Axstedt
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Coordinates: 53 ° 21 ' N , 8 ° 46' E |
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| State : | Lower Saxony | |
| County : | Osterholz | |
| Joint municipality : | Hambergen | |
| Height : | 17 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 10.71 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 1192 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 111 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 27729 | |
| Primaries : | 04748, 04793 | |
| License plate : | OHZ | |
| Community key : | 03 3 56 001 | |
| LOCODE : | DE A94 | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
At Borg 35 27729 Axstedt |
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| Mayor : | Udo Mester ( SPD ) | |
| Location of the municipality of Axstedt in the district of Osterholz | ||
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Axstedt ( Low German Ax ) is a municipality of the integrated municipality of Hambergen and is located on the northern edge of the Lower Saxony district of Osterholz . With an area of around eleven square kilometers, Axstedt is the smallest municipality within the Hambergen municipality.
geography
location
The municipality of Axstedt is located in the north German plain about 35 kilometers north of Bremen and about 30 kilometers south of Bremerhaven . The landscape of the place is characterized by its location in the Wesermünder Geest , a glacial terminal moraine area. The small meadow river Billerbeck , a tributary of the Lune, flows through the community .
Community structure
- Axstedt (main town)
- Charities
Neighboring communities
Axstedt borders the municipality of Lübberstedt in the south and the municipality of Holste in the east . To the north is the place Bokel (unit municipality Beverstedt ) in the district of Cuxhaven . To the west is the unitary community of Hagen in Bremen (also the district of Cuxhaven).
history
Early and prehistory
The Hünensteine near Axstedt are northwest of the village. The community chronicle provides information about two possible explanations for the place name. On the one hand, it is believed that the village was named after an important man named "Ake". He is said to have lived on the Billerbeck near today's smithy. This place was initially called "Akes Stätte", from which the name Axstedt could have developed. Another explanation interprets the name as a derivation from Old High German, in which "a", "aha" and "ak" were the names for water. In this sense, Axstedt would be the “waterfront location”. There are different spellings of the name in the documents. It is first mentioned in 1105 under the name "Achenstedi", written in 1110 as "Achensted", and in 1418 as "Axstede".
16th to 18th century
In the 16th century there are reports of eight Axstedt farms, in 1718 there were already 24 and in 1791 37 fireplaces. The Axstedt area has always been rich in forests. So it is not surprising that wolves have often been seen there. The last wolf hunt took place in Axstedt in 1675.
19th and 20th centuries
With the construction of the railway line in 1862 between Bremen and Geestemünde, which brought in a lot of money for the community through the sale of land, Axstedt was connected to "the world". However, out of fear of strangers, they refused to erect the station building in the village near the cemetery and moved the station to the edge of the village.
The establishment of an ammunition depot shortly before the Second World War gave the community a place in the inglorious history of National Socialism far beyond the community's borders. From autumn 1939 to mid-1940, 7 barracks were built for the Reich Labor Service (RAD) and the Wehrmacht in Axstedt and the neighboring community of Lübberstedt. The use as "MUNA" began in August 1941. 60 bunkers for the storage of ammunition were built. Sea mines and anti-aircraft ammunition were produced. The supervision was in the hands of German conscripted women and followers. Most of the work had to be done by around 1,600 forced laborers. There were Eastern workers, prisoners of war and 500 Jewish women from Hungary. They came from Auschwitz on August 21, 1944 and were housed in the Neuengamme satellite camp in Lübberstedt-Bilohe. This camp was evacuated on April 20, 1945. The workers were transported away by train, which also carried several wagons with ammunition. The train was bombed by British airmen on May 3, 1945 near Eutin and Plön. Some of the women took the opportunity to flee. Of the 500 women, only about 380 survived the war. The production area and some bunkers of the Muna were blown up by the Wehrmacht at the end of the war.
After the end of the war, the large area was originally intended to be used for civilian purposes, instead in 1956 the Bundeswehr kept the 520 hectare site as an ammunition depot and stationed a Bundeswehr unit in Axstedt. The population increased by leaps and bounds. Although the number of jobs in both facilities has decreased significantly, the so-called " MUNA " has always had considerable economic importance for Axstedt and the surrounding communities. In the course of the troop reduction, the number of stationed soldiers steadily decreased until the ammunition depot was finally abandoned in 2009.
Incorporations
On August 1, 1929, Wohlthöfen was incorporated into Axstedt.
In the course of the regional reform in Lower Saxony , which took place on March 1, 1974, Axstedt formed the combined municipality of Hambergen with the municipalities of Hambergen , Holste , Lübberstedt and Vollersode . Before that, Axstedt was an independent municipality in the Wesermünde district and at the same time a border municipality to the Osterholz district.
