Bexhövede

Bexhövede ; Bexhöv ( Low German ) municipality Loxstedt
	Coordinates: 53 ° 29 ′ 0 ″ N , 8 ° 40 ′ 59 ″ E
Height :	12 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.34 km²
Residents :	2264 (June 30, 2019)
Population density :	183 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	March 1, 1974
Postal code :	27612
Area code :	04703
Location of Bexhövede in Lower Saxony
	Bexhövede in the municipality of Loxstedt

Bexhövede ( Low German Bexhöv ) belongs to the municipality of Loxstedt in the district of Cuxhaven in Lower Saxony .

geography

Local division

Bexhövede (main town)
Hosermühlen
Junker trousers
Nückel

history

The place back then

Prehistoric finds show that Stone Age hunters lived on the edge of the Steertmoor around 12,000 years ago. The local history has been documented since the 12th century.

Place name

Earlier place names of Bexhövede were in the years 1184 Bekeshovede, 1194 Bikeshoved, 1224 Joannes de Vikkeshovede, 1231 de Bekeshovede and 1235 de Bekeshovede and de Bixhouue. As with Bornhöved, Visselhövede and other names, in the second part the Low German “hoved”, meaning “main”, is understood here as the beginning of a body of water. In the first part there is the genitive from Low German "bek", ie "Bach". The name Bexhövede ( Old Saxon Buxhoevede ) means “the source of the brook or the water”.

The place today

The place has had a strong suburban character for several decades due to new residential areas with single-family houses. Many residents are commuters who work in Bremerhaven . In the old town center there are some remaining courtyards as well as several garden centers near the federal road 71 . Since the spring of 2013, the place has a supermarket, there are two gas stations, a hairdresser, an electrical company and a slaughterhouse.

Bexhövede is known nationwide for the fairy tale of the rabbit and the hedgehog , which was first told in Bexhövede and later moved to Buxtehude , probably because "Buxhoevden" (Bexhövede) was not so well known at the time.

Incorporations

The district of Nückel, which was previously an independent municipality, was incorporated into Bexhövede on August 1, 1929.

As part of the regional reform in Lower Saxony on March 1, 1974, Bexhövede was dissolved as an independent member municipality of the Loxstedt joint municipality and incorporated into the municipality of Loxstedt .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1910	00380 ¹
1925	00425 ²
1933	0577
1939	0611
1950	1046
1973	1451
2010	2246
2011	2216

year	Residents	source
2012	2218
2013	2240
2014	2189
2015	2221
2016	2256
2017	2241
2018	2240
2019	2264

¹ Including the Nückel incorporated in 1929 (= 30 residents)
² Including the Nückel incorporated in 1929 (= no population information)

politics

City council and mayor

Bexhövede is represented at the municipal level by the Loxstedt municipal council.

Mayor

The mayor of Bexhövede is Gerold Piastowski ( SPD ).

coat of arms

The Bexhövede 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.

	Blazon : "Under a green shield head coveredwith a silver wavy bar in silver, a red rafter tinned above."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The wavy bar indicates the interpretation of a brook. The tinned rafter is borrowed from the coat of arms of the noble family von Buxhoeveden , which had its headquarters in Bexhövede.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Church: The predominant basic type of Romanesque church building in the Elbe-Weser triangle is the single-nave hall church with a retracted square or rectangular choir. The field stone churches spread along the Weser are built using sandstone from the Weserbergland . Is well preserved with the ship and choir spanning vaults provided St. John the Baptist Church in Bexhövede. It is located in the immediate vicinity of an old castle site, which was the seat of the von Bexhövede family . In 1199 Albert von Buxthoeven became Bishop of Livonia , and in 1200 he founded the city of Riga . The founders of the church in Bexhövede, built between 1178 and 1184, were Geldmar, Albert and Lüder von Bexhövede. A peculiarity of the church are the vaults that have a lasting effect on the spatial impression. The old choir has a cross vault made of tuff and field stones, which comes from the time it was built. The two groin vaults of the nave have crown reinforcements made of sandstone and wedged bricks . The early appearance of bricks is unusual, on the other hand the ship with its window axes was prepared for the installation of vaults. Thus, the point in time of the bulge around 1200 is possible but cannot be clearly determined.

