Aukrug is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde , in Schleswig-Holstein , Germany . It is situated approximately 13 km west of Neumünster , and 35 km southwest of Kiel .
3-615: The Itzespitze is a low hill on the L121 between Aukrug and Hennstedt (Steinburg) . At 83.4 metres, it is the highest elevation in the district of Steinburg and in the Aukrug Nature Park . The previously nameless hill was given its name, after press and television in 1998 reported humorously about the first climb of the highest peak in the district of Steinburg by members of the German Alpine Club , during which
6-508: A summit cross was erected. This Steinburg location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 54°02′45.2″N 9°44′34.8″E / 54.045889°N 9.743000°E / 54.045889; 9.743000 Aukrug Aukrug is the seat of the Amt (collective municipality) of Aukrug . Aukrug is south of the municipality of Mörel or Gnutz , east of Hohenwestedt and west of Wasbek and Ehndorf . Innien,
9-592: The oldest part of the municipality, appears in a surviving record from as far back as 1128. The name Aukrug comes from ‘in de Aukrögen’, using the Plattdeutsch ( low German ) of the region, and means something along the lines of ‘in the folds of the flood plain’. Tönsheide Forest lies east of Aukrug specialist hospital and is a nature reserve with an area of 67 hectares (170 acres). It consists of large areas of near-natural woodland with scattered areas of heath. This Rendsburg-Eckernförde location article
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