Seedorf (near Zeven)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 21 '  N , 9 ° 14'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Rotenburg (Wümme)
Joint municipality :	Singing
Height :	25 m above sea level NHN
Area :	18.7 km 2
Residents:	1036 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	55 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	27404
Area code :	04284
License plate :	ROW, BRV
Community key :	03 3 57 042
Association administration address:	Bahnhofstrasse 8 27446 Selsingen
Website :	www.selsingen.de
Mayor :	Harald Hauschild ( WG-Seedorf )
Location of the community of Seedorf in the district of Rotenburg (Wümme)

Seedorf is a municipality in the Selsingen municipality in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district in Lower Saxony , around 90 kilometers from the North Sea.

Community structure

The community consists of the two districts Seedorf and Godenstedt .

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, the neighboring community of Godenstedt was incorporated.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the community of Seedorf consists of nine councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 501 and 1000 inhabitants. The council members are elected for a five-year term by local elections. The current term of office began on November 1, 2016 and ends on October 31, 2021.

The last local election on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following:

Political party	Proportional votes	Number of seats
Voting Community Seedorf	64.20%	6th
Godenstedt community of voters	35.79%	3

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 56.16%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

mayor

The council elected council member Harald Hauschild (WG Seedorf) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term.

coat of arms

Description : In the red field, a mammoth in silver walking to the right , whose tusks and toenails are set off in gold . In the black base of the shield there is a silver spade pointing crosswise to the right.

The coat of arms was taken over from Godenstedt because the remains of a mammoth were found during the mining of marl in Godenstedt .

Honorary citizen

• Peter Struck (1943–2012), SPD parliamentary group chairman and former Federal Defense Minister, was an honorary citizen of the community from 2005.

traffic

Seedorf is on the federal road 71 between Zeven and Bremervörde . The Seedorf airfield is located in the municipality .

military

The paratrooper barracks , which are used by the German Armed Forces today, are located in the area of ​​Seedorf . From 1963 to 2006 units of the Dutch army were stationed there. The paratrooper regiment 31 with nine active companies and the training and support company 31, the basic training , as well as the airborne reconnaissance company 310 and the airborne pioneer company 270, both of which are directly subordinate to the airborne brigade 1 , and the medical supply center as part of the central medical service of the Bundeswehr are stationed in the barracks . Until it was disbanded in 2015, large parts of Airborne Brigade 31 were also housed in Seedorf. The location currently has 2,710 posts, which significantly exceeds the number of Seedorf residents.

Web links

Commons : Seedorf  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the joint community

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019  ( help ).
2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer GmbH, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 242 .
3. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on March 19, 2017.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Municipality of Seedorf - overall results of municipal council elections 2016 ( memento of the original from March 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 19, 2017. 
5. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016. Retrieved March 19, 2017 . 
6. ^ Community of Seedorf - Council of the Community of Seedorf 2016–2021 , accessed on March 19, 2017.
7. ^ The stationing of the Bundeswehr in Germany. In: https://www.bundeswehr.de/ . BMVg, October 2011, accessed on August 2, 2019 .