Felde is a municipality 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

Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein (; ; ; ; ; occasionally in English ''Sleswick-Holsatia'') is the Northern Germany, northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical Duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of S ...

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. It is part of the municipal association

Achterwehr Achterwehr is a municipality, located in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde in the German '' Bundesland'' of Schleswig-Holstein. Achterwehr is situated 12 km west of Kiel and about 5 km south of the Kiel Canal (). The Autobahn 210 ...

. Felde is about 12 km away from

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 ...

and the federal highway 210 to

Rendsburg Rendsburg (, also ''Rensborg'', , also ''Rensborg'') is a town on the Eider (river), River Eider and the Kiel Canal in the central part of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is the capital of the ''Kreis'' (district) of Rendsburg-Eckernfoerde, Rends ...

, since 1989 the federal highway 202. Felde has an estimated population of 2121 residents, in an area of 13.87 km. As a rural central location, Felde, with its communal and private functions, belongs to the municipalities of the Achterwehr office and beyond. The handicapped infrastructure north offers a wide range both for leisure and recreation as well as for the administration with goods of the needy. Doctors, pharmacy and social station ensure safe medical and nursing care. The most popular thing about Felde is the natur park in Westensee. In the south of the village lies the Felder lake. Felde has bathing areas with excellent water quality, which is ideal for a refreshing swim on warm days.

Geography and traffic

The Felde station is located on the railway line from

. The train to Kiel runs about every half an hour and thus ensures an additional connection between the village and the city. This connection also makes it attractive for young people to move to Felde. The region around the Westensee is very boggy. The

Hasenmoor Hasenmoor is a municipality in the district of Segeberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and ...

and the Felder moor as well as some spring swamps of the

Eider The eiders () are large seaducks in the genus ''Somateria''. The three extant species all breed in the cooler latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. The down feathers of eider ducks and some other ducks and geese are used to fill pillows and qu ...

are located in the municipal area.

History

History and present of the community of Felde Settlement of Feld began quite late. The boggy landscape made it difficult to create habitable land. The story goes back to the year

1547 Year 1547 ( MDXLVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. Events January–March * January 8 – The first Lithuanian-language book, a ''Catechism'' (, Simple Words of Catechism), is published in Königsbe ...

Local council and mayor

Of the 16 seats in the municipal council, after the local elections in 2013, the community of interest ''Die Freie'' had four seats, the ''SPD'' and the community of interests WF each had three seats and the ''CDU'', ''the Greens'' and the community of interests BFF each had two seats. Mayoress was Bianca Dommes (The Free). After the resignation of the mayor Bianca Dommes (Die Freie) in the summer of 2015, the municipal council, which was not assigned to a mayor, and the tasks of the mayors, which were taken over by a representative of the local authority, were given the municipal council at the beginning of 2016 was looked after. In the new elections in April 2016, the ''SPD'' got five seats, the WF interest group three and the ''CDU'', ''

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'' and the BFF interest group two of the 14 seats each.

Sources

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