Blomberg (Wittmund district)

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Blomberg (Wittmund district)
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Blomberg highlighted

Coordinates: 53 ° 35 '  N , 7 ° 33'  E

Basic data
State : Lower Saxony
County : Wittmund
Joint municipality : Holtriem
Height : 7 m above sea level NHN
Area : 12.8 km 2
Residents: 1859 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 145 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 26487
Area code : 04977
License plate : WTM
Community key : 03 4 62 001
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Ant Karkland 33
26487 Blomberg
Mayor : Werner Ihnken ( SPD )
Location of the municipality Blomberg in the district of Wittmund
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Blomberg (Low German Bloombarg ) is a municipality in the southeast of the joint municipality of Holtriem in the district of Wittmund in East Frisia in Lower Saxony . In 2004 the municipality had about 1400 inhabitants and covers an area of ​​12.80 square kilometers. Blomberg borders (beginning in the west) on the community Neuschoo (also integrated community Holtriem), the communities Moorweg and Dunum (both integrated community Esens ) as well as the Aurich district of Langefeld . The districts Altgaude, Nordmoor, Schoo and Südmoor belong to the community.

history

The Blomberg settlement was created by the Prussian colonization from 1765. The Evangelical-Lutheran Blomberg Church was built in 1870 in neo-Gothic style.

Since 1972 the community has belonged to the Holtriem community.

politics

Municipal council

The council of the municipality Blomberg 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 eleven council members are elected by local elections for five years each. 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 Change voices Change seats
SPD 53.89% 6th + 4.72% +1
FWG 43.92% 5 +1.09% 0
FDP 1.10% 0 +1.10% 0
Individual applicants 1.07% 0 +1.07% 0

The turnout in the 2016 local elections was 60.74%, well above the Lower Saxony average of 55.5%. For comparison - in the previous local election on September 11, 2011, the turnout was 60.02%.

mayor

The council elected council member Werner Ihnken (SPD) as honorary mayor for the current electoral term.

Culture and sights

See list of architectural monuments in Blomberg (East Friesland)

Web links

Commons : Blomberg (Ostfriesland)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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. ^ Local councils. Holtriem municipality, accessed on December 26, 2018 .
  3. ^ Lower Saxony Municipal Constitutional Law (NKomVG) in the version of December 17, 2010; Section 46 - Number of MPs , accessed on December 30, 2016
  4. ↑ a b Municipality of Blomberg - overall results of the 2016 municipal council election , accessed on December 30, 2016
  5. ↑ The CDU gets the most votes nationwide. September 12, 2016, accessed December 30, 2016 .
  6. ^ Municipality of Blomberg on the website of the Samtgemeinde Holtriem ( Memento from December 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 30, 2016