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Ahrensbök is a municipality in the district of Ostholstein, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated approx. 17-km northwest of Lübeck, and 45-km southeast of Kiel.
[edit] History
Ahrensbök was created in 1280 after the establishment of a chapel. In 1328, this place was first mentioned in a document. A plague ravaged the monastery from 1348 to 1397. From 1623 to 1636, it was the residence of the small duchy of Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Ploen. In 1791, a cattle and horse market was established, which were replaced in 1832 by a regular weekly market. In 1826, the city hall was built. In the German-Danish war of 1864, Ahrensbök was under Austrian control, then under Prussian rule. In 1867, a district court was established. In the same year, after the German-Austrian war, the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg received the district of Ahrensbök as reconciliation for hereditary requirements on the now Prussian Holstein. On 3 September 1872, 22 houses and 10 auxiliary buildings caught fire. In 1876 took place the allocation of the area into two municipalities, the mark municipality and the land municipality Ahrensbök. In the year 1886, the railroad line Ahrensbök Poenitz was solemnly opened. In the years 1912 to 1933, Ahrensbök received the status of a "city II. Class ". In 1928, the building of the private school in the lime tree road (starting from 1950 middle school/six-form high school) took place. In the same year, the place celebrated its sixth centennial. 1933 lost Ahrensbök the municipal law and became the municipality with 19 Dorfschaften within today’s borders; the district court was dissolved. In April 1945, Jewish prisoners from the Auschwitz Nebenlager prince pit, were driven by Ahrensbök in a death march. After World War II (1939-1945), thousands of refugees and refugees were taken up. The number of inhabitants rose from 5,063 in 1939 to 10,169 in 1950. By the regional reorganisation 1970 Ahrensbök with the circle Eutin a component of the circle east Holstein became. The status greater remained. 1972 were inaugurated the reason and head school as village community school; when simultaneous dissolution the individual village schools. In 1982, the ZOB plant was built in the lime tree road. Since March 1985 the local administration has its seat in the new city hall, near where in former times the Ahrensbök and the authority building (1826 - 1983) were. The railroad line was shut down in 1988.
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