Augustendorf (Gnarrenburg)
Augustendorf
Augustendorp ( Low German ) municipality Gnarrenburg
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Coordinates: 53 ° 23 ′ 1 ″ N , 9 ° 4 ′ 31 ″ E | |
Height : | 8 m above sea level NHN |
Area : | 10.66 km² |
Residents : | 257 (December 31, 2016) |
Population density : | 24 inhabitants / km² |
Incorporation : | April 8, 1974 |
Postal code : | 27442 |
Area code : | 04763 |
Location of Augustendorf in Gnarrenburg
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Augustendorf ( Low German Augustendorp ) is a district of the Gnarrenburg community in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district in Lower Saxony .
Geographical location
The district of Augustendorf is located about four kilometers east of the core town of Gnarrenburg. Southeast of August village is the 1373 ha large nature reserve Huvenhoopsmoor with the Huvenhoopssee . The Augustendorfer Canal, laid out in 1852, runs through the local area.
history
Foundation of the place until today
Augustendorf was founded in 1828 by Moorkommissar Johann-Nicolaus Witte, a successor to the great moor colonist Jürgen Christian Findorff . The main source of income for the citizens until about 1925 was the mining of peat. Of the original 40 full-time farms, five still exist.
Naming
The name "Augustendorf" comes from the Duchess Auguste von Cambridge , a princess from the house of Hessen-Kassel and sister-in-law of George IV, King of Hanover and England.
Incorporations
On April 8, 1974, Augustendorf was incorporated into the Gnarrenburg community as part of the regional reform .
Population development
year | 1910 | 1925 | 1933 | 1939 | 2011 | 2012 | 2016 |
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Residents | 328 | 365 | 328 | 309 | 276 | 274 | 257 |
(Sources: 1910, 1925–1939, 2011–2016 according to the version history of the place as of December 31)
politics
City council and mayor
At the municipal level, the Augustendorf district is represented by the Gnarrenburg municipal council.
Mayor
The mayor of Augustendorf is Corinna Viebrock.
Culture and sights
Museums
- Museum Historischer Moorhof Augustendorf with an educational moor trail
Web links
- Augustendorf on the website of the community Gnarrenburg
- Homepage of Augustendorf
- The Heimatverein Gnarrenburg e. V. and its Museum Historischer Moorhof Augustendorf. Information from the Stade Regional Association
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b General information about the community Gnarrenburg. In: Website of the Gnarrenburg community. Retrieved March 18, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Augustendorf. In: Gnarrenburg community website. Retrieved March 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Profile of the “Huvenhoopsmoor” nature reserve. (No longer available online.) In: Internet site Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN). 2016, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on March 18, 2019 .
- ^ Augustendorf: history. In: Augustendorf website. Culture and local history association Augustendorf e. V., 2018, accessed March 18, 2019 .
- ↑ Uli Schubert: Community directory Germany 1900. Information from December 1, 1910. In: www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de. February 3, 2019, accessed March 20, 2019 .
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. See under 3. (online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).