Bovenau is a village in the district of

Rendsburg-Eckernförde Rendsburg-Eckernförde (; ) is a district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is bounded by (from the east and clockwise) the city of Kiel, the district of Plön, the city of Neumünster, the districts of Segeberg, Steinburg, Dithmarschen and S ...

, in the

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. Bovenau is only above sea level. The location is south of the municipality of

Bünsdorf Bünsdorf is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. References

Municipalities in Schleswig-Holstein Rendsburg-Eckernförde {{RendsburgEckernförde-geo-stub ...

Sehestedt Sehestedt () is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Sehestedt is south of the municipality of Groß Wittensee, Haby or Holtsee, but north of Bovenau, and west of Lindau. It is divided in ...

, but north of Ostenfeld,

Bredenbek Bredenbek is a municipality, located in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde in the German '' Bundesland'' of Schleswig-Holstein. Bredenbek is part of the '' Amt'' ("collective municipality") Achterwehr. Geography Bredenbek is situated about ...

, and west of Krummwisch, about away from the center of

Kiel Kiel ( ; ) is the capital and most populous city in the northern Germany, German state of Schleswig-Holstein. With a population of around 250,000, it is Germany's largest city on the Baltic Sea. It is located on the Kieler Förde inlet of the Ba ...

History

Bovenau was first mentioned in 1240 as Kirchdorf. The name is derived from the

Low German Low German is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language variety, language spoken mainly in Northern Germany and the northeastern Netherlands. The dialect of Plautdietsch is also spoken in the Russian Mennonite diaspora worldwide. "Low" ...

„boven de Au“, which means something like "above the creek". Several megalithic tombs have been found in the area of the settlement. Estates are located in the surrounding area: Gut Dengelsberg, Gut Georgenthal, Gut Kluvensiek, Gut Osterrade, Gut Steinwehr.

Buildings

The Maria Magdalena Church and the

lock Lock(s) or Locked may refer to: Common meanings *Lock and key, a mechanical device used to secure items of importance *Lock (water navigation), a device for boats to transit between different levels of water, as in a canal Arts and entertainme ...

of the old

Eider Canal The Eider Canal (also called the Schleswig-Holstein Canal) was an artificial waterway in southern Denmark (later northern Germany) which connected the North Sea with the Baltic Sea by way of the rivers Eider and Levensau. Constructed between ...

in Kluvensiek are worth seeing. Kirche Bovenau2009.jpg, Maria Magdalena Church in Bovenau Bovenau_An_der_Kirche_Innen2_7965.jpeg, Church, inner space Bovenau, An der Kirche NIK 2453.JPG, Near the church, former school Ingo Kühls Geburtshaus, ehemaliger Polizeiposten an der Bundesstraße 202 in Bovenau, Schleswig-Holstein, 1957.jpg, Ingo Kühl's birthplace, former police station in Bovenau, 1957 Megalithgrab Bovenau2009.jpg, Reconstructed megalithic tomb Kluvensieker Schleuse 2013a 01.jpg, Kluvensiek, lock of the old Eider Canal Bovenau Kluvensiek Eiderkanalschleuse 7979.jpg, Kluvensiek, lock Bovenau Kluvensiek Schleuse Eisentore 7978.jpg, Kluvensiek, lock, iron gates of the former

bascule bridge A bascule bridge (also referred to as a drawbridge or a lifting bridge) is a moveable bridge with a counterweight that continuously balances a span, or leaf, throughout its upward swing to provide clearance for boat traffic. It may be single- o ...

Herrenhaus Kluvensiek.jpg, Estate Kluvensiek Bovenau Osterrade Herrenhaus 7985.jpg, Estate Osterrade

Sons and daughters of the village

* The lawyer Benedikt Heins was born in 1710 in Bovenau, he died in Hamburg in 1774. * The painter and sculptor

Ingo Kühl Ingo Kühl (born 29 June 1953) is a German painter, sculptor and architect. Life Grown up in Bovenau near Kiel in Schleswig-Holstein as a son of a policeman, Ingo Kühl attended the Theodor Storm, Theodor-Storm-Realschule in Hanerau-Hadem ...

was born in 1953 in Bovenau and grew up there until 1964.

Bibliography

''Chronik Bovenau'', 2007

References

External links

* Rendsburg-Eckernförde {{RendsburgEckernförde-geo-stub