Bokel (Beverstedt)

Bokel municipality Beverstedt
	Coordinates: 53 ° 23 ′ 41 ″ N , 8 ° 46 ′ 3 ″ E
Height :	9 m above sea level NHN
Area :	20.96 km²
Residents :	2410 (Nov. 20, 2019)
Population density :	115 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	November 1, 2011
Postal code :	27616
Area code :	04748
Location of Bokel in Lower Saxony
	Bokel in the municipality of Beverstedt

The localities in the unified municipality Beverstedt

Bokel from above

Bokel ( Low German Bokel ) is a village in the unified municipality Beverstedt in the Lower Saxony district of Cuxhaven .

geography

Local division

Bokel (main town)
Hassbüttel
Kransmoor
Langenfelde
Seebeck

Neighboring places

Hollen	Lunestedt - Freschluneberg district	Stumps
Hollen - district of Heise
Bramstedt ( unitary community of Hagen in Bremen)	Bramstedt - Lohe district (unitary community Hagen in Bremen)	Holste (District of Osterholz) Axstedt (District of Osterholz)

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history

Bokel is one of the oldest settlements in this geest and was first mentioned in a document in 1110 as "Bockla" (beech forest). For centuries, part of the main street and the Bockstrasse and Mühlenstrasse formed the actual village. After the Thirty Years War (1618–48) the Brink was settled . The village slowly developed from 38 fire places in 1718 to 50 fire places in 1791. The residents practiced almost all agriculture and cattle breeding and were mostly liable to pay taxes to the landlords at that time ( Stotel , Wersebe , Kloster Lilienthal ). The communal divisions and the transfer of burdens did not take place until 1818. In 1894 Bokel belonged to the Geestemünde district, Hagen district court, Bokel post office; In 1927 he became a member of the Wesermünde-Land tax office.

With the emergence of the Kransmoor bog colonies (around 1830) and Langenfelde (around 1880) and the opening of the Bremen - Geestemünde railway line (1862) with the Stubben station , the community changed in some respects:

The population rose to 1073 by 1900.
Craftsmen and tradespeople settled down in large numbers.
Dairy (1904), post office (1907) and railroad offered new jobs.
The main street (L 134) was paved in 1851, renewed in 1892/93 and widened in 1928. In 1988 and 1989 it was fundamentally renewed, provided with a bicycle and footpath on both sides and equipped with a rainwater pipe.

After the First World War, and particularly notably after the Second World War , the population of the community increased considerably as a result of the integration of the displaced (mainly from West Prussia and Bessarabia ) and evacuees.

In the autumn of 1944, 220 people had to be accommodated in Bokel, most of whom had lost their apartments in Bremerhaven after bombing. The German Housing Assistance Organization was supposed to create temporary homes in rural communities. Ten of them were to be built in Bokel.

“By the end of the war, five of these makeshift homes had been completed and occupied: two on Bätjerplatz (...), two on Hof Seebeck and one in Seebeckstrasse (...). The rest of the planned buildings in Langenfelde (...), Kransmoor (...) and on the Lehdeberg (...) were not completed because the procurement of materials was very difficult. "

- Bokel community - Working group : Book: History and stories of a village. 900 years of Bokel. Self-published, Bokel 2010, p. 115.

After 1945, the influx of refugees and displaced persons as well as remaining evacuees created a new district: the Lehdeberg settlement.

Incorporations

The attempt in the 1960s to merge Bokel and the neighboring community of Stubben into one political community failed. This may have missed the chance to become the seat of the integrated community during the administrative reform around 1970. In 1971 Bokel became one of the nine member communities of the Beverstedt joint community .

Since November 1, 2011, Bokel has been a village in the unified municipality of Beverstedt.

Population development

year	Residents	source
1885	0877
1910	1206
1925	1285
1933	1392
1939	1370
1950	2182
1973	2184
1975	02180 ¹
1980	02273 ¹

year	Residents	source
1985	2362 ¹
1990	2237 ¹
1995	2496 ¹
2000	2635 ¹
2005	2612 ¹
2010	2511 ¹
2016	24360
2019	24100
0	0	0

¹ as of December 31st

politics

City council and mayor

At the local level, the village of Bokel is represented by the Beverstedt municipal council.

Mayor

The mayor of Bokel is Heinz Becker (SPD).

coat of arms

The design of the municipal coat of arms of Bokel comes from the heraldist and coat of arms painter Gustav Völker , who designed around 25 coats of arms in the district of Cuxhaven.

	Blazon : "In green, a rooted silver beech with four branches , the trunk of which is covered with a golden scythe in a transverse position."
	Justification of the coat of arms: The beech is reminiscent of the interpretation of the place name, documented as early as 1105 as Bochla , as a beech wood . The four branches point to the four districts of Haßbüttel , Seebeck , Kransmoor and Langenfelde . The scythe is a symbol of agriculture, the main livelihood of the community.

