Wewelsfleth

Wewelsfleth is a municipality in the district of Steinburg, in Schleswig- Holstein.

  • 3.1 Coat of Arms

Geography and transport

Wewelsfleth is situated on the fault, which here flows into the Elbe. Also the Störsperrwerk is Wewelsfleth. Federal highway 431 runs through the community.

The municipality consists of the villages Wewelsflether Uhrendorf, low wipe, Humsterdorf, Beesen, Rosskopp, Great wiper, Hollerwettern and Dammducht. In the municipality was also inhabited by many artists settlement point of error, but had to make way for the construction of the Störsperrwerks.

History

The first recorded mention of the village is to be found in a document from 1238 in which the place name is recorded as Weuelesflethe. As with almost all of the words from this time the spelling changed over the centuries, as is seen from the following documents.

Place-names ending in- Fleth are characteristic in the Elbmarschen. Fleete designated natural tributaries of the Elbe and its tributaries; However, these streams have disappeared by the Bedeichung in the Middle Ages mostly and get only in place names. At such watercourse was also the former Wewelsfleth.

The place-names ending in- Fleth are composed with personal names or other nouns. The word Wewel can probably be traced back to the Saxon name Wibil, so the then Fleth the " Fleth of Wibil " was. From Wibil time Wevel Wewel and then became in the course.

At the beginning of the 16th century, the church was relocated due to the constant threat of storm surges from her place directly on the Elbe below the Störmündung take the place of the village Humsterdorf.

Church

The Church of Old Wewelsfleth was consecrated the first bishop of Bremen Willehad who evangelized by 780 between Lower Weser and lower Elbe and probably in Nordalbingien. A first mention of it was 1337th

The new church was dedicated in 1503 to the Trinity and called Trinity Church.

Policy

Since the local elections in 2013, the SPD four, five and the CDU voters Community UWG four seats in the municipal council.

Coat of arms

Blazon: " divided by silver and blue. Above the red frontage of Wilster Marscher farmhouse with silver, verbrettertem in three stages above a concluding with a Hinkklaue gable. Below is a silver -masted Störewer under full sail. "

Economy

The Peters Shipbuilding is the largest operation of the municipality with 110 employees. In Wewelsfleth of the UWW (changing wind power Wedel) was one of the early wind power plants in Germany built with 75 kW in response to the construction of the nuclear power plant Brokdorf in November 1989. She was still in operation in 2012.

Culture

A culture -prone buildings Wewelsfleths is the Alfred Döblin house. The house was built in 1698 as a parish Bailiwick of parish administrator Peter Hellmann. 1970 bought the writer Günter Grass 's house and saved it from demolition order. It was here, among others his works the butt and head births, as well as many of his drawings and etchings. 1985 Günter Grass gave the house the State of Berlin as a workplace for Berlin authors ( stay ) scholarships. Since then regularly visit young Berlin- authors for several months Wewelsfleth as part of a co-financed by the city of Berlin Stipendiats.

An important cultural carrier is the Concert Band, founded in 1955 Wewelsfleth, recipient of the Cultural Award of the district of Steinburg, 2009.

Sons and daughters

Heinrich Schmidt (1756 - 1846) was a German Evangelical- Lutheran pastor in the main St. Mary's Church, later dean in Süderdithmarschen and hymn writer.

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