Population development
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¹ including the village of Wohlthöfen, incorporated in 1929 (= 15 inhabitants)
² including the village of Wohlthöfen, incorporated in 1929 (without information on the population)
³ as of December 31st
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religion
The parish of Axstedt belongs to the Protestant St. Jacobi parish of Bramstedt and to the Catholic parish of the Holy Family in Osterholz-Scharmbeck.
politics
Municipal council
The council of the municipality from Axstedt consists of 10 councilors. This is the specified number for the member municipality of an integrated municipality with a population between 1001 and 2000 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 mayor is also entitled to vote and to sit in the municipal council.
With the dissolution of the Independent Local Political Working Group (UKA) , its council member became non-attached.
Current distribution of seats:
- SPD : 7 seats
- CDU : 3 seats
- Non-attached : 1 seat
mayor
The current mayor Udo Mester (SPD) has been in office since 2011. His deputies are Hartwig Klaus (CDU) and Norbert Bullwinkel (SPD).
Chronicle of the mayor
- 2011 – date: Udo Mester (SPD)
- 2004–2011: Jürgen Rhau (CDU)
- 2000–2004: Erich Walter (AWG)
- still open –2000: Siegward Gärtner (CDU)
- still open : Georg Fedderwitz
- still open : Hermann Meyer
- still open : Adolf Fuhrken
- still open : Heinrich Brünjes
- still open : Heinrich Ficken
- still open : Johann Kehdenburg
coat of arms
The Axstedt municipal coat of arms was designed by the heraldist and coat of arms painter Gustav Völker , who designed around 25 coats of arms in the Cuxhaven district.
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Blazon : "In green, a golden oak leaf between two silver stag poles over a silver wave bar ." |
| Justification for the coat of arms: The silver wavy bar is reminiscent of the interpretation of the place name, documented in 1105 as "Achenstedi", as a settlement on a brook, the Billerbeck. The oak leaf between the deer stalks indicates the Axstedt Forest, which was already mentioned in the Middle Ages, the forerunner of the state forest. |
Culture and sights
Buildings
- The Henriettenhof, built in 1706 by Jacob Betjemann
- The Villa Hüncken, built in 1907
- The station master's house, built in 1913 on Bahnhofsstraße
- The school built in 1928 and later the municipal office; Demolished in 2016
Economy and Infrastructure
Companies
Axstedt offers an infrastructure for everyday life:
- Bakery and grocery store
- Restaurant with bowling alley, ballroom and guest room
- 2 hairdressers
- Volksbank ATM station
- 2 car workshops with car dealership
- Petrol station with Raiffeisenmarkt at Lübberstedt train station
- dog school
education
In the primary school at Billerbeck in Axstedt, children in grades 1 to 4 learn.
The Axstedt day-care center is located in the immediate vicinity of the primary school and gym and looks after children from the communities of Axstedt, Holste and Lübberstedt.
traffic
There is a transport connection with the Lübberstedt train station , which is located in the Axstedt district of Wohlthöfen, to the Bremen – Bremerhaven (- Cuxhaven ) line. The Autobahn 27 ( Walsrode –Cuxhaven) is 17 km away and can be reached via the state road 134. The main traffic connection to the district town of Osterholz-Scharmbeck and the regional center of Bremen forms the federal highway 74 Bremen - Stade , which is eleven kilometers away .
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the place
- Reinhard Woltman (1757–1837), hydraulic engineer
Personalities associated with the place
- Paul Thomas Fischer , author and song composer, worked in Axstedt
- Erica Henrietta Hedwig Fischer , née Schirmer (1904–1990), historian, died in Axstedt
- Heinrich Timm (1910–1974), corvette captain, died in Axstedt
literature
- Henrietta Schirmer: Chronicle of the Henriettenhof . Manuscript from the private collection of the Dr. Schirmer. ( Digitized [accessed on June 4, 2020] Archive of the Schirmer family 1815–1988 in the Thuringian main state archive in Weimar).
- Franz Buchenau: The elms in the Bremen forest near Axstedt . Festive writing of the 45th assembly of German philologists and school men presented by the public higher education institutions in Bremen. Gustav Winter Verlag, Bremen 1899, p. 157-162 .
- Margarete Meyer: The structural changes in the village of Axstedt and their effects on the school . Oldenburg 1959 (university thesis. Pädag. Hochsch., Examination paper).
- Anna-Luise Berghorn, Detlev Pape: Goden Dag ok! Axstedt before 1930 . Printing and Media H. Saade GmbH, Osterholz-Scharmbeck 1993.
- Fritz Hörmann, Ude Meyer, Christian Morisse, Eberhard Nehring, Irmgard Seghorn, Egon Stuve, Else Syassen: Wesermünde field names collection - the field names of the property tax cadastre from 1876 . Ed .: Kulturstiftung der Kreissparkasse Wesermünde (= new series of special publications by the men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elb- und Wesermuende eV Volume 27 ). Men from Morgenstern Verlag, Bremerhaven 1995, ISBN 3-931771-27-X ([ digitized version ( memento of October 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )] [PDF; 431 kB ; accessed on October 23, 2019]).
- Detlev Pape: From beatings and whitefoxes: fun and teasing in the springtime in Axstedt . In: Heimat-Rundblick . Vol. 8. Issue no. 1. Druckerpresse-Verlag, Lilienthal 1996, p. 6 .