Ceiling painting in the Bexhöveder church

Architectural monuments

→ See: List of architectural monuments in Bexhövede

traffic

The village is connected to the regional trunk road network via federal road 71 , which runs roughly in a north-south direction . The state road 143 leads in an east-west direction to the neighboring towns of Loxstedt and Donnern . The village is affected by the bus route 575 ( Beverstedt - Bremerhaven ) of the Bremen-Lower Saxony transport association on the B 71, which runs at irregular intervals , and there are still connections to Loxstedt and Schiffdorf during school hours . Since February 2006, is Anrufsammeltaxi the BremerhavenBus set, the hourly connections to the train station Loxstedt and after Bremerhaven-Wulsdorf offers.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

Hermann I von Buxthoeven (1163–1248), Roman Catholic Bishop of Estonia
Albert von Buxthoeven (around 1165–1229), Bishop of Riga

literature

Hermann Haiduck: The early church building in the Elbe-Weser triangle . In: Guide to Prehistoric and Protohistoric Monuments. The Elb-Weser Triangle II Research Problems-Excursions Stade Bremervörde Zeven Buxtehude . Mainz 1976, p. 59-61 .
G. Hofmann: He founded the city of Riga . In: Men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 352 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven April 1979, p. 2–3 ( digitized version [PDF; 4.6 MB ; accessed on September 24, 2018]).
Fritz Hörmann u. a .: Field names collection Wesermünde - The field names of the property tax cadastre from 1876 . Ed .: Kulturstiftung der Kreissparkasse Wesermünde (= special publications by the men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elb- und Wesermünde e.V. Band 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 March 12, 2019] pp. 3–4).

Web links

Commons : Bexhövede - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Community 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 3, 2020]).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Population of the community Loxstedt. In: Website of the municipality of Loxstedt. June 30, 2019, accessed September 1, 2019 .
^ Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on August 17, 2014 ; accessed on March 18, 2018 .
^ 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. 249 .
↑ Ulrich Schubert: Community directory Germany 1900 - Geestemünde district. Information from December 1, 1910. In: www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de. February 3, 2019, accessed April 6, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Wesermünde district (→ see under: No. 9 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). Accessed September 2018
^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Official municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany . Final results according to the September 13, 1950 census. Volume 33 . W. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart / Cologne August 1952, p. 52 , col. 1 ( digital version [PDF; 26.4 MB ; accessed on April 20, 2019] Landkreis Wesermünde, p. 61).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Population figures for the municipality of Loxstedt 2010–2013. In: Website of the municipality of Loxstedt. December 31, 2013, archived from the original on March 8, 2014 ; accessed on September 1, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Population figures in the Loxstedt community 2014–2017. In: Website of the municipality of Loxstedt. June 30, 2017, archived from the original on September 6, 2017 ; accessed on September 1, 2019 .
↑ Mayor of Bexhövede. In: Website of the municipality of Loxstedt. Retrieved March 18, 2018 .
↑ ^a ^b Landkreis Wesermünde (Ed.): Coat of arms of the Landkreis Wesermünde . Grassé Offset Verlag, Bremerhaven / Wesermünde 1973, ISBN 3-9800318-0-2 .

[destatis1973-1] Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Community 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 3, 2020]).

[Einw.-2] Population of the community Loxstedt. In: Website of the municipality of Loxstedt. June 30, 2019, accessed September 1, 2019 .

[Ortsnamenforscher-3] Jürgen Udolph (research): The "place name researcher". In: website NDR 1 Lower Saxony . Archived from the original on August 17, 2014 ; accessed on March 18, 2018 .

[BibISBN-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, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 249 .

[Gemeindeverzeichnis-5] Ulrich Schubert: Community directory Germany 1900 - Geestemünde district. Information from December 1, 1910. In: www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de. February 3, 2019, accessed April 6, 2019 .

[Rademacher-6] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Wesermünde district (→ see under: No. 9 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). Accessed September 2018

[destatis1950-7] Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Official municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany . Final results according to the September 13, 1950 census. Volume 33 . W. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart / Cologne August 1952, p. 52 , col. 1 ( digital version [PDF; 26.4 MB ; accessed on April 20, 2019] Landkreis Wesermünde, p. 61).

[Einw.2010-13-8] Population figures for the municipality of Loxstedt 2010–2013. In: Website of the municipality of Loxstedt. December 31, 2013, archived from the original on March 8, 2014 ; accessed on September 1, 2019 .

[Einw.2014-17-9] Population figures in the Loxstedt community 2014–2017. In: Website of the municipality of Loxstedt. June 30, 2017, archived from the original on September 6, 2017 ; accessed on September 1, 2019 .

[Ortsvorsteher-10] Mayor of Bexhövede. In: Website of the municipality of Loxstedt. Retrieved March 18, 2018 .

[Wappen-11] Landkreis Wesermünde (Ed.): Coat of arms of the Landkreis Wesermünde . Grassé Offset Verlag, Bremerhaven / Wesermünde 1973, ISBN 3-9800318-0-2 .