Apelern

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Apelern
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Coordinates: 52 ° 17 '  N , 9 ° 20'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Schaumburg
Joint municipality : Rodenberg
Height : 81 m above sea level NHN
Area : 24.6 km 2
Residents: 2415 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 98 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 31552
Area code : 05043
License plate : SHG, RI
Community key : 03 2 57 002
LOCODE : DE 6AS
Community structure: 6 districts
Association administration address: Amtsstrasse 5
31552 Rodenberg
Mayor : Andreas Kölle ( SPD )
Location of the municipality of Apelern in the Schaumburg district
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Apelern is a municipality in the Samtgemeinde Rodenberg in the district of Schaumburg in Lower Saxony in Germany .

geography

Apelern is located in the Deister-Süntel valley west of the BAB 2 near Lauenau and south of Rodenberg, between Deister , Süntel and the Bückeberg . The Riesbach flows through the village to the Rodenberger Aue .

The municipality consists of the localities:

The neighboring communities of Beckedorf , the city of Rodenberg , the communities of Lauenau , Pohle and Auetal and the city of Stadthagen are located clockwise .

history

Apelern was mentioned in a document as early as 866 as to den Apelderen . The name means something like the apples or the apple trees . At the time of the Saxons, Apelern was a place of worship and court. The church was the main church ( archdeaconate ) of the Bukkigau at the end of the 12th century . The districts of Soldorf and Kleinhegesdorf were first mentioned in 973. Lyhren and Reinsdorf followed in 1182.

The district of Soldorf was affected by the persecution of witches : the Gröper got into a witch trial . The year is not recorded.

When the county of Schaumburg was divided in 1648, all districts were incorporated into the Electorate of Hesse and formed an exclave to the distant Kassel . This existed until 1932.

The estates of the noble families von Münchhausen and von Hammerstein have shaped the townscape for three to four centuries .

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, the communities Groß Hegesdorf, Kleinhegesdorf, Lyhren, Reinsdorf and Soldorf were incorporated.

religion

  • The parish of Apelern of the Evangelical Lutheran Church includes all districts of the political community as well as the district of Wiersen of the community of Auetal .
  • The Catholic Christians belong to the parish Maria of the Holy Rosary in Bad Nenndorf and visit the branch church of the Assumption of Mary in Rodenberg .

politics

Municipal council

The council of the municipality of Apelern consists of 13 councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 2001 and 3000 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
SPD 45.52% 6th
CDU 21.59% 3
Apelern flat share 18.62% 3
GREEN 10.23% 1
Individual applicants 03.19% 0
WE 00.82% 0

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 67.21%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

Previous election results
year SPD CDU Apelern flat share GREEN total
2001 7th 5 1 13 seats
2006 7th 4th 2 13 seats
2011 8th 3 2 13 seats
2016 6th 3 3 1 13 seats

Mayor / Administration

Apelern's mayor has been Andreas Kölle ( SPD ) since 2016 . The council has appointed Sven Janisch as municipal director for the duration of the electoral term. The administration takes place in the town hall of the joint municipality Rodenberg . A community office of its own is not maintained.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the community shows a golden crosier in front of a stylized apple tree with red leaves and apples in a white field.