- Gerhard Sennlaub, Anna-Luise Berghorn: farming village Axstedt . Interviews. In 2 volumes. Printing and Media H. Saade GmbH, Osterholz-Scharmbeck 2002.
- Gerhard Sennlaub: Axstedt and his Henriettenhof . 2nd Edition. Self-published by the author, 2016.
Web links
- Official website of the municipality of Axstedt
- Overview of the place Axstedt on the Samtgemeinde homepage
- Private page "Axstedt"
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for Statistics Lower Saxony, LSN-Online regional database, Table 12411: Update of the population, as of December 31, 2019 ( help ).
- ↑ a b c Chronicle Axstedt. In: Website Samtgemeinde Hambergen. Archived from the original on July 1, 2016 ; accessed on June 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Brigitte Lange: Part of the Muna site sold. In: Website Weser Kurier / Osterholzer Kreisblatt. February 8, 2013, accessed February 25, 2018 .
- ^ Fritz Hörmann, Ude Meyer, Christian Morisse, Eberhard Nehring, Irmgard Seghorn, Egon Stuve, Else Syassen: Field names collection Wesermünde - The field names of the property tax cadastre from 1876 . Ed .: Kulturstiftung der Kreissparkasse Wesermünde (= new series of special publications by the men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elb- und Wesermuende eV Volume 27 ). Men from Morgenstern Verlag, Bremerhaven 1995, ISBN 3-931771-27-X , p. 2 ([ digitized version ( memento from October 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )] [PDF; 431 kB ; accessed on October 23, 2019]).
- ↑ Ulrich Schubert: Community directory Germany 1900 - Geestemünde district. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. January 5, 2020, accessed June 4, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to reunification in 1990. Wesermünde district ( see under: No. 6 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ a b Statistisches Bundesamt Wiesbaden (ed.): Official municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany - 1957 edition (population and territorial status September 25, 1956, for Saarland December 31, 1956) . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1958, p. 192 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Municipal directory for Lower Saxony . Municipalities and municipality-free areas. Self-published, Hanover January 1, 1973, p. 47 , Wesermünde district ( digitized version ( memento from August 7, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 21.3 MB ; accessed on June 4, 2020]).
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j community directory - archive - regional structure - annual editions - Lower Saxony. (All politically independent municipalities in EXCEL format). In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, accessed on June 4, 2020 .
- ^ Bramstedt parish. In: Website St. Jacobi parish Bramstedt. Retrieved February 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Kirchort Osterholz-Scharmbeck. In: Website of the Diocese of Hildesheim. Retrieved February 25, 2018 .
- ^ Results of the 2016 local elections in Axstedt. In: Website Samtgemeinde Hambergen. Retrieved December 4, 2017 .
- ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG); Section 46 - Number of Deputies. In: Lower Saxony Regulations Information System (NI-VORIS). December 17, 2010, accessed June 4, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Axstedt local council. In: Website Samtgemeinde Hambergen. Retrieved June 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Brigitte Lange: Axstedt's mayor is called Udo Mester. In: Website Weser Kurier / Osterholzer Kreisblatt. November 10, 2011, accessed February 25, 2018 .
- ^ Brigitte Lange: Community of voters dares a new beginning with SPD-Axstedt. In: Website Weser Kurier / Osterholzer Kreisblatt. February 10, 2011, accessed February 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Peter von Döllen: pat on the back in Axstedt. In: Website Weser Kurier / Osterholzer Kreisblatt. October 26, 2016, accessed February 25, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Landkreis Wesermünde (Ed.): Coat of arms of the Landkreis Wesermünde . Grassé Offset Verlag, Bremerhaven / Wesermünde 1973, ISBN 3-9800318-0-2 .
- ↑ Peter von Döllen: Defied the west wind. In: Website Weser Kurier / Osterholzer Kreisblatt . February 1, 2017, accessed February 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Photo Villa Hüncken Axstedt. In: Website GenWiki. 2017, accessed February 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Brigitte Lange: The cardboard boxes are packed in the parish office. In: Website Weser Kurier / Osterholzer Kreisblatt. July 31, 2017, accessed February 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Andrea Lange: Elementary School at Billerbeck. In: Primary school website. Retrieved February 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Axstedt day-care center. In: Website Samtgemeinde Hambergen. Retrieved February 25, 2018 .
- ^ Paul Thomas Fischer. In: Website of the Common Union Catalog. Retrieved February 25, 2018 .
- ^ Paul Thomas Fischer. In: Website of the German National Library. Retrieved February 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Erica Schirmer. In: Website of the German National Library. Retrieved February 25, 2018 .
- ^ C. Gentner: Page from Erica Henrietta Hedwig Schirmer. In: Website genealogy by C. Gentner. Retrieved September 28, 2018 .
- ^ Markus Hofmann: Heinrich Timm. In: Website German U-Boats 1935–1945. December 20, 2017. Retrieved February 25, 2018 .
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