Ahlerstedt

Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Stade
Joint municipality :	Harsefeld
Height :	37 m above sea level NHN
Area :	62.46 km 2
Residents:	5451 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	87 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	21702
Area code :	04166
License plate :	HOURS
Community key :	03 3 59 002
LOCODE :	DE AH6
Community structure:	8 districts
Address of the ; municipal administration:	Kakerbecker Strasse 1 ; 21702 Ahlerstedt
Website :	www.ahlerstedt.de
Mayor :	Uwe Arndt (FWG)
Location of the municipality of Ahlerstedt in the district of Stade

Ahlerstedt from a bird's eye view.

Ahlerstedt ( Low German Ohlers ) is a municipality in the district Stade in Lower Saxony ( Germany ).

geography

Geographical location

Ahlerstedt is located in a poorly forested and slightly hilly landscape on the Stader Geest , southwest of Hamburg and east of Bremen on the border with the Rotenburg (Wümme) district in the eastern Elbe-Weser triangle . The Braken and Harselah nature reserve extends north-east of Ahlerstedt . The floodplain rises in the municipality on the edge of a high moor between Ahrensmoor and Klethen. The closest cities are Buxtehude , Stade and Zeven . Bremervörde and Rotenburg (Wümme) are a little further away.

Ahlerstedt is conveniently located between the major cities of Hamburg (70 km away, 40 km as the crow flies) and Bremen (77 km away, 56 km as the crow flies). Both can be easily reached via the A1 .

Neighboring communities

Brest	Bargstedt	Harsefeld
Non-creatures		Sauensiek
Heeslingen	Vierden	Resident

Neighboring cities

Bremerhaven 69 km	Stade 24 km	Buxtehude 19 km
Bremervörde 27 km		Buchholz in the north heath 47 km
Zeven 18 km	Rotenburg (Wümme) 50 km	Tostedt 30 km

Community structure

There are eight districts in the municipality of Ahlerstedt:

Ahlerstedt
Ahrensmoor (divided into Ahrensmoor-North , -East and -West )
Ahrenswohlde
Bokel
Kakerbeck with Kakerbeck-Doosthof and Bockholt
Oersdorf with Kohlenhausen
Ottendorf with Klethen
Wangersen with Klein Wangersen and Hohenhausen

climate

The climate in Ahlerstedt is warm and temperate . Even the driest month still has more rainfall than average in Ahlerstedt . The average annual rainfall is 754 mm. The annual average temperature is 8.4 ° C. The coldest month is January, the warmest month July. The least precipitation falls in February and the most in August.

Climate table Ahlerstedt

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C )	2.4	3.1	7.2	12.4	17.2	20.5	21.7	21.4	18.7	13.2	7.3	3.9	O	12.5
Min. Temperature (° C)	-2.6	-2.7	-0.4	2.8	6.5	9.7	11.7	11.3	8.8	5.5	2.1	-0.6	O	4.4
Temperature (° C)	-0.1	0.2	3.4	7.6	11.8	15.1	16.7	16.3	13.7	9.3	4.7	1.6	O	8.4

Precipitation ( mm )	60	43	51	48	59	72	79	81	67	60	66	68	Σ	754

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m
p
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r
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t
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2.4

-2.6

3.1

-2.7

7.2

-0.4

12.4

2.8

17.2

6.5

20.5

9.7

21.7

11.7

21.4

11.3

18.7

8.8

13.2

5.5

7.3

2.1

3.9

-0.6

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

N i e d e r s c h l a g	60	43	51	48	59	72	79	81	67	60	66	68
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec

Source:

history

Parish name

Former place names of Ahlerstedt were Alerstede in 1102, Alerstede around 1230 and Alerstede in 1420. The basic word of this place name is undoubtedly –stedt . The defining word could either go back to the Middle Low German alre, elre for alder , which could lead to a basic form Alre-stets (d) ti . German Erle , Low German also Eller , Middle High German alder , Old High German erila, elira , Middle Low German elre , but also Middle Low German alre for everyone . It may also be based on an old first name, maybe Alaher .

prehistory

In the Middle Ages, Ahlerstedt and the other districts belonged to the Archbishopric of Bremen and, after the Thirty Years War, from 1648 to the Duchy of Bremen-Verden .

In the French era , Ahlerstedt , Ahrenswohle , Bokel and Ahrensmoor belonged to Mairie Ahlerstedt in the canton of Harsefeld in the Kingdom of Westphalia until 1811 . From 1811 to 1814 they and the towns of Wiegersen , Bockhorst, Oersdorf , Klethen , Kohlenhausen, Ottendorf , Kutenholz , Bullenholz and Wedel belonged to the Mairie Ahlerstedt in the newly founded canton of Horneburg. From 1823, after the Congress of Vienna , the villages were part of the Landdrostei Stade in the Kingdom of Hanover .

Before 1885, all of today's districts, with the exception of Kakerbeck and Oersdorf , belonged to the Börde Ahlerstedt in the Harsefeld district , after 1885 to the Stade district and since 1932 to the Stade district today .

founding

From 1964 to 1972 Ahlerstedt was the main town of the joint municipality of Ahlerstedt , which from 1971 was congruent with the current municipality.

