. 1966 Möllmark joined the community Löstrup, four years later, all the churches of the parish and district office Sörup combined to official free community Sörup. In early 2008 joined the church office at Satrup, which then renamed itself in office means fishing.

Policy

Municipal council

Of the 19 seats in the municipal council, the CDU has been the local elections in 2013 nine seats, the SPD five voters Community FWS three and the FDP two seats.

Coat of arms

Blazon: ". About silver sign foot, in two wavy blue threads in blue a golden wheel with eleven spokes "

The eleven spokes in the wheel represent the eleven municipalities of the former Office Sörup represents the shaft threads symbolize the place name, the Danish form means Sjørup "Village on the Lake" or " Seedorf ".

Community partnerships

Sörup maintains a partnership with the municipality Plate in Mecklenburg -Vorpommern and with the community Ruciane Nida in Masuria (former East Prussia, now Poland).

Culture and sights

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

St. Mary's Church

Built in the late 12th century St. Mary's Church in the district Sörup, a granite ashlar church, is one of the oldest Romanesque churches in fishing. The tower, which was built later, in late Gothic style. The Danish king, and thus also Duke of Schleswig was the patronage of Lord of the Church. It is believed that he commissioned the architect of the Cathedral of Schleswig to its construction.

Fruit Museum

In the district Winderatt is a fruit Museum, where especially 600 different historic varieties of apples and other fruits were collected. In addition, equipment will be issued, which were used for the cultivation, harvesting and processing of fruit. The museum next to the museum building on a 4.1 acre orchard.

Sports

The local sports club is the STV Sörup that offers various sports such as team sports, athletics, floor and apparatus gymnastics, gymnastics etc..

In particular, soccer enjoys great popularity in Sörup. The football club FC Sörup - Sterup was formed in 1999 from the football departments of STV Sörup and TSV Sterup and counts with more than 300 assets of the largest football clubs in Schleswig -Holstein. One of the biggest successes was the champion title of the Bezirksoberliga 2004 and 2006. FC thus rose for the second time after 2004 in the highest Schleswig-Holstein game class, the Association league on.

Handball players are organized in several neighboring villages SG comprehensive means fishing. Even in the small Danish club Sørup UF Handball is played, and the association contributes annually a big international tournament in Sörup from.

The local Tennis Club is the TC Sörup.

Tourism

In the municipality of numerous events that will be accepted by citizens as well as tourists. So the Johannifeuer on Südensee as a fixed annual means as well as the many years taking place visit the Königsberg theater group in Südensee.

Economy and infrastructure

In the originally agricultural community is now also focus businesses and a wide range of services. The proximity to the Flensburg shipyard has produced in Sörup in the last century one of the world's largest manufacturers of cylinder liners of marine engines - the M. Jurgensen GmbH & Co KG.

Other industries are Paustian Airtex ( producing textile aircraft equipment), ATEC Pharmatechik, Arctos - Industrial Refrigeration AG and AMB systems and metal.

Sörup is on the railway route Kiel -Flensburg and has hourly connections in both directions. Once a significant freight station was completely dismantled in the 1990s. The train station in Winderatt is silent since 1985, the orbit since 1938.

Main roads in the municipality are the state road from Sterup by Tarp, the old road crosses at Sörupmühle to Flensburg and leads to the junction Tarp the Federal Highway 7, and the connections to the transport hub Satrup and north to the federal highway 199 The old Flensburg- Kappelner highway leads to the north of the village by Hardesby, Schwensby and Barg, but today it is of minor importance.

Renewable Energy

The necessity of using alternative energy sources has given rise to several wind turbines in Sörup. A biogas plant was realized in the district Sörup. Another is in the district Winderatt in planning. The council has approved the plan to an expansion of the wind farm between the villages of Barg and Schwensby. The plants are designed and developed as Bürgerwindpark by local investors.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Henry Kroll (1894-1930) fighter pilot in World War I