Apeldorn

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Apeldorn
City of Meppen
Coordinates: 52 ° 44 ′ 48 ″  N , 7 ° 24 ′ 6 ″  E
Height : 24  (16-30)  m
Area : 20.98 km²
Residents : 758  (2007)
Population density : 36 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : March 1, 1974
Postal code : 49716
Area code : 05966
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Location of Apeldorn in Meppen

Apeldorn is a village in the northeast of Meppen , which was incorporated into the city of Meppen as part of the territorial reform of 1974. The former community is the only Hümmling district of Meppen .

Apeldorn has about 760 inhabitants on an area of ​​20.98 km².

geography

Apeldorn is located in the central part of the Emsland about nine kilometers northeast of Meppen and about two kilometers south of the Nordradde in the hilly geest landscape of the Hümmling , to which the place historically belongs. The town center extends on both sides of Kreisstraße 205, the Apeldorner Hauptstraße , which leads from Meppen to Sögel .

history

The beginnings of the village are in the dark, the first reliable mention comes from the year 850 . The Emsland historian Diepenbrock mentions that the village was known as apulderion around 978 .

Until the early 19th century, the agriculturally used area of ​​the village was limited to the ash areas on the Geestrand surrounding the town center . Until the middle of the 19th century, the large lowlands in the southwest ( Great Moor ) and in the west (Niederung der Nordradde) were wasteland . The geest areas in the north and east were also undeveloped land. An expansion of the economic area did not begin until the middle of the 19th century, the wasteland could gradually be included in the management as grassland and settled with individual farms. A forestry with intensive afforestation of wasteland developed on the Geest areas.

On March 1, 1974, Apeldorn was incorporated into the district town of Meppen.

The mayor is Tobias Kemper.

Origin of name

The origin of the name is not clearly clarified, as there are no documents giving information and tradition does not provide any information. Apeldorn possibly means apple orchard .

Apeldorn is called Apoldrun or Apolderiun around 850 . un probably stands for settlement; in the remaining part of the word the basic word appears as third and the defining word apul clearly. It is the Nordic apaldr , which initially means apple tree, then tree in general. The ter , tree with un, is later no longer understood and, as in some of the same formations, reinterpreted as thorn . The plural form of the place name could mean a fruit tree plantation, especially an apple orchard.

What is also possible: In the Netherlands there is also a city called " Apeldoorn ". The first part of the name is a corruption of the early medieval word "apa", which means "water". The second part arose from a falsification of the early medieval word "Treo", which means "tree". The original meaning of Apeldorn and also of Appeltern in the Betuwe and Appeldorn in Westphalia, for example, was roughly "trees that stand by a water".

Population development

year Residents
1821 218
1848 226
1871 200
1885 215
1905 194
year Residents
1925 278
1933 428
1939 440
1946 552
1950 605
year Residents
1956 580
1961 553
1971 660
2005 777
2007 758

Culture and sights

The most famous sight in Apeldorn is the large stone grave called The Stone Key ( Sprockhoff No. 852), which was built in the Neolithic between 2300 and 1800 BC. Was built from boulder blocks.

Apeldorn has a lively club life. The sports club is SC Apeldorn with nine soccer teams, the gymnastics group and women's gymnastics. The St. Antonius shooting club is also based in Apeldorn .

Once a year, the local rural youth organizes the so-called Rocknacht Apeldorn , a large tent festival with now over 1200 visitors from the entire Lower Saxony region.

Good Sandheim in the northwest of the village is built 1940/41 ensemble that as a former part of the good Cuntzhof and former Krupp held under monument protection stands.

See also

Apeldorn should not be confused with the Dutch city ​​of Apeldoorn in the province of Gelderland or the village of Appeldorn on the Lower Rhine , now part of the city of Kalkar .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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 and Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 257 .
  2. ↑ Gering, Glossary for the Songs of the Edda, 4th ed. 1915, sub voce apaldr.
  3. ↑ Hermann Abels: The place names of the Emsland in their linguistic and cultural-historical meaning. F. Schöningh, 1927
  4. ↑ Letter from the State of the City of Veluwe aan de State of Generaal concerning de financie. Retrieved November 5, 2019 .

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