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Community Wittenborn
Popular holiday and excursion destination
The community Wittenborn is situated on the one hand at the periphery of Segeberger Forst and on the other with its southern part of the community area at the M�zener Lake.
The first information of Wittenborn stems from the year 1139.
At this time the two villages are being mentioned as "Wittenburna", which were owned by the Segeberg monastery.
Existing megalithic tombs are testimony to pre-historic settlement in Wittenborn.
Known are also further archaeological monuments (ploughed over tumulus, urn graveyards and settlements), which are well worth preserving as archaeological sources.
Altogether there are ca 60 places of discovery inside Wittenborn's border.
The oldest finds go back to the Neolithic Age but found were also settlements remnants from the Iron respective Romanemperortimes and two urn graves. From the year 1300 BC stems the discovery of a completely preserved grave.The finds from this can be seen at the Remise in Bad Segeberg.
The present community Wittenborn was founded in1867. The population was then 192.
The community area comprises today of 619ha.After the 2nd World War, the until then mainly agricultural structure of Wittenborn changed.
The population of Wittenborn rose after the creation of new housing estates from 1971to 1976 to 730 citizens.
On the left on the postcard the inn W. Studt. Studt�s Gasthof is still today a very popular place at the Segeberger Stra�e.
After the discovery of extensive gravel deposits the exploitation and processing started.At the same time the community developed into a popular holiday and excursion destinationdue to its bio-geographic location at the Segeberger Forst and M�zener Lake. Tourism on the one and trade and industry on the other side didn't lead to conflict situations because of the large spacial distance.
