Apenses

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 26 '  N , 9 ° 37'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Stade
Joint municipality :	Apenses
Height :	39 m above sea level NHN
Area :	20.75 km 2
Residents:	4351 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	210 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	21641
Primaries :	04167, 04163 (Grundoldendorf)
License plate :	HOURS
Community key :	03 3 59 003
Community structure:	2 districts
Address of the municipal administration:	Buxtehuder Strasse 27 21641 Apensen
Website :	www.apensen.de
Mayor :	Frank Buchholz (FWG)
Location of the municipality of Apensen in the district of Stade

Apensen ( Low German Obbens ) is a municipality in Lower Saxony in the south of the Stade district near Hamburg . The municipality is the administrative seat of the joint municipality Apensen . Grundoldendorf belongs to the municipality of Apensen .

geography

Neighboring communities

The two communities Beckdorf and Sauensiek join in the south . In the northeast, the municipality of Apensen is in the immediate vicinity of the city of Buxtehude . In the west of the community it goes to the community Harsefeld .

Community structure

The municipality of Apensen is a member of the joint municipality of Apensen . The municipality consists of the main town Apensen and the municipality Grundoldendorf .

history

Longobards

Longobard rulers

Lombards were resident in Apensen over 2000 years ago .
In 2017, scientists discovered a gold-plated Roman sword during the restoration of a bronze urn of a Lombard prince. The gold-plated sword handle has a snake motif. No comparable item has yet been found in a Longobard grave in northern Germany. The sword scabbard comes from Noricum , in today's Austria . During the Gallic War there was a center for sword making and iron industry . The sword probably dates from between 60 BC. Until the birth of Christ.

The dead must have belonged to the elite and may be the founder of a local dynasty. In 1927 a cremation grave with rich gifts was discovered while plowing. In a damaged, Roman bronze bucket with a woman's head attached , burial objects made of bronze (9 kg) and silver (280 g) that were melted by the pyre were found next to corpse burns and pieces of charcoal . These were mainly vessel parts and vessels.

• two large bronze basins with handles decorated with sea horses,
• two bronze ladle and sieve pairs,
• two silver cups,
• Drinking horn and box fittings as well as a chair spur and a richly decorated bronze knee fibula.

The fibula and the spur allow the grave to be dated to the 2nd century AD. The spur suggests a male burial. Due to the lack of other typical accessories for men, especially weapons, and because of the unusually rich other furnishings, the grave of Apensen is assigned to the so-called »princely graves of the Lübsow group« and thus a small, socially high class of the older Roman imperial times in free Germania. However, it differs from the majority of the »princely graves« in that it is cremated instead of in body burial. Culturally, the grave can be assigned to the Elbe-Germanic circle of forms, ethnically to the Lombards.

graveyard

In Apensen, more than 800 burials have been recorded in the central cemetery. The cemetery was used from the 1st century BC to the 2nd century AD. It was the main cemetery in the region. In the floor of the cemetery there are thrown trees from this time. There were probably a lot of large oak trees in the cemetery.

Place name

The place was named in 1231 Abbenhusen , 1236 Abbenhusen , 1704 Abensen and 1823 Apensen . The name is formed with the base word Low German -husen , later High German -hausen , and the weakly inflected short name Abbo as a defining word.

Local history

The village was first named in the 13th century. The fire brigade Apensen was founded in 1895 and the Volksbank in 1897. The church in Apensen was built in 1910 . When the municipality was reformed in 1972, the place became a member of the Apensen municipality.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1972, the small neighboring community of Grundoldendorf was incorporated.

politics

Municipal council

In the election to the municipal council on September 11, 2016 , the following results were achieved (+/−: compared to 2011):

Party / list	Share of votes	+/-% p	Seats	+/-
SPD	22.7%	- 15.7	3	- 3
CDU	39.5%	+ 2.2	6th	+ 1
Green	7.4%	- 5.8	1	- 1
FWG	17.8%	+ 6.7	3	+ 1
UWA	12.7%	+ 12.7	2	+ 2

coat of arms

Blazon : In red a silver armored arm pointing from left to right, which holds an upright silver sword with a golden hilt.

Culture and sights

• Municipal administration in the Junkerhof , a single - storey half-timbered building .
• Apensen church from 1910; historicizing, single-nave brick church; Tower with a pointed spire
• There are several barrows near the village
  • Winckelbarg grave mound , largest grave mound in the Stade district
  • Hunebeds of Grundoldendorf

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Apensen is connected to Buxtehude and Bundesstraße 73 to the east via Landesstraße 127 . The state road 130 leads south to Beckdorf and north via Grundoldendorf to Nottensdorf . In addition, the district road 49 lead to Ruschwedel and the district road 71 to Nindorf . A northern bypass to relieve the center was opened in 2008.

Apensen can also be reached by train. The Bremerhaven – Buxtehude (KBS 122) line, operated by the Elbe-Weser Railways and Transport Services (EVB), runs via Bremervörde , Harsefeld , Apensen and Buxtehude with a connection to Hamburg .

Established businesses

Eisbär Eis is one of the largest Apenser companies.

Public facilities

• The administrative headquarters of the Apensen municipality is located in the Apensen town hall , in the former Junkernhof since 1994 .
• The Apensen parish has its parish center in Apensen.
• Fire brigade Apensen from 1895 with Apensen youth fire brigade

education

• Isern-Hinnerk Primary School in Apensen, Schulstrasse 11. The children from the neighboring community of Beckdorf attend this primary school, which has a branch in Beckdorf.
• Oberschule Apensen, Soltacker 5, as secondary and secondary school.
• The next high school is in Buxtehude .
• For the 2012/13 school year, the Buxtehude Free Waldorf School moved to Apensen, renamed the Apensen Free Waldorf School .

Social

• Apensen Arche Noah's day-care center , Schulstrasse 13
• Apensen Die Freunde day-care center , Schulstrasse 17
• Apensen youth and culture center
• Play circle

Sports

When TSV Apensen basketball, football, table tennis, gymnastics and volleyball is operated. In the Apensen shooting club from 1907, shooting sports with air rifles, air pistols and small-bore rifles are practiced.

Personalities

• Heinz Eckhoff (* 1925), politician (CDU), farmer and entrepreneur and mayor of Apensen
• Ulrich Zachert (* 1943 - † 2009), was a German lawyer and professor of labor law

literature

• Hans-Jürgen Häßler (Ed.): Prehistory and early history in Lower Saxony. Theiss, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-8062-0495-0 p. 379

Web links

Commons : Apensen  - 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. ↑ Article in Buxtehuder Tageblatt (Mobile Version)
3. ^ 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 . 
4. ^ 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 / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 246 .
5. ↑ Kreiszeitung - Wochenblatt: Election result of the Apensen Municipality Council 2016 , accessed on February 15, 2019