Alfstedt

This article deals with the municipality of Alfstedt in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district, for the district of the same name in the city of Geestland in the Cuxhaven district, see Alfstedt (Geestland) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '  N , 9 ° 4'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Rotenburg (Wümme)
Joint municipality :	Geeste spring
Height :	4 m above sea level NHN
Area :	16.22 km 2
Residents:	852 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	53 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	27432
Area code :	04765
License plate :	ROW, BRV
Community key :	03 3 57 002
Association administration address:	Bohlenstrasse 10 27432 Oerel
Website :	alfstedt.de
Mayor :	Heinz Buck ( Alfstedt community of voters )
Location of the municipality of Alfstedt in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district

Alfstedt, 2010

Alfstedt ( Low German Alfst ) is a municipality in the northern district of Rotenburg (Wümme) in Lower Saxony . The northern and eastern municipal boundaries form the border with the district of Cuxhaven .

Together with the communities of Basdahl , Ebersdorf , Hipstedt and Oerel , the community has been part of the Geestequelle community since March 1, 1974 .

history

First mention

The place is first mentioned in 1272 as Alvetes Hô (hill of Alvet).

Place name

Alfstedt was first mentioned in 1272 as Alvetesho or Alveltisho. However, it is questionable whether Alfstedt is really meant here. Maybe that's more of a field name, possibly related to the Hamberg near Alfstedt. Endings in -ho as in Isarnho, Itzehoe, Springo (Schleswig-Holstein) can mean "hook, angle", "wedge-shaped or peninsula-like protruding elevation", "slope" or "river bend". Alfstedt otherwise appears in the historical documents as Alvested and goes back to "Alfes-sted" for "settlement of an Alf (old first name)".

politics

Municipal council

The council of the municipality of Alfstedt consists of nine councilors and 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
Alfstedt community of voters	100%	9

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 74.96%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

mayor

The municipal council elected councilor Heinz Buck (Alfstedt community of voters) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term. He has been mayor since 1996.

Former mayor

• 1958–1961: Johann Müller
• 1961–1974: Johann Wölbern
• 1974–1991: Hermann Müller
• 1991–1991: Hans-Heinrich Wölbern
• 1991–1996: Dr. Diedrich Kahrs
• since 1996: Heinz Buck

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a golden razor with a handle designed as an animal's head on a blue background . Such a Bronze Age razor was found in 1954 by Hermann Müller near Alfstedt.

literature

• Hans-Hinrich Kahrs, Michael Ehrhardt: Alfstedt and Bredemehe. History and local history. Series of publications by the Landscape Association Volume 40, ISBN 978-3-931879-54-9 .

Web links

Commons : Alfstedt  - collection of images

• Alfster Heimatfrünn (partly in Low German)

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) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on March 7, 2017.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Municipality of Alfstedt - overall results of the 2016 municipal council election , accessed on March 7, 2017.
5. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. In: NDR website. September 12, 2016, accessed March 7, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Municipalities of the combined municipality of Geestequelle - municipality of Alfstedt , accessed on March 7, 2017.
7. ↑ www.alfstedt.de: Municipal Council , accessed on March 7, 2017.