Welmbüttel

Welmbüttel is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen in Schleswig-Holstein. There lies the center of the so-called Dithmarsch Switzerland.

History

The origins of the village are to be determined today only with archaeological resources. However, the first written records have a special significance. The Church in Tellingstedt can be seen as a Church of Meldorfer church. In the texts of the founding of this church Welmbüttel time is not mentioned.

Like many other communities Dithmarschens is also Welmbüttel mentioned in the complaints of 1447 ( deed book Michelsen p. 45 /46). Here can be mentioned in 1402 in the statement of the text the year. It is there, " ... as you wrote fourteen hundred in the other years, the next Wednesday before the honorable parties, commanded the feast of Christ 's body, ...", which results in May 24, 1402 results.

Policy

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

Geography

Landscape

The wooded area Geest ( Dithmarsch Switzerland) at 72 m above sea Rugebarg. Sea level, the highest point in the community. The well-known " Heidberg " with its 46 m above sea level. NN significantly lower, but viewed in the walkers as a popular destination in the district forestry. The Geest at Welmbüttel is a watershed. In the southwestern part of the county Forst springs the Tielenau flowing over Tellingstedt in the Eider. The surface water of the western Geest page collects in small streams until it flows into the Miele. The Broklandsau in the north has several sources in place. In the district forestry at the old, now dried-up ponds springs the Osterau that Wierbek has several sources, a mountain rises at the train station and fed several ponds as well as on the B 203 before they united in Norder Wahld more headwaters in itself. The current on the border to the municipality Schrum creek is named in Neocorus as early as 1600 with Kellihorn - vagina - Beek and presented simultaneously between Welmbüttel and Schrum the boundary between the two is Dithmar ( Neocorus vol II page 267 ). This stream is called later Schrum - Brooks - Beke and will continue south to Westerau and finally to Gieselau, which culminated in the Eider before the construction of the North Sea-Baltic Canal. Today she drained via the Gieselau channel in the North Sea-Baltic Canal.

At the source of the Tielenau there is among other things a about 8000 years old, proven reference of Stone Age inhabitants in the area. This is found more in the Stone Park and Stone Age village in the Archaeological and Ecological Centre Albers village AÖZA.

The two large forest areas Norder Wahld and district forestry are now an attraction for hikers and recreation seekers. Through human intervention arose in district forestry area until the 19th century a large heath area that was later ( 1905) again, closed by forest cover, especially with pine trees. The Norder Wahld since its first known recording ( 1725) virtually unchanged, he is a typical farmer forest.

Economy and infrastructure

From 1905 to 1937, the town had a railway connection with the circular path Norderdithmarschen.

Structures

• Heath transmitter