Affinghausen

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 52 ° 47 '  N , 8 ° 53'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Diepholz
Joint municipality :	Schwaförden
Height :	51 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.26 km 2
Residents:	843 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	69 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	27257
Area code :	04247
License plate :	DH, SY
Community key :	03 2 51 001
Community structure:	4 districts
Association administration address:	Poststrasse 157 27252 Schwaförden
Website :	www.affinghausen.de
Mayor :	Jürgen Köberlein ( WGA )
Location of the municipality of Affinghausen in the district of Diepholz

part of Affinghausen

Affinghausen ( Low German Affinghusen or Affjehusen ) is a municipality in the district of Diepholz in Lower Saxony ( Germany ). It is a member municipality of the Schwaförden joint municipality .

geography

Community structure

• Affinghausen
• Dörriesloh
• Eitzen
• Hagen

Neighboring communities

Municipalities in the vicinity: Schwaförden (6 km), Scholen (10 km), Bruchhausen-Vilsen (10 km), Bassum (13 km), Asendorf (8 km), Sulingen (15 km) and Maasen (9 km).

Other communities in the immediate vicinity: Sudwalde (3 km), Staffhorst (9 km), Mellinghausen (9 km), Siedenburg (10 km) and Neuenkirchen (10 km).

history

Place name

Former place names of Affinghausen were Affenhusen in 1124, Offinghusen in 1265 and Affinghusen in 1330. A convincing interpretation is that it is about the settlement of the people or the clan of the Affo or Agifo (plus old first names like Agafrid, Agefrid, Agfrid, Egfrid, Egfried, Afried or Aifred). The first part of the name probably comes from corner or harrow as "point (of the sword)".

Population development

Historical development - farms

year	Number of farms	source
1608	20th
1667	26th
1755	41
1816	61

Population development from 1885

year Residents source 1885 428 1910 640 1933 688 1939 661 1950 11130 1956 848 1973 965 1975 0942 ¹ 1980 0969 ¹ 1985 0921 ¹

year Residents source 1990 849 ¹ 1995 941 ¹ 2000 938 ¹ 2005 907 ¹ 2010 835 ¹ 2015 832 ¹ 2016 842 ¹ 2017 856 1 2018 859 ¹ 0 0 0

¹ as of December 31st

politics

Municipal council

The Affinghausen municipal council is composed of nine councilors from the following party:

• WGA : 9 seats

(Status: local election on September 11, 2016)

mayor

The mayor is Jürgen Köberlein (WGA). His deputies are Petra Hische (WGA) and Holger Brüning (WGA).

coat of arms

The municipal coat of arms of the municipality was Affinghausen by the author Hans Ehlich designed and the heraldic and author Werner Kaemling drawn.

Blazon : “In the divided shield in the upper part in gold a green bickberry twig with blue berries. Down in gold and black gest changes the so-called shifted Cross (Burgundy Cross) the county Bruchhausen. "

Foundation of the coat of arms: Affinghausen used to belong to the county or to the office of Bruchhausen . This is indicated by the displaced cross. The branch with the berries indicates the strong ties to Bremen: The residents used to sell all kinds of agricultural products in the Hanseatic city and were therefore jokingly referred to as Bickbeernbuern (especially because of the sale of blueberries) .

societies

• Voluntary fire brigade, founded on February 13, 1921 on the occasion of a previous major fire in autumn 1920
• Affinghausen shooting club
• FC AS Hachetal e. V.
• TSV Affinghausen from 1928 e. V.
• Comradeship of former soldiers Affinghausen e. V.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Sylvia Daniel (1950–2010), temporary employment entrepreneur and founder

People connected to the community

• Walter Friedrich (1883–1968), biophysicist, lived and worked in Affinghausen during the Second World War and in the post-war period until 1947
• Gerd Kadzik (* 1929), has lived and worked as a painter and graphic artist in Affinghausen since 1970
• Rainer Kaune (* 1945), author, reciter, speaker, editor and educator, Affinghausen was an important school location for him

Web links

Commons : Affinghausen  - Collection of Images

• Info page about Affinghausen

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. ^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on December 7, 2015 ; accessed on August 2, 2019 .  
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. County of Grafschaft Diepholz ( see under: No. 1 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).  
4. ^ Ulrich Schubert: Register of local authorities Germany 1900 - District Sulingen. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. February 3, 2019, accessed December 27, 2019 .  
5. ↑ ^{a b} Statistisches Bundesamt Wiesbaden (ed.): Official municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany - 1957 edition (population and territorial status September 25, 1956, for Saarland December 31, 1956) . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1958, p.  155 ( digitized version ).
6. ↑ Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Municipal directory for Lower Saxony . Municipalities and municipality-free areas. Self-published, Hanover January 1, 1973, p. 20 , County of Diepholz ( digitized [PDF; 21.3 MB ; accessed on December 27, 2019]).
7. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l} Community directory - archive - regional structure - annual editions - Lower Saxony. (All politically independent municipalities in EXCEL format). In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, accessed on December 27, 2019 .  
8. ^ Rat Affinghausen refrains from forming parliamentary groups - unanimously for Köberlein. In: Kreiszeitung.de. November 16, 2016, accessed December 27, 2019 .  
9. ↑ Various book titles by the author Hans Ehlich. In: Website ZVAB. Retrieved December 28, 2019 .  
10. ↑ Hans Ehlich's coat of arms. In: Wikimedia Commons. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
11. ↑ Various book titles by the author Werner Kaemling. In: Website ZVAB. Retrieved December 27, 2019 .  
12. ↑ Werner Kaemling's coat of arms. In: Wikimedia Commons. Retrieved December 28, 2019.
13. ↑ ^{a b} Coat of arms of the Affinghausen community - origin and meaning. In: Website of the Affinghausen community. Retrieved December 27, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Main statute of the Affinghausen community. (PDF; 142 kB) § 2; Coat of arms, flag, official seal; Paragraph 1. In: Website Samtgemeinde Schwaförden. September 4, 2012, accessed December 27, 2019 .