Ahausen

This article describes the community of Ahausen in Lower Saxony; for other meanings see Ahausen (disambiguation)

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′  N , 9 ° 19 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Rotenburg (Wümme)
Joint municipality :	Sottrum
Height :	25 m above sea level NHN
Area :	34.52 km 2
Residents:	1912 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	55 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	27367
Area code :	04269
License plate :	ROW, BRV
Community key :	03 3 57 001
Community structure:	2 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Im Specken 27367 Ahausen
Website :	www.gemeinde-ahausen.info
Mayor :	Claus Kock ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Ahausen in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district

Ahausen is a municipality in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district in Lower Saxony . It is located southwest of the district town of Rotenburg (Wümme) and is part of the Sottrum municipality . The river Wümme and the brook Aue flow through the municipality . The community has about 1800 inhabitants (2004) and covers an area of ​​34.41 square kilometers.

geography

Ahausen is located in the Stader Geest natural area at the transition between the Wümmeniederung and Achim-Verdener Geest sub-areas .

Neighboring communities

Ahausen belongs to the integrated community and school district Sottrum. Sottrum is about ten kilometers from Ahausen. The district town of Rotenburg (Wümme) is also ten kilometers from Ahausen. The city of Verden (Aller) is located about 25 kilometers from Ahausen. The major cities of Bremen, Hanover and Hamburg can be reached quickly from Ahausen via the motorway connections in Sottrum and Verden (Aller).

Forest and Field Mark

The community of Ahausen has many forest areas, probably the largest in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district. The Ahauser Feldmark covers around 2,475 hectares, of which 742 hectares are forest, almost 30 percent of its area, Eversen around 964 hectares, of which around 184 hectares are forest. The forests here are ideal hiking areas. Other hiking destinations are heather and moor areas and the Ahauser Mühle with its nine-acre mill pond.

history

Place name

Former place names of Ahausen were in the years 1226 Ouhusen, 1296 Ahusen, 1302 Ahusen, 1339 ouhusen, 1373 ouhusen, 1384 Ouwhuzen, 1390 ouhusen, 1435 Öwhusen, 1447 Ouhuzen, around 1540 Awhusen, 1567 Auhußenn, 1622 Auhausen, 1630 Ahaus, 1664 Ahusen , 1684 and 1718 Ahausen / Ausen. Hausen means village, villages, the defining word is the river name Ahe, Aue .

middle Ages

The town of Ahausen was first documented in 1226. In the document the name of a "Godefridus sacerdos de Ouhusen" appeared. At that time about 26 families, mostly farmers, lived in village communities. Each had a certain amount of arable land and a corresponding share of common property. There was already a chapel or church with its own clergyman who was subordinate to the cathedral parish in Verden . The village grew incessantly in those times and over the years the name changed to Ouhusen, Auhusen, Ahusen (around 1700) in Ahausen. Eversen was first mentioned in a document in 1570

Devastation in the Thirty Years War

This development was suddenly interrupted by the onset of the Thirty Years War . The troops of the Count of Tilly devastated the place completely. The trenches of the Swedes, who had set up their headquarters there, can still be seen in the Bünte. The destroyed church was rebuilt during the war and received a new bell in 1637 because the old one had not been found.

1700 to 1900

The coupling of the Ahauser Feldmark was carried out from November 1829 to November 1847. From Ahausen called Hollandgänger went with their own tools to Holland for mowing grass in order to earn money. In 1832, many courtyards burned down due to a large fire that started at Allermannschen Hof. Because the buildings were so close together before the fire, some of the courtyards moved to the Bockel district afterwards. A shepherd had deliberately started the fire. He took his own life. In 1842 today's Dorfstrasse was built.

To 1866 in Ahausen which consisted Amtsvogtei , including Unterstedt , Eversen, Haberloh and Ahausen with Ahauser mill and property listed place. When the state needed money, the Prussian government sold the bailiwick.

1900 until today

Settlements away from the village: The settlements Auf dem Adel and Auf der Bünte were established between 1910 and 1912 . At that time Ahausen had 432 inhabitants. There is also the Bockel settlement, located behind the old village (today a forest, it is said to have been a settlement area earlier). Behind this settlement, which mainly consists of lonely farms, is the forest, willow and field marrow Bortel , from there you continue to the remote settlement of Breitenfeldermoor , which, however, no longer belongs to the municipality of Ahausen.

The Wittorf-Sottrum road was built from 1890 to 1905. There has been electric light since 1921 and the first street lighting since 1925. The cultivation of the moors above the Wümme made it necessary to build the upper Ahauser lock in 1923–1924 and the lower lock in 1927.

