Bockhorst

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Bockhorst (disambiguation) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 53 ° 2 ′  N , 7 ° 35 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Lower Saxony
County :	Emsland
Joint municipality :	Northern humpback
Height :	7 m above sea level NHN
Area :	18.19 km 2
Residents:	959 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	53 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	26897
Area code :	04967
License plate :	Tbsp
Community key :	03 4 54 004
Association administration address:	Poststrasse 13 26897 Esterwegen
Website :	www.gemeinde-bockhorst.de
Mayor :	Manfred Mönnikes ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Bockhorst in the district of Emsland

Bockhorst is a municipality in the northeast of the Emsland district in Lower Saxony . It belongs to the combined municipality of Nordhümmling , which has its administrative seat in the municipality of Esterwegen .

geography

location

Bockhorst is located on a narrow ridge of midst of huge marshes on Küstenkanal .

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities in the north are the communities Rhauderfehn and Ostrhauderfehn in the district of Leer , in the southeast the community Esterwegen and in the southwest the community Surwold and in the east the Saterland in the district Cloppenburg .

history

The community was first mentioned in a document in 1598. The name Bockhorst comes from Middle Low German and means “settlement near the beech trees”. Therefore the coat of arms of the municipality shows three beech leaves. Today's Bockhorst community was formed on October 1, 1931 in what was then the Hümmling district from parts of the Esterwegen community .

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Bockhorst consists of eight councilors. After the local elections in September 2016, it includes three parties.

• CDU 5 seats
• SPD 1 seats
• BU 2 seats

mayor

The honorary mayor has been Manfred Mönnikes (CDU) since November 2016.

Culture and sights

Buildings

• Church in Bockhorst

In 1908/1909 a church in neo-Gothic style was built in Bockhorst for the first time. In 1969 this was torn down and a new church was built in the same place.

Museums

• Heimathaus Bockhorst

Parks

• Bockhorst recreational lake, about 28 hectares in size, with fishing opportunities.

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Bockhorst can be reached via the federal highway 401 . There is still a motorway connection to the Federal Motorway 31 and Federal Motorway 28 . In addition, the community has an inland port on the coastal channel that crosses the community to the south.

tourism

• Holiday home area at Lake Bockhorster.
• Esterweger Dose moorland

Personalities

• Caspar Memering (born June 1, 1953), former German national soccer player, born in Bockhorst
• Bernhard Ficken (born September 13, 1924 in Bockhorst; † October 8, 2007) was a German local poet and painter, born in Bockhorst

Web links

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

• Website of the joint community
• Bockhorst in the Westphalia Culture Atlas

literature

• Werner Kaemling: Atlas on the history of Lower Saxony . Gerd J. Holtzmeyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1987, ISBN 3-923722-44-3 .
• Hermann Abels: The place names of the Emsland, in their linguistic and cultural-historical significance . Ferdinand Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn 1929.
• Ernst Förstemann, Hermann Jellinghaus (editor): Old German name book . Volume II, 1 and 2: Place names . Bonn 1913/1916 (reprint: Volume II, 2, Hildesheim 1967/1983, ISBN 3-487-01733-4 ).

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. ↑ territorial.de: District of Hümmling
3. ^ Members of the Bockhorst parish council .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 30 kB)