Botersen

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 8 '  N , 9 ° 19'  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Rotenburg (Wümme)
Joint municipality :	Sottrum
Height :	34 m above sea level NHN
Area :	19.85 km 2
Residents:	1077 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	54 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	27367
Area code :	04268
License plate :	ROW, BRV
Community key :	03 3 57 005
Community structure:	3 parts of the community
Address of the municipal administration:	Im Winkel 8 27367 Bötersen
Website :	www.gemeinde-boetersen.de www.boetersen.de
Mayor :	Hermann Holsten ( CDU )
Location of the community of Bötersen in the district of Rotenburg (Wümme)

Bötersen is a municipality in the Sottrum municipality in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district in the state of Lower Saxony .

geography

Geographical location

Bötersen is located between Sottrum (eight kilometers) and Rotenburg (Wümme) (ten kilometers) and is on the K202, which runs north-north-west from the B 75 at about Waffensen . After about seven kilometers in a west-west-north direction via the K 202 - continuing via the "Rotenburger Str." - the A 1 can be reached near Bittstedt .

Community structure

The districts of Bötersen, Höperhöfen and Jeerhof also belong to the community.

history

The earliest finds show that the area around Bötersen was settled in the Neolithic (from around 4100 BC). Larger archaeological excavations took place in an urn cemetery from the late Bronze Age and Hallstatt Period. Bötersen became known nationwide because of the Bötersen fire pit area adjacent to the burial ground , which dates back to the younger Bronze Age. Bronze Age research became aware of this phenomenon through the publication by Rudolf Dehnke.

Bötersen was first mentioned in a document in 1340. The stem of the place name comes from the Old High German "Buten" or "Putirik", which means "hose"; the ending "-sen" gives an indication of the origin of the settlement between 500 and 1000.

Incorporations

On March 1, 1974, the neighboring community Höperhöfen was incorporated.

Population development

Based on a municipal resolution, the construction of new single-family houses on the land developed by the municipality is limited to people who have lived in the municipality for at least five years or were born here. All other building plots are not affected.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the community Bötersen consists of eleven council women and 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 last local election on September 11, 2016 resulted in the following:

Political party	Proportional votes	Number of seats
CDU	56.98%	6th
SPD	43.01%	5

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 71.42%, above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%.

mayor

The council elected council member Hermann Holsten (CDU) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term.

coat of arms

Blazon : In the golden shield a red five-flame stripe of fire as the head of the shield, including three upright black sixes.

The coat of arms shows a five-flame stripe of fire as the head of the shield on a golden background, which points to a Bronze Age firepit row excavated in Bötersen , as well as three upright, black sixes (plowshares) below. These symbolize the three parts of the community.

Infrastructure

Facilities

• Municipal administration in the town hall of the Sottrum municipality
• Bötersen elementary school
• Kindergarten Merlin
• Bötersen volunteer fire department
• Höperhöfen volunteer fire department
• Joint community library in Bötersen
• Höper Hus , house of the community of Bötersen
• Village shop from Aug. 2019

societies

• Boitzter Spinnstuv (Heimatverein)
• Country women's association Bötersen and the surrounding area
• Rural youth Bötersen
• Motorsport Club Bötersen (MSC-B)
• Rifle club Bötersen-Höperhöfen from 1927
• Senior circle “Stay in motion” in Bötersen, Höperhöfen and Jeerhof
• Social Association Germany - local group Krummer Ort
• TSV Bötersen (sports club)
• Friends of Höperhöfen-Jeerhof
• Friends of the primary school Bötersen
• MFG Jeerhof
• JFV Union 18 (youth football team)

Regular events

• Egg hunts every first Saturday in January: and the carnival ball
• Badger on Good Friday in the courtyard of the Hoops Inn
• Shooting festival on every third weekend in May in Bötersen with parade
• Harvest festival on the third Saturday in September in Höperhöfen
• Sports ball on the first weekend in November
• Midsummer festival every two years by the Höperhöfen-Jeerhof development association
• Village cabbage tour every 2-3 years
• Human-annoyance-not- tournament of TSV Bötersen-Höperhöfen
• Easter bonfires in Bötersen and Höperhöfe
• Environment day in spring
• Pentecost tree plants for everyone who got engaged in the previous year or would like to get married
• Lantern parade for children in Bötersen, musically accompanied by a marching band
• Drag hunt by the Sottrum riding club
• Christmas market on the first Sunday of Advent in Zürns Festscheune

Our village has a future

The municipality of Bötersen first took part in the competition Our village has a future at the district level in 2015 . The joint participation of the districts strengthened the union of the villages to form the community.

After winning at the district level in 2015, she successfully participated in the district decision in 2018 and shortly afterwards won the state competition in 2018. The municipality qualified for the 26th federal decision in 2019. As a result, Bötersen was awarded a gold medal.

Web links

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

• Internet presence of the community of Bötersen
• Current information about Bötersen (will no longer be updated)

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. ^ 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. 245 .
3. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on March 3, 2017.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Municipality of Bötersen - overall results of the 2016 municipal council election , accessed on March 3, 2017.
5. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016, accessed March 3, 2017 . 
6. ^ Bötersen community - mayor and council , accessed on March 3, 2017.
7. ^ "Our village has a future" - rain of medals for Lower Saxony Press release from the Lower Saxony Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection from July 11, 2019