Community Fuhlendorf

image author: Gemeinde Fuhlendorf


Fuhlendorf is situated 3 km north of Bad Bramstedt, at the B4, the former Altona-Kiel-Chaussee, built by the Danish King Friedrich VI.
When and how Fuhlendorf originated is unknown. But we know when its mane was first mentioned. Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony, was toppled in 1180 by Emperor Friederick I (Barbarossa) and the German Princes. In 1186 Earl Adolf III von Wagrien, Holstein and Stormarn called, with imperial permission the monks of the Cistercian convent Loccum into the land. So the monastery Reinfeld was founded in 1186. In 1189 the monastery came into the hands of Fuhlendorf. In certificates it is recorded for the first time as Wlentorpe.


More than 300 years after its mention in a certificate of the monastery Reinfeld, Fuhlendorf reappears from its seclusion in the 1st official invoice of the royal Danish borough Segeberg in 1525 in the light of the tax register.


One has to describe Wilhelm Schwank (1910 - 1952 = 41 ½ years teacher in Fuhlendorf) as a personality and village teacher with special character. The community has to be very thankful to him, among others also for composing the school chronicle. He had to 2 successors, Ernst-August Hennecke (1952 - 1955) and Hans Hammerich (1955 - 1970). On the 31st July 1970 the one-class primary school was abolished and children from Fuhlendorf were re-schooled to the primary school respectively secondary school Bad Bramstedt.


On the 4th of May 1924 23 Fuhlendorf comrades founded their own fire brigade after a fire engine house had already been built by the community in 1923. Heinrich Runge was elected 1st chief fire officer. His successors are Adolf Schümann, Fritz Schümann and Harald Peters.

In 1977 the auxiliary fire brigade experienced an upswing and decisive modernisation when a new fire engine (VW-TSF) was purchased and radio equipment was bought in 1984 and the village community centre with integrated fire equipment room was built in 1987.

In 1992 the fire brigade counted inclusive of reserve men 28 active and 70 passive respectively supporting members. After the 2nd World War with the beginning of the fifties farmers in Fuhlendorf got caught up in the maelstrom of mechanisation and rationalisation. The farms developed more and more to pure family-run businesses and many workers drifted into different jobs. There were still 17 full-time farms in the year 1956, in 1992 only 5.

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Dairy farm - founded by Johann Ruegg in 1922

Today Fuhlendorf is, with its changed complex structure of population an agricultural and residential community. For many Fuhlendorfer the dairy farm was the daily venue, founded by Johann Ruegg in 1922 but was given up in 1963. The "Kroghof" owned by Gustav Humfeldt also closed its gates at the end of the sixties. Since then the former classroom of the old school is used as meeting room, today's community centre. With the help of the district Segeberg, parts of the community and considerable personal contributions by willing Fuhlendorfer citizens it was possible to realise the idea and the construction of the village community centre in the years from 1986 to 1987.