On July 1, 1972, today's Ahlerstedt community was founded from the communities of Ahlerstedt , Ahrensmoor , Ahrenswohlde , Bokel , Kakerbeck , Oersdorf , Ottendorf-Klethen and Wangersen . Ahlerstedt is part of the Harsefeld municipality .

religion

The community of Ahlerstedt is evangelical-Lutheran and belongs to the parish of the church Ahlerstedt , only Oersdorf and Kakerbeck belong to the parish of the church Bargstedt . There are also two New Apostolic congregations with churches in the districts of Wangersen and Kakerbeck- Doosthof .

The church of St. Michael in Harsefeld is responsible for the few Catholics , which has been part of the parish of the Assumption of Mary in Buxtehude since September 1, 2010 .

politics

Municipal council

Local council election 2016

Turnout: 65.59%

%

70

60

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

66.55

15.92

12.30

2.00

0.89

2.34

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to 2011

% p

12

10

8th

6th

4th

2

0

-2

-4

-6

-8th

+11.13

-7.69

-4.13

+2.00

-0.46

-0.84

Otherwise.

The municipal council (including the mayor) has 17 members:

FWG: 11 seats
CDU : 3 seats
SPD : 2 seats
NPD : 1 seat

(Status: local election on September 11, 2016 )

mayor

1992–1996: Peter Bredehöft (FWG)
1996-2001: Hinrich Steffens (CDU)
2001–2006: Peter Bredehöft (FWG)
2006-: Uwe Arndt (FWG)

Mayor is Uwe Arndt from the Free Voting Association. He comes from the district of Ottendorf and currently lives in the district of Oersdorf .

Community directors

1996–2011: Rainer Schlichtmann

coat of arms

Local government

Blazon : The coat of arms of the municipality of Ahlerstedt shows a shield divided diagonally from bottom left to top rightby a silver wavy bar . In the blue field at the top left there is a silver prehistoric earth house and in the red field at the bottom right there is a silver earth oven with eight silver flames in its opening. Significance: The prehistoric earth house shown on the coat of arms wasexcavatedin the district of Kakerbeck and the earth oven typical for the region in the district of Ahlerstedt. The silver flames in the oven opening are supposed to symbolize the eight districts of the community.

Partnerships

There is a partnership with the Budzyń Municipality in Poland .

Population development


date	Residents
December 31, 1977	4137
December 31, 1982	4269
December 31, 1987	4279
December 31, 1992	4477
December 31, 1997	4731
December 31, 2002	4985
December 31, 2007	5136
December 31, 2012	5104

Residents in the individual districts


	District	Residents	was standing
1	Ahlerstedt	1740	2011
2	Ahrensmoor	452	2003
3	Ahrenswohlde	446	1999
4th	Bokel
5	Kakerbeck
	Kakerbeck-Doosthof	80	~ 2017
	Bockholt
6th	Oersdorf	302	2011
7th	Ottendorf	575	~ 2010
	Klethen
8th	Wangersen
	Klein Wangersen
	Hohenhausen

Culture and sights

Buildings

Ahlerstedt district

Today's neo-Gothic , single-nave , four-bay church with choir and west tower made of brick was built from 1863 to 1856 according to plans by the Jewish architect Edwin Oppler . It is Oppler's only non-Jewish sacred building.
Bakery of the village renewal association

District of Ottendorf

Via Romea ( Napoleon's path ) with memorial stones

Evangelical Lutheran Church , 1865 by Edwin Oppler
Napoleon stone in the district of Ottendorf
Reconstructed megalithic grave in the Ottendorf district, next to the memorial stone for Willi Wegewitz
Bakehouse

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The state road 124 leads through the municipality of Ahlerstedt , via which you can reach Stade , Harsefeld and Zeven as well as the federal roads 71 and 73 .

Four bus routes operate in the municipality of Ahlerstedt, all of which are operated by KVG Stade and are connected to the Hamburg transport association:

2029 | Stade - Hagen - Helmste - Harsefeld - Ahlerstedt - Wangersen - Zeven and back
2035 | Buxtehude - Apensen - Nindorf - Beckdorf - Sauensiek - Ahlerstedt and back
2703 | Zeven - Ahlerstedt - Harsefeld - Hedendorf - Finkenwerder and back
2066 | Wangersen - Ahlerstedt and back

The nearest train stations are in Harsefeld , Bargstedt , Aspe and Kutenholz ( Bremerhaven-Buxtehude line ). There is a connection to Hamburg in Buxtehude .

The next motorway connection is in nearby Sittensen to the federal motorway 1 (Hamburg-Bremen).

education

School center

Ahlerstedt primary school
School at the Auetal (secondary school)

Companies

The Kreissparkasse Stade and the Volksbank Ahlerstedt have a branch in Ahlerstedt.

There are two industrial areas: Kleine Kamp and Klethener Weg .

Sons and daughters of the church

Heinrich Behnken (1880–1960), German teacher and author
Willi Wegewitz (1898–1996), archaeologist and local history researcher
Peter Tobaben (1905–1972), German politician (DP, later CDU)
Heinrich Kröger (* 1932), German pastor and author
Elke Lütjen-Drecoll (* 1944), anatomist and university professor
Lydia Fischer (* 1949), German politician (CDU)
Birgit Lemmermann (* 1962), high school teacher, author (Low German) and translator