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Koldenbüttel

Koldenbüttel
Saint Leonard Church
Saint Leonard Church
Coat of arms of Koldenbüttel
Coat of arms
Koldenbüttel   is located in Germany
Koldenbüttel
Koldenbüttel
Coordinates: 54°23′11″N 9°4′4″E / 54.38639°N 9.06778°E / 54.38639; 9.06778Coordinates: 54°23′11″N 9°4′4″E / 54.38639°N 9.06778°E / 54.38639; 9.06778
Country Germany
State Schleswig-Holstein
District Nordfriesland
Municipal assoc. Nordsee-Treene
Government
 • Mayor Andreas Bensel (CDU)
Area
 • Total 25.76 km2 (9.95 sq mi)
Elevation 2 m (7 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
 • Total 926
 • Density 36/km2 (93/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 25840
Dialling codes 04881
Vehicle registration NF
Website www.amt-
friedrichstadt.de

Koldenbüttel (North Frisian: Koolnbütel, Low German: Kombüddel, Danish: Koldenbyttel) is a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Koldenbüttel lies in the Eider Treene-Losiny about 8 miles south of Husum and just west of Friedrichstadt at the confluence of the Eider and the Treene in the Marsh. Koldenbüttel applies as Eiderstedt's most eastern village.

Until the Treene's damming up in 1570 the village was suspended by Storm surges from North Sea-water flowing in the Eider and the Treene. Now there is a road at the dike's top leading from Koldenbüttel to Friedrichstadt

The Bundesstraße 202 runs through the town; it connects the village with Friedrichstadt.

At the Railway Tönning-Husum, which was opened in 1854, there was a small train station called "Büttel". After finishing the "Marschbahn" this breakpoint was closed down because of a central train station in Friedrichstadt.

Koldenbüttel goes back to an earlier settlement called "Büttel", which was left and colonized again 1,000 to 1,200 years ago. The name means: "Cold (in the sense of cooled, extinct) settlement."

The St. Leonhardt's church was built around the year 1200 by Frisian immigrants, which were settling at Eiderstedt around 1100. At the same place had been a sacred fountain in Pre-Christian times. The village has been documented first in the year 1352. The wooden, standalone bell steeple is the oldest of its type in Schleswig-Holstein; it has been proved that the wood used was produced in 1461. The rectory was built in 1658.


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