With the introduction of the Prussian Municipal Constitutional Law of December 15, 1933 and the German Municipal Code of January 30, 1935, the leader principle was enforced at the municipal level on April 1, 1935 . The community committee became the community council, which was no longer allowed to pass resolutions, but only had an advisory function. The district administrator appointed its members. Community elections no longer took place, the community leader had sole decision-making power.

Whitsun 1933 the village fell victim to a devastating fire. Many houses burned down. It is documented that this fire was predicted in almost every detail by a woman with the so-called "second face". The fire was lit by two young boys (three and a half years old). They were playing with matches in a barn. The fire spread rapidly as almost all the houses were made of wood. A great many houses burned down.

From 1950 new building areas were opened up. In 1974 the community of Ahausen joined the Sottrum community. Eversen has been part of the municipality since March 1, 1974.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the municipality of Ahausen consists of ten councilors and councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 1001 and 2000 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 honorary mayor is also entitled to vote and sit on the municipal council.

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

Political party	Proportional votes	Number of seats
CDU	51.61%	6th
SPD	18.87%	2
Politics without a party (PoP)	16.28%	2
GREEN	13.22%	1

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 63.93%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

mayor

The council elected council member Claus Kock (CDU) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term. His deputies are Corinna Ader-Schumann (SPD) and Gerda Hollmann (CDU).

Mayor since 1849

• 1849–1855: Gerd Hinrich Lange
• 1855–1860: Hinrich Lange
• 1860–1866: Johann Hinrich Intemann
• 1866–1872: Hinrich Clüver
• 1872–1878: Johann Hinrich Tewes
• 1878–1890: Johann Friedrich Lange
• 1890–1919: Claus Hinrich Intemann
• 1919–1933: Hermann Vajen
• 1933–1945: Hinrich Böhling
• 1945–1946: Johann Harms
• 1946–1951: Hinrich Tewes
• 1951–1959: Johann Harms
• 1959–1966: Hinrich Küsel
• 1966–1967: Rudolf Harms
• 1967–1973: Steffen Kothe
• 1973–2010: Bernhard Hasselhoff
• May 3, 2010–14. November 2011: Gerd Intemann
• November 14, 2011 - Date: Claus Kock (CDU)

coat of arms

Blazon : In red a silver oblique left-hand bar covered with a blue wavy bar, accompanied at the top by the silver gable front of the Ahauser Church, at the bottom by a silver wolf's head over two crossed silver heather branches.

The coat of arms shows a river course ( Wümme ) with a white bar running from non- heraldic lower left to upper right . In the upper corner of the coat of arms there is a silver church on a red background, in the lower corner of the coat of arms a silver wolf's head , including two also silver heather stumps on a red background. The colors of the coat of arms refer to Lower Saxony with the colors red and silver . Red also stands for the heather areas in the municipality of Ahausen and is also the basic color in the coat of arms of the Sottrum municipality . Blue symbolizes the water surface of the rivers in the municipality.

Meaning of the three symbols and the colors:

• Ahauser Church: The Ahauser Church is the landmark for the Ahausen district. It dates from the 17th and 19th centuries and is a listed building .
• Running waters: The municipality of Ahausen is characterized by several running waters ( Wümme , Ahauser Bach, Everser Bach ).
• Heath plant and wolf head: The heather plant and the wolf head represent the Wolfsgrund in the Eversen district , one of the largest contiguous heather nature reserves outside the Lüneburg Heath .

Culture and sights

Buildings, monuments

• Ahauser Marienkirche of Classicism in round arch style from 1848 with an older church tower. The tower of was rebuilt from oak beams in 1627, one year after it was destroyed by imperial troops. Only the pulpit and an offering box remind of the old, destroyed church. In Advent 1848, the church was consecrated as it is today. The organ from 1864 comes from Johann Hinrich Röver .
• Ahauser Mühle (courtyard ensemble with Lower Saxony hall house, stables, pigeon house, relaxation room, storage facility and brick mill, located on the mill pond)
• Memorial to those who fell in the war in the center of the village
• Memorial to those who fell in the wars in Eversen (corner of Dorfstrasse / Zum Sandberg)

Regular events

• Shooting festival in Ahausen
• Shooting festival in Eversen
• Harvest Festival
• Local festival in Eversen
• Amateur play performances in Eversen
• A hauser autumn cultural tour and craft market
• Christmas market on the Saturday before Nicholas at the Kulturhof
• International summer concerts of the Rotenburg Guitar Week in St. Marienkirche
• Annual concert of the orchestra community Junge Orchester Auenland e. V. (2nd Advent)

Others

• In the district of Eversen there is the Wolfsgrund , a nature reserve and one of the largest contiguous heathland areas outside the Lüneburg Heath .
• Kulturhof (Former farm that has been converted into a meeting place for artists. Private initiative.)
• Recreation areas (forest areas in which many bungalows and arbors have been built, especially by those looking for relaxation from the area around Bremen)
• Sanderburg (well-known weekend house, located on a hill)
• Landscape garden (private garden on an ice age basin edge dune)

Economy and Transport

In Ahausen there are craft businesses and small businesses as well as an office of the Volksbank Wümme-Wieste eG.

