Barkhausen (Bad Essen)

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Barkhausen
Bad Essen municipality
Coat of arms of Barkhausen
Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 8 ″  N , 8 ° 25 ′ 4 ″  E
Height : 138 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.71 km²
Residents : 393  (December 1, 2019)
Population density : 106 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : July 1, 1972
Postal code : 49152
Area code : 05472
Barkhausen (Lower Saxony)
Barkhausen

Location of Barkhausen in Lower Saxony

Katharinenkirche
Katharinenkirche

Barkhausen is a district of the Bad Essen municipality in the Osnabrück district in Lower Saxony .

geography

Barkhausen is 6 km southeast of the core area of ​​Bad Essen. The place is on the Wittekindsweg , which leads through the Wiehengebirge . The 189 km long Hunte flows through Barkhausen .

history

Barkhausen was an independent municipality in the Wittlage district . In the course of the regional reform in Lower Saxony , which took place on July 1, 1972, the municipality of Barkhausen was incorporated into the municipality of Bad Essen. At the same time, the Wittlage district was dissolved and incorporated into the Osnabrück district.

Population development

year 1885 1910 1925 1933 1939 1950 1956 1961 1970 1981 2019
Residents 308 334 267 264 273 432 357 344 ¹ 385 square meters 385 393
source

¹ Census results from June 6th
² Census results from May 27th

religion

The parish of Barkhausen- Rabber belongs to the parish of Barkhausen and this to the parish of Melle .

politics

City council and mayor

At the local level the place Barkhausen is the council represented from Bad Essen.

Mayor

The mayor of Barkhausen is Uwe Schnittker ( CDU ). The term of office runs from 2016 to 2021.

Culture and sights

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

People connected to the place

  • Max Ballerstedt (1857-1945), teacher at the Adolfinum grammar school in Bückeburg, he dedicated his life to paleontology and was considered a specialist in dinosaur tracks, which were found in Barkhausen in 1921
  • Waldemar Becké (1878–1947), City Director and Lord Mayor of Bremerhaven, he was involved a. a. for the school camp in Barkhausen

Web links

Commons : Barkhausen  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Federal Statistical Office 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.  199 ( digitized version ).
  2. a b c Eckhard Grönemeyer: Population statistics in comparison and review. (PDF; 826 kB) In: clva.de. "Centrales Ländliches Verein-Archiv e. V. ”, 2020, pp. 1–2 , accessed on July 27, 2020 .
  3. a b c 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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p.  260 .
  4. a b c d Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Wittlage district ( see under: No. 1 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  5. Ulrich Schubert: Municipal directory Germany 1900 - Wittlage district. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. January 5, 2020, accessed July 27, 2020 .
  6. Lower Saxony State Administration Office (Ed.): Municipal Statistics Lower Saxony 1970 . Population and employment - Osnabrück district. Part 2, Issue 5. Hannover 1973, p. 138 .
  7. Mayor / Mayor - Barkhausen. In: Website of the Bad Essen community. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .