Augaard (Danish: Ågård) is a village in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, that belongs to the municipality of Oeversee.Kreiskarte Flensburg. Landesvermessungsamt Schleswig-Holstein 1970.
History Augaard was first attested in a document from the year 1337.Gemeinde Oversee. Ortsteile. Die Ortsteile der Gemeinde Oeversee. Augaard The name combines two words, with Au being a common name for a riverGesellschaft für Schleswig-Holsteinische Geschichte. Begriff: Au, retrieved am: 23 January 2021. and Ga(a)rd meaning yard.Hans Nicolai Andreas Jensen: Angeln, Geschichtlich und topographisch beschrieben. Kiel 1991, S. 97 f.; Johannes Petersen: Hoch- und spätmittelalterliche Befestigungsanlagen in und um Angeln. In: Jahrbuch des Heimatvereins der Landschaft-Angeln. 1997, S. 45; Flensburger Straßennamen. Gesellschaft für Flensburger Stadtgeschichte, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1, Artikel: Jürgensgaarder StraßeVgl. die Artikel wikt:en:gaard, wikt:en:gård and wikt:en:yard in English Wiktionary, retrieved 1 March 2017. Thus, the name could be translated as "yard at the river", possibly referring to the nearby Treene stream.
According to a local legend, a castle once stood in Augaard. Historian Jakob Röschmann however calls this a hoax. The castle is referred to by locals as "De Borg"Jakob Röschmann: Vorgeschichte des Kreises Flensburg (= Die vor- und frühgeschichtlichen Denkmäler und Funde in Schleswig-Holstein, 6). Neumünster 1963, S. 91 Nr. 31 (Juhlschau).niederdeutsch für "die Burg"Jakob Röschmann: Vorgeschichte des Kreises Flensburg (= Die vor- und frühgeschichtlichen Denkmäler und Funde in Schleswig-Holstein, 6). Neumünster 1963, S. 91 Nr. 31 (Juhlschau) und S. 355. It is said that the castle's grounds was a peninsula-like hill measuring roughly 100 meters across ().Jakob Röschmann: Vorgeschichte des Kreises Flensburg (= Die vor- und frühgeschichtlichen Denkmäler und Funde in Schleswig-Holstein, 6). Neumünster 1963, S. 355. Furthermore, a golden sword is said to be buried at the site.
A local saying goes "In Juhlschau hebt se Appeln und Beern, in Augaard wohnt de Eddellüd gern", which means "In Juhlschau, they've got apples and pears, in Augaard the noble reside"
It is attested that the county administrator of Uggelharde resided in Augaard for multiple years.Ev.-Luth. Kirchengemeinde Oeversee-Jarplund. St.-Georg-Kirche in Oeversee, retrieved 30 January 2020; In der St.-Georg-Kirche in Oversee befindet sich im Übrigen der Grabstein des königlichen Hardesvogtes H. Johan von Steding (gestorben 1727) The village can be found on Prussian and Danish maps dating 1857/1858 and 1879,Preußische Landesaufnahme um 1879, retrieved 13 January 2021. respectively.
In Augaard, the first Volkshochschule of Schleswig that was teaching in Danish opened in 1863, the Aagaard Højskole. Though, it was shut down and closed by Prussian authorities in 1889Grænseforeningen, Aagaard Højskole
Administrative history Up until the 1960s, Augaard was part of the municipality of Juhlschau that was merged into Munkwolstrup on 1 January 1962. With a municipal reform in 1974, the latter was merged with the neighboring village of Barderup to create the municipality of Sankelmark. Sankelmark itself was merged into the Oeversee municipality in another reform in 2008.
Notable residents Friedrich Wilhelm Lübke, Minister-president of Schleswig-Holstein from 1951 to 1954 owned a farm in Augaard.Geschichte der CDU. Heinrich Lübke, retrieved am: 24 October 2018. His brother Heinrich Lübke (President of West Germany from 1959 to 1969) lived at that farm briefly in the 1930s.
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