The following newspapers are represented in town:

• Rotenburger Kreiszeitung
• Weser Kurier (local edition Achim)
• The Rotenburger Rundschau advertising paper
• Advertisement Journal

The community is close to the federal road 215 to Verden (Aller).

Infrastructure

General

• Administration in the town hall of the Sottrum municipality, Am Eichkamp 12
• Ahausen volunteer fire brigade
• Ahausen youth fire brigade
• Eversen volunteer fire department

Educational and social institutions

• Ahausen primary school, Verdener Weg 3
• Kindergarten Ahausen, Verdener Weg 3
• Ahausen crib
• Ahausen after-school care center
• Senior care DRK Ahausen

Parishes

The Evangelical Lutheran faith is widespread. The parish of Ahausen, which is organized in the Rotenburg (Wümme) parish of the Evangelical Church in Hanover, includes: Ahausen, Eversen, Hellwege with Gut Stelle and Unterstedt . A part of Haberloh (without the two courtyards 1 and 2, which belong to the Verden Cathedral) also belongs to the parish of Ahausen. In 2008 the parish had around 2,400 members. Baptisms, weddings and burials have been recorded in Ahausen since 1698. Confirmations have been held here since 1708.

Churches

• Ahauser Church
• Ev.-luth. Ahausen parish office (Ahausen parish hall)
• Eversen Chapel
• Hellwege chapel
• Chapel Unterstedt

societies

• Fishing club
• DRK local association
• Friends of the Ahausen primary school
• Hometown club
• Orchestergemeinschaft Junge Orchester Auenland e. V.
• Politics without Ahausen-Eversen party
• Ahausen shooting club from 1904
• Rifle Club Eversen (founded 1897)
• Gymnastics and Sports Club (TUS) Ahausen
• Association of the Ahausen Volunteer Fire Brigade

graveyards

• Ahausen cemetery (located directly at the church)
• Eversen cemetery
• Small soldiers' burial site (located in a wooded area not far from the Bockel settlement)

Personalities

Personalities of the village

• Hans-Hermann Gätjen, teacher and homeland book author, whose father Johann Gätjen was already a village school teacher in Ahausen, graduated from the Ratzeburg teacher training college. He taught generations of Ahauser students and inspired many of their home history, which he knew how to convey imaginatively.

Other personalities

• The editor, writer and playwright Hans-Ludolf Flügge (born June 9, 1907 in Maschen, † 1980 in Eversen) lived in the district of Eversen and wrote his works in both High and Low German. His wife worked for a daily newspaper for a long time and was known throughout the Rotenburg (Wümme) district. The Flügge couple lived in a house away from the village, on a hill in the direction of Westerwalsede .
• A niece of Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer lived in a street in the center of Ahausen, Im Specken , of which some Ahausers were quite proud.

literature

• Hans Hermann Gätjen: Both sides of the Wümme. 2., ext. Edition. Verlag Karl Sasse, Rotenburg (Wümme) 1966, DNB 456051902 .
• The district of Rotenburg (Wümme): history, landscape, economy. Stalling, Oldenburg 1970, DNB 457344571 .
• Jutta Michels: Whitsun fire. Schünemann Verlag, 2012, 2nd edition 2018, ISBN 978-3-7961-1997-2 .
• Jutta Michels: Searching for clues. Schünemann Verlag, 2015, 2nd edition 2018, ISBN 978-3-944552-64-4 .
• Jutta Michels: Traveling people. Schünemann Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-7961-1024-5 .

Web links

Commons : Ahausen  - Collection of Images

• Official website of the municipality of Ahausen

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. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG); Section 46 - Number of Deputies. In: Lower Saxony Regulations Information System (NI-VORIS). December 17, 2010, accessed July 25, 2020 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Municipality of Ahausen - overall result of the 2016 municipal council election. In: Website Zweckverband Kommunale Datenverarbeitung Oldenburg (KDO). September 11, 2016, accessed July 25, 2020 . 
5. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. In: Website Norddeutscher Rundfunk . September 12, 2016, accessed March 2, 2017 . 
6. ^ Ahausen community - mayor and local council. In: Website of the Sottrum community. Retrieved July 25, 2020 .