Culture and sights

Architectural monuments

Personalities

People connected to the place

Volker Lüdke (* 1929), politician (SPD), honorary mayor, was mayor of Bokel for 39 years
Daniela Behrens (* 1968), politician (SPD) and member of the Lower Saxony State Parliament (2007–2013), State Secretary of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Economics, Labor and Transport (2013–2017), was a councilor in Bokel until the municipality was dissolved in 2011

Myths and legends

From the red Paul
The Bokeler can be appeased
The Glockenkuhle near Gackau
The "Seven Mountains"
Bacon thieves
The good old time
The good trick
Pulter evening story
De Bokeler shirt jacks
De lütje Emmi would be sick
De Wienprov
A bereavement
Ökelaam
Spectacle with the Liekenwogen
De Knech Jan
Singing festival in Oldenbüttel
Sülbern Hochtied
De kinship
A virus on the bus
De Slinghals
Sun no thing

literature

Fritz Hörmann, Ude Meyer, Christian Morisse, Eberhard Nehring, Irmgard Seghorn, Egon Stuve, Else Syassen: Wesermünde field names collection - the field names of the property tax cadastre from 1876 . Ed .: Kulturstiftung der Kreissparkasse Wesermünde (= new series of special publications by the men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elb- und Wesermuende eV Volume 27 ). Men from Morgenstern Verlag, Bremerhaven 1995, ISBN 3-931771-27-X , p. 4 ([ digitized version ( memento from October 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )] [PDF; 431 kB ; accessed on October 23, 2019]).

Bokel community - working group (ed.): History and stories of a village. 900 years of Bokel . Self-published, Bokel 2010.

Web links

Commons : Bokel - Collection of Images

Interest group Bokel-Stubben
Link catalog on the subject of Bokel near Bremerhaven at curlie.org (formerly DMOZ )
900 years of Bokel - The most important points in brief

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Information about Bokel. In: Website of the municipality of Beverstedt. November 20, 2019, accessed December 11, 2019 .
↑ Overview map of the Cuxhaven district. In: cuxland-gis.landkreis-cuxhaven.de. November 2016, accessed December 11, 2019 .
^ Bokel community - working group (ed.): History and stories of a village. 900 years of Bokel . Self-published, Bokel 2010, p. 11 ff .
↑ A Moorkate from Kransmoor had a “fairytale career”: In 1910 it was shown in an exhibition at the Bremen Überseemuseum, where it survived World War II unscathed, from 1961 onwards it became an eye-catcher at an exhibition on peat and in 1976 it was moved to the Speckenbüttel open-air museum in Bremerhaven.
^ Bokel community - working group (ed.): History and stories of a village. 900 years of Bokel . Self-published, Bokel 2010, p. 58 and photos on p. 143 .
^ Bokel community - working group (ed.): History and stories of a village. 900 years of Bokel . Reports of flight and displacement. Self-published, Bokel 2010, p. 116-120 .
^ Bokel community - working group (ed.): History and stories of a village. 900 years of Bokel . Reports of flight and displacement. Self-published, Bokel 2010, p. 115 .
^ Law on the reorganization of the Beverstedt community, Cuxhaven district. In: Lower Saxony Regulations Information System (NI-VORIS). February 17, 2011, accessed March 23, 2018 .
↑ Lower Saxony State Chancellery (Ed.): Law on the reorganization of the Beverstedt community, Cuxhaven district . Lower Saxony Law and Ordinance Gazette (Nds. GVBl.). No. 5/2011 . Hanover February 17, 2011, p. 61 , p. 3 ( digitized version [PDF; 155 kB ; accessed on September 26, 2018]).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Wesermünde district ( see under: No. 10 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). Accessed September 2018
↑ Ulrich Schubert: Community directory Germany 1900 - Geestemünde district. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. February 3, 2019, accessed April 6, 2019 .
^ 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 , Landkreis Wesermünde, p. 61 ( digitized [PDF; 26.4 MB ; accessed on April 20, 2019]).
↑ Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Municipal 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]).
^ Municipalities in Germany by area and population. (XLSX; 895 kB) See under: Lower Saxony, No. 1908 . In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, December 31, 1975, accessed on June 11, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g municipality directory - archive - regional structure - annual editions - Lower Saxony. (All politically independent municipalities in EXCEL format). In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, accessed on December 11, 2019 .
↑ Information about Bokel. In: Website of the municipality of Beverstedt. November 16, 2016, archived from the original on March 30, 2017 ; accessed on December 11, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b Landkreis Wesermünde (Ed.): Coat of arms of the Landkreis Wesermünde . Grassé Offset Verlag, Bremerhaven / Wesermünde 1973, ISBN 3-9800318-0-2 .
↑ Jens Gehrke: "Pioneers" stop: the municipality of Beverstedt adopts council members. In: Website North September 24, 27, 2016, accessed on March 12, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b Eberhard Michael Iba (Ed.): Hake Betken siene Duven. The saga of the Elbe and Weser estuaries (= special publications by the men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund at the Elbe and Weser estuaries . Volume 16 ). 3. Edition. Men from Morgenstern Verlag, Bremerhaven 1999, ISBN 3-931771-16-4 .
^ Bokel community - working group (ed.): History and stories of a village. 900 years of Bokel . Self-published, Bokel 2010, p. 342 .
^ Bokel community - working group (ed.): History and stories of a village. 900 years of Bokel . Self-published, Bokel 2010, p. 343 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s Bokel community - working group (ed.): History and stories of a village. 900 years of Bokel . Self-published, Bokel 2010, p. 344-360 .
↑ Hans Müller-Brauel : The prehistoric monuments of the Wesermünde district . In: Yearbook of the Men of the Morning Star . Bremerhaven 1910.
↑ Jan Klön: Mine meenung an'n Stammdisch . In: Wesermünder Latest News .

