Stapelholm

The Office Stapelholm was until December 31, 2007 an office in the south of the district Schleswig -Flensburg, in Schleswig- Holstein. It included territorially large parts of the cultural landscape Stapelholm. With effect from 1 January 2008, the municipalities of the offices Stapelholm and Kropp have merged to the Official Kropp - Stapelholm.

History

The first documentary mention exists on May 12, 1260: In a document, the Danish nobleman Mechthild von Holstein and her two sons, Erich I. and Abel Abelsen pledge their property to the Dukes of Holstein Johann Gerhard I. and I. To the land belonged beside Stapelholm the areas Fræzlæt, Schwansen and Jarnwith. This document was the occasion for celebrations of the 750th anniversary in 2010.

The historic Stapelholm was a landscape that was originally responding from the Tielenburg from the administrative sense. After the destruction of the castle in the Battle of Hemmingstedt was made in 1500 to relocate the administration after Süderstapel. Here was the bailiff as chief administrative officer of his official residence. In the 17th century possessed the landscape Stapelholm a private land rights.

Stapelholm is located on the southern border of the old Duchy of Schleswig. Original - since about the year 1200 - was Stapelholm the Danish administrative area, later to the district of Schleswig.

Communities

Covering an area of 140 km ² lived 6200 inhabitants in the municipalities

Coat of arms

Blazon: " divided by gold and blue, on an erect, short, up and down final with a knob in the middle, thickening rod in confused colors. "