Lensahn, Germany

The 1760 officiating Pastor Hartmann made Lensahn a wedding paradise in Holstein. He also advertised for the introduction of the potato. 1769 the Grand Duke family became owners of Koselau, Sebent, Lübbersdorf, Kuhof, Kremsdorf, Bollbrügge, Sütel und Sievershagen (so-called „younger entailed estates“). In 1795 Duke Peter Frederick Louis let activity and industry schools (handiwork lessons for young women) be founded in Lensahn and Beschendorf. As preparation for their discharge of serfdom they were taught in practical skills like spinning, knitting, darning, sewing etc.

In 1798 by the end of the serfdom pastor Petersen founded the Ökonomische Lesegesellschaft, a society for the acquisition of agricultural literature. The farriers became leaseholders and got demise charters ruling all rights and duties.

In 1828 the Wagrischer Landwirtschaftlicher Verein (Wagrian Agricultural Society) was founded. It became the Schleswig-Holsteinischer Landwirtschaftlicher Generalverein

in 1834. In 1832-1848 building the causeway from Eutin to Lensahn was encouraged. During the years of revolution 1848/1849 Schleswig-Holstein revolted against the danish government, a comradeship in arms was formed in Lensahn. But not until the Austro-Prussian War 1867 the Duchies Schleswig and Holstein were incorporated into the Kingdom of Prussia. The introduction of the general prussian conscription of three years led to increased emigration to the USA.

In 1890 the volunteer fire department Lensahn (Freiwillige Feuerwehr Lensahn) was founded.

The sports club Turn- und Sportverein TSV Lensahn von 1924 e.V. was founded in 1924. During World War II its preliminary last annual general assembly took place in 1940.

1945 the Lensahn arms factories Reichsgetreidehalle and the adjacent beet slices factory passing place of the GEMA (communication medium experimental command Kiel/Pelzerhaken, GEMA factories Berlin) were dissolved. In June 1945 the Mechanische Werkstätten Lensahn (MWL) company was founded, later the Willisen-Apparatebau Gesellschaft (WILAG) as successor company (e. g. production of radios, since 1946 in buildings at Grüner Hirsch).

After the WILAG’s bankruptcy in 1949 the Greiling-Zigarettenfabrik took over the WILAG’s factory building under construction and produced cigarettes at Grüner Hirsch. At the same place Opal’s production of tights followed. After that Transcodan (since 1984 Codan) began producing and distributing disposable medical transfer systems at Grüner Hirsch.

On 1. September 1950 the Kreisfeuerwehrverband Ostholstein brought the Feuerwehrtechnische Zentrale into service.