[Info2019-1] Information about Bokel. In: Website of the municipality of Beverstedt. November 20, 2019, accessed December 11, 2019 .

[Karte-2] Overview map of the Cuxhaven district. In: cuxland-gis.landkreis-cuxhaven.de. November 2016, accessed December 11, 2019 .

[Geschichte_I-3] Bokel community - working group (ed.): History and stories of a village. 900 years of Bokel . Self-published, Bokel 2010, p. 11 ff .

[Moorkolonie-4] A Moorkate from Kransmoor had a “fairytale career”: In 1910 it was shown in an exhibition at the Bremen Überseemuseum, where it survived World War II unscathed, from 1961 onwards it became an eye-catcher at an exhibition on peat and in 1976 it was moved to the Speckenbüttel open-air museum in Bremerhaven.

[Geschichte_II-5] Bokel community - working group (ed.): History and stories of a village. 900 years of Bokel . Self-published, Bokel 2010, p. 58 and photos on p. 143 .

[Geschichte_III-6] Bokel community - working group (ed.): History and stories of a village. 900 years of Bokel . Reports of flight and displacement. Self-published, Bokel 2010, p. 116-120 .

[Geschichte_IV-7] Bokel community - working group (ed.): History and stories of a village. 900 years of Bokel . Reports of flight and displacement. Self-published, Bokel 2010, p. 115 .

[voris-8] Law on the reorganization of the Beverstedt community, Cuxhaven district. In: Lower Saxony Regulations Information System (NI-VORIS). February 17, 2011, accessed March 23, 2018 .

[Neubildung-9] Lower Saxony State Chancellery (Ed.): Law on the reorganization of the Beverstedt community, Cuxhaven district . Lower Saxony Law and Ordinance Gazette (Nds. GVBl.). No. 5/2011 . Hanover February 17, 2011, p. 61 , p. 3 ( digitized version [PDF; 155 kB ; accessed on September 26, 2018]).

[Rademacher-10] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Wesermünde district ( see under: No. 10 ). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). Accessed September 2018

[gemeindeverzeichnis-11] Ulrich Schubert: Community directory Germany 1900 - Geestemünde district. Information from December 1, 1910. In: gemeindeververzeichnis.de. February 3, 2019, accessed April 6, 2019 .

[destatis1950-12] 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 , Landkreis Wesermünde, p. 61 ( digitized [PDF; 26.4 MB ; accessed on April 20, 2019]).

[destatis1973-13] Lower Saxony State Administration Office (ed.): Municipal 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]).

[destatis1975-14] Municipalities in Germany by area and population. (XLSX; 895 kB) See under: Lower Saxony, No. 1908 . In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, December 31, 1975, accessed on June 11, 2019 .

[destatis-15] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g municipality directory - archive - regional structure - annual editions - Lower Saxony. (All politically independent municipalities in EXCEL format). In: Destatis website. Federal Statistical Office, accessed on December 11, 2019 .

[Info2016-16] Information about Bokel. In: Website of the municipality of Beverstedt. November 16, 2016, archived from the original on March 30, 2017 ; accessed on December 11, 2019 .

[Wappen-17] Landkreis Wesermünde (Ed.): Coat of arms of the Landkreis Wesermünde . Grassé Offset Verlag, Bremerhaven / Wesermünde 1973, ISBN 3-9800318-0-2 .

[Pioniere-18] Jens Gehrke: "Pioneers" stop: the municipality of Beverstedt adopts council members. In: Website North September 24, 27, 2016, accessed on March 12, 2019 .

[Mahler-19] Eberhard Michael Iba (Ed.): Hake Betken siene Duven. The saga of the Elbe and Weser estuaries (= special publications by the men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund at the Elbe and Weser estuaries . Volume 16 ). 3. Edition. Men from Morgenstern Verlag, Bremerhaven 1999, ISBN 3-931771-16-4 .

[sagen_I-20] Bokel community - working group (ed.): History and stories of a village. 900 years of Bokel . Self-published, Bokel 2010, p. 342 .

[sagen_II-21] Bokel community - working group (ed.): History and stories of a village. 900 years of Bokel . Self-published, Bokel 2010, p. 343 .

[sagen_III-22] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s Bokel community - working group (ed.): History and stories of a village. 900 years of Bokel . Self-published, Bokel 2010, p. 344-360 .

[Müller-23] Hans Müller-Brauel : The prehistoric monuments of the Wesermünde district . In: Yearbook of the Men of the Morning Star . Bremerhaven 1910.

[Klön-24] Jan Klön: Mine meenung an'n Stammdisch . In: Wesermünder Latest News .