Culture and sights

Buildings

  • The Apelern Church , a two-aisled hall church, built around 1150. The church tower was used as a defense tower. The western porch contains the crypt (mausoleum) of the von Münchhausen family.
  • The moated castle Münchhausen was redesigned around 1560–61 by the master builder Jakob Kölling for the couple Börries von Münchhausen (1515–1583), Drost zu Lauenau , and Heilwig von Büschen-Oldendorf (1537–1599) and largely rebuilt, the 1583 also with began to build the Münchhausenhof in Hessisch Oldendorf . (Börries' maternal uncle, the mercenary leader Claus von Rottorp , had built the neighboring moated castle Hülsede in 1548 ; Börries himself made his fortune as a cavalry master in the mercenary army of his cousin, Colonel Hilmar von Münchhausen , especially in 1557 at the Battle of St. Quentin ). In 1594, the three sons of Börries and Heilwig shared the inheritance: Claus received Apelern and Nienfeld , Otto Lauenau (where he built Schwedesdorf Castle) and Ludolf the maternal inheritance in Oldendorf as well as property in Remeringhausen , where he also built a new building. The moated castle was extended by a half-timbered building in the 18th century and is still a residence of the Barons von Münchhausen, who have lived in Apelern since 1370 . The Hanoverian Prime Minister Alexander von Münchhausen lived here until 1886 and bequeathed the estate to a cousin. After the death of Hans Georg von Münchhausen in 1952, the castle changed from ownership of the white line to an adopted son from the black line (which had split up around 1250) in order to inherit the oldest family seat after almost 600 years within the male line of the Münchhausen family.
  • Hammerstein Castle , originally part of the Münchhausen property, built in 1590 by Anton Wietersheim , has been in the possession of the Barons von Hammerstein -Gesmold since 1673 .

archive

The archive of the municipality of Apelern is located in the state archive of Bückeburg as a deposit of the joint municipality of Rodenberg .

Sports

  • In the municipality, TuS Germania Apelern is only one of the sports clubs with several branches. He operates the fields of soccer, ju-jutsu, gymnastics, gymnastics and historical martial arts. A sports center with a sports field and a multi-purpose hall are available.
  • The tennis club Apelern uses the tennis courts at the Sportheim.
  • The Schützenclub Apelern von 1961 eV maintains a shooting range with shooting ranges.
  • The Reinsdorf rifle club also operates a rifle house with shooting ranges.

Regular events

  • The carnival club holds several ceremonial sessions during the session .
  • The shooting club organizes an annual shooting festival.
  • Both amateur theater groups put on a new play on several game evenings each year.
  • Since 1975 the singing in May has been held annually on April 30th . In a joint event, the MGV and the volunteer fire brigade erect a maypole on the church square.

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

With the neighboring communities of Lauenau and Pohle, an industrial area has developed directly on the BAB 2 . There are two hotels in the village itself.

Public facilities

  • The Bad Nenndorf Police Department is responsible for security and order. A police station is set up in Rodenberg for day duty.
  • The volunteer fire brigades Apelern, Groß Hegesdorf, Lyhren, Reinsdorf and Soldorf provide fire protection and general help .

education

A kindergarten is available for pre-school education. The joint community maintains a branch of the Julius Rodenberg primary school in Apelern. The secondary schools are located in Rodenberg, Bad Nenndorf and Stadthagen.

traffic

Apelern is located directly on the federal highway 2 and can be reached via the adjacent connection point in Lauenau . The nearest train stations are in Bad Nenndorf , Bantorf and Haste on the Deisterbahn . In public transport all districts in are regional bus services from the Schaumburg transport company with the lines 2014 and 2015 and Apelern additionally served by the lines 2020 and 2602 respectively.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

literature

  • Judas, Friedrich: Apelern, a village makes history, Stadthagen 1992
  • Engel, Franz / Brosius, Dieter: Article Apelern in: Handbook of Historic Sites in Germany, Volume 2 (1969)
  • Wehking, August: Apelern through the ages, Apelern 1990 and 2017

Web links

Commons : Apelern  - collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ^ Gerhard Schormann : Witches' persecution in Schaumburg , in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte, Volume 45, Hildesheim 1973, pp. 149–151.
  3. ^ 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. 192 .
  4. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of Members , accessed on March 29, 2017.
  5. ↑ a b Municipality of Apelern - overall results of the 2016 municipal council election , accessed on March 29, 2017.
  6. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016. Retrieved March 29, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Cf. the ballad The wedding of the poet Börries von Münchhausen (in ballads and knightly songs ), which deals with the wedding celebration in 1588 for Claus von Münchhausen and Ursula von Quitzow .